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

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.

'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'

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

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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.

(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.

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

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