Evita

Pros: Madonna's performance...Cinematography, a few songs...
Cons: Most of the songs, Banderas, skewed history...

I think one of the best things to come out of "Evita" is the scene in "Muppet Treasure Island," when Kermit and Miss Piggy (as Benjamina Gunn) are tied up and hanging upside-down off of the edge of a cliff, about to fall to their certain deaths (even...

Pros: Lavish production values; catchy, incisive songs; lush orchestration; Pryce and Madonna
Cons: Obviously dubbed soundtrack; third-act flameout; ambivalent blend of cynicism and sentimentality

Alan Parker's epic "Evita" (1996), based on the stage hit by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, has a mixed reputation, due in part to Madonna's image as a mediocre actress. Fortunately this time she was not required to act in the usual sense, but rather...

Pros: Madonna did a great job playing the role of Eva.
Cons: None!

I have been waiting to watch “Evita” for a long time and now that I have seen it, I Have to say that I am so happy I did. Madonna did such a good job portraying the role of Eva Duarte later to become Eva Perone. Her emotions seemed very ...

Pros: Fairly accurate biography and poignant musical.
Cons: Nothing I can think of...

It’s a movie night in Argentina in the year 1952. An audience of movie goers is enjoying themselves with a ‘guacho’ flick. Suddenly the film slows down, the sound slows down, and finally stops. People are booing and hissing and shouting ...

Pros: Music, cinematography, costuming; it's Madonna's crowning achievement on the silver screen.
Cons: Score & dialogue may take getting used to. Not an accurate source for history.

Evita is the film adaptation of the musical originally released in the 1970s, with the score and lyrics penned by the acclaimed duo of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. It chronicles the life and times of one of the most famous female politicians ...

Pros: Madonna's and Banderas' performances; the lyrics and music from Weber and Rice
Cons: Some lyrics difficult to understand on first viewing

Madonna as Eva Peron? Antonio Banderas as Che? What could they POSSIBLY be thinking? Well, better said, "What could I possibly have thought?" Madonna, despite some savaging from other epinion reviewers, is just plain perfect as Eva Peron. Not only ...

Pros: music is sensational
Cons: not entirely true to life, plot doesnt expand much, so so long

Evita was on television a couple of weeks ago. I hadnt seen it for ages so I decided to record it. As it was shown on BBC1, it would be without commercial breaks! The lead role of Maria Eva Duarte, to become, Eva Peron and Evita, was played by the ...

Pros: Madonna lights up the screen in this well-done musical extravaganza
Cons: Too much MTV influence keeps film from high-flying adored

EVITA (Cinergi) With: Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce, Jimmy Nail

Directed by: Alan Parker

You've probably read a couple of different reviews of EVITA by now, if you keep up with films; you may have read the TIME...

Pros: Sweeping cinematography.
Cons: Simply not up to the standards of the past.

Then Madonna was born to play Patti Lupone playing Evita. Yes, Madonna's performance isn't so much her own as a carefully studied redux of Patti Lupone's breathtaking run as Eva Peron in the original American production of Evita.

The...

Pros: Music, Great costumes, Excellent cinematography
Cons: No spoken dialogue, complicated 2nd half may be too political for some

The life of Eva Peron is one that has intrigued millions throughout the years. Even before Andrew Ll ...

Pros: the song "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina"
Cons: virtually everything else

Though I have ambivalent feelings toward Madonna as an entertainer, I was pleased when I heard she had the lead role for "Evita" (1996). Yet, for the most part, I was displeased with the production. Antonia Banderas was miscast as the...

Pros: Singing, acting, storytelling
Cons: None

The movie Evita, starring Madonna in the title roll and Antonio Banderas as the narrator, portrays the life of Eva Peron extremely well. Eva Peron was a woman who rose from the lower class of Argentina to be arguably the most powerful person in her...

Pros: None.
Cons: Bad acting, lousy singing, garbled, annoying, pointless.

This at one time and still is a beautiful musical about Argentina's Eva Duarte, who rose from obscurity to become the wife of Juan Peron.

And she didn't do it in a very nice way.

That's the fun of the musical. It sort of...

Pros: powerful story, Madonna better than expected, Antonio Banderas great!
Cons: Some plot changes did not "work"

This quotation from the song "Rainbow Tour" describes how I felt about this movie. When I first heard about Madonna playing the role of Eva Peron, I did not want to see the movie. Being a musical theater lover, I did not see her performing...

Pros: Excellent Adaptation.
Cons: Song is added merely for a single.

First, let me say that I was weaned on the Andrew Lloyd Weber/Tim Rice musical, so I had many misgivings about pretty much all the casting for the movie. I thought to myself, "Where's Patti LuPone? Where's Mandy Patikin?" I knew that I would...