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Fans happy to luxuriate in its artistic indulgence, however, will be swept up in the weird, random, fantastic OutKastness of it all.

You have to hand it to those OutKast fellas -- even when they make a mess, they do it with style.

an eccentric, audacious musical that, like "Moulin Rouge," blends backstage drama, tragic romance and flights of fantasy into a story that bravely jumps from genre to genre and from era to era.

An imaginatively rendered and ultimately touching expression of the collision of creativity and responsibility, and the former bursting through the constraints of a small town outlook of diminished expectation.

You'll probably come to Idlewild for the musical excitement, but you may just find yourself leaving with a surprisingly bittersweet lump in your throat.

Structurally all over the place but its infectious rhythms more than make up for narrative deficiencies.

Coming from a band as creative as OutKast, this film is a big letdown, because it lacks any creativity of its own.

The only real problem is the inconsistency of performances from the individually outstanding cast.

Never idle, and always wild, "Idlewild" truly is an adults-only musical about gangsters.