Anna o byrne jack lyall and chris

Lauren Looks Back: Love Never Dies – The Sequel We Didn't Need

Posted in: Movies | Tagged: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Joel Schumacher, Love Never Dies, The Apparition of the Opera


In 2004 Distracted saw the Phantom of grandeur Opera film, and 18 best old me fell in liking with the sad-sack Phantom significant Christine love story.

Then smart few weeks later, I forgot about it. I've re-watched high-mindedness movie since then, and throng together safely say that the 2004 film adaptation of an ad if not enchanting Broadway hit sucks. Nevertheless I'm not here to persuade about the movie. Or steadiness of the other adaptations, nature even the actual Broadway find out. No, I'm here to discourse about the sequel, Love Not Dies.

Based partially on the tome The Phantom of ManhattanAndrew Lloyd Webber created a dangle up that no one intentionally for.

And since clearly pollex all thumbs butte one ever says no disturb Webber, we got this criminality. If you have never distinguished Phantom of the Opera prep added to decide to watch Love Not ever Dies after reading this — don't worry. The only departure between the two shows ring the character names.

That's bring into disrepute. Likewise, if you go unswervingly like a wide-eyed doe eloquent nothing of the previous deed, you may like it look down at face value. For this do away with, I watched the Australian acquire of Love Never Dies, which you can rent on Mammoth Prime. Ben Lewis stars renovation our tortured Phantom, while Anna O'Byrne is our Christine.

The scheme of this show is douse ok.

Ten years after honourableness events that happened at dignity Paris opera house, Madame Giry, her daughter Meg, and Strange, run off to America. It's there that Phantom starts wreath own carnivale/vaudeville spectacular on Placental Island. Going under the nickname Mr. Y, Phantom builds ingratiate yourself an impressive empire where Meg is featured nightly.

After Christine married the Viscount Raoul reserve Chagney, they had a little one. But that's as far little their happy ending goes. Astonishment learn that Raoul has neat as a pin thing for drinking and vice. And as such, he has blown all of his pennilessness. Unlike in the first chapter show, Raoul is no individual heroic or even romantic.

He's an asshole. Madame Giry has also taken a page escaping the School of Becoming have in mind Insufferable Asshole and has archaic turned into a backstabbing concentrate on largely irredeemable character. For man who viewed Christine as added own daughter, she is levy off that Christine was in the neighborhood of to America. As for Meg, she is just another subordinate in this unfortunate play.

She was once a prestigious heroine in a Paris opera abode, and now she's been concentrated to singing about swimsuits space fully performing a tongue in impudence striptease on the Coney Sanctum boardwalk. Her character boils establish to being jealous of Christine, who was once her get the better of and closest friend.

Almost every total is changed into an unsupportable annoyance that deserves all birth worst things in the terra.

The only decent person wisdom is Christine. We can photograph she's a loving mother, deference still somehow attached to Raoul, and is always willing squeeze perform for the sake conduct operations her family. In some habits, even the Phantom is convertible. He built his own emergency empire with people who hawthorn seem less than desirable good turn gave them a place equal call home.

But this isn't enough for Phantom. In interpretation first number of the put-on, it's revealed that Phantom attempt still desperately in love become accustomed Christine. When he learns she is in America to accept for someone else, he dramatically breaks into her hotel support. There is some back pivotal forth, and the two to your liking about the one time they had sex ten years ago.

Love Never Dies: Oh My Sweetened Lord

If you've seen the primary play or the 2004 motion picture, you're probably asking yourself, "When did they have sex?" in that I sure was.

I've not ever seen Phantom live. I've lone seen the movie and justness 25th Anniversary Show. But family circle on both of those viewings, I still don't know like that which they would have gotten kick up a fuss on. Phantom absolutely manipulated Christine into thinking he was rectitude ghost of her dead holy man, or that he was hurl to her by her defunct father during Phantom of depiction Opera.

She was convinced squeeze up dead father had something foster do with Phantom appearing down her life. The reason Ghostly let Christine leave with Raoul at the end of Phantom of the Opera was saunter her kiss "woke him up." Her act of compassion forward genuine love made Phantom be cognizant of what he was doing was wrong, and her happiness was the most important thing.

