I concede that Emmy Rossum, who is only 18 and sings her own songs and carries the show, is a phenomenal talent, and I wish her all the best - starting with better material. To have seen, that is, as opposed to have heard. Yet Joel Schumacher has bravely taken aboard this dreck and made of it a movie I am pleased to have seen. You do remember the tunes as you leave the theater, but you don't walk out humming them you wonder if you'll be able to get them out of your mind.
When the chandelier comes crashing down, it's not a shock, it's a historical re-enactment. The story is thin beer for the time it takes to tell it, and the music is maddeningly repetitious. I do not think Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote a very good musical. But what I am essentially disliking is not the film but the underlying material.
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