Solemplex
To me, this movie is perfection.
Intcatinfo
A Masterpiece!
Bergorks
If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.
e-70733
With a little decisiveness and unwillingness, the protagonist left the old era full of laziness and psychedelic, perhaps because in this world, reason can only make him more vulnerable. The little hotel contains the precursors of the changing era, and the clowns who are onlookers have become true wise men to some extent.
The same is a small pattern metaphor for the big era, "The Magic Mountain" of Thomas Mann reminds people of the consequences of indulgence, this film is to depict the sinking itself.
atinkerer
Rarely do the masters of movie making come together with the focus and resources available to achieve greatness. They've done it here.This is a great movie.Every frame commands attention. Every facial expression, and movement that the actors make expresses what the character is thinking and saying.And the choreography! This IS Bob Fosse. In a thousand years from now, some theater major in some college on some yet to be discovered planet will watch the dancing in Cabaret and be as stunned by it as we all were the first time we saw it.Maybe only one or two other movies reach this level of perfection, and no other movie can top it.This movie is as good as it gets.Tony
Irishchatter
I have to say, I thought the storyline was all the place because i didn't know much German and it was difficult for me to understand on what the characters were saying really. The only person I understood more in the film was Liza Minnelli because i find that she spoke more clearer then the rest of them. It wouldn't make any difference if she was Amercian or not, she was more on the ball. Although I found the storyline really boring, the music really stood me out. I honestly loved 'Maybe This Time' since it is a very well known song and of course it was covered many times by different artists including the TV show 'Glee'. I wouldn't call this a best musical movie I've ever seen but I applaud the music that was involved in it!
SnoopyStyle
It's pre-war Berlin. The country is in a depression struggling between Communists and Nazis. Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) is a flamboyant bohemian American singer performing at the Kit Kat Klub with MC (Joel Grey). British academic Brian Roberts (Michael York) from Cambridge moves in to finish his doctorate. She falls for him despite him being adverse to women. He teaches English to earn money and one of his students is a rich Jewish heiress Natalia Landauer. She is uncertain about the advances of Fritz Wendel. Sally and Brian are befriended by rich playboy Maximilian von Heune who seems to be interested in both.Liza Minnelli is brilliant. Joel Grey is magnificent. Michael York is put in a tougher spot as a bi-sexual. I buy him more as a homosexual and I like his friendship with Sally more than his romance with her. The biggest deficiency is Helmut Griem as Max. The role needs to be a matinée idol and played by a superstar. It's minor but very important to see both Sally and Brian tripping over themselves for the guy. He needs to be magnetic. The Bob Fosse songs are incredible. The inter-cut scene between the stage and the beating by the Nazi thugs is truly compelling. The pacing does go flat at times and it probably could be trimmed a little. Overall this is a great musical and social drama.
