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Glitter
EMAILPRINT20th Century Fox Film Corporation

Overwhelming dislike
Based on 23 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 64 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Romance
Written by:
Kate Lanier
John Wilder
Directed by: Vondie Curtis-Hall
Release Date:
Theatrical: September 21, 2001
DVD: January 15, 2002
Running Time: 100 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for some sensuality, language and brief violence
Starring Mariah Carey, Eric Benét, Kyle Thrash, Chris Tessaro, and Max Beesley
The story of a young singer, Billie Frank (Carey), who overcomes a turbulent childhood and struggles to find her true family and her true voice. (20th Century Fox)
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FILM: Waist Deep
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
Glitter is the week's only major Hollywood release, and it offers considerable escapist entertainment while hitting an affirmative note.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
And above all, the film is lacking in joy. It never seems like it's fun to be Billie Frank.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
Glitter is, if nothing else, comfortable with what it is, namely earnestly made, wholehearted schlock.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
This is the worst performance by a pop star in a dramatic role since Madonna suited up for "Shanghai Surprise."
Read Full Review >New York Post Jonathan Foreman
Helplessly clichéd, predictable and unaware of its own lameness, it could easily become a camp classic on the order of "Grease 2" and "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."
Read Full Review >Washington Post Megan Rosenfeld
We don't have much space to tell you about Glitter, so we'll be blunt. This star vehicle for singer Mariah Carey is primarily a showcase for her breasts.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
Even the soundtrack doesn't rescue the movie from its tedious banality.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
Glitter, the kind of movie only 11-year-old girls who dot their i's with hearts would find bearable.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Joan Anderman
It touches on universal themes of love, friendship, and family. Suffice to say it falls dreadfully short.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
It's doubtful that even a real actress could have triumphed over the rusty tinsel of Glitter, a hapless, retro-'80s ''Star Is Born.''
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
"Zis is not verking! Zee glitter cannot overpower zee artist!" That, in a sentence, sums up what is wrong with this picture.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Carla Meyer
It doesn't help that Glitter is such a derivative mishmash of cinematic and real-life situations that it's nearly impossible to count all the ways.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Steve Simels
A butt-numbing exercise in tedium, sporadically redeemed by moments of unintentional hilarity.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard
Take the G out of Glitter and it's litter.
Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
Glitter does no one any favors.
Variety Robert Koehler
Glitter deserves yet another title: "A Star Is Dull." As phony a vehicle as one could possibly concoct for a wannabe movie star, pic carries Mariah Carey into a swamp of gloppy melodrama.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Lawrence Van Gelder
Mostly dross, an unintentionally hilarious compendium of time-tested cinematic clichés that illustrates the chasm between hopeful imitation and successful duplication.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
I desperately wanted Glitter to be trashy and over-the-top, to be so courageously awful. As it is, it isn't nearly bad enough to be that kind of good. It's simply there, all dressed up with no place to go, and that's the most damning thing you could say about it.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Michael Dequina
Just when you think it could not get more ridiculous, Hall, Lanier, and Miss Mariah go that extra mile.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Steve Davis
Assure Patient, who has paranoid delusions about Jennifer Lopez being molded into the new M______ C_____, to rest easy because Lopez has never made a film as bad as Glitter.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
How could a major studio -- in this case 20th Century Fox -- put its name on a production with a dim-bulb, tone-deaf script that piles howler on howler? Why couldn't someone save poor Ms. Carey from herself?
What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.7 (out of 10) based on 64 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Robbie C gave it a5:
Obviously, this is a bad movie. But it's not THAT bad. The media had a lot of fun making this out to be worse than it truly is. That's because as a culture, we enjoy putting people up on pedestals and then tearing them down, (like we're doing with Britney); that's exactly what we're doing to Mariah, though she struggles incessantly against it. This movie is like any made-for-tv piece of garbage. But it's better than A Perfect Storm. So it deserves at least SOMETHING.
olivia l gave it a10:
Whoever thought this movie was that bad, or thinks Mariah Carey is that bad of an actress, just doesn't like Mariah Carey, period.
Abby l gave it a5:
For someone to suggest such an extreme such as death instead of watching a movie are seriously out of their minds. No movie is too bad, including this poorly written but fairly enjoyable piece, to such an extent that one must make the decision of whether they'd rather die or watch cinema.
Christian T gave it a0:
What was this? Listen to me people: Mariah Carey Sucks! Not only does she sing horrible, vapid music, now she also does horrible, vapid movies. Avoid even if your life depends on it.
tony s. gave it a9:
Great music, funny in parts but badly written.
Alys W. gave it a10:
It's a great movie with very romantic scene Mariah Carey deserves an oscar for her role as Billie Frank.
Tom gave it a0:
This movie could have been popular, had it been released in the 20's when them dang ole' movin' pictures first came out. People would have LOVED it, but alas, it was released when people knew what movies were supposed to look like, so they knew that this crap had nothing to do with good movies.
