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Based on the Broadway musical, a trio of black female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960's. Read more

Starring	Jamie Foxx, Beyonce Knowles, Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Hudson
Director	Bill Condon
Genres	Drama

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- Industry watchers expressed shock last week when an early Oscar frontrunner was denied a Best Picture nomination, but... read more on Time Out
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  Dreamgirls
  
  Every one of the stars I have rated goes to Jennifer Hudson. Without her being in the movie, her fantastic voice and sassy character, I wouldn't have ... read more »
  
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  - 26 Jan 2007 at 11:06
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  Awful
  
  Don't bother with this film - I like a musical don't get me wrong but this was a terrible long boring film :((
  
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  - Wales
  - 27 Jan 2012 at 18:39
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  Great film!
  
  Best sound track to a film ever, who'd have funked it beyonce and jennifer actually amazing actresses and eddie murphy and jamie foxx were good singers ... read more »
  
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  - 18 Jul 2011 at 22:55
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  Big disappointment
  
  Full of talent and excellent performances if you are into that particular genre. I found it difficult to understand the dialogue, wasn't all that impressed ... read more »
  
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  - 16 Jul 2011 at 10:31
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  Dreamgirls Blue Ray
  
  Based on the Broadway musical, a trio of black female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960's. This toe stomping hand clapping film ... read more »
  
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- - Greenfingersjake
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  - Milton Keynes
  - 03 Jul 2011 at 11:25
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  brush up on motown!!
  
  liked some of the singing but slept through some of the scenes, Jamie & eddie gave it some character though. Good for motown history!!
  
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- - ableyummy
  - 18 reviews
  - 29 Jun 2011 at 11:54
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  Worth watching
  
  Overall I'd say this film is really good but it does veer between being really slow and really quick. It takes a while to establish the story, but then ... read more »
  
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  - 19 Jun 2011 at 00:27
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  Rocks but just a bit too long
  
  The film offers a lively portrayal of the burgeoning Detroit music, developing from the R&B industry to a strong commercial sound of its own which carried ... read more »
  
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- - Wizpunzel
  - 6 reviews
  - London
  - 25 Jan 2011 at 16:09
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  long drawn drama yawnnn
  
  plot is a trio of girs tring to make it to the top hindere by a greey manager i think it is a spin off from the story of the three degrees eddie murphy is a ... read more »
  
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  - London
  - 01 Dec 2010 at 00:20
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  Amazing voices and music
  
  Forget the story and the cheesy transitions with songs, the performances are top notch and the sets and costumes amazing.
  
  Obviously the oscar for ... read more »
  
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  - 19 Sep 2010 at 19:20
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  Dreamgirls
  
  Great performances, enjoyable movie!
  
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  - 14 Feb 2010 at 21:41
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  Dreamgirls
  
  Every one of the stars I have rated goes to Jennifer Hudson. Without her being in the movie, her fantastic voice and sassy character, I wouldn't have ... read more »
  
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  - 26 Jan 2007 at 11:06
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  100% Corn
  
  Saw a preview of this last night and was pretty unimpressed - I'd been expecting a great musical but what we got was just about every corny cliche in the ... read more »
  
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  - 24 Jan 2007 at 16:36
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  Successful transfer from stage to screen
  
  This is a film version of the stage musical which first opened on Broadway in 1981. Set in the 1960s/70s, the story follows the progress of a group of three ... read more »
  
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  - 29 Dec 2006 at 17:41
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  I have a dream, a song to sing
  
  A girl group find its hard living their lives within the music industry. The music is great and Eddie Murphy gives his best performance since Mel B. However, ... read more »
  
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- - Mbub
  - Westbury, Wilts
  - 23 Oct 2007 at 12:27
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  Dream? This is a nightmare.
  
  The worst film I have seen in the cinema. Ever. Bar none. Cliched, a disgrace, gives a bad name to all the greatest black music of the last 60 years. Aretha ... read more »
  
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  - 14 Feb 2007 at 22:00
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  Nightmare Girls
  
  Dreamgirls won 41 Awards, 2 of which were Oscars it also gained 46 nominations.
  
  It is 131 minutes long, which for the first one third is a drama ... read more »
  
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  - Lancaster, England
  - 19 Aug 2007 at 16:19
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  Spectacular stage... but in the end... a bit long
  
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  Music is good, stage is spectacular but with a storyline as predicatble as this... even a dancing Beyonce in hot pants can only go so far...
  
  With ... read more »
  
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- - ACCK
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  - 23 Jun 2007 at 22:46
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  so bad
  
  it ws th worst film ever!!
  
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  - scotland
  - 30 Jul 2007 at 00:38
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  Not fussed
  
  We went to see this at the cinema great story loved the historical background of the film eddie murphy was truly great in this. Maybe if I had realised they ... read more »
  
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- - Tracy Wadeson
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  - 19 May 2007 at 08:38
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  worst movie ever
  
  worst movie ever. worst movie ever.worst movie ever. worst movie ever.worst movie ever. worst movie ever.worst movie ever. worst movie ever.worst movie ever. ... read more »
  
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