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Anyway, this film Glitter [DVD] [2001]is in the 'so bad its brilliant' category. Carey cannot act for toffee [she's worse than Spears if that's possible], the story line is standard 'girl makes good', the music is great of course [if you are a Carey fan]. It's not just Carey's acting that is atrocious here though, it's all bad...and that's what makes it compulsive viewing. Can the acting get any worse as the movie goes on? Hell yes! This is a movie that has slowly joined the likes of Crossroads, BarbWire et al, in the 'must have to own and put on when drunk'. If you like cheesey storylines, mawkish [at best] acting and laughing out loud at the awfulness of it all, then buy this for a couple of quid and enjoy it for what it is...not what it's meant to be:)
deffinately buy it, you'll love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The film basically chronicles the rags to riches story of talented singer, Billie Frank (Mariah Carey). Her mother, a woman with a substance abuse problem, sang in dives for a living, before abandoning Billie to the custody of the state. Motherless, Billie grew up and also became a singer, working as part of a trio, until discovered by DJ of the Year, Dice (Max Beesley).
She and Dice become an item, until his svengali act wears a bit thin. Struggling to become her own person, they part company still loving each other. Just before disaster strikes, they realize just how much each loves the other. Billie also realizes that, despite personal trials and tribulations, the show must go on.
While Mariah's performance has been heavily criticized, I think that she has taken quite a drubbing that has not been totally warranted. Her singing in the film is top notch, though her acting, admittedly, is a bit wooden and limited. It runs the gamut from sheepish grins to deadpan delivery. She needs work in the acting department, no doubt about it.
Max Beesley, however, is surprisingly good in the role of "Dice, though he, too, is hampered somewhat by the screenplay. His lines are not much better than Mariah's, though his delivery of the lines is superior to that of her delivery. The rest of the cast is fine, as well, doing the best that they can with the lines with which they have to work.
Part of the problem, obviously, is the material with which the cast had to work. Kate Lanier's script is nothing to write home to mother about, with stilted dialogue and a story line that fades once it stops borrowing from "A Star Is Born". The thing to do, when borrowing heavily from another film, is to do it better not worse.
The screenplay, however, is not the only problem with this film. Director Vondie Curtis Hall was a trifle ham handed in his direction, at times. Still, though not the best film, it was certainly not the worst. If one is not, however, a Mariah Carey fan, deduct one star from my review.
It was a gift for my deluded child.
Ok the acting isnt extremely incredible, but the film is a funky... Read more
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