Movie is long and boring. Music is shallow, trite, insipid, & loud.

Rating: 1/10 (15 December 2006)

This movie features some fine actors giving excellent performances. Its greatest weakness is the music, which is a poor imitation of the great soul music of the 60s. The melodies are trite, repetitious, and unimaginative, although the movie attempts to disguise this with slick arrangements and sheer ear-splitting volume. The lyrics are moronic. Jennifer Hudson is a great performer, but her talent is wasted on this insipid musical pablum. The second greatest weakness of the movie is the plot, which is practically non-existent. It is to be expected that the plot line of a musical would be rather thin, but "Dreamgirls" carries this principle to extremes.