Onlinewsma Absolutely Brilliant!

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

ericodonovan1 She's a queen, love her, best woman ever, great film, best singer and dancer

burnadrenaline It took me two tries to get through this movie. Although it did have redeeming qualities, it was kind of boring. If you're a big Mariah Carey fan, I suppose this would be about a 5 but other than that, in my humble opinion, it falls into that "average-bad" category. I can explain what I mean. I've seen a lot of bad movies, for proof you can read some of my other reviews on this site, which are mostly of Bottom 100 movies. When you have seen as many b-movies as I have, some stand out as being alright, while some are just unbelievably terrible and you can't understand how they were ever made. Glitter is between those two categories. It's got some decent music in it, and things do go on (Unlike Gigli or Ishtar). However, it is kind of underwhelming and boring. What really took this movie down a couple of points for me was a unique volume problem. Mariah Carey's acting is okay, but she speaks her lines very softly. This makes me crank up the volume to hear what she is saying. However, leaving it up came back to haunt me later in the movie as there are scenes that are pretty loud and will blast your ears. In conclusion, this is a dime-a-dozen bad movie. It's not super-painful but it's also not quite good enough to be one of those underrated low-budget movies.

Michael_Elliott Glitter (2001)* (out of 4)Mariah Carey pretty much plays herself in the story of a poor girl who grew up without her parents only to work really hard and eventually make it to the top. GLITTER is considered one of the worst movies ever made. Is it? I really don't think so but at the same time there's no question that it's really bad but I think with a little common sense the thing could have worked. There are way too many problems going on here, which could have been corrected and we can start with the screenplay. I'm guessing people just watched every rise-to-fame story out there, gathered all the cliché moments and threw them into this. There's really nothing that happens here that the viewer won't see coming from a mile away and worse of all is that none of the clichés are even given little pinches of something fresh or original. Even worse is the fact that there's really no one here to root for. The Carey character is pretty bland, boring and there's never a single second where we feel bad for her. I'm guess that Carey and company just figured since people knew it was based on her that we'd immediately have a connection with her. It doesn't work this way. You're still playing a character. You still need to bring some life to that character. The screenplay still needs to give that character something to do and the viewer something to feel for. Another major problem is that the new music here is just downright bad and it's certainly nothing you'll enjoy listening to. This here could have been corrected had the film just used Carey's previous hits but I guess they didn't want to pay the extra money that it would have cost to use them. Finally, Carey herself is just downright awful here. No matter if she's happy, sad, angry and calm, she has the exact same reaction all the time. She really doesn't bring this character to life and never is she believable in the part. When you can't get any form of emotion across it's hard to make an emotional story work. Max Beesley and Terrence Howard are both good in their roles but their talents are sadly wasted. GLITTER is a really bad movie but everything wrong with it could have easily been fixed. Sadly, in the end, the producers just took a cheap and easy fix and the viewers had to suffer for it.

ilovelctr Well I watched simply because I am a long time fan of Mariah Carey, who has really presented tons of classic songs for our generation. But this film, ironically and of course, coincidentally marked her epic fail of the album of the same title.The whole film was just like a amusing fakery, where you could see MC's sugar-sweet smiles when she's happy and her unconvincing tears when she's down. And those moments were probably the only ones where acting existed. Apart from those, there's no even acting to talk about. And that's the biggest issue for the film: she sang it through instead of acting it through. Sometimes MC sang a song, and her BF held her from behind with no other reason.As for the story, it's plain boring, while we knew that Mariah had a painful childhood and a Cinderella legend when she was discovered by Sony records. These parts being added would definitely double the decency of this film up. Thus it's confusing why they didn't do it.The only good part was MC's skilled singing perhaps. And despite that, the songs sucked like hell, so it was funny that they "imagined" that those songs built up Billie's legendary career, which was mocking.