Review of The Phantom of the Opera (2004) by Jenny O — 30 Dec 2011
If you're interested in watching Phantom of the Opera, do yourself a favour and see it on stage. In a theatre, it's a terrific, dazzling experience, and the music sounds great, but somehow all that got lost on the way to the big screen.
Theatrical artifices like sung dialogue just seem odd and silly in a film, the melodrama which works on stage comes across as absurdly overblown on screen, and sadly neither the acting or singing is equal to the score.
Gerard Butler should have been dubbed, while Minnie Driver seems to think she's appearing in a parody, judging by her OTT performance. It all looks lovely, but the spectacle of the original is lost.
This review of The Phantom of the Opera (2004) was written by Jenny O on 30 Dec 2011.
The Phantom of the Opera has generally received positive reviews.
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