The Phantom of the Opera (2005)

All Critics (173) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (54) | Rotten (111) | DVD (33)

My own reaction to the current version fashioned by Mr. Schumacher is one of pure stupefaction.

January 27, 2005 Full Review | Comment (1)

Andrew Sarris

New York Observer

Top Critic

The plot is impressively free of anything that does not smell of unpasteurized melodrama.

January 15, 2005 | Comment (1)

Anthony Lane

New Yorker

Top Critic

Takes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat.

December 27, 2004 Full Review | Comments (2)

Stephanie Zacharek

Salon.com

Top Critic

This guy's not the Phantom of the Opera, he's the Fashionably Scarred Stud of the Opera and that just doesn't work.

December 27, 2004 Full Review | Comments (4)

Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

Joel Schumacher's film adaptation of Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera combines fingernails-on- blackboard audio agony with bamboo- under- fingernails physical torture.

December 23, 2004 | Comments (5)

Carrie Rickey

Philadelphia Inquirer

Top Critic

The movie version of Lloyd Webber's swooning 1986 horror operetta has been directed, by Joel Schumacher, as if Schumacher were the world's hardest-working upholstery salesman.

December 23, 2004 Full Review

Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

cinematically translated Webber's musical adaptation as well as humanly possible,

February 4, 2013 Full Review

John A. Nesbit

Old School Reviews

The whole production feels cut and pasted, and it doesn't translate well to the big screen...

April 29, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

Fans of musical theater will work themselves into a lather over Joel Schumacher's by-the-book film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's monotonous play, but most audiences will either fall asleep or hit the cinema doors running.

April 18, 2009 Full Review | Comments (4)

Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

Fantastic sets, costumes, great art direction and imaginative camera work make this a visually stunning film. The musical score, not so much.

April 10, 2008 Full Review | Comments (5)

Robert Roten

Laramie Movie Scope

Without a proper Phantom, the entire enterprise sags monumentally, and, unfortunately, Butler is a disaster here.

March 1, 2007 Full Review | Comments (15)

David Noh

Film Journal International

Most fans are bound to be disappointed to some degree, and non-aficionados of musical theater will find it tedious and silly. Do yourself a favor and see this on stage

September 1, 2006 | Comments (3)

Russ Breimeier

Christianity Today

Deserves to be locked up in a dank, water-filled dungeon and left to molder.

May 3, 2005 Full Review | Comments (7)

Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

Tecnicamente impecável; no entanto, a adaptação medíocre de Weber não justifica mais de duas horas de projeção para apenas três canções aceitáveis (e Butler não sabe cantar).

April 19, 2005

Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

The movie is so overblown, so much is meant to dazzle the eye, that it overwhelms the characters and the music.

April 19, 2005 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

Fans of the musical "The Phantom of the Opera", however, will find plenty to like in this filmic adaptation but its faults could have easily sunk the entire production.

April 17, 2005 Full Review

Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

'Pésele a quien le pese, es una de las mejores películas del 2004. Injustamente ignorada en Estados Unidos pero que el tiempo seguramente la convertirá en un clásico'

April 4, 2005

Jorge Avila Andrade

Moviola

Andrew Lloyd Webber is... a shallow, giftless dilettante whose hackneyed McOperas are an embarrassment to the art form.

March 23, 2005 Full Review | Comments (6)

John W. Bowen

Rue Morgue Magazine

If you can get on its dank and heavy wavelength, the whole project is so aesthetically rich that it manages to transcend that it's, at heart, a lot of dressed-up goofiness.

March 1, 2005 Full Review

Mark Palermo

Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

(Joel Schumacher) tenía ganas de hacer un musical y se sacó las ganas; sólo que no bastaba con poner gente cantando envuelta en trajes brillantes.

February 16, 2005 Full Review

Enrique Buchichio

Uruguay Total

Phantom is as bloated as Monty Python's Mr. Creosote, and is so stagebound that it's just about as agile as that character.

February 8, 2005 Full Review

Devin Faraci

CHUD

The big-screen rendition of The Phantom of the Opera resembles a ridiculously expensive installment of Masterpiece Theatre.

January 27, 2005

John Wirt

Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)

An awkward, overstuffed and occasionally painful delusion of grandeur ...

January 25, 2005

Jonathan R. Perry

Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

Could have used some 'star power,' but overall should make Webber followers happy

January 24, 2005 Full Review

Jackie K. Cooper

jackiekcooper.com

Even the most die-hard "Phantom" aficionados might be struck dumb by the sheer level of the crescendo and camp Schumacher achieves here.

January 24, 2005 Full Review

Christopher Smith

Bangor Daily News (Maine)

• 1. Gilles Andre: Senorita, these things do happen.
  2. La Carlotta: For the past 3 years, 'these things do happen' and did you stop them from happening? No! And you two! You are as bad as him! 'These things do happen.' *grunts with anger* Until you stop these things from happening, this thing does not happen.
  – Submitted by Ceara R (11 months ago)
• 1. Madame Giry: Those who speak of what they know learn too late that prudent silence is wise. Joseph Buquet hold your tongue. Keep your hand at the level of your eyes.
  – Submitted by Ceara R (11 months ago)
• 1. The Phantom: Sing for me!
  – Submitted by Ashley N (11 months ago)
• 1. Meg Giry: Oh Christine he's so handsome.
  2. Meg Giry: Where in the world have you been hiding, really you were perfect. I only wish I knew your secret, who is your new tutor?
  3. The Phantom: I am your Angel of Music, come to me Angel of Music
  – Submitted by Isabella H (12 months ago)
• 1. Madame Giry: He's a genius, monsieur. He's an architect and designer; he's a composer and magician. He's a genius!
  2. Vicomte Raoul de Chagny: Yes, but it seems genius has turned to madness.
  – Submitted by Timea S (17 months ago)
• 1. The Phantom: Christine, I love you.
  – Submitted by Daniel A (20 months ago)

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