Nine (2009)

Purely Joyful Movie!

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

it's disappointed..Remaking a great movie like 8 1/2 needs a great courage to convince the audience..but that was a great failure.. Bringing Oscar winners didn't help the movie..the songs and the dialogue were awful..even i like Daniel Day_Lewis but honestly Marcello Mastroianni was much more better..and the actresses on the classic version were more stunning... you can't make an Italian movie with a Chicago style :) their accent was very strange..trying to be Italians while they're Americans,French and Spanish didn't help the movie..it was better to bring real Italians or make the story in Hollywood not in Italy,,they acted like they try hard to be Italians but they failed badly even they are great actresses..it made you feel like they were in the wrong place

I admit that I had never expected to be a fan of musical films (probably just because I hadn't even seen any, sseeeshh). Even so, I understand that we can't really expect much from what a musical film has to offer if compared with the real on-stage musicals, just like how the world inside a book will always beat the movie version.But i guess that's what surprised me when i finally watched this film. OK,I obviously know nothing about whatever original version of this musical, but what i gathered from watching this film is that i completely felt like i was watching a frikkin musical on a frikkin stage for the whole duration. Nine doesn't just offer a half-assed effort to create a 'daily-life-like' singing where people just suddenly feel like expressing their feelings through songs on the gd street. No, they don't bother with that. Instead, they present you the whole package by dragging in the stage, lighting, and the goddamn ambiance.It left you stunned a few minutes after the song is over as it gets back into the story, but that's what makes it a fun ride; it drags you along into the euphoria and misery that the characters sing about, and all of those while you're feeling like being there in the stage with them. Nine gives you an experience of both classic musical enjoyment AND modern cinematography.Seriously? with all the amazing actresses who starred in it and their spectacular solo stages, i couldn't stand other musical films afterwards because they all seem too bland compared to this one. but i guess it's just a matter of different taste after all.

This movie is terrible. I LOVE musicals, but I am not sure who the target audience is supposed to be. Although the musical numbers are pretty, the entire movie is completely void of any depth to female characters and since typically I have to drag my husband into a musical kicking and screaming I really don't get who they are trying to appeal to. I can't relate to a main character is who is an over sexed, privileged, chauvinist. Do yourself a favor and watch something else. Maybe something where they portray women as more then dolled up sex symbols. Like I said before, I love musicals, I live for musicals but I could barely get through this. It is so offense to women.

A musical version of Fellini's '8½', 'Nine' (because apparently music adds another half) follows an important director who tries to find inspiration for his new film, looking in the important women of his life, while his own personal life is going down the hill.The screenplay is quite bad. The fault is partly due to the original musical's screenplay itself (the addition of those musics into '8½' were terrible); but most of the fault is due to the film's own screenplay, done by the hit-and-miss Michael Tolkin and the vastly overrated Anthony Minghella. The director, Rob Marshall (from the overrated 'Chicago'), tries to make too much of a show, not only prioritizing style over substance but in the end forcing too much the visual of the film.Why did I have any reason to believe this could work?Oh, yes. The cast. Eight big name actors in here; Rob Marshall always has to have a 'meaningful' cast in his musicals. Daniel Day-Lewis, one of my favorite actors, is unbelievably bad in here. He is apathetic and charisma-less, never truly trying to be charming at all; a far call from Mastroianni, who played the same role to perfection in '8½'. His singing is more than just inconsistent; when you think he is beginning to do it right...The actresses are even farther behind. Fergie might be a singer, but a very bad one; I'm glad she had such a short appearance. Doubly so for Kate Hudson: she manages to make an already bad song even more unbearable, both from her terrible singing and from the terrible scene she sings in. Nicole Kidman acts well, but she already showed in 'Moulin Rouge' that she is not a good singer, and her faces looks too plastic. Same for Sophia Loren; she was rather beautiful when younger, now she looks like an alien with her face like that. I was too scared of her face to notice her singing; she looked like the mother of the protagonist in 'Brazil' when having plastic surgery. Penelope Cruz, on the other hand, is hot as ever; she also distracts from her singing, though in a good way. Judi Dench has possibly the worst song of the bunch, but manages to be uneventful rather than bad.The only true saving grace comes from Marion Cotillard. Not only did she have the only good songs in the film, she IS a very good singer and is unbelievably charming. Her performance is brilliant, and you can't help feel sorry for both her character and for her (for being in this crap-fest).But I guess it all makes sense in the end if you take it as Rob Marshall talking about himself. A pretentious director with no inspiration goes to make a movie, uses a very charming woman (he is not deserving of) and many others to find that inspiration, but in the end...