Rent

I love the musical RENT but I was not impressed with the movie...If you have seen the stage version or even listened to the OBC soundtrack (I've done both) It is not the same show. The movie started off really slow and with little energy. "La Vie Boheme" had the energy it was supposed to and they did pick it up more towards the end but not throughout. I do have to say, Collins and Angel were probably my two favorite characters from the movie when Mark is my fav from the actual show. They just seem to still have that connection they did on stage. It was amazing that two straight actors could pass off a homosexual attraction. I would recommend seeing it but Rentheads...don't get your hopes up.

I have to say I was expecting much more. I have read it in its original form and seen it on and off Broadway several times. In my humble opinion there was not enough music. Many of my favorite parts of the musical are just that; MUSICAL. The characters were well played although a few could have been easily removed without affecting the story. All in all I gave it a 6 for the story line but I sincerely doubt it will rake in nearly what they were expecting at the box office. Everyone else I have talked to adored it. Oh well, different strokes I guess. Hope this helps.

RENT (2005) *** Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Rosario Dawson, Jesse L. Martin, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Idina Menzel, Tracie Thoms, Taye Diggs, Sarah Silverman, Anna Deavere Smith. Rousing and often moving big-screen adaptation of the colossal Broadway blockbuster musical about East Village NYC art scene and squatters rights in late '80s AIDS era delivered with verve and panache in spite of the unlikely helmsmanship in the form of Chris Columbus (!) who acquits himself nicely with a fine production design executed by Howard Cummings and of course the late Jonathan Larson's overwhelming songs brimming with enthusiastic gusto from most of the original cast (Dawson and Thoms are the sole replacements and both have the singing chops to stand there ground).