Chicago

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A disaster. "Moulin Rouge" is way better FULL SKULL BABY!

I'm starting to like the movie "Chicago" a lot less and less. It doesn't have that oomph like "Moulin Rouge," which has better costumes, better actors, better story, better makeup, better choreography, and better everything. Plus, Renee Zellwhatnot is NO match for Nicole Kidman. And why did they cast John Reilly, the UGLIEST actor in existence? Plus those songs "Cell Block Tango" and "Roxie" got on my nerves real fast. Please skip this and see "Moulin Rouge," which is the greatest musical of all time.

Great Songs and Great Performances FULL SKULL BABY!

I've never seen the stage version of Chicago, so I can't say if the movie was faithful to the source material, but judged on it's own by a pair of fresh eyes, Chicago was a lot of fun, especially considering I'm generally not crazy about movie musicals.

Maybe this one was a little more palatable to me because most of the musical numbers were staged as the daydreams/fantasies of Renee Zellweger's character Roxie Hart, a wanna-be Jazz baby singer/murderess awaiting trial for killing her lover. Catherine Zeta-Jones co-stars as Velma Kelly, a singer/dancer in the same prison for her murder of her stage partner/sister and Husband, who she found in the sack together. Richard Gere plays Billy Flynn, the money-hungry Lawyer representing them both. (He's portrayed as a Jazz-era Johnny Cochran.) All three leads acquit themselves nicely in the song & dance department, especially Zeta-Jones, but to me the real revelations were Queen Latifah (As the Prison Matron) & John C. Reilly (Amos, the cuckold Husband of the ruthless Roxie); Reilly's rendition of "Mr. Cellophane" is heartbreaking. (It seems like lately Reilly is in every other movie that comes out, and with the quality of his performances, it's easy to see why.) I also got a kick out of seeing Christine Baranski, Chita Rivera, and Mya in smaller roles. The songs are really catchy, and I think I'm gonna have to check out Chicago on stage next. Although the movie dragged in spots, I still highly recommend it, even if you don't generally flock to musicals.

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