What a piece of crap
Probably one of the worst movies I've seen. It's a musical but there are other movies out there that aren't constantly inundated with inane song and dance that has jack to do with anything. These kind of movies remind me of the song and dance play from A Passage to India that the movie was implicitly lambasting. People randomly singing and dancing like fools is stupid, it always was, but to add insult to injury this movie actually won best picture. Probably the worst pick for Best Picture aside from The English Patient or No Country for Old Men.
The movie had completely unlikable characters. Isn't it just so convenient that EVERY single adult in England that is in charge of the welfare of children is either evil or cruel? Makes me wonder how that country didn't render itself extinct. Dodger was an annoying idiot, I was hoping he would be killed, but sadly it never happened. I also hoped Fagin would be killed or at least arrested, but that also didn't happen. On the contrary, the two idiots dance off into the sunset, kind of appropriate for this crapfest.
About the only compelling thing about this movie was Bill Sykes. The actor did a good job in making him a cold, loathsome sadist that got what was coming to him at the end. However that tiny sliver isn't enough to save this poor excuse for a movie. 1/10 stars, I would give it 0 if I could.