Chicago (Full Screen Edition)
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Actor: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Cliff Saunders (II), Dominic West, Renée Zellweger, Taye DiggsBrand: Chicago
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-08-19
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Miramax
Product features:
- Full Screen
DVD Reviews of Chicago (Full Screen Edition)
DVD Review: Unbelievably Bad Drama
Summary: 2 Stars
Chicago, 2002 film
The movie opens at a nightclub. A young woman returns for her turn on stage, and sings. Roxie watches from the audience, then leaves with her boyfriend for her apartment. Did Fred lie to her? A bad career move. The police show up to question the husband and wife. Then we get a song to interrupt the story. The victim was a furniture salesman known to them. Was Amos a sap for confessing? "I'd kill him again!" "Once is enough." Roxie is brought to "Murderess' Row" in Cook County Jail. Then we hear a song. [The changing format suggests a split personality.] "He had it coming" isn't entertaining or interesting, it just pads out the movie. "Murder is a form of entertainment in Chicago." The all-male juries never hanged a woman. [Not true.] Roxie needs a good lawyer: Billy Flynn never lost a case. [Did he only take the cases he could win?]
Billy Flynn wants $5,000 to represent a client (love doesn't pay his bills). This "satire" doesn't amuse me. Amos stands by Roxie. Do they mock defense lawyers? Can they raise money for the defense by selling items owned by the accused? Can they generate sympathy with a story about her life? Rehearsing the witness' story? [They all do that; a trial is like a play where the audience decides on success or failure.] The song by Roxie seems deliberately tasteless. The next song plods along, and isn't funny or entertaining. [Was this deliberate?] Velma sings and dances. "Lay off the caramels." Next Billy gets another client. [An unbelievable story.] Miss Baxter seems unusually feisty for a millionaire heiress. A tasteless story? Another boring song that takes up too much time. Is the defendant's dress and demeanor part of the act? Does the conflict between Roxie and Billy seem real? Another tasteless act with Catalina. [What is wrong with the writers?]
The trial of Roxie Hart begins. "I'm scared." Is it all show business or another tasteless and ignorant statement? Roxie explains her "illicit relations". Is she well-rehearsed? What an act! "There ain't no justice in this world!" There is a surprise witness in court. [A jailhouse snitch?] The cross-examination of Velma Kelly is educational. [Note how this `evidence' was developed.] And so the jury delivers a verdict. [Would married men have sympathy for a man who fools with a married woman?] Then there are shots on the courthouse steps. Another sensation to capture the attention of newspaper readers. Billy Flynn never lost a case. [Did he access that diary?] And so "Andy" returns to his world, and this overlong musical comes to an end. "Isn't it grand?" Is there a future for Velma and Roxie? There is no business like show business.
I'll bet the original 1927 drama was better than this expensive production. Maurine Watkins wrote this play as a drama student at Yale. She had been a reporter for the Chicago `Tribune', and not in sympathy with the true crime cases used as a basis for her play. "The Girls of Murder City" is more educational and entertaining than this musical. Some people say they got away with "murder" but if you can justify a killing it is not murder. Maurine Watkins supported a religious college and was not a "Mary Sunshine" reporter like those who wrote for the Hearst press.
Description of Chicago (Full Screen Edition)
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) Renée 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).Bob Fosse's sexy cynicism still shines in Chicago, a faithful movie adaptation of the choreographer-director's 1975 Broadway musical. Of course the story, all about merry murderesses and tabloid fame, is set in the Roaring '20s, but Chicago reeks of '70s disenchantment--this isn't just Fosse's material, it's his attitude, too. That's probably why the movie's breathless observations on fleeting fame and fickle public taste already seem dated. However, Renée Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones are beautifully matched as Jazz Age vixens, and Richard Gere gleefully sheds his customary cool to belt out a showstopper. (Yes, they all do their own singing and dancing.) Whatever qualms musical purists may have about director Rob Marshall's cut-cut-cut style, the film's sheer exuberance is intoxicating. Given the scarcity of big-screen musicals in the last 25 years, that's a cause for singing, dancing, cheering. And all that jazz. --Robert Horton
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