Bad music combined with relentless clichés

Rating: 1/10 (5 January 2007)

A musical about rhythm and blues with no rhythm and blues. Dreamgirls had one song in it - the same pathetic - not funky - tuneless and grooveless schmaltz from beginning to end, and it was forgettably derivative. Actually, it would have been an improvement if you could actually recognize it as derivative. The music was as soulless as the "white" versions of R & B the movie was trying to parody. It would make Berry Gordy or James Brown cringe to have someone think this pap was in any way representative of what they were doing. Awful stuff.
Piled on top of soulless characters and relentless cliché, and then extended for at least an hour (or was it five) beyond what anyone could possibly sit still for - it made for a pretty tedious evening.
A lot of talent was wasted putting this mess together...