Excellent

Rating: 10/10 (21 January 2007)

Movie of the year! Bill Condon has done a magnificent job of bringing a 25 year-old Broadway musical to the screen. Not a wasted moment of screen time. And what performances! Too many to single out any one particular performance...no, sorry, I'll take that back. Jennifer Hudson was outstanding. At the end of "And I am telling you I'm not going" I felt like standing up and giving her a standing ovation but then I realized I was sitting in a movie theater and not in front of a live stage! One word describes this movie "WOW!"
Personal comment: Why won't the Oscars be divided up between 'Drama' nominations and 'Musical/Comedy' as they do with the Golden Globes? OK so the Oscars have been around since 1929 but let's get with the program! There are great movies being made that should be broken into the two categories to give movies such as "Dreamgirls" and, let's say, "The Queen" an equal place on the awards stage!