Spending more than ten seconds of thought on "Glitter" is already setting a world record, since you've clearly outdone the producers by then. There were star vehicles before, depending for their drawing power mostly on the big name on the poster. But at least there was something else in them. Anything. "Glitter" is hollow on the inside, and on its surface it got nothing but Mariah Carey. Which is next to nothing considering the complete absence of acting skills this amazing singer presents here. Anything in this movie, from plot to script to setting to characters, is the product of one lame session of five-second brainstorming. Picking up every first line that came to their heads, the writers put together dialogue without any depth or meaning whatsoever, leaving some cardboard figures of characters behind even good actors couldn't have done anything with (not that there are any good actors in this one). Blaming "Glitter" for its formality is almost an insult to all decently unimaginative movies, whose makers just couldn't think of anything better. With "Glitter", no one even bothered to think.
