This is no Chicago

Rating: 7/10 (26 December 2006)

This is a good movie by any standard, and under the same criteria, not a excellent one. The movie is saved by its great musical numbers but the story drags and revolves around the same conflicts and troubles leading to a fast ending that does little to resolve much of content in the extraordinary build up.
The public did applaud and I had to make an effort not to, specially after one gut wrenching performance by Jennifer Huston, who owned this movie right and left. It wouldn't had feel too honest.
It was good to see Eddie Murphy back in which would be another of the redeeming factors of Dreamgirls.
Dreamgirls is a good movie but is no Chicago.