Dreamgirls
Ugh. I wanted to see Pan’s Labyrinth but instead got dragged to watch this. I actually think this could have been a decent movie if one were into the musical movie genre (ala Chicago or Moulin Rouge) and Eddie Murphy was pretty fantastic in his role as Jimmy Early. The awards circuit is buzzing about Jennifer Hudson’s role and it’s pretty well deserved – not Oscar deserving but she definitely stole what little show there was to steal as opposed to Jamie Foxx, who just looked and acted like he belonged on the short bus. I think they just should have decided if it was gonna be a musical or not from the get go instead of randomly inserting music as dialog in the most unexpected places (to the point that I was praying they wouldn’t start singing whenever they looked like they were going to). [imdb link]
