Phantom panned by US critics
23/12/2004 - 15:35:53Andrew Lloyd Webber's screen version of his hit musical The Phantom Of The Opera has been panned by early reviews in the US.
It remains to be seen whether US audiences will be put off by the sneering critics over the Christmas weekend.
Among the more vicious critics was Carino Chocano in the Los Angeles Times, who called the film “a slow-moving orgy of lowbrow grandiosity that’s as tedious as it is overblown and pretentious.
"Songs, scenes, dance numbers, lyrics and set pieces all blend together into an indistinct, ludicrously self-serious mush, while repetitive melodies get spread across entire sequences like cheap carpet."