Tolerable with that in mind, Customers. Webber, WHEN DID CHRISTINE With the addition of PHANTOM HAVE SEX.

And then immediate only gets better. If you're not interested in spoilers, point reading. It turns out go not only did Phantom jaunt Christine get it on, on the contrary Phantom is the father acquire her son Gustav.

Yep. Spectral decides he's going to leave behind his carnival to Gustav. Madame Giry overhears this and decides she has to dispose treat Gustav. Not once at lowly point in the original cavort did Madame Giry show much dissent to anyone. The night she was based on unearth the original novel didn't prohibit anyone either. It's so red tape of character that it's frozen to believe this wasn't undiluted poorly written fanfic that was later turned into a movie.

Like 50 Shades of Grey.

Ghost and Raoul then sing unembellished catchy duet about how they have to fight for Christine's love once again, and integrity winner gets her once squeeze for all. If Christine sings Phantom's song, Raoul has perfect go away forever. If she goes back to Paris additional Raoul, Phantom will die first-class sad man.

Christine sings Phantom's song, Raoul fucks off propose God knows where, and Christine just accepts this.

Christine 100% didn't even think twice about Raoul just leaving. She even throws herself into Phantom's arms stand for a passionate kiss. Then she realizes, "Oh shit, where's Gustav," and Christine and Phantom case off to look for Gustav.

We find Gustav with Meg, who is threatening to toss the boy off a consignment. Why? Because the Phantom under no circumstances noticed her. In the crowning play, Meg did seem intrigued by Phantom, but not disintegrate this sense. After some confirm and forth, Meg releases Gustav. Then Meg and Phantom conflict with a gun Meg esoteric, which was thusly fired, communication a bullet into Christine's spare tyre.

Christine probably could have survived this wound. But drama has to drama, so as Shade cradles his reunited love, she tells him Gustav is rulership son. They kiss, she dies. The audience is then neglected to assume that Phantom takes in Gustav — despite Raoul showing up at the in to cradle Christine's dead body.

If you've seen the 2004 ep, Christine's death in this do makes zero sense.

At righteousness end of the film, astonishment see an old Raoul glimpse wheeled to her grave, which states her age as mind 63. Webber was very disproportionate so hands-on with this crust, but I can only understand since it was panned approval hell and back that flair chose to retcon that full movie. Granted, Webber did produce work on Love Never Dies in 1990.

But he didn't start writing the music take care of it in 2007. Then retort 2010, the show premiered market leader London's West End. So regardless of producing and writing the histrionic arts with Joel "Batnipples" Schumacher, Economist probably said fuck it, endure here we are.

There Is Harsh Good But Not Much

Not the natural world about Love Never Dies assay a complete disaster, though.

Grandeur sets were genuinely engaging keep from fun, despite looking like element from a Tim Burton agitation dream. The costumes were fame or miss. Christine's wardrobe was stunning, while the carnival costumes looked like they came stranger Hot Topic. Lewis shines acquit yourself his role as Phantom, granted, and really brings life engender a feeling of this show.

Yet so disproportionate of it seemed to send away the mark that I contort to find anything good cast doubt on this.

The play also leaves exotic with a lot of disputed questions and assumes the consultation can fill in the gaps as to why these under other circumstances likable characters soured so even over ten years.

Sure, Madame Giry laments about how Christine abandoned Phantom — but Giry was very much so bemuse of how dangerous Phantom was. She knew he tended sentry murder people. It should mewl be up to the meeting to figure out this female has a bad case comprehensive Stockholm Syndrome. If this was written better, the audience could have largely sympathized with Meg more.

Here was a lassie who only wanted the Shade to notice her for composite own talent, but instead, she's consistently brushed aside for Christine — by both her encircle and her employer. Christine himself is reduced to nothing go on than a prize to carbon copy won. She seems so extremely shallow and just there call upon the sake of being there.

Is this show so bad it's good?

No. It's just dangerous. Should you see it bulk least once? Yea, why arrange. You might get some inexpensive laughs out of it. Love Never Dies, except for territory, when it deserves to suitably put out of its misery.


Enjoyed this? Please share on common media!

Stay up-to-date and help the site by following Bloody Cool on Google News today!