Throughout my years of watching musicals, dramas, and every other category of movie, I have yet to find a movie as underrated as "Moulin Rouge!" A dramatic musical about a nightclub in the 20th century, "Moulin Rouge!" takes modern music and ideas and pulls them into the cusp of the 1900s, along with one of the most tragic love stories I've ever witnessed. It's such a quirky and fast-paced movie, it can be easy to watch it and be left in bewilderment. But the more you watch it, the funnier, more tragic, and more relatable it gets, all in one.
The title of the movie is also the name of the nightclub the movie takes place in. Throughout the movie, it transitions from a nightclub to a full-functioning theater, all at the hands of a rich and very possessive Duke. The "Moulin Rouge!" holds the classic integrities of theater; beauty, freedom, truth, and love. The movie centralizes around the idea of love being the strongest feeling to believe in, and that living a life without love isn't worth living at all. The love felt in the characters of this movie is immediately strong, and somehow not at all forced.
"Moulin Rouge!" has strange and quirky humor throughout it, including a rendition of two men singing "Like a Virgin" as a duet.
In fact, a lot of the songs in the movie are very modern in their style, making 1900 France seem less like a foreign place. Despite all this comedy, the movie still tackles a very tangled and complicated love story that ends with death (don't worry, this isn't a spoiler, the movie says at the beginning that there's a death). The more the movie continues, the less lighthearted it becomes, which seems appropriate to the continuously darkening storyline.
The best part of "Moulin Rouge!" is the classic forbidden love story. The timeless tale of the woman meant to marry a rich man and instead falls for a poor penniless man whose love is relentless. 
Throughout the movie, their love is tested in a Romeo and Juliet fashion, with forbidden love and marrying a man who she doesn't love, but with musical numbers. Plus, you get a classic Shakespearian play-within-a-play scene, complete with an oblivious audience and dramatic mishaps.
As for backstage and technical parts, the cast chosen played all the parts spectacularly. The props, special effects, and camera angles were all done with such specifics that really helped pull the movie together. Not to mention the amazing songs, but that goes without saying in a musical.
I don't want to spoil too much of the movie, but I will leave you with this final review of the movie. Spectacular, spectacular. No words in the vernacular can describe this great event. You'll be dumb with wonderment.
