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| Category | Dramas DVDs, Blu-ray Movies, Musical Videos, Music Video, 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, Dominic West, Lucy Liu, 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 |
Standard Screen; Soundtrack English; Blue Ray HD-DVD 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 | $34.99 (You save $4.34) | | Studio | Buena Vista Home Entertainment | | Orig Year | 2002 | | All Time Sales Rank |  58370  | | CD Universe Part number | 7337334 | | Catalog number | 05353200 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jan 23, 2007 | | Rating | PG-13 (MPAA) | | Rating Reason | sexual content and dialogue, violence and thematic elements | | Running Time | 113 Minutes | | Movie Details | Color |
Chicago Movie Review  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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Excelent
The best movie I ever seen, and the extras of the Razzle Dazzle Edition are espectacular.
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This review is for a different format.  Wonderful
Kept dance and story line faithful to Bob Fosse.
Nice touch having Chita Rivera in cameo.
Loved Queen Latifa.
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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 DVD Blu-ray Disc Features:
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Package Note: Blue BD Case
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1.33
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1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - English
Dolby Digital 2.0 Uncompressed Stereo - Spanish
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English, French
Subtitles - English (SDH), French, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Deleted Scenes
Audio Commentary: Rob Marshall - Director; Bill Condon - Screenwriter
Featurette:
1. Behind-The-Scenes Special
2. FROM STAGE TO SCREEN: THE HISTORY OF CHICAGO
3. Musical Performances
4. An Intimate Look At Rob Marshall - Director
5. When Liza Became Roxie Hart
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