I was surprised to find I did not like this movie. At all. I thought it would be some nice little feel good movie on some singing girls making it to the top. But I didn’t get that feel good feeling. And then the predictability of the plot gets annoying. I don’t think I had a problem with the acting. Jennifer Hudson was good and Beyonce didn’t have me thinking ‘hey that’s Beyonce’ every time, which is an accomplishment of sorts. It’s just that the script sucks (in my not so humble opinion). It hasn’t quite figured out whether it’s a movie or a musical. Every time it stages a musical song it had me fast forwarding. The relationship between the different characters aren’t fully worked out, which had me thinking stuff like ‘Why does Deena end up with Curtis after he dumps (supposedly close friend) Effie’.

It’s a shame cause it could have been an interesting story, a colored singing group rising in the charts around the time as Martin Luther King’s speech and race riots.