"Dreamgirls" - on DVD

(first draft)

Overproduced. Wooden dialogue. Motown, without the genius. Predictably, I fell asleep in the easy chair and lost the continuity, and so I'll have to see it again. Eddy Murphy was surprisingly good, the only one with sparkle - Jamie Foxx was surprisingly bad: I can't believe it's the same guy who did such wondrous things with "Ray: Unchain My Heart". Jennifer Hudson was great: fantastic. I like Beyonce Knowles, but I find her arrogance a bit grating: can't be the best without a few foibles, I suppose. Isn't she getting married soon to Jay-Z? That should be fun! Two egos, each the size of Jupiter, crammed into a recording booth....