I love watching movies just “on a whim”, because I heard it’s good or because I just felt like watching a movie (as opposed to because it’s part of a serie I like or because my favorite actors are in it). I don’t do it often! So when my sister asked if I wanted to buy pre-watched movies for cheap and have a blast, I agreed. She bought this one and we ended up watching it.

It’s a good movie! I had heard some terrific reviews and it’s really not as good as they said, but it’s still entertaining. The music style isn’t my favorite (my sister loved it though!) and I found myself doing other things during the tons of singing scenes. Of course it’s a Broadway musical, so I wasn’t annoyed by the number of musical numbers, I just didn’t enjoy it so much.

The acting is okay – I really hate Eddy Murphy but he wasn’t so bad in this. My favorite actor was John Krasinski, in his two-minute cameos that was a wonderful surprise for the Office-freak that I am ;) The visuals are good too, the story is nice. It’s by no way a great movie but it’s still entertaining.

This was pretty stupid. Reminded me of Syriana. A movie that tries to make you think it’s a true story, but it’s just a fantasy told by someone with a huge vendetta.

Dreamgirls had a lot of good stuff working for it – a great cast, interesting historical look at the development of Motown, and beautiful production – but I really disliked the music, which takes a lot out of your enjoyment of a musical. It seemed like all of the songs were sung at a belting out level, which would be fine in doses, but quickly became really tedious. Silly me, I thought the music would sound a lot like the Motown sound. The writing seemed to go all over the place, without a real sense of whose story we were seeing – was Effi the main character, was Deena, was Curtis? It was like the writers didn’t know either, which led to the movie dragging on and on. Gets a borderline OK, but only barely. Wouldn’t watch it again if you paid me.

Good fun. Obviously affected by its Broadway roots. Hudson absolutely deserved her supporting actress Oscar for her performance as Effi. That girl can SING… and act! Very entertaining.