in musicals we are supposed to enjoy the...

Rating: 4/10 (6 February 2007)

music! i'm sorry but besides 'Effy White's' comeback song the music was really not something special.i was never a big musical's fan and i went to watch 'dreamgirls' only because someone invited me and i had no choice but to say yes.in any case i was thinking that its a nice movie i'm about to watch after all the awards and the Oscar nominations it got.
the movie basically tells us about the start of the time of the real show business where the good singer is left behind and the beautiful one rises up.the film in general is not that bad, the screenplay is OK, Eddy Murphy's acting is really good and the cinematography was beautiful.but the music, the music is really disappointing, it starts and ends at the wrong time.at one point where the characters moved to singing from talking i had some people sitting next to me that started to laugh, the timing they changed from talking to singing simply wasn't good.but the worst is yet to come, sitting in the theater for about two hours i got to a point where i was really expecting for it to end but when it did it still wasn't time for me to go, the theater forces you to stay for the credits that are supposed to be special in a way.for someone that didn't enjoy the film it was the thing that made it easy for me to decide that the film is bad.
i really hope that the next musical Hollywood will give us wont be as disappointing as 'dreamgirls' and that only the music in it will be enough for me to enjoy it, just as it is supposed to be in musicals.