Madonna - Truth or Dare
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Movie Reviews of Madonna - Truth or Dare
Movie Review: good
Summary: 3 Stars
Wow you would have ever thought so much drama could be caused on tour. It wasn't done by Madonna but the dancers. I wished they'd stop having hissy fits at eachother so I could enjoy Madonna more.Movie Review: "She doesn't even want to live off-camera"
Summary: 2 Stars
"Truth or Dare" is supposedly a no-holds-barred behind-the-scenes look at Madonna during her Blond Ambition tour. Nowadays, Madonna sports a faux-British accent and writes children's books and sometimes goes on TV to rail against the dangers of ... TV. But back then (1991) Madonna thrived off shocking people with her racy videos and even racier live shows.
Despite the fact that at one point (in Toronto) Madonna gets into hot water for performing a masturbatory act onstage, the real-life Madonna Louise Ciccone is about as sexy as a can of baked beans. Loud, pushy, demanding, and above all phony, rarely has a celebrity seemed so utterly dislikable on-camera. She plays mother-hen to her entourage of dancers and make-up artists, but when one makeup artist is sodomized in New York, Madonna simply whines that "it's so hard" to do a show in the Big Apple. A childhood friend comes to visit Madonna backstage and is given the polite brushoff. Kevin Costner describes one show as "neat" (he clearly didnt enjoy it) and Madonna mimics throwing up. Then-boyfriend Warren Beatty has a priceless moment when the producers ask Madonna if she wants to take her throat culture off camera. "Why?" snaps Beatty. "She doesn't even want to live off-camera."
But perhaps the most surreal and funny moment is when Madonna invites her dad to one of her shows in Detroit. Her dad is clearly disgusted by the raciness of her shows (at one point she kneels by her dad onstage, and looks ready to give him a ... well, use your imagination). Backstage her dad weakly says the show is "arty" before Madonna gives him a huge smackdown about her artistic conscience. At another point, Madonna lies on her mother's grave, limo waiting, while her brother Christopher hides behind a tree, clearly embarrassed beyond words.
So this is Madonna: rude, demanding, pushy, self-righteous, and pretty much insufferable. Depending on your taste, you can either view this as a hysterical chronicle of appalling celebrity behavior or simply a PR-job gone awry.
Movie Review: Oh Brother...
Summary: 2 Stars
What can I say? Madonna fans have seen this a zillion times. If you are new to her or have never seen it and are curious, well, it's a headache. Film goes between color and black and white. The point of it seems to be to give Madonna a chance to make a home movie about herself, and little else. Madonna cusses people out, she insults others, she makes anti-gay jokes to her gay dancers, she pretends to pray for a good show, she rolls around on her mother's grave faking sorrow for the camera even though she has never visited it before, she blows off a childhood friend, screams at her then-beau Warren Beatty, thinks it's funny that her hairdresser was sexually assaulted the night before, does her usual aerobic style routines on stage, and, gasp, bares her breasts for the camera. At the end of this ordeal we just want to tell her to shut up already and get the DVD out of the player. You literally feel exhausted.
Warren sums it up with his now-classic line: "What point is there in living (if it's off camera)?"
Go dig up some 80s Madonna, when she only had a large ego instead of the gargantuan one.
Movie Review: Like a Prima Donna
Summary: 2 Stars
Holy S***! Enough said. And I own the IMMACULATE COLLECTION album and love it. 1 1/2 stars. Terrific as a film record of American narcissism, crapshoot superstardom, and arrested development. She's never going to exit from adolescence, is she? She was 33 years old when this was made. Unbelievable. (Not to take away from her prowess as a businesswoman or promoter--no quarrel, there!)----Okay...I can see from the other reviews that I'm reacting to the person rather than to the product. Yeah, the documentary was done very competently. But Madonna, the person, is just soooooo annoying.**(I wrote this little review in August 2005. Now it's April 2008. I just saw a Madonna interview where she talked about how self-centered she used to be and how glad she is that she's not like that anymore. So I think what I said above is fair, except the part about growing up. Looks like she made it, after all.)Movie Review: Starts out great, ends up another Madonna publicity stunt.
Summary: 2 Stars
Alek Keshishian's vision was indeed a noble one. This could have easily become a true "rockumentary", if Madonna had not become aware of the camera and tried to be cutesy and show off. The beginning of the film is wonderful...telling Alek to "get out" of her business conversations. Later in the film, the "candid" moments appeared very contrived. The bed scene with the dancers and singers? C'mon! Are we to believe this is candid? It's probably a good movie for the hardcore fans, but the rest of us are left with an empty and cheated feeling.