Where to begin with the glorious, campy mess that is Burlesque? Half Chicago, half Cabaret, all crazy. Allow me to start by saying that this film is terrible. But it’s the good kind of terrible, if you know what I mean. It’s endearingly mental, cheesy, cliché and over the top, and once you just accept that and get on with it, it makes for quite an enjoyable, if totally ridiculous, romp. Christina Aguilera plays Ali, an aspiring singer/dancer and wide-eyed small town girl with the amazing honking voice etc etc, who packs up her meagre belongings (including a weird photo of her and her mother in which they both look oddly frightened) and buses her way right to the Hollywood sign itself in order to Make It. She soon stumbles across The Burlesque Lounge, and their saucy, sequinned musical revue, starring club owner Tess (played by Cher) and quickly achieves … There’s more →