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Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:10
Rotten:26
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: The music of the night has hit something of a sour note: Critics are calling the screen adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s popular musical histrionic, boring, and lacking in both romance and danger. Still, some have praised the film for its sheer spectacle.
Theatrical Release:Dec 22, 2004 Limited
Box Office: $51,193,556
Synopsis: Those who thought that smoke machines and cobwebbed candelabras were the stuff of Halloween parties and dance clubs need to think again. In Joel Schumacher's film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd... [More]
Starring: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Minnie Driver, Patrick Wilson
Director: Joel Schumacher
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Reviews for Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera
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07/30/05
Top CriticMy own reaction to the current version fashioned by Mr. Schumacher is one of pure stupefaction.
01/27/05
Top CriticThe plot is impressively free of anything that does not smell of unpasteurized melodrama.
01/15/05
Top CriticTakes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat.
12/27/04
Top CriticThis guy’s not the Phantom of the Opera, he’s the Fashionably Scarred Stud of the Opera and that just doesn’t work.
12/27/04
Top CriticJoel 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.
12/23/04
Top CriticThe 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.
12/23/04
Top CriticThe movie version of Lloyd Webber's smash hit does to the music what the music did to the words and story: It distracts the mind and cajoles the eyes to the point that one doesn't really care that everything the ears are hearing is pure nonsense.
12/22/04
Top CriticFor those whose primary experience with musicals is on the screen, this melodramatic tale with the familiar soundtrack should hold substantial appeal.
12/22/04
Top CriticThe film overflows with overkill, from the amped-up orchestra that constantly threatens to submerge the singers to the ornate silliness of each and every scene involving the Phantom.
12/22/04
Top CriticThe movie misfires as often as it connects.
12/22/04
Top CriticIf you want something more from musicals than a single syrupy hit, though -- and have fond memories of the Phantom as our most romantic of monsters -- then seek out the old Lon Chaney silent instead, and put on your own darn music.
12/22/04
Top CriticThe falling chandelier, the signature moment of Phantom, has been moved from the end of the first act to the climax of the movie -- by which point non-devotees may need to be roused from their sleep by their companions.
12/22/04
Top CriticAndrew Lloyd Webber's kitschy theatrical spectacle is now a kitschy theatrical movie, a mix of melodrama, horror, romance, mystery and melody heaped together into a cinematic smorgasbord, one heavy in starch.
12/22/04
Top CriticWhere's Homeland Security when you need it?
12/22/04
Top CriticSchumacher has bravely taken aboard this dreck and made of it a movie I am pleased to have seen.
12/22/04
Top CriticIt's a slow-moving orgy of lowbrow grandiosity that's as tedious as it is overblown and pretentious. Songs, scenes, dance numbers, lyrics and set pieces all blend together into an indistinct, ludicrously self-serious mush.
12/22/04
Top CriticChristine is a dipstick, a trait that the vapid, but pretty-voiced Emmy Rossum brings across with effortless, blank-eyed aplomb in this similarly idiotic film.
12/22/04
Top CriticWith its stately pace and theatrical roots showing at all times, Phantom may work as a reproduction for the faithful, but it never really connects as a film.
12/22/04
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