The Phantom of the Opera

Overall, this film virsion of the hit broadway play, is a masterpeice. For all you complainers out there, stop it! First of all, for the people who say that emmy rossum does not compare to sarah brightman, you are wrong. Along with her inability to pronounce her words properly while singing, Sarah Brightman (stage version) is not as easy to look at as our beautiful Emmy Rossum, who is the sex pot hottie who convincingly plays
Christine (film version). On the topic of the phantom, he is supposed to be someone that has a rock styled voice (Gerrard Butler[film version]), not a creepy old pervert who sounds like a woman (michael Crawford [stage version]). Even with his distortions, Gerrard Butler manages to woo the audience with his good looks and charm. the rest of the cast were strong, and spectacular. All in all, this is a knockout! Million Dollar Baby, please! Phantom of the opera is the best picture of the year!

so many "phans" have waited years for the play to finally come to the big screen and it has! the movie blew me away i was so surprised by everything about it! im just going to talk about the acting and singing in this review. Gerard Butler did such a good job. i feel bad for him because so many people didnt give much of a chance because they kept comparing him to michael crawford and they didnt give him much respect at all! in all honesty i never saw the original so i dont have much to compare him to and i think Butler did a superb job. He has such presents on the screen and its refreshing to have new blood take over the masked phantom. i cant say enough about him he blew me away and he brought so much passion to the role and you really got to see and feel the phantoms humanity in this movie. i also have to commend Jennifer Ellison who played Meg Giry in the film. She was very good and very underrated in the film. She had a very sweet voice that just made you smile when you heard her sing and she was very good. Emmy and Patrick of course were very good as well. Emmy can most deffinitly sing and hits each not to perfection. Patrick Wilson has a very sweet and tender voice but i feel that his character wasnt strong enough in the movie and the hair was a big no no. What i liked was how different sounding Patrick Wilson and Gerard Butler sounded compared to each other. You have Butler who has this Rock n' roll,rough and sexy sound with so much emotion on every note and than theres Wilson who has just such a sweet voice that has kind of a calming effect on you. you get to hear two totally differnt types of singing rather than two actors who sound like each other. i liked the music and the acting and the fantastic actors who made this whole movie vibrate on the screen. i give it an A+! and i say that with a very big smile!

I can't say enough about this movie. I was so touched by the way gerard Butler felt and played this Phantom. He had so much passion in his voice. That's the way you want him to be. You love him, you fear him, and our drawn to him. Emma Rossom was sweet and wonderful as well as Patrick Wilson. Minnie Driver was over the top as the Opera Diva. It was beautiful, awesome film. I've bought every soundtrack. and can't wait to own the DVD coming out May 3, 2005. The music is Awesome. I liked Michael Crawford on Broadway. But this is my Phantom. Way to go Joel Shumacher. You got it right with Gerard Butler.