![]() ![]() She suddenly finds herself centre stage, unaware that her success is owed to The Phantom (Gerard Butler), a musical genius who lives in catacombs beneath the opera house. Despite the combined talents of Emmy Rossum and Gerard Butler, its tragic love story between an opera-singing novice and her disfigured mentor is horrifically bloated with theatrical gestures and falsetto dialogue - a formula that may work on stage, but on the big screen, it's frankly obnoxious.Ĭhorus girl Christine (Emmy Rossum) sings in the shadow of diva La Carlotta (Minnie Driver) at the Opera Populaire, until fate - or some darker force - intervenes. ![]() ![]() Like its eponymous hero, this adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage musical The Phantom Of The Opera is shockingly in-your-face.
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