Chicago [2002] Shaking Through.net: Movies: Review -
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Published on: 1/14/2003
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Rob Marshall, USA, 2002
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Chicago, the feature film debut of veteran theater director Rob Marshall, snaps and sparkles, offering crackerjack editing by Martin Walsh (Bridget Jones's Diary), a decent script from Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters) and a time-tested story and score courtesy of Cabaret collaborators John Kander and Fred Ebb.
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Marshall is at his best playing Roxie and Velma against each other, with Flynn shifting his loyalties as easily as one might change his socks.
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Cellophane," wonderfully performed by John C. Reilly as Roxie's long-suffering lunk of a husband Amos; these numbers in particular sparkle with the kind of fairy dust with which Marshall strives, but fails, to imbue the entire enterprise.