Sunday, April 28, 2013

Les Miserables the Movie/Musical


Finally saw the movie/musical Les Miserables, and here is my evaluation of the voices.

Valjean: Unfortunately, nasally a lot...:( which is weird cause I've seen him sing in other stuff, and he wasn't.  It was a disappointment, but not a huge one. But his high range was still rockin'.
Fantine: Really yelly, but still somehow made me cry just a little, but it wasn't cause of her singing per say, probably more the whole package of the scene.  Not bad though.
Javert:  Hey, better than I expected.  The guy ain't a singer, so props for hitting all them high notes, despite them being really nasally and yelly.  I have mixed feelings about the emotionless factor people keep saying he had.....I haven't decided yet.  I'll have to watch it again to really make sure.
Marius: Dude sounds like Kermit trying to sing opera, and he has an overly fake vibrato with really annoying gospel jaw.  Plus his S's were really Sean Connery-esque.  He 'twas my least favorite in the show actually, even harder for me to listen to than Russel Crowe, and was really disappointing too cause I expected more from him.
Adult Cosette:  Way better than I expected!  A little child-like and sharp sometimes with crazy goat vibrato, but overall, not too shabby.  I was pleased.
Little Cosette: Good.
Eponine:  Good.
Gavroche:  Good.
Enjolras:  Fabuloso!  But for some reason it really looked like he was lip-syncing, even though, I heard they didn't do that with this movie.
Madame and Monsieur Thenardier:  Great!  Fantastic French accent Sacha!
Random French Barricade Soldier:  Best in the whole show!