As I've recently been jonesing on the trailer for Rob Marshall's new film Nine I've decided to go back and have a look at his other successful musical film, Chicago.The movie, that I'd forgotten had won best picture in 2003, is a smart movie about obsession with fame and the corruption and over glamorization of criminals. The strong points are of course the sound, music and songs which are all great. The songs are good but most of them forgettable, a few like the opening sequence "All That Jazz" and the song the prison inmates sing about their murders stand out but probably more so for their choreography than the songs themselves.
The choreography of the song and dance numbers as well as the cinematography during these sequences is amazing, some of the best looking scenes I've ever seen the problem is that they all end up looking and feeling somewhat similar. Regardless of the setting of the story the songs always return to the stage and it does get tiresome after a while.
Nevertheless Chicago is a very strong performed, great looking movie that has just gotten me more pumped for Marshall's upcoming movie Nine.
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