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Chicago (2002)
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Critic Consensus: A rousing and energetic adaptation of the Broadway musical, Chicago succeeds on the level pure spectacle, but provides a surprising level of depth and humor as well.
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Cast
as Roxie Hart
as Velma Kelly
as Billy Flynn
as Matron `Mama' Morton
as Amos Hart
as Fred Casely
as Mary Sunshine
as Kitty Baxter
as Bandleader
as Martin Harrison
as Sergeant Fogarty
as Hunyak
as June
as Newspaper photographer
as Annie
as Mona
as Liz
as Stage manager
as Nickie
as Prison guard
as Wilbur
as Hunyak's husband
as June's Husband
as Annie's Husband
as Mona's Husband
as Reporter
as Prison Clerk
as Liz's Husband
as Police photographer
as Bernie
as Mrs. Borusewicz
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Critic Reviews for Chicago
All Critics (252) | Top Critics (49) | Fresh (215) | Rotten (37) | DVD (22)
Chicago is sexy, sordid and sensational, the Windy City's biggest hit since the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
As sentimental as a plywood casket, Chicago has satirical bite and a mean wit that somehow never obscures its characters' unlikely likability.
With performers as good as these and the freshness of Bill Condon's screenplay and Marshall's direction, there's really very little wrong with Chicago. What it lacks is something intangible -- heat.
Rob Marshall's screen version of the near-venerable show looks great, in its razzly-dazzly neo-Fosse way, and sounds good, especially when Renee Zellweger's gorgeous Roxie Hart is singing her heart out.
The net effect of the incessant dazzle is depressing.
The song-and-dance numbers are calisthenic but unspectacular, with too much fast cutting, and the tone throughout is harmlessly facetious.
Audience Reviews for Chicago
Might have appreciated it better had it not been for "all that jazz"! I don't like musicals usually, so apparently this form of satire didn't appeal me in the least.
Super Reviewer
Preferred Broadway show, but good adaptation. Renee was brilliant. Great music.
Super Reviewer
The music is already good, and it's a well made, dark and wry movie musical.
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Chicago Quotes
| Roxie Hart: | Forget it. It'll never work. |
| Velma Kelly: | Why not? |
| Roxie Hart: | 'Cause I hate you. |
| Velma Kelly: | There's only one business in the world where that's no problem at all.....[She raises her eyebrow, grins slyly and Roxie turned around and change her sad mood into a glad condition.] |
| Velma Kelly: | There's only one business in the world where that's no problem at all. |
| Velma Kelly: | We can make a couple hundred a week. Think about it, Roxie. Our faces back in the papers, our names on the marquee.Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart. |