Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

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

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.

My main criticism of this movie i that it is so slow. It takes ages for anything to happen and there are so many unnecessary shots of daily activities (entering a house, or walking down a street). I was sure the film was nearly over when I was just half way in, it is that drawn out. My second criticism is that the film cannot make up it's mind about what kind of story it wants to tell. In the beginning it sets things up like the mothers abandonment is going to be a central theme, but only touches on the subject on a few occasions. It also keeps skipping between the romance with Dice and Mariah's music career without much connection. Pick a theme and go with it!My third criticism is that this kind of rags to riches type story has been done so many times before. The struggling artist making it big, while at the same time dealing with personal problems, is a hard theme to pull off, and has been done much better by other film makers, with other artists. However, Glittr really is not as bad as many people claim, it's a pretty OK pop star success story, the only real problem is the boredom.

That means it's probably a good movie. And it is. Yes, the story is a familiar one. That's true for EVERY movie. Yes the cinematography sucks. That's true for a lot of movies. Sure, this is no Hard Day's Night. But it's got one of the best singers of all time singing some nice material. That ALONE makes Glitter worth watching. If you don't understand that, what the hell do you understand about movies? Three quarters of making a good movie is just putting a great performer in front of the camera. If you do that, you already have a watchable film, and Glitter has that, for sure. Mariah Carey's acting is amateurish, but it is genuine and emotional, and that's enough to hold the film's center. Carey's costars are all good, putting in performances that go well beyond perfunctory. They take poor material, in terms of writing, and they breath life into it. In particular, Max Beesley is a fine actor, sortof the poor man's Ewan McGregor, and there is a good chemistry between him and Carey. The themes of this movie are serious and the performers, if not the writers and producers, are serious about them; trying to find yourself and yet not lose yourself in the artistic struggle.Glitter's sin is that it could have been a much better movie. The production values are cheap and not in a good way. Writing and direction deflect Glitter's focus at key points in the development of characters and of the story. Carey herself has put her finger on the problem: it was apparently decided to shoot for a younger audience, as in a 12 year old audience, and the result was half-baked. It's a shame and a disappointment, but Glitter is still a movie with considerable promise that delivers enough to be worth watching, worth having. The amount of hate this movie gets is just grotesque. I'm sorry, but there are lots and lots of worse movies.