

Not that he's the only one to blame for the off-key notes in this sour big-screen musical. We may never know how such rumored movie Phantoms as John Travolta and Antonio Banderas would have fared in the part, it's safe to say that they - and most certainly Crawford - would have been better than Scottish actor Gerard Butler, who simply grunts, barks and yells his way through nearly all of his featured musical numbers.

As it turns out, those rabid Michael Crawford fans who were up in arms about the stage star not being cast as the title character in the cinematic version of the "The Phantom of the Opera" musical may have been right.
