Dreamgirls...surprisingly enjoyable.

Dreamgirls is based on the 1980's Broadway musical that loosely follows the rise of the Motown record label. Academy Award winner, Jamie Foxx , plays Curtis Taylor, a cunning and ambitious entrepreneur trying to build a label, & find the next big star, all the while promising the world to any artist eager enough to fall prey. Caught in the fray, Thunder, played by Eddie Murphy, as well as, a naive girl group, resembling the Supremes, starring Beyoncé Knowles, Jennifer Hudson, and Anika Noni Rose, billed as Dreamgirls.

It is Effie, played by Jennifer Hudson, with the luminous voice that is the foundation that sustains the group & moves the audiences. But Foxx after having his way with Effie, discards her for the more exotic looking Deena Jones, played by Beyoncé, appointing her the starlet and lead singer of the group. A move that results in turmoil, distrust and shattered dreams. GO SEE Dreamgirls, it is a wonderful silver screen musical, the cast is tremendous, with surprisingly moving moments from both Foxx and Beyoncé. Yet it is Jennifer Hudson who is the diamond in the rough and most certainly has the award winning performance. (131 minutes, PG-13)