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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rated by buyers PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Type of bind: Blu-ray
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN num: 0085391108108
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Quantity: 1
Publishing house: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Running Time: 141 minutes
Sale Popularity Level: 1413
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2004



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Description:
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.

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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 ingénue 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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Those who consider the stage musical shallow and overblown probably won't have their minds changed by the movie, and devotees will forever rue that the movie took the better part of two decades to develop, which prevented the casting of original principals Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman. Still, The Phantom of the Opera is a welcome exception to the long line of ill-conceived Broadway-to-movie travesties.

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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User popularity level: out of 5 stars

Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - Great Buy
Wonderful adaptation of the play. Although they make the phantom more seductive than socially awkward, the rest of the movie is very true to form. The actors have amazing voices and do a standup job!


Rated by buyers 3 out of 5 stars - In Song
This was a good movie. Lots of singing and very long. Hard to keep up with.


Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - As good as the musical...
save your self a lot of money and watch this dvd instead of going to the musical. I actually liked the story on the dvd more.


Rated by buyers 3 out of 5 stars - VISUALLY SUMPTUOUS, BUT ULTIMATELY SHALLOW, BANAL, AND VAPID
Joel Schumacher has created a visually sumptuous film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's mega-hit stage musical "The Phantom Of The Opera." Several musical numbers (notably "The Phantom Of The Opera," "Music Of The Night" and "Masquarade") are attractively staged for film. Emmy Rossum makes a comely Christine, and Gerard Butler is super sexy as The Phantom. Minnie Driver has several funny scenes as opera diva Carlotta, and Miranda Richardson is impressive as Madame Gury, seemingly the only soul who has any sympathy for the Phantom.
But Schumacher, Butler, Rossum, etc. can not escape the fact that Webber's musical is incredibly shallow on several levels, no matter how hard they might try. When Rossum removes Butler's mask, he looks like a guy who has been burned a bit in a fire; or perhaps had acid thrown on one side of his face. His face does not appear "distorted, hardly a face" as Christine fearfully sings. Butler's Phantom is definitely not the horrifying, hideous creature that Lon Chaney was in the original 1925 silent film classic. Butler's Phantom is a stud. True, Webber is going for musical romance here, not horror. Christine's rejection of the Phantom and her schmultzy love for pretty boy Patrick Wilson as Raoul makes her an incredibly, almost insufferably, shallow person. Could Patrick Wilson be any more bland than he is here? But no actor is to be blamed as much as Lord Lloyd Webber himself. His shallow songs (Wilson and Rossum sing the cringe-inducing love duet "All I Ask Of You," for example) render the entire enterprise banal and emotionally vapid. And "Phantom" is still playing to packed houses, regardless of who is in the cast, for something over 22 years now. What can I say to that? Well, if audiences want to eat emotional vapidity for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, Andrew Lloyd Webber is definitely the go-to guy.


Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - Great Version
I loved Phantom of the Opera when I had a chance to see the play when I visited New York and when I heard the movie was coming out I had mixed feelings about it because sometimes the movies do not translate well.

I am happy to say my fears were unfounded, they did a tremendous job with this movie and I watch it over and over. Each actor/actress is superb and the musical performances are just as good as seeing it on Broadway. The effects on Broadway are carried through in well done cinema versions where movies have an advantage over Broadway.

The documentary is a definate plus for any Phantom Fan to learn more about the play itself. A great movie musical and story.

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