Chicago

Pros: Zellweger, Gere, Zeta-Jones, Queen Latifah, Reilly; strong adaptation and direction
Cons: Lead performers clearly are not dancers

Paddy Bauler, a Chicago alderman in the days of Mayor Richard J. Daley, once quipped, "Chicago ain't ready for reform." Those words would serve as a fitting description of the movie, "Chicago," a musical set in the days of Prohibition, and three decades...

Pros: Outstanding performances by Zellweger, Zeta-Jones; funny, sexy, impressive stuff
Cons: Too violent and/or sexy for the pups; Gere's not ALL THAT...

We decided to see what all the buzz was about. Since December, we’ve been hearing about how great “Chicago” was. With our schedules as crazy as they are, it wasn’t until this week that we were able to make the time to go see a movie,...

Pros: Catherine Zeta-Jones was excellent.
Cons: Where's the passion?

Preamble
I admit to being an uneducated movie chick. I didn't see this when it first came out because it just didn't seem like my kind of movie. Friends, family, and co-workers kept on telling me that if I liked Moulin Rouge...

Pros: Great acting, fantastic cheoreography and sets, good performances by Zellweger-ZetaJones-Gere, satire
Cons: Unsympathetic characters, no really memorable songs, more stlye than substance

Out of all the films I’ve reviewed so far, Chicago is the hardest to review. It’s just so much a matter of personal taste, much more so than most other movies, and even I can’t quite work out just how much I like it! But… I will do my ...

Pros: Zeta-Jones. Entertaining movie musical.
Cons: Richard Gere sings. Won't appeal to some people.

Movie musicals were made for many years before they lost popularity. For a long time, the few that were made did horribly at the box office. It probably didn rsquo;t help that many of the ones made during that time weren rsquo;t that great. ...

Pros: Singing and dancing. Huzzah!
Cons: Lack of pros, and quite frankly, the prose.

Whatever else you can say about ‘Chicago’ (and most of what you can say includes the word ‘pretty’), it’s a brave, gutsy film. It’s a rare movie that gives you more ammunition by way of included analogy. At one point Renee...

Pros: fast paced, highly entertaining
Cons: none

Legs, Limbs, Lights, Razzle Dazzle and All that Jazz...

These were my immediate impressions about this movie and of course, Bob Fosse! Yes, I know Fosse didn’t direct this film,(poor guy, isn't around any longer) but his style and clearly...

Pros: Great cast, great musical
Cons: The director's cinematic inexperience sometimes shows

Recent movie musicals have felt more like stunts than like fully integrated projects. With Moulin Rouge, one could almost sense director Baz Luhrman standing on the side giggling, "Do you think the audience would go with me if I set a tango to a...

Pros: Great story telling using song and dance to move it all along.
Cons: Nothing worth noting.

I saw the movie Chicago in the theater back in 2002 and I also have the film in my Ipod collection now. It is also doing an incredible run as a play in a number of cities right now. I was well entertained by the film. At the same time I also felt I was ...

Pros: very talented performers, amazingly choreographed
Cons: unappealing characters, cynical story, songs that don't thrill

Two years ago I watched as Chicago took home half a dozen Oscars and wondered whether I would feel bitter about them when I finally got around to seeing the movie. I like musicals, so I wanted to withhold judgment, but when I did get around to ...

Pros: Performances; Dancing
Cons: Pace is almost too fast; Some spotty songs

Hollywood churns out many types of films each year, providing movie buffs with several opportunities to watch the drama, comedy, horror, suspense, action, or animated film of their choosing. Some types of films are more commonplace than others, however, ...

Pros: Powerhouse performances from a terrific cast.
Cons: A truncated score.

My campaign to generate a super-hot publicity driven romance has not been going quite as well as I had hoped. I was sure that I would be muscling that Jello person off the front pages by now, but the spark just hasn't been there, despite three trips to...

Pros: The moments when Richard Gere stops singing (sweet, sweet silence), Zeta-Jones' eyewinks
Cons: Acting, direction, choreography, script... etc.

Normally I'm not a fan of musicals. I did, however, see the stage version of "Chicago" when it played Toronto in early 1998. I was less than bowled over by its ludicrously simplistic overriding theme (i.e., that justice isn't just blind, it's also...

Pros: Acting. Singing. Dancing.
Cons: A mediocre story without an admirable soul or thought in sight.

The Cultured Lifestyle So I don’t like musicals. Am I an unabashed philistine? Un-American? (A dangerous label to use these days.) Okay, I’ll admit a certain fondness for Camelot, and even The Sound of Music ...

Pros: Glitzy Production numbers
Cons: Too much telling me what to look at by the director

I am definitely a sucker for awards. When the new film Chicago got a Best film award at the Golden Globes I thought I should give this a go. The truth of the matter is though –exactly what was the competition for the category in Best Musical/...