Glitter

Year: 2001

Grade: D-

Country: USA

Director: Curtis-Hall

Review

next to gigli this film is downright pleasant. the acting is bad, the soundtrack is bad, the direction is really bad, but the story is so utterly average that it actually helps the film. because it’s a formula film it avoids being truly atrocious. gigli took a formula and tried to be ambitious by changing the principal characters and adding really strange scenes (like the yoga scene), as a result it reached new lows in filmmaking. glitter, on the other hand, didn’t mess with the formula and as a result was less ambitious, and less of a failure. part of me thinks that gigli should get some points for trying to stray from the formula a bit, but when you fail so miserably you don’t get my pity. don’t get me wrong here – glitter is awful, but it’s not as bad as gigli or coyote ugly.