If you must see the movie then see the movie, but its not comparable to the award winning play. Some of the actors are however in the original and they are able to have their beatiful voices transfored onto the movie set. HOwever some of the actors like Taye Diggs ruin Rent! completely. In the begining its obvious that he’s lip sinking when they were shooting this and that he was completely unaware of the words, his mouth moves and such absurd ways that reading his lips is impossible. Though I really didn’t put much effort into researching this movie, I know that it was quite frustrating i hear to make for the original cast and i can see why. While I found Mima to do a relatively good preformance overall as far as being such a young preformer as this actress is, the movie just does’t capture what the musical has always superceeded in conveying. ALso what the hell was up with that strip scene. is it me or was that alittle over the top. but that holywood for you right. Plus i hear they made rossario dawson loose how many pounds. fuck holywood for that too. i’ll take a normal weight actress she’s skinny as it is…. and how about some updating on the characters if they were gonna botch it up might as well modernize the boring 80’s style..FLOP