Following my blog on the hit musical "Rent" I have now decided to do a blog review thang on each of my favourite musicals as addmmitedley they are my guilty pleasure!
The first of these will be the hit movie of 2006 "Dream girls", staring Jeniffer Hudson, Jamie Fox, Eddie Murphey and Beyonce Knowles.
I thoroughly enojoyed this movie as it demonstrates soul music in all its glory!
The vocals given by everyone in this movie are mind blowing with the highlight being Jennifer Hudsons version of "I'm telling you"
Dream Girls is the fictional account of the rise 60’s girl group, starting out unknown as The Dreamettes and ending up world famous as The Dreams. This film is quite the spectacle, as it should be, and the music is far better than I’d expected. Sure there’s a clunker or two that sound like a show tune rip off of a soul song, but that’s not the majority. As a matter of fact, I was pleasantly surprised at how well they were able to capture how that sound changed and developed over that time period. There are little touches that pull it together and show that these people really are fans of the music.
You’ve got people here that do some tremendous work, specifically Eddie Murphy and Jennifer Hudson. Theses two really bring Dream Girls up to a level that without them it would have been a fairly entertaining, but a wholly forgettable film where the biggest thing would have been the novelty of Beyonce Knowles starring in it. Hudson is incredible and I lover her pipes. As an enormous fan of 60’s soul music she was a pleasant surprise, but Murphy takes the cake. There is a scene where he has a new song rejected by head of the label and with one glance he sums up his entire life and everything he’s feeling. It’s very small and restrained, especially compared to the rest of the film, but perfect.
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