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Release: November 29, 2011Movie: Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Guests: The Nostalgia Chick, Brentalfloss and others.
This review contains examples of:
- Berserk Button
- Nostalgia Chick is generally forgiving toward the movie, but she is absolutely furious about Christian's over-the-top and mean-spirited response to Satine's break-up.
- Oancitizen is very angry to find that he wasn't invited to sing for the review.
- Crossover: Hoo boy. It's a co-review with Brentalfloss and The Nostalgia Chick, and there are songs from Linkara and Phelous, and The Cameo from Oancitizen, Spoony, The Cinema Snob, and Todd in the Shadows.
- Concepts Are Cheap: Nostalgia Chick critiques the movie for not analysing and explaining what love truly means despite the film's constant use of the word.
- Dope Slap: Brentalfloss gives one to the Critic for calling an actor "Basil Exposition from Austin Powers".
- Downer Ending: Parodied; The Critic kills Brentalfloss at the end of the review for the sole purpose of having the review end on a down note. Both the Critic and Chick blatantly lampshade the fact that they need a sad ending right before the above happens. This is mocking one of their complaints about the movie, namely that Satine's consumption — and her decision to break up with Christian instead of telling him about it — seem like a Diabolus ex Machina.
- Fridge Logic: Invoked by the Critic, who questions why Satine needs to seduce the Duke to finance a theater when they could just convert the current nightclub into one. He notes how they make so much money every night, even showing a clip of customers literally throwing money at Satine, that they could finance a theater without the Duke.
- Similarly, the Critic questioning why Satine needs to invoke Cruel to Be Kind to save Christian from the Duke. He and Nostalgia Chick even wonder why Satine doesn't just tell the Duke that she's dying:
Satine: (voiced by Nostalgia Chick) I'm dying.
The Duke: (voiced by Nostalgia Critic) Ew! Keep that lousy deed! I'm not into necrophilia! (shuts the door) - Gilligan Cut: The Critic is utterly confused by Satine doing a strutting act to get her client to avoid spotting Christian. He questions who would ever do such a thing, and the Chick guiltily reveals she had once done such an act to get the attention of Todd in the Shadows.
- Guilty Pleasures: How Brentalfloss and Nostalgia Chick admit they love the movie, despite all its obvious flaws. Critic joins them both in singing the Guilty Pleasures song.
- Hilarious Outtakes: The Moulin Rouge Bloopers.
- Large Ham: Brentalfloss in his ringmaster persona.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Brentalfloss in heaven shoots Critic for killing him.
- Logo Joke: Just like how the movie began with a conducter conducting the music for the 20th Century Fox logo while it played, the review begins with Chester A. Bum conducting the Channel Awesome theme.
- Lyrical Dissonance: The final song plays dramatic music while Chick and her friends mutter about buying Subway and Critic noting their lines are rhyming.
- Moral Event Horizon: Nostalgia Chick considers Christian slut shaming Satine in front of an audience to make him totally irredeemable despite his supposed idealism.
- Musical Episode
- Random Transportation: When Brentalfloss snaps his fingers to bring himself, the Critic and the Nostalagia Chick to a better place to have their review, they end up at a convention, then Disneyworld, Honolulu, Mothership Zeta ("That's classified..."), the Planet of the Apes ("That's the future..."), their starting spot two minutes ago, Spoony's bathroom, and finaly Brentalfloss' place. The two others beg him to stop at this point.
- Running Gag
- Brentalfloss's increasingly desperate attempts to gloss over the movie's flaws.Brentalfloss: ...God, I'm bad at this.
Brentalfloss: Of course it doesn't make any sense! Love doesn't make any sense! - "I JUST DON'T LIKE OTHER PEOPLE TOUCHING MY THINGS!!!!"
- Brentalfloss's increasingly desperate attempts to gloss over the movie's flaws.
- Tsundere: The Critic is this toward the Tango de Roxanne scene.Critic: Oh no, this scene...
Brentalfloss: What about it?
Critic: ...Nothing! It sucks...
(later)
Brentalfloss: You like this scene!
Critic: I do not! It... it's stupid! - Shout-Out
- Critic says that Brentalfloss in his ringmaster outfit looks like Timothy from Dumbo.
- The Chick says that Satine "falls in love faster than a Disney Princess."
- Tantrum Throwing: Oancitizen, on finding that he wasn't invited to the review.
- Unintentionally Unsympathetic: The Critic found Satine's dream of becoming "a real actress" to be blind ambition since she was already an accomplished performer.
- Whole-Plot Reference: The beginning and ending mimic the beginning and ending of the movie, and the "Tango de Pretense" and the Oancitizen cameo afterwards parody the Tango de Roxanne scene from the movie.
- Wimp Fight: Critic and Brentalfloss coming to blow.
- World of Ham: The Critic constantly mocks how over-the-top the movie is.
"I JUST DON'T LIKE OTHER PEOPLE TOUCHING MY THINGS!!!"
