If you read most of the reviews here you can notice how negative they arfe, and even those that are nicer always have a slightly negative comment.
I know that most of the time comparison is not good and when you are talking about one of the greatest shows ever created, the screen version gets the worst part.
To be fair and if we forget about the original show the movies is very good.
The music, the dancing and the cast are totally believable. I know they cut some songs, others were modified (not for worst - Dance for me it 's brilliant) and others send a completely different message to viewers (What I did for Love).
We know that has happened before when a musical goes from stage to screen. but what we have to bear in mind is....is the final product a good movie? Yes, it is.
The only downbeat I notice in the movie is that I notice a few edits strange...for example when you can hear some lines from HELLO TWELVE and suddenly one of the boys starts singing a different song. it looks very abrupt in that moment.
To sum up A CHORUS LINE is a very good movie made in a decade when musical was not only dead but buried six feet under. So I was really impressed to see that in that decade this movie and Little shop of horrors were made and time just shows everybody that both movies deserved a better audience and better reviews.
Review of A Chorus Line
