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Summary: The BEST movie of the year!
Review: No wonder why it won best picture at the oscars! This movie is at the top of my favorites list. If you're not one who likes musicals like this, see it anyway-it's worth it. Catherine Zeta-Jones blows you away in a nother one of her phenominal performances (best sup. actress oscar win) Queen Latifah shines (sup. actress nom) John C. Reilly is great as usual (best sup. actor nom) and Renee Zellwegger surprises you with her brilliant performance. Nobody could have played Billy Flynn better than Richard Gere. I paid to see this movie six times. Don't miss this movie. It's one of the best.
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Summary: One Of The Best Musicals Of All Time!
Review: When I first started to watch this movie I was nervous because I thought that it might be another Moulin Rouge but in the first 5 minutes it had me convinced that it wasn't. Chicago is has a wonderful cast which includes Acadamy Award Nominee Renee Zellweger as Roxie Hart who is imprisoned for the murder of her lover. Acadamy Award Winner Catherine Zeta-Jones plays Velma Kelly, the nightclub star who is in the same prison as Roxie for murdering her husband and sister. Then Richard Gere enters as a hotshot lawer who has never lost a case. All the cast memebers sing using there own voices and also dance. This is a great film and I hope that everyone gets the chance to experience it.
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Summary: All That Jazz & Much Much More
Review: Chicago is my faveorite movie! I've seen it 4 times & I can't wait for the DVD! The DVD special features sound cool, Deleted scene interviews, trailers what could be better. I hope they have the song that Catherine Zeta Jones sang but they had to tak out of the movie. I hear a part of it & it was a wonderful song. The cast was awesome, I had never really like Richard Gere but now I really do. I was never a BIG Catherine Zeta Jones fan either but now i am. I had barely even heard of Renne Zellweger & now i like her. I think this movie is MUCH better than Moulin Rouge no matter what anyone says. The storyline in Chicago is just plain better. I really never enjoyed musicals like Annie or Sound Of Music becaus I thought it was so wierd that when they were just walking down the street they would just burst into song. In Chicago most of the Songs are dreams or they have a real reason to be sung. Like ALL THAT JAZZ, Velma just doesnt burst into song for no reason she os preforming. I cannot express in word how much i ADORE this movie. Every one should see it plain & simple
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Summary: Horrible. Simply Horrible.
Review: Musicals used to portray a world so benevolent, an existence so happy, that people would spontaneously break out into cheerful, happy tunes. Now, at the start of a new century, the musical is back--but gone is the very "sense of life" that made the genre wonderful to watch. In its place is a cynical, malevolent world inhabited by seedy characters one finds a hard time respecting, much less keeping interest in. _Chicago_ is perhaps the most famous of the new type of musical and, as one would expect from the above, I found it painful to watch. The movie's main character is Roxie Hart: a confused little girl who desires fame first and then freedom--a freedom she hardly deserves having killed the guy she was sleeping on her husband with. Another is Billy Flynn: a media-hungry lawyer who desires only fame and money--both of which he recieves in the movie by the detestable means of freeing murderers. A character called Velma rounds off this group. She is a singer who starts off the movie's plot by killing her sister and husband in a jealous fit of excitement. What could be worse? A lot. The inter-action of this pathetic, immoral group of gutter-trash proceeds with a host of songs not celebrating life--but damning it. At one point a number is sung where a ton of prison-girls sing "he had it coming". These are not the villains of the movie, but the people the audience is supposed to be connecting with. Let me be clear: if you buy the movie being discussed and watch it you will be entering a world where you're supposed to sympathize with killers and with those who set them free. As such, one's personal response to a movie like this is telling. The reviews shown here, and throughout America, seem to suggest that this is a good movie (if not "the greatest of all time"), a movie that they like immensely. Well, to those who like this movie, to those who enjoy watching such filth, let me say the following: Speak for yourself, brother. There are still some people left who detest killers and their advocates--there still exist some who would rather watch heroes tap-dancing to raised champagne glasses than villains frolicking around to raised fists. I am one of those people and, as such, I think _Chicago_ is horrible. Simply and dreadfully horrible.
