Movie Review

Just to start out with a plug for Blockbuster: Husband and I signed up for Blockbuster on demand. You can have three movies at a time and keep them as long as you want. Then, you send the movies back and magically, three more appear in your mail box. It's amazing and really the only way to rent movies...especially if your husband has a hard time returning movies the traditional way.

We've been using this new service to catch up on movies that we haven't seen (which for Husband, isn't very many). The pick of the week this week was "Dreamgirls". Husband gave me special permission to watch this one alone since he had absolutely no interest in it. I was really excited to see it due to the fact that it won so many awards, which is often a reason to NOT see a movie.

I'm going to have to give the movie a "C" based on several different things:

1. Even though I knew that there was lots of music in the movie (as it is about a female singing group), I didn't realize that it was a MUSICAL. Musical, in this case, means a lot of women singing angrily. They sing in each other's faces basically singing words like, "Oh no you din't just kick me out of the group. Oh no you din't say she is prettier than me. Oh no you din't just tell me that my dress is too small". Then, after about FIVE minutes of them singing loudly and all up in your face, they storm off and end up with a different hairdo in the next scene because they all wear wigs all the time.
2. I was very concerned about Beyonce being so ugly for nearly the entire movie. I spent about 45 minutes of the movie looking at her eyebrows, which changed size and shape about every other scene. It was noticeable because for the most part, the eyebrows looked like she had one mustache above each eye. I am sorry, but without her makeup, her own collection of wigs, and her sparkly outfits, she is not nearly as attractive. She just looks like a regular woman. This goes to show you that if you had your own trainer, makeup and hair person, and personal chef, you too, could look like a star.
   
3. While I thought it might be semi-funny because Eddie Murphy is in it, it turns out that he is entirely forgettable. This is because he spends most of the movie looking at women and doing drugs. His hair is also distracting because it looks like it's cemented to his head. At the end of the movie, he takes his pants off on stage - I have no idea why other than because he turned crazy because of all the drugs.


4. Jennifer Hudson, who really is the star of the whole show was forced to wear ugly clothes...this only after she was kicked out of the group and willingly lives in poverty because the only thing she wants to do is sing and no one wants her. I wish I could just decide to not work because no one will hire me for what I want to do (which naturally, is to be a princess).