The Phantom of the Opera [HD DVD]
by Joel Schumacher
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Actor: Emmy Rossum, Gerard Butler, Minnie Driver, Miranda Richardson, Patrick WilsonDirector: Joel Schumacher
Brand: Ingram
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Italian (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 141 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-04-18
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of The Phantom of the Opera [HD DVD]
DVD Review: Phantom of the Opera Is Marvelous!
Summary: 5 Stars
Strangely enough, I missed seeing this movie when it was released to the theaters. Now, having discovered it, I'm a complete fan! Gerard Butler is fantastic as the Phantom; his masculinity, the power of his vocals, the physicality of his performance are all part and parcel of a perfectly realized roll. Emmy Rossum is lovely, with a vocal range that is very pleasing.
I purchased the single disc first and then went back to find the two-disc set. I have about worn out both in the short time that I have had the videos.
I thank profusely the director, Joel Schumacher, and the creator of the music/producer of the film, Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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.
Description of The Phantom of the Opera [HD DVD]
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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