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Summary: Great Movie Despite What Other Jealous Types Say
Review: If anyone didn't like this movie, it is for the following reasons: they can't sing well (if at all), they can't dance anything Fosse (probably too fat), they can't act and just haven't been able to get into a movie themselves, or all of the above. These people are so obviously jealous because this movie is getting more attention than them and their incessant whining about nothing real. Chicago won the oscar. The whiners didn't. Catherine Zeta-Jones rocks and they don't. Simple as that. Perhaps all the naysayers should prove their mettle and dance, sing, and act with those of us who have actually done it for a living for audiences that pay us to entertain them. And besides all this, it's downright un-American to put down the All American art form: the musical. So there, you old poops! Chicago ROCKS!
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Summary: Old Hat
Review: I wish I had seen this film before Moulin Rouge.
That innovative musical made this one seem stale and old hat. It should have been made in the 50s. The film seems so delighted at poking fun at Chicago and its corrupt justice system -- jeez, that was fresh when Hecht and MacArthur wrote The Front Page three-quarters of a century ago. Now, after their masterpiece (and Roxy Hart, Some Like It Hot and dozens of other films) its premise is stale, stale stale. And unlike Moulin Rouge, which used an equally stale plot to re-invigorate the way movie musicals were presented, Chicago's staging was an stale as its story line.
The musical numbers might have been staged by Vincent Minelli ... I didn't find anything fresh or innovative or even memorable.
I was shocked that Renee Zellwegger's blah performance was on Oscar. At least she was better than Richard Gere -- what a disasterous performance.
I didn't really hate this movie ... I was merely bored by it.
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Summary: For Roxie...
Review: Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is arrested for murder of her husband and her sister that she has just committed. Roxie Hart (Renée Zellweger) sees Velma's last performance at the Vaudeville Theater as she dreams of her own fame. Roxie works hard to achieve her dream by cheating with a furniture salesman, but something goes wrong and she kills the salesman. Through the hard way, Roxie learns that everything is run by Matron 'Mama' Morton (Queen Latifah) and she meets Velma who is still seeking fame from within the prison through Mama. When Roxie finds out that she might get hanged she seeks help and Mama informs Roxie that she should get William 'Billy' Flynn (Richard Gere) as her lawyer, since he has never lost a case. Over a night, Mr. Flynn turns the nobody killer Roxie into a star by tweaking the truth to what the news media wants to hear. In the process, Velma falls into the shadow and becomes desperate to get back into the light of fame. Chicago is an interesting film, since it implies the audience as a driving factor in the search for fame within the main characters of the film. In addition, the film's musical and dancing elements boost the messages to such an extent that the messages become easily comprehendible. The editing also increases the tempo of the film as well as the score. Lastly, the cast helps provide a brilliant cinematic experience that is enjoyable for everyone, even those who usually don't enjoys musicals.
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Summary: Stupendous
Review: Loved the movie--the cast was superb. I had my doubts that Richard Gere could pull off a musical but he played his character as only a "shyster" lawyer could do! Catherine Zeta-Jones was "Jumping"--she really proved she is multi-talented--acting, singing and dancing. Queen Latifa was, without question, absolutely awesome! I kept hoping there was more to her role-the audience loved her. Zellwiger was "Betty Boop" like and certainly filled the "blonde" role. I thoroughly enjoyed the film from beginning to end. The dance number was "hot"... A keeper for my home collection--can't wait for the video!
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Summary: Has ups and downs...
Review: The choreography is amazing. The casting is fifty/fifty. If you know the broadway version, you will be disappointed. They remove some of my favorite songs, amputate some of the others. Renee is waif thin- you can see bones on her I didn't even know existed in a human body. Queen Latifa was PERFECT for her role. Richard Gere as Billy Flynn? Ummm...No. Too Old, Can't sing, it just didn't work for me. Despite that problem, if you are into dancing and choreography as I am, being brought up in stage theater, you will LOVE how they filmed Razzle Dazzle and Cell Block Tango. I am also glad they left in Mr. Celophane, although it didn't fit in with the movie as they cut out Velma's song, I Know a Girl. It's worth seeing once, but I'd have a hard time telling anyone to buy it unless they can get it for under 15 and they have a problem with late fees at the local rental place like I do.
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Summary: Chicago
Review: I saw the original play on Broadway; a review in Atlantic City, and again by a local theatre group. Yes, I loved the play and could hardly wait for the movie - saw that 3 times also. Now I am looking forward to getting the DVD in August. Do I love movie musicals - oh yes! I've seen Yankee Doodle Dandy 30 or 40 times. My other big favorites(viewed many times each) are The Pirates of Penzance and 1776. I never get tired of watching the great ones, and Chicago is right up there with the best.
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