| | Chicago DVD Queen Latifah CDS
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| Category | Dramas DVDs, Musical Movies, Music Video Videos, Crime, Murder, Musical, Essential Cinema, Dance, Dancers, Prison, AFI Top 100 Movie Songs, Songs | | Starring | Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Queen Latifah, Richard Gere, John C. Reilly, Christine Baranski, Taye Diggs, Colm Feore, Lucy Liu, Dominic West, Chita Rivera | | Director | Rob Marshall | | Composer | John Kander | | Director of Photography | Dion Beebe | | Producer | Martin Richards | | Screenwriter | Bill Condon | | Source Writer | Bob Fosse, Fred Ebb, Maurine Watkins |
Closed Captioned; Additional Footage; Bio/Filmographies; Soundtrack English; Soundtrack French; Academy Awards; Director's Comments This Hollywood adaptation of the classic Broadway musical sparkles with glamour and reverberates with the energy of good, old-fashioned song and dance. As the film leaps into its first riveting act, Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones), one half of the famous number she performs with her sister, arrives at the night club late, disheveled, and with blood on her hands. Nonetheless, she goes onstage unhindered and wows the crowd with her shimmying rendition of "All That Jazz." Roxie Hart (Renee Zellweger) a young blond who dreams of someday being famous like Velma, watches from the audience with eyes full of envy. Later, as the cops pick up Velma for the murder of her sister, sending her fame to all-time heights as she becomes a tabloid sensation, Roxie also commits a crime of passion--shooting a lover who falsely promised to secure her cabaret debut. The girls wind up together in jail, where Mama Morton (Queen Latifah), a compassionate guard, is their only hope of redemption; and Billy Flynn (Richard Gere) is the lawyer who can get them out. There, through wonderfully familiar songs like "Razzle Dazzle," "Cell-Block Tango," and "Cellophane Man" Roxie and Velma tell their story of competing for bad-girl celebrity.
Director Rob Marshall presents a loveable CHICAGO that shares all the grit and grime of the Bob Fosse Broadway original with phenomenal performances by this grouping of Hollywood stars. The dizzying camerawork and dazzling sets make an easy transition from stage to film. Theatrical release: December 27, 2002 Chicago Reviews: "...It's Zeta-Jones who keeps you watching from start to finish....She refuses to let you go....If musicals are dreams, she is their greatest dreamer..."
-- Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times "...It's the raw expenditure of energy and the canniness of the staging that should pull audiences in and keep them rooted..."
-- Elvis Mitchell, New York Times "...CHICAGO shows how much the element of surprise is missing from today's movies....It's part of the basic Zeta-Jones bio that she can really sing, and, wow, can she..."
-- Mike Clark, USA Today "...Zellweger wins our hearts. That's what makes her dangerous. Just like the movie....Dynamite..."
-- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone "...Zeta-Jones, all legs and growls, has found her calling card..."
-- Michael Koresky, Film Comment "...Fresh and daring....Queen Latifah and John C. Reilly are the surprise standouts..."
-- Ray Greene, Box Office "...[The actors] deliver sizzling performances....This tawdry, hard-as-nails carnival of ghouls generates plenty of fireworks..."-- Stephen Farber, Movieline's Hollywood Life "...[Jones] makes nightclub singer Velma a droll fishnet virtuoso..."
-- David Jays, Sight and Sound Chicago | List Price | $14.99 (You save $4.70) | | Studio | Buena Vista Home Entertainment | | Orig Year | 2002 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  694  | | CD Universe Part number | 5786724 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jan 12, 2007 | | Rating | PG-13 (MPAA) | | Rating Reason | sexual content and dialogue, violence and thematic elements | | Running Time | 113 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen | | Movie Details | Color; Digitally Processed; Widescreen |
Chicago Movie Review Average Rating: (3.7 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews if you are a musical fanatic,,,,,it might bore you.
i have seen over 100 musical films, but this film is not enough good. if you are in musical very much. this film is very boring.
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 Best Film Musical In Years!
Wow! Anyone who has known what Hollywood has done to perfectly wonderful stage musicals, like the horrible motion pictures of A CHORUS LINE and ANNIE just to name a few - will doubtless appreciate the fine conversion of the sexy, sultry Chicago of the stage to the sexy, sultry CHICAGO of the screen. It is an interesting adaptation full of intelligence and imaginative staging with choreography which captures the spirit of the Fosse original. And its inspired to see Queen Latifa strut her stuff, as well as Catherine Zeta-Jones (pure energy and a helluva dancer), Renee Zelweiger and Richard Gere do their own dancing and singing. Surprising is John C. Reilly as a downtrodden, hurt but devoted husband. His rendition of Mr. Cellophane is a dramatic highpoint and the heart of the picture. Theatre goers will enjoy the cameo of Chita Rivera (original stage Velma) and can relax in the hands of sure-footed stage and television director/choreographer Rob Marshall. Five stars *****. Don't miss it!
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 Wonderful
Kept dance and story line faithful to Bob Fosse.
Nice touch having Chita Rivera in cameo.
Loved Queen Latifa.
Submitted by patg (San Diego, CA) 
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 Boring, boring, boring
Above all else, a movie must be entertaining. This movie failed because it beat you over the head with endless renditions of overdone, obvious, musical vignettes ans was short on drama and character development. I must admit, I did not see the end of the movie yet because I was just so bored and angry that I bought this DVD. That will teach me. Now some of the musical bits were not bad, but it was comical to see all these dramatic actors, not known for their musical prowess, spend so much time at it. Was their purpose just to let us know they could dance and sing as well as act. I would have like d a bit more acting and a lot less singing. I realize the academy rewarded this movie with several awards. Those too hip voters should be forces to watch this movie every day for a month as punishment. If you have insomnia, bet this DVD. You will be cured.
