TheBlueHairedLawyer I've got Glitter on VHS collecting dust, and though I really can't bring myself to hate it since it has historical merit to me (New York with World Trade Center buildings pre-9/11), once you've seen it, once is all you need. It's a boring, shallow story with a boring, shallow lead actress who has, since Glitter's box-office bomb and reputation for being one of the worst films of all time, blamed it on everything and everyone but herself, including 9/11, which I find distasteful. Personally I feel like Glitter flopped because frankly Mariah Carey just isn't that great. Sure, she was amazing in the 2009 film 'Precious', but by the time 'Precious' came out, Carey had grown up a great deal. In 'Glitter', she comes across as full of herself and an airhead, and though it depends on the tastes of the individual viewer, I didn't think her songs were good. It's the type of music I liked when I was twelve years old, and the film is stuffed with it, and it just makes what could have been a heartfelt romance film come off as a bad publicity stunt for a washed-up singer. To be fair though, it's not that horrible that I'd call it "the worst", I enjoyed it when I was in elementary school, but it's just not as good as Carey apparently thinks. Somewhere along the way she must've been persuaded that 'Glitter' had a modern, original concept, but it really doesn't.

edrpz What do you get when you take a over hyped singer and put her in a movie? You get Glitter. This is an example of why most singer should stay singers. Acting is not something that Mariah Carey should have not let an agent talk her into. This was suppose to be a romance movie, but if I had been the guy that she was after, I would have stepped in front of a speeding truck just to get out of this travesty of a film. The only good thing about this move are the credits at the end. That way you know that you reache the end of such a bad movie.

Michael_Elliott 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.

elshikh4 I was astonished. There is no movie or whatsoever ! The story I watched is one cheap rip-off from (A Star is Born) mixed with useless forgotten-from-the-start another story about the return of once-drunken mom to her long-lost daughter. It could be, from very very merciful angle, an anti-alcohol public service announcement, yet through the behavior of scriptwriters ! And if it is, as I heard, partly Mariah Carey's biography, then the tagline should be: In music she found her dream, her love, herself. Not cinema ! OK, I said to myself, so what about the songs? However as a fan of Mariah Carey's music and voice (like me), or not, you must hate these songs. The only track that worth hearing, Want You; a duet with (Eric Benét), is butchered in the background of one scene, even (Benét) got no respectable character during it !! Some of the songs were so 80s, and sorrowfully I mean it in the bad sense.The acting was extremely UGLY. (Max Beesley) must work in any other line than acting. (Mariah Carey) earned the Worst Actress award for that year fair and square. Speaking about ugliness, one of the most famous beauties back then, Mariah herself, looked really not beautiful for most of the time. Maybe that's the effect of this movie on her ! I hated it for making nothing to be watched, heard, or bearable. The release of it was postponed for 3 weeks when Mariah was hospitalized as a result of an "emotional and physical breakdown". Till now I believe that that happened due to undeclared reason which is watching this movie before releasing it (and I'm not kidding !).You read that it is listed among the 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book (The Official Razzie® Movie Guide). Now I beg to differ. Bad it is. Enjoyably? It isn't !