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Summary: Please don't make me watch this again.
Review: Chicago, winner of the academy award for best picture last year, (what a joke!!) is a poorly done, overblown attempt at a musical. I've also got a good collection of musicals on DVD from Hollywood's golden era. This movie lacks an important ingredient, hmm, what's it called again, that's right - TALENT.They used to make musicals where the people in them actually could sing and dance really well, they were not just overblown actors doing the best they can with the lack of talent they have been giving and having the songs mixed till they no longer resemble the original performance. Richard Gere is hopeless in this, his song is painful to listen to. Renee Zelwigger is an awful actress with these squinty eyes. Mr Cellophane goes down as the most irritating song put on celluloid (in my opinion only of course). Now, lets get down to content. This movie is about adultery and murder, and that's it. And it's oh so trite and oh so unentertaining. At the end, squinty get's away with murder, there I've saved you some money. (...)
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Summary: Awesome and fast paced stunning musical!
Review: Hurray for Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee Zellweger, Richard Gere, Jochn C. Reilly and Queen Latifah! I don't know that I have ever seen such a gripping musical on film. The casting is perfect and the dancing is truly superlative. PLEASE get this film and explore the real and fantasy lives of Roxie Hart as portrayed by Zellweger. It won best picture and it deserved it. The special effects are not the most sophisticated you'll ever see; but no film is ever 110% flawless. It's a winner!
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Summary: Chicago is Wonderful
Review: This is without a doubt the best movie I have seen all year. In fact, it is the best movie ever! Renee Zellweger shows off a hidden talent as Roxie Hart as well as Queen Latifah as Mama Morton. Richard Gere perfectly plays the "greasy-mick lawyer" as Billy Flynn. But, shining above the rest in this film is Catherine Zeta-Jones who plays Velma Kelly. This role couldn't be better for her and she does an amazing job with her dancing (the best examples would be "All That Jazz," and "I Can't Do It Alone.) John C. Reilly also gives a perfect performence as the very confused and "see-through" Mr. Cellophane, Amos Hart. Directed by Rob Marshall, "Chicago" "razzle dazzles" audiences with its cleverness and fantastic musical numbers. It is definatley the best buy at the box office and Blockbuster.
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Summary: It razzle-dazzled me!
Review: "Chicago" is spectacular. What impressed me the most was how theatrical the film really was. It stuck exactly to the script of the original Broadway show and captured the essence of Fosse's original choreography. I was blown away. I already knew that Catherine Zeta-Jones could sing, and of course she impressed me (as always), but I was stunned by Renee Zellweger's outstanding performance, as well as Richard Gere's. They were all fabulous: even Queen Latifah was good (now there's something I thought I'd never say!). It was an amazing film that really captured the "razzle dazzle" of the stage show, very brassy and daring and energetic. I loved it. Everyone needs to see it. I'm glad that "Moulin Rouge" started a trend and that the movie musical is making a major comeback.
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Summary: And All That Jazz!!!
Review: My parents dragged me with them to see this in the theater, and i was blown away. The catchy songs will have you dancing in your seat.
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Summary: Great Music--Fair Movie
Review: Great Music. Great Choreography. Great Cinematography. Movie plot is as flimsy as the costumes. Catherine stomps around like a cave-woman. Renee is clearly the better performer. Case in point: Catherine and Renee's dance duet at the end of the film. Renee clearly is more graceful than Catherine. Richard is consistently pathetic as he is in all of his other films. High spots are definitely Renee & The Queen! I wish I would have just bought the soundtrack. I doubt I'll watch the film repeatedly, but will listen to soundtrack repeatedly. Why did this film win all those awards?
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Summary: A great musical movie
Review: Since Roger and Hammerstein, you don't see many musicals hitting the theater anymore. I rented this the other day with really no expectations since I did not know what the musical was about, what it sounded like, etc. because I had never seen or heard it before. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie because the visuals were great and so were the singers! I had no idea that Richard Gere could sing and dance so well! The cast was well chosen, and everyone had marvelous voices! The story is a satire about Roxy, and Roxy wants to become a star by singing on vaudeville one day. She cheats on her husband and shoots the man after he doesn't get her a job at the night club. Her only way to get out of jail is the famous Billy Flynn, who helps everyone get away with murder. If you like musicals, you will definitely enjoy this movie!
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Summary: Best Picture? You Bet!
Review: Hard to believe, but this hard-edged musical fantasy not only won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2002, it is also arguably the best piece of filmaking to come out of a Hollywood studio this decade. Back in the bad old 1970s, when Broadway musical director and sometimes filmaker Bob Fosse first produced the stage version of "Chicago," stories thiss brutally honest (some would say cynical) dominated the movie industry. Only because most Hollywood films have become so dumbed down and mediocre in recent years does "Chicago" seem like a bracing breath of fresh air. The movie's highlights includes tremendous performances from ts three stars (who would have thought Rene Zellweger and Richard Gere could sing and dance so well?). The songs are memorable, as is the witty between song dialog. As a bonus, the DVD contains plenty of extras, including a "making of" featurette, and interviews with the Director and stars. Overall, a very worthy film presented in a very worthwhile DVD package.
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Summary: peaks immediately, becomes flat
Review: Once something peaks, there is no where to go; a problem being no real depth to the singing voices. They are all good voices, mind you, they just run out of room quickly (QueenL of course rocks). But it is just an overall lack of building as the movie progresses...it all unfolds and is revealed right away (on a sight and sound level), so there is just nowhere to go dynamically. Juxtaposing tragedy, and a song about tragedy, in a wildly entertaining performance is a very cool trippy idea. The story itself just seems too trite and trodden.
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Summary: Musical Blah Blah!
Review: Well, my wonderful wife made me watch this"musical" with her, she knows I hate musicals and boy, do I ever hate this piece of trash! people just don't sing and dance in the streets, garages, mayor's offices, funeral parlors......know what I mean? How in the world this won ANY Oscar is beyond me! best picture? not even close by acountry mile! songs? they all sound alike! all musicals seem to be written in avery narrow band of chords, this one is right there! the stars? well Zeta was kinda easy on the eyes. If I could have rated this one a -2 or -3, I would have jumped on it! A royal TURKEY!
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