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[Luhrmann] pushes style to the brink and even crosses the line of excess at times, but it's all in service of selling the film's exploration of the gilded false happiness that the achieved American Dream brings.

This divisive adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel is at the very least delicious to look at, with the infamous parties that drive the novel depicted in all their extravagance and glory by Australian auteur Baz Luhrmann.

Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby is a failure. It's a poor adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's powerful text and it's tragic that such a great novel has been bastardised, becoming a flashy, CGI blockbuster.

The Australian director brings to the material a largely crude and cartoonish approach. He appears to suffer from an almost fatal literal-mindedness.

The film does nothing to beat against the current. There's no lesson that all this 1920s extravagance is problematic. The message is to party like a rock star and dress like a robber baron - just don't waste all your money chasing a woman who waffles.