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	• Chicago Various Artists Sony, 2003 average customer review:based on 278 reviews view larger image
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The music is catchy and good but nothing super. Movie was good but most of the songs are depressing and nothing makes me want to go back over and over.

Saucy.

Chicago soundtrack is non-stop fun. Who knew Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renee Zellweger could sing?! Cell Block Tango, All That Jazz, Roxie, I Move On, and Funny Honey are my favorite cuts here. I really enjoyed every second of the feature film, and the soundtrack is to die for. I highly recommend it!

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Richard Gere surprised me on this one as did Catherine Zeta-Jones but the real standout performance is Queen Latifah with "When You're Good To Mama". She belts it out with great gusto and proves that rappers don't always have to sound like crap. She should do more musicals. It took a little adjusting from what he's done recently but John C. Reilly can really sing. The only one who can't sing is Zellwegger. Her voice annoys me whenever she sings and I cringe. It's like nails on a chalkboard bad. But 95% of the cast isn't bad. The orchestrations were excellent, especially when you crank it up. If it weren't for Zellwegger, this would be getting five stars.

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hot and sexy musical fun

The movie is fast-paced, hot, sexy, jazzy, brassy, pure Fosse. I just have one complaint and it's a big fist-clenching, teeth-gritting one for me: Christopher Walken should have played the Richard Gere role!!! Hello!? What were they thinking?

The movie version of Kander and Ebb's Chicago was long in the making, but it's well worth the wait. Director Rob Marshall's main change was to turn the classic musical numbers into fantasy sequences, but of course this isn't obvious on CD. Most importantly, the arrangements are bursting with life while being true to the show's spirit, and the casting is simply inspired. Catherine Zeta-Jones actually started her career on the British boards (she was in The Pajama Game and 42nd Street), so her turn as slinky Velma Kelly isn't that surprising; Renée Zellweger as Roxie Hart is more of a leftfield choice, but she shows she can handle the singing demands with pizzazz. The real revelation may well be rapper Queen Latifah, who belts out "When You're Good to Mama" with a marvelous affinity for the material. OK, so the R&B reprise of "Cell Block Tango/He Had It Coming" by Queen Latifah, Macy Gray, and Lil' Kim fails to convince, while Anastacia's "Love Is a Crime" is just blah (rest easy, purists, it's over the end credits). On the other hand, the CD provides two bonuses: "Class," which was cut from the movie, and "I Move On," a great duet written by Kander and Ebb for the final cut. It's really easy to mess up film adaptations of Broadway shows. Happily, Chicago proves it can be done right. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

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Tracks
Overture/And All That Jazz - Catherine Zeta-Jones / Renee Zellweger / Taye Diggs | Funny Honey - Renee Zellweger / Reilly, John C. / Colm Feore | When You're Good to Mama - Queen Latifah / Taye Diggs | Cell Block Tango - Catherine Zeta-Jones / Susan Misner / Deidre Goodwin | All I Care About - Richard Gere / Renee Zellweger | We Both Reached for the Gun - Christine Baranski / Cleve Asbury / Shaun Amyot | Roxie - Renee Zellweger | I Can't Do It Alone - Catherine Zeta-Jones / Taye Diggs | Mister Cellophane - John C. Reilly | Razzle Dazzle - Richard Gere | Class - Catherine Zeta-Jones / Queen Latifah - | Nowadays (Roxie) - Renee Zellweger / Taye Diggs | Nowadays/Hot Honey Rag Medley Title - Renee Zellweger / Catherine Zeta-Jones / Taye Diggs | I Move On - Catherine Zeta-Jones / Renee Zellweger | After Midnight - Danny Elfmann | Roxie's Suite - Danny Elfman | Cell Block Tango / He Had It Comin' - Queen Latifah / Lil' Kim / Macy Gray | Love Is a Crime - Anastacia

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