A director makes a movie called Moulin Rouge. It works very well, so he tries to make the same dang movie with another theme. That is, Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby. Not surprisingly, it is less successful the second time round. It's not that the acting was bad, or the cinematography wasn't enjoyable, it's simply that he tried to recreate MR in a new setting. Same tortured writer at the typewriter. Same excesses and debauchery. Same sweeping camera shots. Same haunting background musical theme. And, well, it doesn't work - at all! I was, in fact, upset by the blatant parallels between the movies, and thought someone creative enough to make MR in the first place could have done so much more with GG.