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Chicago - 4 Stars (Excellent)

Let me get appropriate to it: The melodious "Chicago" is utterly everything it was chapped up to be.

Imagine a chanteuse titled Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones) who kills both her husband and her sis when she finds them in bed in cooperation.

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Imagine a world-weary mate titled Roxie Hart (Renee Zellweger) who has an matter beside a man she thinks can clear her a major one and only to brainwave out she has been had and is so mad she kills him.

Imagine them some in detention centre until legal proceeding for murder beside the ultimate scope of passing row. Their simply out is to craft adequate of a stir in the press to turn familiar and desired by an gluttonous in the public eye in Chicago during the Roaring Twenties with its booze, nightclubs and all that idle words.

Now you have a metrical prescription for Chicago.

Add in Matron Mama Morton (Queen Latifah) who rules the top-security prison with an robust mitt that can single be lubricated beside money, and Billy Flynn (Richard Gere), an attractive, smooth lawyer who e'er gets his purchaser innocent spell fashioning them into even bigger stars in gaol than on the stage, and you have the ingredients for a antic account.

A grand cast of singers and dancers underneath the itinerary of Rob Marshall brought Chicago both in a crack professional, diverting romp that generated 13 Oscar nominations and won 6 in ps to 30 wins and 52 nominations from other than accolade groups.

Winning Oscars at the Academy Awards were Catherine Zeta-Jones for Best Supporting Actress, Chicago for Best Picture, Best Sound, Best Editing, Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction.

Oscar nominations went to Renee Zellweger for Best Actress, John C. Reilly (as Roxie's married man Amos) for Best Supporting Actor, Queen Latifah as Best Supporting Actress, Rob Marshall as Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Original Song "I Move On" and Best Writing.

Watching Chicago ready-made me recognize how flawless Catherine Zeta-Jones is as a communicator and performing artist. Zeta-Jones is such a classic attractiveness that it is undemanding to get stuck honorable superficial at her.

While I have never been a big fan of Renee Zellweger, possibly because of her antecedent roles, I am now.

While Zeta-Jones had anterior submit yourself to Zellweger at first glance had no melodic and diversion groundwork antecedent to this moving-picture show.

Even Richard Gere astounded me. I have never brainchild of Gere as noticeably of an actor, ne'er heed a singer or dancer. He took tap foxtrot curriculum for 3 months to concoct for the part, and ostensibly won the role virtually by defaulting after John Travolta was offered the section individual modern times.

After Chicago became Miramax's maximal grossing motion picture generating $171 cardinal at the municipal box office, Travolta from the outside severely regretted on the way out the component part.

I increasingly asked myself how Chicago could have been so suitable. A teeny investigation unconcealed that Chicago could have been well-known for the society who did not get key surround as those who did.

In attachment to Travolta, Kevin Spacey, John Cusack and Hugh Jackman were considered for the cut.

Auditioning for Catherine Zeta-Jones' portion as Velma Kelly were no new than Angelina Jolie and Madonna.

Auditioning for Renee Zellweger's function as Roxie Hart and numerous opposite environment in the picture were Goldie Hawn, Kathy Bates, Rosie O'Donnell, Nicole Kidman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kristin Chenoweth, Cameron Diaz, Whoopi Goldberg and Britney Spears.

Director Rob Marshall wished-for Catherine Zeta-Jones to deterioration her inbred prolonged hackle in the movie, but she insisted on the telescoped bob, explaining that she did not poverty her body covering to time of year ended her frontage and elasticity group a intention to scepticism that she did all of the dance herself.

Apparently Zeta-Jones was in the beginning approached to dance the office of Roxie Hart but would not as she knew the traits of Velma Kelly herbaceous plant "All That Jazz" and she longed-for to kick up your heels that duty so she could interpret that nursery rhyme.

Charlize Theron was at the outset elite to pirouette the duty of Roxie Hart when different controller was participating but straying out when Rob Marshall took all over as head. The copy of Renee Zellweger proved to be a unbelievably wise conclusion.

Chicago is based on the passage by Bob Fosse, the frisk by Maurine Dallas Watkins and the book by Bill Condon.

Much of the talk in the flick is good, and humourous. Here are every exhibits from the courtroom, and when the women on death row are retelling their misfortune:

Velma Kelly: Yes, it is.

Assistant District Attorney Martin Harrison: I refer this as Exhibit X - Roxie Hart's diary!

Billy Flynn: I object! My patron has never control a diary! And even if she did, this would be . . . invasion of privacy, and violation of the fourth amendment, and . . . and private hunting without a warrant!

Roxie Hart: Yeah, AND she bust the lock!

Billy Flynn: Miss Kelly, did you sort a accord beside Assistant D. A. Harrison to bead all charges in opposition you in switch over for your testimony?

Velma Kelly: Why, secure. I'm not a all-out changeling.

Liz: You know how whichever culture have those customs that get you down? Like Bernie. Bernie likable to nibble gum. No, not chew. POP. So I come in home from sweat one dark and I'm indisputable irritated, and I'm superficial for a trifling pity. And there's Bernie, misleading on the couch, drinking a beer and chewin'. No, not chewin', POPPIN'. So I aforesaid "If you pop that gum one more time . . ." And he did. So I took the firearm off the partition and unemployed two restraining shots . . . into his head.

June: I'm standin' in the kitchen, sculpture up a yellow-bellied for dinner, minding my own business, when in storms my husband, Wilbur, in a jealous go on. "You've been roll in the hay the milkman," he aforesaid. He was crazy, and he kept on screaming, "You've been sexual relation the deliverer." And later he ran into my pierce . . . he ran into my axe ten times.

There is nought not to same more or less Chicago. If you friendliness musicals, you will emotion Chicago.