Worst Films of Grammy Stars

Christina Aguilera in “Burlesque”
If a more painful movie has been released in the last 10 years, there were no survivors left to tell the tale. Aguilera plays a small-town girl who comes to the big city in search of stardom, only to get derailed by a stint working for Cher at a nouveau burlesque club. But if this sounds like a tragedy, think again: Burlesque bumping-and-grinding is portrayed as a totally artistically fulfilling end unto itself, ... more 

Christina Aguilera in “Burlesque”
If a more painful movie has been released in the last 10 years, there were no survivors left to tell the tale. Aguilera plays a small-town girl who comes to the big city in search of stardom, only to get derailed by a stint working for Cher at a nouveau burlesque club. But if this sounds like a tragedy, think again: Burlesque bumping-and-grinding is portrayed as a totally artistically fulfilling end unto itself, an artform that looks almost wholesome as well as glitzy, an approach inspired, no doubt, by the then-popularity of the Pussycat Dolls. “Given that she spends much of the movie onstage, singing and dancing in what is essentially a succession of music videos linked with backstage filler,” wrote the New York Times in 2010, “Ms. Aguilera doesn’t have much time to embarrass herself.” less