Author: Austin Shaw

Features:

• Format: DVD
• AC-3; Closed-captioned; Color; Dolby; Dubbed; DVD; Subtitled; Full Screen; NTSC

Format: AC-3

Release Date: 03-05-2005

Details: Product description The Phantom Of The Opera (Full Amazon.ca Although it's not as bold as Oscar darling Chicago, The Phantom of the Opera continues the resuscitation of the movie musical with a faithful adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's blockbuster stage musical. Emmy Rossum glows in a breakout role as opera ingénue Christine Daae, and if phantom Gerard Butler isn't Rossum's match vocally, he does convey menace and sensuality in such numbers as "The Music of the Night." The most experienced musical theater veteran in the cast, romantic lead Patrick Wilson, sings sweetly but seems wooden. The biggest name in the cast, Minnie Driver, hams it up as diva Carlotta, and she's the only principal whose voice was dubbed (though she does sing the closing-credit number, "Learn to Be Lonely," which is also the only new song). Director Joel Schumacher, no stranger to visual spectacle, seems to have found a good match in Lloyd Webber's larger-than-life vision of Gaston LeRoux's Gothic horror-romance. His weakness is cuing too many audience-reaction shots and showing too much of the lurking Phantom, but when he calms down and lets Rossum sings "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" alone in a silent graveyard, it's exquisite. Those who consider the stage musical shallow and overblown probably won't have their minds changed by the movie, and devotees will forever rue that the movie took the better part of two decades to develop, which prevented the casting of original principals Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman. Still, The Phantom of the Opera is a welcome exception to the long line of ill-conceived Broadway-to-movie travesties. --David Horiuchi More on The Phantom of the Opera The Phantom of the Opera (Special Extended Edition Soundtrack) (CD) The Phantom of the Opera (2004 Movie Soundtrack) (CD) The Phantom of the Opera (Original 1986 London Cast) (CD) Evita (DVD) Andrew Lloyd Weber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration (DVD) Andrew Lloyd Webber's the Phantom of the Opera Companion (Book)

UPC: 085393895228

EAN: 9780790795409

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood