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Title: A Great Film and Musical Experience
Review: Despite all the bad and lukewarm reviews this movie has received, I must say that I really loved it. Although it's extremely difficult to transpose a stage production onto film, I think Columbus did a great job in doing so. Sure, some of the acting was a little "larger-than-life", but that's what one must do on stage. It was a huge gamble bringing back the original cast, mainly because it's so hard to dilute a bombastic stage personality into a more realistic film one. I have experience that firsthand. But despite all of this, I found the characters very real and very moving. They weren't developed as they could have been, but I haven't been that emotionally moved in a long time. What the storyline lacks, the universal message and wonderful music makes up for. It is definitely one of my favorite post-Webber musicals.
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