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The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opéra House.
10 August 1932, St. Pancras, London, England, UK
27 April 1956, Bristol, England, UK
22 November 1944, London, England, UK
3 March 1978, Doncaster, England, UK
23 September 1977, Czech Republic
11 March 1952, Bilston, Staffordshire, England, UK
17 March 1964, Liverpool, England, UK
April 18, 2009
Fans of musical theater will work themselves into a lather over Joel Schumacher's by-the-book film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's monotonous play, but most audiences will either fall asleep or hit the cinema doors running.
April 10, 2008
Fantastic sets, costumes, great art direction and imaginative camera work make this a visually stunning film. The musical score, not so much.
February 04, 2013
cinematically translated Webber's musical adaptation as well as humanly possible,
December 23, 2004
Joel Schumacher's film adaptation of Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera combines fingernails-on- blackboard audio agony with bamboo- under- fingernails physical torture.
April 27, 2015
Commit one unforced error after another on its way to becoming one of the sloppiest major musicals of contemporary times.
December 23, 2004
The movie version of Lloyd Webber's swooning 1986 horror operetta has been directed, by Joel Schumacher, as if Schumacher were the world's hardest-working upholstery salesman.
December 27, 2004
Takes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat.
April 29, 2009
The whole production feels cut and pasted, and it doesn't translate well to the big screen...
December 27, 2004
This guy's not the Phantom of the Opera, he's the Fashionably Scarred Stud of the Opera and that just doesn't work.
January 17, 2016
Too much of that film clung to the theatre experience, which ultimately appears wildly ingenuine on the silver screen.
January 15, 2005
The plot is impressively free of anything that does not smell of unpasteurized melodrama.
