Not as Good as Expected from Reviews

Rating: 7/10 (28 January 2007)

Okay, this movie was...Er...Well, it was okay. It had a nice plot I guess, but it was sad at many points. I'm surprised it had a happy ending at the end, but in all seriousness, I didn't find it very entertaining. While I wouldn't exactly say it dragged on, from what I heard about it (Including a friend saying she wanted to see it 4 times in a row), I thought it'd be absolutely great. However, it wasn't what I expected at all and really let me down unlike another movie that came out Dec. 2006 (Night at the Museum) which surprised me big time at how great it was.
One of the most annoying things of this movie was it constantly had singing in-between things. I mean, I know it's a musical, but my god, unlike other musical-movies, you actually started laughing at the singing even though they're being entirely serious.
Continuing on with that, Jennifer Hudson really was "the whole film". While I wouldn't say she was perfect, the film centered much more around her and she was shown much more and had tons more lines. The other who really brought it together was Jamie Foxx. It's a shame they were only considered supporting actors when they were way more of leads than Beyonce.
That's all I have to say. It was an okay movie, but really not as good as I expected from it. Maybe I just had my expectations too high.