Dreamgirls

Director: Bill Condon
(2006)

Beyonce move out of the way! Jennifer Hudson is taking over! She was absolutely phenomenal as Effie White and Beyonce's Deena Jones desolved in the shadows next to her shining light. We're all so used to Beyonce being larger than life but she may as well have been a novice compared to Jennifer Hudson in this broadway to silver screen delight.

I have never had the pleasure of seeing the stage production but I absolutely enjoyed the big screen edition and I believe it deserved every single award that it recieved especially J.Hud's oscar for best supporting actress. Although, I believe there was nothing "supporting" about her character at all. She was the star. She opened the film with a bang! and she ended it with one too. Jennifer effortlessly surpassed every other actor in the film's star studded cast including Eddie Murphy and Jamie Foxx.

Aside from the incredible performance by Jennifer Hudson the film offers an important glimpse inside the cutthroat music industry. It shows that while fame can go just as easily as it came that family and friends can last forever even, through misunderstandings and miscommunications. I love how Effie prevails in the end. She learns valuable life lessons and ultimately humbles herself after her divalike attitude loses her a relationship with her brother, her boyfriend, and her fellow groupmates.

Dreamgirls was definitely an astonishing film and I'm sure did incredible justice to the stageplay. I was especially delighted to see the cameo of Loretta Devine! I've always loved her! =)