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Chicago [DVD] [2002]
enlarge	Director: Rob Marshall Actors: Catherine Zeta Jones, Dominic West, Chita Rivera, Renee Zellweger, Richard Gere Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm Category: DVD List Price: ~~£17.99~~ Buy New: £3.93 as of 24/11/2009 05:40 GMT details You Save: £14.06 (78%) New (14) Used (15) from £2.89 Seller: ____the_best_on_dvd____ Rating: 5 reviews Sales Rank: 1724 Format: PAL Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over Region: 2 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 109 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 8717418149185 ASIN: B000X4ZGN4 Theatrical Release Date: 2002 Release Date: January 1, 2008 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Chicago February 4, 2009 Rikki Giles (Essex) 1 out of 3 found this review helpful If you love musical theatre, good singing and dancing you should love this. br / br /Renee Zellweger is good, but Catherine Zeta Jones is far better, she has "stage presence" and a far better real woman's body than Renee's skinny one! Fantastic February 13, 2009 Mrs. S. Birchall (Lancaster UK) A brilliant movie - such fun and so well done. We watched it as a family over Christmas and we all enjoyed it. Highly recommended. Pesky Consumption September 8, 2009 The Incredible Suit (London, England) 0 out of 2 found this review helpful Chicago is officially A Great Movie. I don't generally go a bundle on musicals, although having said that I do like Grease and Singin' In The Rain a lot and I love Moulin Rouge! as if it were my only child. Maybe I do go a bundle on musicals after all. That'll teach me to kick off with a rash statement. I must make a mental note to carefully consider my opinions before releasing them into the wild like that. Who knows what might happen? br / br /Funnily enough Chicago has little going for it in my fascist book of what makes a good movie. I can't stand Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee Zellweger or Richard Gere and there's really very little story of which to speak. However it is a musical and therefore its USPs are its songs, and this is where it wins almost all the furry toys at the coconut shy. I say almost because the song "All I Care About", which Gere sings, merely glances the side of one of the coconuts, causing it to wobble slightly but remain firmly in place as if it was suspiciously glued there by the lethargic pikey running the stall who hates the coconut shy and can't wait to go and take charge of the waltzers where he can hang onto the cars of teenage girls, looking swarthy and making sure they get spun REALLY fast while geeks like me get a cursory shove which serves only to give a less thrilling ride than you might get in a reclining armchair. br / br /"Cell Block Tango" and "We Both Reached For The Gun" are the winners for me; Zellweger looks worryingly sexy dressed as a ventriloquist's dummy, which may explain all those strange feelings I had watching Keith Harris and Orville all those years ago. As you can see I've chosen a very bad picture to illustrate my point. I couldn't be bothered looking any further than the first page of results when I searched for that shot. Sorry. br / br /There's also lots of dancing in Chicago, as you might expect, and that's quite good too, especially in the last number which CZJ and the `weger perform together. Sadly CZJ is just a touch too toned and manly while Zellweger is too skinny so I can't give either of them the special treatment I would give Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge!, that is if she would stop coughing up blood all over the place because of her pesky consumption. I mean it's hardly a turn-on is it? They don't make 'em like they used to September 27, 2009 kineman (spain) I'm old fashioned and like my musicals to be straightforward. The new trend, beginning with Moulin Rouge, is to add gimmicks and film tricks which, to my mind, do not improve the comprehensibilty or the enjoyment. This is a good film, full of tuneful jazzy music, excellent dancing (choreographed by Bob Fosse), some nice humour and some good acting but partially spoiled by the split camera work during some of the musical numbers. Very clever I must admit but too distracting when I am enjoying the music and dancing for it's own sake. Fosse himself used this technique in Cabaret but in much more moderation. Very enjoyable film but it ain't 'Singin in the Rain' Chicargo May 22, 2009 Durango Kid 1 out of 5 found this review helpful I saw the stage show and was delighted with the cast,the music and best of all the dance routines.i.e non stop entertainment! br / I did not get this from the original film.My intention was to buy the live show version with the touring company starring `Emma Bunton.I was unable to find this version so opted for the original and ended up being disappointed.

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