5/5 Still one of the best movies ever made...
  by Father Goose (Toronto, ON Canada)
Purchased and watched this great musical/drama...again, after a 30 year pause. Still holds up as one of the best. If you have never seen this movie...do so. If you have seen it but not revisited for many years...buy it for your library. Great movie that remains eminently entertaining. The dance sequence for "all aboard" is alone worth the price of admission.

5/5 Fasten your seatbelts
  by V. Nagy (USA)
I first saw this movie when I was in my teens. I've watched it many times since, and it is still one of my all time favorite movies. People who complain about this movie are invariably the ones who saw Chicago - that watered down, vanilla imitation of Fosse and expect something similar. This is not it. This is pure unadulterated Bob Fosse. All That Jazz is electrifying, impudent, ill-mannered, shocking, and heart breaking. It's a work of genius, not for the faint of heart, or blushing flowers.

4/5 Jazz hands!
  by Kona (Emerald City)
Broadway choreographer Bob Fosse wrote and directed this movie based on his own life. Fosse is represented by the character Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) and the film is a series of surreal, kaleidoscopic, frenzied vignettes which show Joe's obsession with and love for his work, his womanizing, and his drug use.

Scheider gives a dazzling performance and is a talented dancer. Nominated for nine Oscars and winner of four, the movie features non-stop dancing in the energetic, sensual Fosse style, but sadly, no music from his Broadway musicals. It would be of particular interest to dancers and Broadway show fans.

5/5 Lover of Musicals
  by Diajanese (Chicago, Il)
I absolutely love this video. It took me back to highschool days. The quality is better than on the movie screen and the sound quality was superb. If you are a fan of musical, this is a must to add to your collection. I found myself singing and dancing with the actors. My video arrived in a timely manner in excellent condition.

5/5 Entertainment Plus
  by R. Swanson (New Mexico)
There is so much to love in this film! I was amazed to realize that it was made so long ago--it's not in the least dated, and I can only wonder at the impact it must have made at the time.

On the surface level, it's a great show! The dance numbers are spectacular. The dancers are superb. The costumes, music, staging---all of it is first class entertainment. The erotic airline number is wonderfully sexy, as well as lyrically beautiful and even funny. The home-time number with Gideon's girlfriend and daughter is heartwarming. The closing "hello death" splashy number is quite amazing and makes death look, well not-so-bad.

What gives this already great show the extra power is the fact that it is such a raw autobiography of Fosse, himself. He looks at his life with amazing honesty and judges himself as, in the words of the Ben Vereen song, "a man who allowed himself to be adored but not loved." Wow..not too many folks have that kind of self awareness, and then to mount it on stage in such a flashy way, is an act of incredible daring.
I heard the great Anna Russell in an opera spoof say that "anything is ok if you sing it." It seem like this work of art, which it is, may be Fosse's way of making his life, the good, bad and ugly of, into something beautiful. That works for me, anyway.

The cast is first rate. Roy Sheider is wonderfully charismatic and charming and makes us love Joe Gideon, the Fosse alter-ego. The dancers who played the three women in his life: his ex-wife, daughter and girlfriend are equally wonderful.

I highly recommend this film. I find a lot of recent Broadway musicals really annoying but this one is a beauty.