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CHICAGO - A MUST SEE MOVIE
As I rarely go to the movies It's so good to see one on a big screen. I had been told by friends that the performances in this movie were so good you wanted to jump up and applaud, well I felt that way too!
I bought the soundtrack cd as I love the music, Richard Gere's vocal is fantastic as is everything about this movie. However, everyone raved about Catherine Zeta-Jone, she was good but I thought Renee Zellweger outshone her!
I first saw "Chicago" on the stage in the 70's in NYC with Gwen Verdon & Chita Rivera, it's amazing that all these years later it's now a Worldwide smash both on stage and screen and it wasn't written by Andrew Lloyd Webber!
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Chicago DVD Region 1
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Anamorphic Widescreen -
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Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
DTS Surround 5.1 - English
Additional Release Material:
Trailers
Deleted Scenes
Behind the Scenes
Audio Commentary: Rob Marshall - Director, Bill Condon - Screenwriter
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Director Martin Scorsese revisits New York City's notorious past with this dazzling historical drama. A throwback to the epics of yesteryear, GANGS OF NEW YORK is set in the mid-1800s, when the streets of lower Manhattan were teeming with tension and violence. Leonardo DiCaprio is Amsterdam Vallon, the son of a revered gang leader (Liam Neeson). As a youth, Amsterdam witnessed the death of his father at the hands of William "The Butcher" Cutting (Daniel Day-Lewis), the maniacally driven ruler of the city's most powerful gang. Sixteen years later, Amsterdam is finally released from the orphanage that raised him. Determined to avenge his father's death, Amsterdam makes his way back to the volatile Five Points to track down Cutting and exact revenge. As he gradually infiltrates Bill the Butcher's camp and earns the crazed gangster's respect, he must also contend with the tumultuous, but beautiful, Jenny Everdean (Cameron Diaz). DiCaprio and Diaz are impressive in their respective roles, but it is Day-Lewis who steals the show. Resurfacing after a five-year retirement, the Irish actor delivers a performance that is at once cartoonish, electrifying, comical, sincere, and deeply moving. By paying tribute to the early days of New York City in such a grand, spectacular manner, Scorsese also pays tribute to cinema itself.
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| | Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers DVDs (2002) Widescreen
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Picking up where the first film left off, Peter Jackson's THE TWO TOWERS throws the remaining members of the Fellowship into the scattered chaos of Middle-earth, now fully under siege by the forces of Sauron. While Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin) journey to the dreaded Mordor, Merry (Dominic Monaghan) and Pippin (Billy Boyd) are held captive by orcs, and Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), Legolas (Orlando Bloom), and Gimli (John Rhys-Davies) search for their abducted companions. Soon Frodo and Sam are joined by the sulking and duplicitous Gollum (portrayed by the voice and motion-captured acting of Andy Serkis), who becomes their guide through the barren lands leading to Mount Doom. Meanwhile Merry and Pippin encounter the looming Treebeard (voiced by Rhys-Davies) and Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli find themselves in the land of Rohan, accompanied by an old friend. As the tale continues, each scenario becomes more perilous, and fierce battles erupt at both Isengard, home of the treacherous Saruman (Christopher Lee), and the massive Helm's Deep.
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Closed Captioned; Bio/Filmographies; Soundtrack English
| | Finding Nemo DVDs (2003) Full Frame; Widescreen; Collector's Edition; Subtitled
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Co-helmed by WALL-E director Andrew Stanton, FINDING NEMO follows Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks), an overprotective clown fish father, as he desperately searches the farthest reaches of the sea for his missing son Nemo. Marlin's journey leads him beyond the Great Barrier Reef into deeper and darker waters, where he meets Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), a forgetful yet optimistic blue tang, and a number of not-so-friendly--and often very hungry--aquatic creatures. Meanwhile, little Nemo finds himself in a dentist's fish tank in Syndey, Australia, along with other underwater captives, including Gill (Willem Dafoe), the group's scarred Moorish idol leader. As Nemo works with his new friends on a plan to escape their tank, Marlin and Dory swim closer, but they'll need more than just fins to get into the dentist's office.
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Closed Captioned; Soundtrack English
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Additional Footage; Bio/Filmographies; Soundtrack English; Academy Awards; English Subtitles; Director's Comments
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In the Oregon Territory, mountain man Adam Pontipee (Howard Keel, acting and singing with gusto) comes to town to sell his crops and woo a woman to be his wife, succeeding with spirited Milly (Jane Powell), who is tired of feeding and waiting on so many men at the local inn. Her dreams of keeping house for just one man are shattered when she discovers that Adam shares his pigsty cabin with six brawling brothers. Milly's good cooking and stubborn nature whip the young men into shape and inspire them to seek women of their own. But after a disastrous barn raising during which the brothers snare the attention of the town girls only to be taunted into fighting with the town men, Adam suggests his brothers forget gentle methods of love and follow the actions of the Roman with the Sabine ("Sobbin'") women. The kidnapping of their six sweethearts spurs Milly to throw the men out of the house, but enforced proximity caused by winter and the brothers' good intentions just might help love bloom again.
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| | Doctor Dolittle DVD (1967)
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