More a real “musical” than, say, Walk the Line or Ray, both of which featured singing but only when the actors were on stage. Whereas this has those random “I’m talking to you but wait, now I’m singing to you!” moments.
Eddie Murphy was GREAT. Not a character you really LIKED but he did a great job and he was one of the most humorous parts of the movie, which in some ways I felt was missing some humor. One song that went on way too long, and when I checked afterward, I wasn’t the only one who felt that way… Jennifer Hudson was pretty impressive and the movie only affirms the fact that Beyonce sings about as well as…J Lo. Or me. Or you. Anybody can sound “good” mixed correctly; only some people can sound “great” and neither one of them falls into that category; Jennifer does.
Really hated Jamie Foxx in this, and not all because of who he was playing. Seemed to have a really sullen sticking-out-his-bottom-lip, barely-moving-his-mouth thing going on.
Overall, good performances, good singing. Seems like a bunch of real-world stories (Supremes, Jacksons, etc.) all sort of thrown into one fictional story. Ddn’t realize it was a stage play first. Interesting.

Contrary to what ALL of the reviews I read said: I did NOT find this to be a horror film. I did find some of it GROSS. And some of it BRUTALLY VIOLENT. But NONE of it caused me any undue horror. I was fully prepared to be screaming, shaking, grabbing the arms of people next to me, having nightmares later and perhaps being unable to sleep. None of which ensued.
It was really good. Really compelling. A mix between the reality of the adult world fighting a war against fascism (led by sadists) and the child world of trying to find a place where you feel safe and loved. Reality mixed with faery (to use their sp) tale mixed with little girl’s (mis)perceptions. Intriguing.
The captain/stepdad is truly brutally sadistic and some of those scenes were hard to watch (I had my hands strategically over my eyes to block out all but the subtitles). And one of the faery sequences is soooooo gross. But still: not that scary and certainly not as scary as the reviews had led me to believe.
The little girl is just lovely and beautiful and expressive and I hope she grows up to be a rich and famous actress one day. I imagine this is what Audrey Tatou looked like as a little girl.

Freaky. Frightening.

Has the same feel as other post-apocalyptic London movies like “V for Vendetta” and “28 Days Later.”

Very scary, and with just enough toeholds in reality that you have to think that if things got really (even more) fucked up, something like this COULD happen…

Thought they copped out a little on the ending though.

Clive Owen is great. Julianne Moore looks oddly clean, compared to the rest of the movie. A beacon of porcelain whiteness. Weird.

Wow, I must have been really tired because this not-great chick flick totally made me cry!! Convoluted, messed up family relationships just get to ya sometimes I guess.
Really liked the sweet way the romance between Rose and Simon (played by one of those actors you’ve seen in a million things) evolved.
Cameron Diaz seemed to have a lot more going on up top than normal. Is it just me or was she considerably more boobalicious in this movie than in any of the, say, 5000 pictures of her in bikinis they’ve shown in US Weekly, People, etc.? Temporary implants? Creative use of masking tape?

Well, if you remember that I’m a sucker for this kind of movie, then you already know I quite enjoyed this. Although it’s probably fine that I saw it on a plane and didn’t pay $10 to see it in the theater.
A little frightened that this makes TWO Ashton Kutcher movies on my list, but I thought he was good in this, although the script certainly didn’t do him any favors.
Nice bit part by Sela Ward.

The person who cut the trailor should be fired: it completely misrepresented the movie.
Pretty good, but definitely a movie that requires you to suspend your disbelief. One of those very “real” feeling movies with just a little sci fi thingy thrown in to make it all work (similar to the way the book “Time Traveler’s Wife” works).
Denzel was good (when isn’t he).

OK. Sean Penn overemoting a bit, no? Jude Law was good; surprised to find his character was the narrator. Funny to see he and Kate Winslet together again so soon after seeing The Holiday.
Not bad, but not anything special either.

OK I only caught the last who knows how long of this (hour?), but I turned the TV on right in the middle of a wordless, very sexy, very NUDE (nuder than most!) sex scene between Scott Speedman and Kate Beckinsale. Woah. For a minute, I thought maybe it was post midnight and the TV had accidentally been left on Cinemax; it’s always so disconcerting to come home to that!
I’ll have to try to watch it from the beginning sometime; I know neither of them are “Great Films” but I did enjoy the first Underworld. Vampires, leather, gloom: sometimes it’s just what you’re looking for in a flick.

Serene and slow…and very, very sad.
The emotions run the gamut during this one: from mean and horrible to tender and distressed. You can know someone for a long time…without knowing them. Can’t you?
We both liked it.