Rotten
My own reaction to the current version fashioned by Mr. Schumacher is one of pure stupefaction.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
The Phantom of the Opera
The film. The classic musical comes to the big screen for the first time.
2004 · 2h 21m · PG-13
Drama, Romance, Thriller
Directed by
Joel Schumacher
Overview
A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
32%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The plot is impressively free of anything that does not smell of unpasteurized melodrama.
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Rotten
Takes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat.
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Rotten
This guy's not the Phantom of the Opera, he's the Fashionably Scarred Stud of the Opera and that just doesn't work.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten
Joel Schumacher's film adaptation of Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera combines fingernails-on- blackboard audio agony with bamboo- under- fingernails physical torture.
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
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