By: Bryan Montgomery
Rating: 7 out of 10
The translation of musicals to the big screen has been a hit-or-miss scenario. Films such as Hairspray have succeeded where films such as the adaptation of Phantom of the Opera falls short of expectation. Les Miserables is the Mona Lisa of musicals and it takes no small feat to translate one of the most epic musicals of all time to the big screen. Tom Hooper, the Oscar-winning director of The King’s Speech had the massive task of translating Les Miserables to the big screen and, for the most part, succeeds. Held up by the strength of its cast, this larger than life production goes too big for its own good at times but manages to pull itself together to be a solid movie musical.
