Great Music Compromised

Rating: 7/10 (22 January 2019)

28 December 2006. The best musical since Chicago won its Oscar, Dreamgirls fails to capture its full potential due to its cinematic approach to its excellent material. The direction of this movie was confusing and this resulted in a question as to whether this movie was a drama with music or really a musical. An overly ambitious project, there were too many characters to focus on adequately and many of the needed dramatic, continuity was lost among the many subplots going on. Many stand alone musical numbers really hit the charts and Jennifer Hudson shown well as a soloist actress/singer. Courageously, both Eddie Murphy and Jamie Foxx took parts of less than musical heroes while the female roles seemed to be underdeveloped. Seven out of Ten Stars.