I thought it was a good movie but overrated

Rating: 5/10 (30 January 2007)

Dreamgirls was highly promoted and sold on hype. I found it lacking in substance and lackluster in musical scoring.
A definite criticism is the character of Barry Gordy - one of the great businessmen of the century, and a black businessman at that. He had to be marginalized and to a real extinct demonized. WHAT A SHAME. Eddie Murphy, Jamie Foxx, Keith Robinson all had to show their personal flaws with few redeeming qualities.
Kudos for Eddie Murphy he will surely win the Oscar as so many black actors before him who have to follow in lock step with the Hollywood version of the evil or corrupt black male role