The Phantom of the Opera (Full Screen Edition)
by Joel Schumacher
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Actor: Emmy Rossum, Gerard Butler, Minnie Driver, Miranda Richardson, Patrick WilsonDirector: Joel Schumacher
Brand: Warner Brothers
Writer: Joel Schumacher
Producer: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Writer: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Producer: Austin Shaw
Producer: Christopher James Mitchell
Producer: Eli Richbourg
Writer: Gaston Leroux
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 143 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-03
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of The Phantom of the Opera (Full Screen Edition)
DVD Review: Feels like I'm on Broadway once again!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie was excellent! I've seen the play live on Broadway, and watching this movie took me back to the excitement as if I was back in the theater again! I could watch this movie over and over and still never tire of it. I can see why this play is the longest running production on Broadway, and I think that this movie did a great job of giving the watcher that theater feel despite the fact that it is merely on the big screen. DVD Review: Love this movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I love the way the story is told in this movie. Even my 3 year old grandson has me play it over and over again. DVD Review: Fantastic
Summary: 5 Stars
It wasn't exact to the details of the book, but being that every actor/actress sang their own part I thought it was great. 5/5 for awesomness.DVD Review: Lavish, Faithful Phantom (3.5 stars)
Summary: 4 Stars
Produced and overseen by auteur Andrew Lloyd Webber, "Phantom of the Opera" may go down as the definitive film version of the oh-so-often-filmed musical. The music is as beautiful as ever ("All I Ask of You", "Music of the Night" "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again"), acting and singing is very decent, not detracting from the overall romantic and mysterious mood, and - perhaps the most typical for the film is its lavish, almost vain, production. You bet it must have suited Mr Webber, known for his perfectionism, fine. The only setback is that the film came perhaps a little too late in time. Had it come a decade or two earlier (maybe when Webber's then-wife Sarah Brightman's crossover career was in its prime), it would have scored higher critical success and more of the deserved awards. Still, this 2004 version offers quite much and more than two hours for modern musical lovers will be by no means lost.DVD Review: Phantom of the Pora
Summary: 5 Stars
This is just a great DVD. The story and music are really put together just perfect. I have it on Blue-Ray and I'm more then happy with the way it shows and sounds on my 52 inch Sony HDTV with Bose speakers and a Sony blue-ray player.The quality is perfect and could not be any better.
Description of The Phantom of the Opera (Full Screen Edition)
Musical Drama based on Andrew Lloyd Webber's celebrated musical phenomenon. The Phantom of the Opera tells the story of a disfigured musical genius (Gerard Butler) who haunts the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera, waging a reign of terror over its occupants. When he falls fatally in love with the lovely Christine (Emmy Rossum), the Phantom devotes himself to creating a new star for the Opera, exerting a strange sense of control over the young soprano as he nurtures her extraordinary talents.Although it's not as bold as Oscar darling Chicago, The Phantom of the Opera continues the resuscitation of the movie musical with a faithful adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's blockbuster stage musical. Emmy Rossum glows in a breakout role as opera ing?nue Christine Daae, and if phantom Gerard Butler isn't Rossum's match vocally, he does convey menace and sensuality in such numbers as "The Music of the Night." The most experienced musical theater veteran in the cast, romantic lead Patrick Wilson, sings sweetly but seems wooden. The biggest name in the cast, Minnie Driver, hams it up as diva Carlotta, and she's the only principal whose voice was dubbed (though she does sing the closing-credit number, "Learn to Be Lonely," which is also the only new song).
Director Joel Schumacher, no stranger to visual spectacle, seems to have found a good match in Lloyd Webber's larger-than-life vision of Gaston LeRoux's Gothic horror-romance. His weakness is cuing too many audience-reaction shots and showing too much of the lurking Phantom, but when he calms down and lets Rossum sings "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" alone in a silent graveyard, it's exquisite.
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DVD Features
The special edition of The Phantom of the Opera has two major extras. "Behind the Mask: The Story of The Phantom of the Opera" is an hourlong documentary tracing the genesis of the stage show, with interviews of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, director Harold Prince, producer Cameron Macintosh, lyricists Richard Stilgoe and Charles Hart, choreographer Gillian Lynne, and others. Conspicuously absent are stars Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford. Both do appear in video clips, including Brightman performing with Colm Wilkinson at an early workshop, and Crawford is the subject of a casting segment. Other brief scenes from the show are represented by a 2001 production. The other major feature is the 45-minute making-of focusing on the movie, including casting and the selection of director Joel Schumacher Both are well-done productions by Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group.
The deleted scene is a new song written by Lloyd Webber and Charles Hart, "No One Would Listen," sung by the Phantom toward the end of the movie. It's a beautiful song that, along with Madame Giry's story, makes him a more sympathetic character. But because that bit of backstory already slowed down the ending, it was probably a good move to cut the song. --David Horiuchi
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