***SPOILERS****
All right, so obviously this isn't Lloyd Webber, and if you thought it was you need to check your details closer before purchasing your movies. This film has very few shining moments, but I will give it props for Perfect Music, about half of the good Daroga's lines, and Carlotta. But in general the acting is about on par with a good community theatre, the logic behind the timeline is bizarre, (go ahead, add up all of the "X years later" and tell me Christine shouldn't be about 40.) you actually pity Carlotta getting pushed out for the young blood, (An Able Woman) and the Phantom has a mullet as well as a massive superiority complex. I really was not impressed with Elizabeth Walsh. As near as I can tell she had two expressions and not much else to offer. David Staller, while a passable singer, is certainly not the Phantom I'm used to. With an ego like that you'd half expect Erik to parade around declaring "Worship me!" deformity be hanged. Also, I am deeply affronted by the fact that as soon as Christine leaves him he's moved onto some pretty little ballet rat to sate his loneliness. And for everyone who tosses this version pity due to it being 'closer to Leroux', don't let it fool you. Mme. Giry still isn't a nutty old bat in charge of Box 5 and nothing else, Buquet is still disreputable, no Red Death crashing the ball, and we still find no mention of La Sorelli, Philipe de Chagny, or Petite Jammes. I'm sure Pampin the fireman would be asking too much, all though a couple versions have given us the rat catcher. At any rate if you're obsessed enough to understand everything I just said without wiki to aid you, I'd recommend seeing the thing just to say you have. I understand the matter of pride phans take in locating every scrap of multimedia related to Erik and devouring it. If I completely lost you after the first few lines, go back to Gerik and leave the peripheral versions to the hard core phans.
I remain, your obedient phriend,
Phantomess
All right, so obviously this isn't Lloyd Webber, and if you thought it was you need to check your details closer before purchasing your movies. This film has very few shining moments, but I will give it props for Perfect Music, about half of the good Daroga's lines, and Carlotta. But in general the acting is about on par with a good community theatre, the logic behind the timeline is bizarre, (go ahead, add up all of the "X years later" and tell me Christine shouldn't be about 40.) you actually pity Carlotta getting pushed out for the young blood, (An Able Woman) and the Phantom has a mullet as well as a massive superiority complex. I really was not impressed with Elizabeth Walsh. As near as I can tell she had two expressions and not much else to offer. David Staller, while a passable singer, is certainly not the Phantom I'm used to. With an ego like that you'd half expect Erik to parade around declaring "Worship me!" deformity be hanged. Also, I am deeply affronted by the fact that as soon as Christine leaves him he's moved onto some pretty little ballet rat to sate his loneliness. And for everyone who tosses this version pity due to it being 'closer to Leroux', don't let it fool you. Mme. Giry still isn't a nutty old bat in charge of Box 5 and nothing else, Buquet is still disreputable, no Red Death crashing the ball, and we still find no mention of La Sorelli, Philipe de Chagny, or Petite Jammes. I'm sure Pampin the fireman would be asking too much, all though a couple versions have given us the rat catcher. At any rate if you're obsessed enough to understand everything I just said without wiki to aid you, I'd recommend seeing the thing just to say you have. I understand the matter of pride phans take in locating every scrap of multimedia related to Erik and devouring it. If I completely lost you after the first few lines, go back to Gerik and leave the peripheral versions to the hard core phans.
I remain, your obedient phriend,
Phantomess