 In his review in "The New York Times", Vincent Canby observed, "Though it was generally agreed that "Hair" would not work as a film, Miloš Forman transformed it into one of the most original pieces of musical cinema of the last 20 years.Then they said that "A Chorus Line" couldn't be done—and this time they were right...Mr. Attenborough has elected to make a more or less straightforward film version that is fatally halfhearted.