This was one of the worst movies I have seen in years. Interestingly, Russell Crowe has gotten canned which is a shame, because he actually did a good job. Listening to Wolverine, whom I like, sing for three hours was painful. Sorry, but Hugh Jackman was terribly miscast. Anne Hathaway was decent, but she cannot sing either. The ONLY really good performance in this movie was the child, who by the way comes from the London Stage production of Oliver. It showed. He could sing. He had talent. Otherwise this was an assembly of basically TV actors and a couple rock star types. The real tragedy of this movie is that the people who could have done it justice, those with musical stage capability, never got the chance to make the kind of money Hugh Jackman, et. al pulled down for this.
The other terrible thing was the closeups. A few would have been artistically interesting. Filming this thing so you could look at the adams apples of all the stars was strange and not very pleasant.
A bad filming of a great book and a great stage play. It made my cry too....just because it was so terrible.
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