Stylish pieces surrounded by some strong performances. DDL and Cotillard work well together.

41.500

Insulting.

Enjoyability 22/25 Visuals 15/15 Audio 10/10 Acting 8/10 Story/Plot 22/25 Production Values 9/10 Intuitiveness/Ambitiousness 3/5 Bonus 5/10

Flashy musical with sporadic highlights; both the story and Day-Lewis are soulless.

Marion is lovely. Her performance in My Husband Makes Movies is moving. Nicole's delivery of In An Unusual Way is touching. Day-Lewis and Cruz are also great. But something is amiss.

Little more than a retread of 8 1/2, well acted but unwilling to explore any new ideas. But look, it has songs. They are catchy and well-choreographed, yet feel incongruous, as if they are just strange, self-aware assides. They simply aren't integrated very well into the narrative.

Those complaining about the lack of cohesion most likely haven't seen Fellini's original, which is even more confusing in that sense. On every other aspect this film stands far behind original. I hoped musical numbers will give the story a new life, but they are stale, there's no magic left. Cast is interesting, the dance of Penelope Cruz is one (only?) good reason to see this film.

"Marshall overlooks the potentially unsavory dimensions of a reputed scaliwag director's sex life in favor of a succession of bloodlessly PG-13 encounters heavy on implication." - Ryan Stewart

I value this kind of work. Because this chewing gum could be an advertisement of the masterpiece "Otto e Mezzo"

A pile of barf. Seriously gross. Even if 8 1/2 wasn't one of my favorite films, there is still nothing worth seeing in this movie. Every attractive shot or interesting idea is cribbed from the Fellini film, and everything else is bland filler. Daniel Day-Lewis gives the wooden performance of his lifetime. Seriously, there is absolutely NO charisma in his performance of one of the most charismatic characters in cinema, ever. Even worse than Across the Universe, if you can believe that.

first off i was not a fan of 8 1/2, nor do i think it should EVER have gotten a sequel. hell, though, this one bests the original and throws in a couple musical numbers that aren't too bad either.

not that well written and pretentious, which can get annoying. but noch as much as pretentiousness usually does. maybe cause i didn't really care about the movie. fun sets, good editing and cool performances (great one by lewis obv.) make this still a surprisingly alright experience. it's a better movie than it is a musical, though. the songs aren't that great and especially the lyrics are way too tame and superficial. not as much as the dialogue, but still...

interesting visuals but the content is dead.

SO many remade hot women.

waste of time,waste os acting and everything.this is thw result of playing with lion!!(8 1/2)

Marion Cotillard ve Penelope Cruz'u izlemek için izlenir baska da hiçbir sey için izlenmez.

Despite being a masterfully directed musical, "Nine" is a tad too faaabulous for my Y chromosome. There's no dispute about the cast's talent, and there's some beautiful cinematography going on, but all in all, this is a weak movie hidden beneath all that sparkle and glitter. Definitely more fitting a theatre production.

as much as I love DDL, I guess I hate musicals more....

Disjointed and messy, but I suppose that is what you get out of a film adaption of a play...which is an adaption of a movie. Easily recognizable as a spawn of Fellini's, but lacks the majority of its greatness. Still, its very pretty and contains lots of pretty people.

Rob Marshall fills the screen from start to finish with beautiful images. This film is sexy and stylish, but the story and dialogue goes nowhere much and the music is often pointless and sometimes just stupid. A crazy difference between how good the good elements are and how bad the bad elements are. Daniel day-Lewis helps anchor this film in something human and tangible - without him it would be a complete mess.

This film was always going to be an huge challenge. Putting aside the debatable merits of the original musical, it's naturally going to work better on stage than on film, where the Fellini inspiration looms. The dreamlike wonder of its predecessor emphasizes the awkwardness of the transitions here. The whole thing feels rushed. Edges aren't smoothed, problems aren't fixed. It's in need of a few weeks of trial and error before opening night. There's no such option. On film the flaws live forever.

Excelent drama sections, for the most part boring musical numbers and they don't gel together at all. It's like two films mushed together, one great one not. Should have made a drama.

I felt that instead of attempting to be a mere remake of 8 1/2, this truly succeeds at offering a new angle to the story by focusing on the female cast rather than on the auteur himself. Cotillard's first song marks one the film's most poignant moments and the way she, breaking the fourth wall, agonizingly stares in the camera after her finishing lines, really manages to unsettle the audience.

Cotillard and Hudson are the only bright spots in a messy musical which has the ultimate flaw - really awful songs.

It is surprising how little class this film has, given the character that it is trying to bring to life. It lacks nuance and cohesion, and spends a lot of its time on transient characters who don't contribute to our understanding of the protagonist in what is essentially a character study. The opening scene focused on a lot of disconnected details, and some of the lyrics in the musical numbers made me cringe. "Be Italian" is the exception to the rule in this film, and it isn't enough.