Sparkle
Being in a 1960s girl group meant having to cut hit records in your kitchen, while mopping the floor and cooking dinner for your husband.
Fortunately, none of the vocalists in this musical are housewives.
When 19-year-old Sparkle (Jordin Sparks) agrees to form a girl group with her two older sisters, Sister (Carmen Ejogo) and Dee (Tika Sumpter), in order to win a talent contest, she is is not prepared for the upshot.
Rising through the nightclub ranks, the girls taste success.
But when Sparkle begins to branch out as a soloist and Sister is in an abusive relationship, the girls experience exactly what their mother (Whitney Houston) warned them of.
With enjoyable songs, admirable performances and all the delectable melodrama that comes from a meteoric rise in music industry, this remake out shines the 1976 original.
Fortunately for girl groups today, it's the record labels that are being bitch-slapped. (Yellow Light)
vidiotreviews.blogspot.ca
Being in a 1960s girl group meant having to cut hit records in your kitchen, while mopping the floor and cooking dinner for your husband.
Fortunately, none of the vocalists in this musical are housewives.
When 19-year-old Sparkle (Jordin Sparks) agrees to form a girl group with her two older sisters, Sister (Carmen Ejogo) and Dee (Tika Sumpter), in order to win a talent contest, she is is not prepared for the upshot.
Rising through the nightclub ranks, the girls taste success.
But when Sparkle begins to branch out as a soloist and Sister is in an abusive relationship, the girls experience exactly what their mother (Whitney Houston) warned them of.
With enjoyable songs, admirable performances and all the delectable melodrama that comes from a meteoric rise in music industry, this remake out shines the 1976 original.
Fortunately for girl groups today, it's the record labels that are being bitch-slapped. (Yellow Light)
vidiotreviews.blogspot.ca