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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; Standard Screen; 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 | | All Time Sales Rank |  7434  | | CD Universe Part number | 5975877 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Nov 03, 2004 | | Rating | PG-13 (MPAA) | | Rating Reason | sexual content and dialogue, violence and thematic elements | | Running Time | 113 Minutes | | Additional Info | Spanish Subtitles | | Movie Details | Color; Spanish Subtitles; Full Frame |
Chicago Movie Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)  All that and more!!!!!!!!
Wow!!! It's one of those movies that you could see over and over again. The cast provides such singing and dancing ability that they pull off brillantly.
Rob Marshall has done this a great service not only with directing the picture but the choreography as well. My favorite performance in the movie was the Richard Gere/Renee Zellweger number "She reached for the gun". Special kudos also go to Queen Latifah, Taye Diggs (as the MC) and Mya. By the way, get the soundtrack as well. A must for your DVD collection.
Submitted by christian_diva1 (Brooklyn, NY, USA)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No Great movie!!!
Chicago is a great movie - VERY SEXY!!
Submitted by djr3 (Norwalk, CT) 
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 0 of 1 found this helpful.  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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This review is for a different format. Excelent
The best movie I ever seen, and the extras of the Razzle Dazzle Edition are espectacular.
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Winner of six Academy Awards(R) (2003) including Best Picture, and starring Academy Award nominee (Best Actress, CHICAGO) and Golden Globe winner (Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy, CHICAGO) Renee Zellweger (BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY), Academy Award winner (Best Supporting Actress, CHICAGO) Catherine Zeta-Jones (TRAFFIC), Academy Award nominee (Best Supporting Actress, CHICAGO) Queen Latifah (BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE), Golden Globe winner (Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, CHICAGO) Richard Gere (UNFAITHFUL), and Academy Award nominee (Best Supporting Actor, CHICAGO) John C. Reilly (GANGS OF NEW YORK) -- CHICAGO is a dazzling spectacle cheered by audiences and critics alike! At a time when crimes of passion result in celebrity headlines, nightclub sensation Velma Kelly (Zeta-Jones) and spotlight-seeking Roxie Hart (Zellweger) both find themselves sharing space on Chicago's famed Murderess Row! They also share Billy Flynn (Gere), the town's slickest lawyer with a talent for turning notorious defendants into local legends. But in Chicago, there's only room for one legend! Also starring Lucy Liu (CHARLIE'S ANGELS).
Source: Buena Vista Home Entertainment.
Region 1
Keep Case
Full Frame -
1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
DTS Surround 5.1 - English
Additional Release Material:
Behind the Scenes
Deleted Scenes
Trailers
Audio Commentary: Rob Marshall - Director, Bill Condon - Screenwriter
Interactive Features:
Scene Access
Interactive Menus
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