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The film is about Tess, a retired dancer and owner of the venue, struggles to keep the aging theater alive, facing all kinds of financial and artistic challenges. With the Lounge's troupe members becoming increasingly distracted. Meanwhile, the life of Ali, a small-town girl from Iowa, is about to change dramatically...
21 April 1982, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
9 June 1993, Newport Beach, California, USA
5 November 1982, State College, Pennsylvania, USA
19 August 1955, New York City, New York, USA
9 November 1972, San Francisco, California, USA
16 August 1982, Tacoma, Washington, USA
20 October 1981, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
11 August 1988, Aurora, Colorado, USA
16 July 1963, New York City, New York, USA
5 June 1984, Los Angeles, California, USA
8 July 1971, New York City, New York, USA
May 03, 2015
Just terrible enough to make you wish it was even worse.December 15, 2010
Try to make 'Showgirls' for 12 year olds and you please no one. What a tease.December 06, 2010
"Get your ass up, show me how you burlesque," growls one of this indulgent movie's indulgent musical numbers that swaggers with pearls, glitter and red lipstick - if not grammatical verb usage.January 04, 2011
Even the dances feel cozily dated, as choreographers Denise Faye and Joey Pizzi borrow liberally from Bob Fosse.December 06, 2010
Has the glitz and allure of a Victoria's Secret ad. What it doesn't have is an imaginative reinvention of the show-biz clichés that have so adamantly inspired it.April 15, 2011
...wears out its welcome to an almost astonishing degree...April 04, 2011
Welcome back, plotline of 1933; you haven't aged a bit.September 22, 2012
What Antin should take away from this experience is that it takes a lot more than a clichéd-filled story, some dancing, forgettable music, and a bland script to make an interesting and engaging musical.October 14, 2013
It's totally ridiculous, utterly unbelievable and deliciously naughty as much as a PG-13 movie can be.March 17, 2011
The alarmingly plastic surgery-ified Cher, with her face looking like a condom stretched over a beach umbrella, gives a performance here as the club owner that's not so much 'still' as 'immobile'.January 03, 2011
Burlesque manages what seemed impossible: It is filled with half-naked dancing girls, yet it's still boring.December 03, 2010
If you go to Burlesque expecting a campy hoot on the order of Showgirls, you may be in for a disappointment. It's not quite awful enough, although it's plenty bad.