# "Chicago" the movie--Spoilers!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 30, 2002, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-the-movie-spoilers/145582 "2002-12-30T00:40:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kaspar\_Hauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@Kaspar\_Hauser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaspar_Hauser)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-the-movie-spoilers/145582/41 "2003-02-10T21:07:55Z")
I saw it and loved it. I was slightly disappointed in I Can’t Do It Alone. I saw Bebe Neuwirth on stage in 2000, and the dance moves for that number seemed so much more complicated and difficult than those in the movie – high kicks, cartwheels, etc. I remember watching it with my eyes bugging out, amazed that someone could perform those moves, live, without one misstep or error (that I could tell). I guess they had to tone it down a little for CZJ. Still entertaining, though. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-the-movie-spoilers/145582/42 "2003-02-13T23:28:05Z")
Okay… the woman’s name is Christine BARANSKI. She was Maryann Thorpe for five years on Cybill, and has graced many movies, television shows, as well as the stage. _growl_ At least spell her name right. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-the-movie-spoilers/145582/43 "2003-02-22T17:19:42Z")
Instead of starting a new _Chicago_ thread, I thought it best to bump this one. I watched it again last night. This is definately one film that gets better with repeated watching. I came away this time with the distinct impression that Queen Latifah should change careers and be a Jazz singer full-time. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-the-movie-spoilers/145582/44 "2003-02-22T17:32:13Z")
I saw it again yesterday to take my mind off an extremely trying day, and it does indeed get better with every viewing. Queen Latifah is living in the wrong era because she would have been an extraordinary vaudeville jazz mama. I wish they hadn’t cut Mary Sunshine’s song because Christine Baranski has a wonderful singing voice (she played Mrs. Lovett in _Sweeney Todd_ in last year’s Sondheim Festival at the Kennedy Center.) I’m looking forward to buying the DVD to see CZJ and QL sing _Class_. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-the-movie-spoilers/145582/45 "2003-02-22T23:17:29Z")
I never had the opportunity to see the stage production. You’ve mentioned _Class_, which was not in the movie. What was the setup for this rather bawdry song? ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-the-movie-spoilers/145582/46 "2003-02-22T23:44:03Z")
\*Class is sung in the scene when Mama Morton and Velma are listening to Roxie’s trial on the radio and Velam is incensed to find out Roxie has stolen her blue garter to wear on the stand. This leads to a speech about how standards have declined and then they start into the song. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-the-movie-spoilers/145582/47 "2003-02-22T23:46:54Z")
_Class_ is sung in the scene when Mama Morton and Velma are listening to Roxie’s trial on the radio and Velam is incensed to find out Roxie has stolen her blue garter to wear on the stand. This leads to a speech about how standards have declined and then they start into the song. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-the-movie-spoilers/145582/48 "2003-02-23T02:46:42Z")
I saw _Chicago_ this week and just loved it. I knew nothing about the play (except one song) and had fully expected, with all the hype and high marks from everyone, to \*just hate it. \*. Richard Gere was the only role that seemed lack luster. I kept on thinking that Kevin Kline or the late Robert Preston, would be better. He was fine and it is the first movie he has done that I’ve actually liked. But I really liked Renee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Wow. Outstanding. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-the-movie-spoilers/145582/49 "2003-02-23T06:25:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by twickster47 \* > \*\*(BTW, the bf, a self-proclaimed hater of musicals, was laughing throughout, and had to admit that “some of the numbers were pretty cool.” In other words, he liked it a lot, but can’t admit it, lest the karmic advantage we’re pretending he has for suffering through this be dissipated. \*\* Your boyfriend sounds like my husband. We saw the movie for Valentine’s Day. I thought he had laughed throughout the movie, but he claims to have laughed only once. He also says that it “wasn’t too bad.” :rolleyes: Well, _I_ liked it a whole lot and want the soundtrack. I’d like the DVD, too, I just don’t know when I’d get to watch it what with living with a Mr. Musical Hater of my own. ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-the-movie-spoilers/145582/50 "2003-03-02T06:50:26Z")
I absolutely loved it, especially Cell Block Tango, but I won’t go on, repeating what’s already been said. I would like to say that I loved the line, [spoiler]“the defense of your life.” If you don’t remember, it was in the courtroom when Billy was questioning Roxie. It was something along the lines of: Roxie: And we both reached for the gun. Billy: It was your life or his. Roxie: Yes. Billy: But you got it first. Roxie: And I shot him! Billy: **The defense of your life!** (_Roxie faints. The press goes crazy._) Roxie: What a bulls-eye, huh? I was surprised that I (a high-schooler) took a couple of seconds to get the double meaning, but my mother, roughly three times my age, didn’t get it until it was explained to her.[/spoiler] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-the-movie-spoilers/145582.md?page=2)