The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
Christine is in a dilemma as she is loved by two men who would stop at nothing to keep her to themselves. Its the war between disfigured musical genius and an arts benefactor.
30 May 1983, Liverpool, England, UK
24 July 1970, Romford, Essex, England, UK
12 September 1986, New York City, New York, USA
9 February 1953, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
10 August 1932, St. Pancras, London, England, UK
April 29, 2009
The whole production feels cut and pasted, and it doesn't translate well to the big screen...
December 27, 2004
Takes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat.
January 17, 2016
Too much of that film clung to the theatre experience, which ultimately appears wildly ingenuine on the silver screen.
April 18, 2009
Fans of musical theater will work themselves into a lather over Joel Schumacher's by-the-book film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's monotonous play, but most audiences will either fall asleep or hit the cinema doors running.
April 27, 2015
Commit one unforced error after another on its way to becoming one of the sloppiest major musicals of contemporary times.
January 15, 2005
The plot is impressively free of anything that does not smell of unpasteurized melodrama.
December 27, 2004
This guy's not the Phantom of the Opera, he's the Fashionably Scarred Stud of the Opera and that just doesn't work.
February 04, 2013
cinematically translated Webber's musical adaptation as well as humanly possible,
December 23, 2004
The movie version of Lloyd Webber's swooning 1986 horror operetta has been directed, by Joel Schumacher, as if Schumacher were the world's hardest-working upholstery salesman.
April 10, 2008
Fantastic sets, costumes, great art direction and imaginative camera work make this a visually stunning film. The musical score, not so much.
December 23, 2004
Joel Schumacher's film adaptation of Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera combines fingernails-on- blackboard audio agony with bamboo- under- fingernails physical torture.
