Strong and Moving!
Purely Joyful Movie!
It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.
View MoreThe film may be flawed, but its message is not.
If you're a fan of this musical, you'll be a fan of this movie. Les Misérables adds a new dimension to the story many of us already know. However, I wasn't impressed with some of the vocals. Yes, I know that the live singing allows the actors to portray more emotions, but at times the raw singing was just distracting. The acting is superb, though, and I found myself getting caught up in the emotions of the characters. Vive Les Mis!
View MoreThe music is forgettable, the plot (and I blame Victor Hugo also for this) is saccharine and cheap, the understanding of French revolutionary impulses and actions is mediocre, and the entertainment value very small. Perhaps on the stage it might be more impressive but I have rarely spent a less worthwhile 2 1/2 hours of viewing. The popularity of this musical only testified to the low level of popular taste in this country -- and perhaps also in France where the darn story originated.
View MoreThe idea of a story being told by people singing to each other is rather silly on the surface, but it can work amazingly well with beautiful/soulful or catchy music and an engaging story. I watched Les Miserables mostly on the strength of the reviews and found it perfectly awful. The story was so so, the acting was blah, and the singing was cringworthy. Producers of musicals tend to cast singers who can also act to some degree because a "musical" mostly relies on the music. Here we have decent actors who can't sing and consequently seem out of their comfort zone in the acting department as well . Listening to them struggle thru their various songs was more tortuous than watching the terrible injustices their characters were living out in the story. I've seen high school musicals with more impressive talent and with a far more engaging production. A sympathetic 5 out 10 stars for this waste of 2 hours.
View More"Les Miserables" is the first musical I have ever seen. At first, I found it difficult to follow the plot,given that I was not used to musicals. But after the first scenes, I appreciated and got used to the songs and music, I also watched more times some scenes to listen to the music again. The character voices were also really enjoyable.A really good musical indeed!
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