Review of Les Misérables (2012) by Jeremyp — 04 Jan 2013

It's big and it's brassy and if you like to listen to lyrics it gets you in the gut quite often. I usually hate musicals, and "Chicago" is the last one I saw-and liked-and I've seen, and liked, the stage version.

The movie version allowed me to hear the lyrics better, and I finally was able to get into Redmayne's great solo "empty chairs," (made me wonder how veterans would take it) and hated what Cohen and Bonham Carter did with "Master of the house.

" It was a tad long and had Cohen been cropped after his main bit it would have helped. You'll either get sucked in or be bored to tears.