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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20041210
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Byline: Mike Davies

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Cert 12A, 142 mins Having taken the best part of two decades to make its way to the screen, the second most successful stage musical after Cats finally arrives every bit as camp and overblown as you'd expect from a combination of Andrew Lloyd Webber and director Joel Schumacher.

Loosely adapted from Gaston Leroux's novel, you'll probably be familiar with its allegorical Freudian tale of sexual awakening. Dwelling in the building's vast subterranean catacombs, a disfigured musical genius (Gerard Butler) haunts the Paris Opera ...

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