tabuno
03-24-2003, 10:12 AM
A sizzling, dazzling finish to a remarkable run for an entertaining, energetic, fenzied, feverish musical display with 2002's Best Picture Oscar! I can't imagine, though, that Moulin Rouge and Chicago represents a permanent or substantial turn around for the musical in films. The special effects, the little cinematic tricks of the new age will be harder to come by in future musical productions, but Chicago hit the market at just the right time, right in the middle of war and a post-script, sequel to Moulin Rouge, capping a wonderful past two years with different, but wonderful visions and blending, adaptations of musicals into movie forms.