Coming off his spectacular Chicago, Rob Marshall has hit the wall with this musical version of Frederico Fellini's autobiographical 8 ½.
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Nine (2009)
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Reviews Counted:75
Fresh:35
Rotten:40
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: It has a game, great-looking cast, led by the always worthwhile Daniel Day-Lewis, but Rob Marshall's Nine is chaotic and curiously distant.
Rated: Rating Pending
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Theatrical Release:Dec 25, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $257,232
Synopsis: The Broadway hit NINE moves from the boards to the silver screen with this cinematic adaptation. For this musical take on Federico Fellini's 8½, CHICAGO's Rob Marshall directs a star-filled cast... [More]
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz
Director: Rob Marshall
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Reviews for Nine
I have no idea why, whenever a studio decides to do a big musical, they never actually hire singers to act in the films
12/21/09
A singing, dancing Italian Daniel Day Lewis is not, I'm afraid.
12/20/09
I still wish Hollywood would hire singers rather than stars to perform in musicals, but I enjoyed Nine anyway.
12/19/09
Moments of razzle-dazzle delights but somewhat disappointing.
12/19/09
If you're looking for women in feathered boas doing high kicks to an assortment of vintage sounding musical numbers then Nine delivers. So do the Rockettes.
12/18/09
The rotten music is exacerbated by the cast of non-professionals trying to sing and dance and a director who substitutes quick cuts and loudness for choreography and voice.
12/18/09
For every couple of failures, a triumph; the finale is perfect. And don't you have to end well?
12/18/09
Nine? More Like a Six
12/18/09
Daniel Day-Lewis sings, dances and furrows his brow in a Rob Marshall's musical that could have been a 10 but is only a 5.
12/18/09
It's all "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." That, my friends, pretty much sums up this silly, formless spectacle. For all its razzle-dazzle and brouhaha, 'Nine' is a bore, fading from memory almost instantly.
12/18/09
A hyperactive musical with elaborate song-and-dance explosions, energetic performances and all the restraint and measured judgment of Tiger Woods at Perkins.
12/18/09
It’s still worth seeing Nine for Day-Lewis’s bemused intensity and for the showstopping appearances by Sophia Loren (still looking great), Kate Hudson, Dame Judi Dench (yes, she sings), and Cruz.
12/18/09
Straining to capture artistic frenzy, it descends into vulgar chaos, less a homage to Federico Fellini’s 8 ½ (its putative inspiration) than a travesty.
12/18/09
Top CriticAlthough lacking in the sharpness and precision of his previous hit "Chicago" this is the glossiest film with the best cast of the year. A feel good film for the Holiday Season.
12/18/09
Though slightly marred by a clunky structure and a lack of truly catchy tunes, Nine’s wall-to-wall first-rate performances from its stellar cast (especially Cotillard) add a touch of class.
12/18/09
To give Day-Lewis his due, the actor grounds the film’s sillier tendencies in a charming performance of mercurial despair.
12/18/09
Welcome to the Pussycat Dolls Do Italy. If we wanted to see a middle-aged has-been drooling over an Ann Summers live show, we'd stalk Peter Stringfellow.
12/18/09
It looks great, but the magic is missing, sacrificed to Marshall's steadfast allegiance to surface style and his inability to find the specific focus the material demands.
12/18/09
Someone call Geneva. Torture has a new name, and it’s called Nine. For there are few more agonising experiences this holiday season than squirming through the painfully misfired ambitions of this star-studded Rob Marshall musical.
12/18/09
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