This movie beat The Pianist? Fuck you.

Now I can understand why a film like The Pianist didn't win, as this is a super film in its own right, and given its unique flair circa 2002, a worthy and solid Oscar winner.

This film is immensely entertaining, features a number of career best performances, and is presented in such an utterly perfect fashion. Bob Fosse lives on, but I dare not undersell the excellent job of Bill Condon.

The film finds a way to sum up all we love about musicals, awash in the pursuit of fame reminiscent of All About Eve, and sporting a killer Zellweger performance reminiscent of old Hollywood and Shirley MacLaine. The songs here are all wildly delicious as well.

A worthy Oscar winner, ridiculously entertaining, and the type of film all little girls want to star in when they grow up.

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

I've never really been a fan of musicals. It's hard for me to get into the story when characters randomly break out in song. The only musicals I can really stand are those where the music actually helps progress the story, like All That Jazz. I'm willing to make an exception for the film Chicago. Not only is it beautifully directed, well written, and well acted but it has some of the best songs I've ever heard in a film like He Had It Coming and Mister Cellophane. Perfect balance between comedy, drama, and music. Excellent acting from a terrific cast that includes Renne Zellweger (in her best performance), Richard Gere, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Queen Latifa, and John C. Reily. The script is intelligent, satiric, and often hysterical. Stunning choreography. Terrific film. It may have not deserved to win Best Picture, but that does'nt make it any less good.

Here's what happens when you write a story with no good guys. Everyone's so utterly worthless that I want to see them all hang. The convention of mirroring a stage production with real sets only hammers home the story's Broadway origins, the choppy half-second editing gives you zero sense of the choreography, and it's just not that sexy when everyone runs around acting like they're sexy. The only plus is Richard Gere gives the best performance I've ever seen from him. He fits this role like a latex glove. This is a high-gloss stinker not even deserving of a nomination, let alone Best Picture. Script by Bill Condon (Gods and Monster, Kinsey, Dreamgirls).

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Now I can understand why a film like The Pianist didn't win, as this is a super film in its own right, and given its unique flair circa 2002, a worthy and solid Oscar winner.

This film is immensely entertaining, features a number of career best performances, and is presented in such an utterly perfect fashion. Bob Fosse lives on, but I dare not undersell the excellent job of Bill Condon.

The film finds a way to sum up all we love about musicals, awash in the pursuit of fame reminiscent of All About Eve, and sporting a killer Zellweger performance reminiscent of old Hollywood and Shirley MacLaine. The songs here are all wildly delicious as well.

A worthy Oscar winner, ridiculously entertaining, and the type of film all little girls want to star in when they grow up.

If you hate men, then this is the film for you. All men are cheating bastards, or abuse women and deserve to be murdered: the moral of this film.

It’s not hard to see why the Academy liked this film. It’s different, it’s entertaining, and it’s very slick and polished. The characters are all fun to watch, and are acted out well. You find yourself rooting for Billy Flynn and for Roxie Hart even while knowing they don’t actually deserve to win. And the musical numbers are fun and catchy. Is it a better film than Gangs of New York, as the Oscars said? No. But it’s still a pretty decent film. Read full review.

A novel idea of how to make a musical and strong execution, plus some great performances from Zellweger, Zeta-Jones, and Latifah.

Gostei.

It might not have been worthy of Best Picture that year, but I still was very highly entertained by this. I loved the music and the story, and I had a good time from beginning to end. I haven't watched it in awhile, but it probably holds up fairly well.

One of the worst best picture winners I've seen. It was like Bob Fosse got into a car accident and couldn't remember anything but the studio execs put him in the director's chair.