Having never read Victor Hugo’s novel, nor seen the
legendary stage production, the vast majority of what I know about “Les Misérables”
comes from an episode of “Animaniacs”. That said, I do love a good musical, and
I rather enjoyed this long awaited film adaptation, though it is an up and down
ride at times. Even if you’re not familiar with the play, you’ve heard these
songs before, the cast is fantastic across the board, even people I don’t
usually care for (Anne Hathaway, I’m looking at you), and the costumes and
production design do a great job of making you feel like you’re in 19th
century France. Everyone, even the upper class, are suitably grubby and smudged
so that you believe they’ve spent their entire lives living in filth.
