his Oscar-laden movie rendition, directed by Rob Marshall, suffers from the kind of ants-in-your-pants MTV editing that prevents you from simply watching and enjoying the musical numbers.
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Chicago (2002)
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Reviews Counted:37
Fresh:34
Rotten:3
Average Rating:8.1/10
Consensus: A rousing and energetic adaptation of the Broadway musical that'll have you tapping your feet.
Theatrical Release:Dec 27, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $170,617,614
Synopsis: Everyone loves a legend, but in Chicago, there’s only room for one. Velma Kelley (CATHERINE ZETA-JONES) burns in the spotlight as a nightclub sensation. When she shoots her philandering husband,... [More]
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah
Director: Rob Marshall
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Reviews for Chicago
Top CriticScintillating, jazz-hot adaptation.
04/22/03
Top CriticThis film adaptation, written by Bill Condon, is somewhat kinder and gentler than the stage versions that preceded it.
02/14/03
Top CriticChicago is, in many ways, an admirable achievement.
01/16/03
Top CriticRenee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones put on quite a show in Rob Marshall's dazzling cinematic rethinking of the 1975 Kander and Ebb musical directed by Bob Fosse.
01/14/03
Top CriticLeggy Zeta-Jones is so hot in the 'All That Jazz' number, she's flammable. And Zellweger defines delicious.
01/09/03
Top CriticBy the end of Chicago, just about everyone in it has razzle-dazzled someone, and so has the movie, which leaves you thrilled at how good it feels to see life, death, and girl power turned, once again, into a cabaret.
01/03/03
Top CriticWith few respites, Marshall keeps the energy humming, and his edits, unlike those in Moulin Rouge, are crisp and purposeful without overdoing it.
12/28/02
Top CriticChicago is everything a musical is supposed to be, with good songs sung by people who sing well, and with lots of sexy dances featuring women who are gorgeous and men who don't get in the way.
12/27/02
Top CriticIn Marshall's virtuoso hands, this movie version of the 1975 Bob Fosse Broadway musical based on the 1942 Ginger Rogers movie Roxie Hart based on the 1926 play Chicago, the rhinestones shimmer like diamonds and brass glows like solid gold.
12/27/02
Top CriticThis Chicago has hugely imaginative and successful casting to its great credit, as well as one terrific score and attitude to spare.
12/27/02
Top CriticMuch more than one of the best movies of the year, Chicago is destined to become the most popular screen adaptation of a stage musical since Grease.
12/27/02
Top CriticBig, brassy fun.
12/27/02
Top CriticNot since the 1972 Cabaret has there been a movie musical this stirring, intelligent and exciting.
12/27/02
Top CriticThis Chicago doesn't toddle, it swings, it Lindy Hops, it Charlestons the night away, and probably all your woes along with it.
12/27/02
Top CriticChicago is my kind of movie musical.
12/27/02
Top CriticMarshall has created a glitzy, seductive, high-energy movie that feels more like a filmed play than a play made into a film.
12/27/02
Top CriticChicago improves upon the long-running Broadway show by Kander and Ebb in many ways.
12/27/02
Top CriticMarshall deserves credit for taking what threatened to be a worn-out bit of Broadway entertainment and turning it into an evening's worth of fun.
12/27/02
Top CriticChicago is sophisticated, brash, sardonic, completely joyful in its execution.
12/27/02
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