What a miss...

Rating: 4/10 (21 February 2007)

I can't believe people around the world, or critics who are deeply involved in this business can spread their 4 out of 4 stars to this movie.
"Dreamgirls" is full of clichés, and it's so full of those clichés that I can't believe it can satisfy any viewer. All the problems supposed to be struggling the characters are solved with great paste so that Beyoncé could sing some more.
The songs used in the film are so long. This is not a Broadway show, let's face it. This is cinema! You cannot put 5 full songs to the viewers face, only showing the singer or the audience and roll the camera a little and expect that the viewers not gonna get bored or get up and start to dance.
The scenes where people sing rather than talk are incredibly unnatural. "Moulin Rouge" or "8 Femmes" also used this technique, yes I get that this is a musical, but the way it's done is so amateurishly crafted that you want to fast-forward those scenes.
Oh god, and what about the political touches?? Minutes of scenes showing some street fight doesn't add anything to the world of our musicians.
Well, the way the music scene changes from 60s to the end of 80s is presented very well, the hair styles, the songs, the way the music industry works... Some good performances from Hudson and Murphy alright. But giving loads of stars to this movie is being disrespectful to let alone "Moulin Rouge" but also "Chicago" and alike modern musicals of our time...
Total waste of time!