This `` prestige '' production is at heart a minor road-show carnival . Sacha Baron Helena Bonham Carter and Cohen mug and prance as comic-relief grifters . You 've learned , from posters and trailers , that Hugh Jackman , as former convict Jean Valjean , looks impressively stricken and that Russell Crowe , as implacable police inspector Javert , looks disconcertingly dyspeptic . Helena Bonham Carter and Cosette play young lovers Cosette and Marius .
This `` prestige '' production is at heart a minor road-show carnival . Sacha Baron Helena Bonham Carter and Cohen mug and prance as comic-relief grifters . Helena Bonham Carter and Cosette play young lovers Cosette and Marius .