Rent (DVD)

A group of bohemians living in New York's East Village spend their time trying to make it big in their chosen artistic endeavours. But they find themselves falling out and falling in love and all done through song and dance. Chris Columbus isn't what you'd call a visionary director. Just look at his Harry Potter movies; they're certainly faithful to the source material but they lack any directorial originality. It's as if he's scared that he'll ...
...project. He makes nice, safe, inoffensive films. So he's entirely the wrong choice to helm a film adaptation of a musical that was at the vanguard of the genre ten years ago. It deals with uncomfortable themes of drug use and AIDS and uses the tricky format of rock opera. In order to work, this type of stage to screen transfer needs real directorial punch and a strong sense of self. But thanks to Columbus' uninspired take on the proceedings, he may ...

afy9mab 26.07.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Rent (DVD)

Rent was originally at stage show in the 90's & Chris Columbus took as many as the cast from that stage show to put in this motion picture. It's set in manhattans Alphabet City in 1989, around 8 friends dealing with life, love & death. Some of these friends are dealing with aids and trying to deal with paying the rent and finding a decent job. The one thing this film does not lack is great music and acting. There is some amazing songs sung by the ...
...twice and is a lovely song which starts of the theme of the film, it's sung by all the cast and the harmonies are perfect, Tracie Thoms & Jesse L. Martin particualry stand out in this amazing song. Santa Fe, Light My Candel, Rent, Tango Maureen and Dignity are all also good songs but don't stand out as much as these. The first "I'll Cover You" is fantastic, it's sung by Jesse L. Martin and Wilson Jermaine Heredia is sweet and beautifully sung, ...

DixieChick10 18.08.2007 (19.08.2007) · Read full review
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Review of Rent (DVD)

One of the best contemporary musicals, this dvd is a must for all fans of modern musicals. Really great performances using many of the performers from the original such as indina menzel. The dvd has some good extras, such as deleted scenes and some really good behind the scenes documentaries. The musical works well as a film, and very little seems to have been cut out. Stand out performances - Indina Menzel of wicked fame as Maureen, although the ...

newyorkGal2009 24.10.2008 · Read full review
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