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Summary: No legs for this dog
Review: Please avoid this film at all costs! Even a second-rate touring company would be a better bet for experiencing this classic musical. Having nary a clue about the larger themes of this drama, director Attenborough thoroughly pummelled this show into a dreadful, hammy production.
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Summary: GOOD, BUT SOME FLAWS.
Review: The acting, singing, and dancing are fine. My only complaint is the substitution of two good songs, "Hello Twelve" and "The Music and The Mirror" with two mediocre songs. Why did they do that?
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Summary: The worst musical ever made
Review: I felt embarassed that a quality actor of Michael Douglas's capability was ever coerced into taking part in this totally amateurish rubbish. While the other participants were never heard of again fortunately it did no sustainable damage to the career of the star of the film
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Summary: This is a great movie!!!!
Review: This movie has excellent music and choreography in it. It is not a movie for childern because of adult language but kids can watch the dancing. Something that makes this movie good is the original plot.I love watching this movie!!!
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Summary: the emotions of what a chorus line all about was excellent
Review: This is a story that shows what Bob Fosse wanted,to make a show a sucess and why his shows were a hit.
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Summary: It was AWESOME!!!
Review: I own the movie and I watch it as often as I can. The dancing is great, the singing is great, and the actors and actresses are excellent!!! The scenes that took us away from the dancing helped us to get to know the characters outside of the audition. "What I did for Love" made a lot of sense where they put it. It showed how Cassie really felt about Zack. This is my favorite musical, and I loved the movie!!
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Summary: Lost the lessons Fred Astaire taught us.
Review: My biggest problem with this movie is that the dance numbers are continually interrupted for pointless shots such as a taxi stuck in traffic, Micheal Douglas' adams apple bobbing up and down (way too many of those),or Cassie looking at herself in the mirror. Fred Astaire taught us that the dance should carry the film and that film shots should show the whole dancer and not just legs or arms. The director obviously felt that the story and the dance were not good enough to carry the movie and reverted to the MTV generation of quick shots and lots and lots of editing. Too bad. The story is about dance and what it means to be a dancer and love what that is. The story should have been left alone and dance numbers should have been shot in their entirety.
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Summary: Ehhh
Review: Ok Ok. I love this show. I personally know the man who played Mark in the movie version. This was yet another "Hollywood" attempt at being bigger than the previous one. I HATE how they trashed "What I did For Love", cut the montage [and my favorite "And"]. However, the casting was *superb*, especially Audrey Landers as Val. The choreography was phenomenal tho very different than the "Step Kick Kick Leap Kick Touch Again" routine. I found the finale divine. I also loved the replacement of "Music and the Mirror" for "Let Me Dance For You". Glad to see they hired the original composer and lyrcist to do the movie music than hiring newbie composer thinking they can do better.
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Summary: Intimate characters; showcases a new angle of preformance
Review: Chrous line is one of those musicals that I rent again and again. I never get tired of the story and always love the character twists. The quality I like is the depth and personality of each character. The music sticks in my head, especially "Nothing" sung by Morales (Yamil Borges), which I can sing in my sleep. A great movie for anyone intersted in the stage life. Fascinating.
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Summary: Missed opportunity...but some great dancing....
Review: A CHORUS LINE: THE MOVIE has it's best moments when it is simply music and dancing -- particularly when it stays true (or close to) to the incomparable stage version, as it does in the opening number and the closing showstopper, "One." The main problem I have with the film is the fact that the stage show was about "dancers and love of the theatre," while this movie is specifically focused on "kids breaking into showbiz." This is most glaringly apparent in the depiction of the song "What I Did For Love." In the show, that song was about those dancers expressing their passion for dancing and what it would mean if being forced to give it up. Here, the song's meaning is cheapened by treating it as a character love song. Paul's timeless, heart-breaking monologue is ripped to shreds...and the most energetic group number in the piece ("Hello Twelve...") is given over to the Richie character for an unecessary song called "Surprise Surprise." Even the mesmerizing "Music and the Mirror" is junked for the lesser "Let Me Dance For You." I hope that someone gets the idea in their heads to re-film this beyond classic musical the way it was meant to be seen...perhaps for public television....or simply revive it for Broadway where it belongs, with dancers, forever kicking those legs as the footlights come down night after night.
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