Chicago (2002)
Good film, but surprisingly workmanlike -- the staging is done with a minimum of imagination, as if everyone felt too much respect towards the material to really bother making it overly cinematic. Acting is uniformly solid, but the only real standout is Zeta-Jones. (I never suspected she'd turn into a real actress after Entrapment, but there you go.) Rob Marshall's generic direction does the film no favors, and he botches at least one major setpiece (the tapdance scene). I can't help but wish the whole film exhibited the delirious, loopy charm of the "We Both Reached for the Gun" number, but if this at least revives the movie musical, I'll be happy.
Grade: B
Good film, but surprisingly workmanlike -- the staging is done with a minimum of imagination, as if everyone felt too much respect towards the material to really bother making it overly cinematic. Acting is uniformly solid, but the only real standout is Zeta-Jones. (I never suspected she'd turn into a real actress after Entrapment, but there you go.) Rob Marshall's generic direction does the film no favors, and he botches at least one major setpiece (the tapdance scene). I can't help but wish the whole film exhibited the delirious, loopy charm of the "We Both Reached for the Gun" number, but if this at least revives the movie musical, I'll be happy.
Grade: B
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