The Phantom of the Opera (2005)
The Phantom of the Opera (2005)
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Critic 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.
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Cast
as The Phantom
as Christine
as Raoul
as Madame Giry
as Carlotta
as Firmin
as Andre
as Piangi
as Meg Giry
as Reyer
as Buquet
as Lefevre
as Carlotta's Maid
as Carlotta's Wigmaker
as Carlotta's Seamstress
as Passirino
as Auctioneer
as Nun/Nurse
as Chauffeur
as Christine's Father
as Young Phantom
as Young Christine
as Young Meg
as Young Madame Giry
as Porter
as Ballet Tart
as Ballet Tart
as Principal Male Dancer
as Fop
as Fops
as Confidante
as Opera Chorus
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as Ballet Boy
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as Ballet Girl
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as Ballet Girl
as Ballet Girl
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as Opera Populaire Orchestra
as Opera Populaire Orchestra
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as Opera Populaire Orchestra
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as Opera Populaire Orchestra
as Flamenco Dancer
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as Swordmaster
as Candelabra Holder
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Critic Reviews for The Phantom of the Opera
All Critics (168) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (55) | Rotten (113) | DVD (16)
My own reaction to the current version fashioned by Mr. Schumacher is one of pure stupefaction.
The plot is impressively free of anything that does not smell of unpasteurized melodrama.
Takes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat.
This guy's not the Phantom of the Opera, he's the Fashionably Scarred Stud of the Opera and that just doesn't work.
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.
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.
Audience Reviews for The Phantom of the Opera
The impressive sets, costumes, production direction and cinematography make for a stunning visual spectacle, but most of the songs - with the exception of two or three - are hideous (yes, I hate both Andrew Lloyd Webber and his musical) and Butler is a terrible singer.
Super Reviewer
Imagine a big budget Disney animation about a princess in a castle and then, right in the middle of the effort they switch, ala the black and white to color switch in The Wizard Of Oz, to live action, and that gives you an idea of what you're getting in this sumptuous Joel Schumacher production. It's all so big, so grand, the idea that you're meant to be impressed becomes more distracting than what's grand. Distracting from what, you ask? From the core idea, irreplaceable really, that the Phantom himself is a monster. Why it was decided to ditch that element I'll never know, but what remains is clear: boring filmmaking. So you get all the sets: tremendous. The music: not bad, like music videos for the last generation, big time. Costumes? Hoo boy! But connection? Very little. Missed it by THAT much.
Super Reviewer
Thoroughly enjoyable.
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The Phantom of the Opera Quotes
| The Phantom: | Now let it be war upon you both. |
| The Phantom: | Anywhere you go let me go too! |
| Gilles Andre: | Senorita, these things do happen. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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