CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

ChanBot i must have seen a different film!!

LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Micransix Crappy film

Marc Davis Horrible, horrible, horrible!!! Where to begin? It didn't take me even 5 minutes of viewing this dreadful film to see how bad it is. The acting is beyond bad, the dialog is elementary, the plot is hardly believable, and worst of all, for a movie about a gospel choir, it should be a sin for there to be such obvious lip-syncing going on during some of the singing scenes.Dolly Parton as G.G. Sparrow and Queen Latifah as V. Rose Hill, two prominent, vocal (literally) members of a church choir, battle it out to see who's musical style will win out. Sparrow wants a contemporary sound and V. Rose Hill favors the more traditional gospel style. Of course, all parties involved will come together just in time to save the choir during the choir competition near the end. Yea right - in what alternate universe does this occur? Even their names tells you how utterly ridiculous this story is. Also unbelievable is the subplot about love between Olivia, V. Rose's daughter and Randy, Sparrow's grandson, played by Keke Palmer and Jeremy Jordan, respectively. Jordan and Palmer have negative (-)100% chemistry. Zip-O!!!! And the dialogue and interaction between these two are flat. Oh, and if you've never heard of these two,don't worry. You're not alone. Many viewers haven't. To her credit,Keke Palmer has a decent resume of work as an actress, and definitely was not as stiff as Jeremy Jordan, but she wasn't much better.Courtney B. Vance has a supporting role as the pastor of the church where the choir is based. He is clearly making the best of a terrible script. Dolly Parton also puts in a commendable performance, with her quirky but Southernly charm. One of the more touching parts of this sterile film is Dolly Parton's performance of "From Here to the Moon and Back". Otherwise, "Joyful Noise" runs like a 118-minute rip off of the Sister Act films, except Latifah's no Whoopi Goldberg and Keke Palmer's no Lauryn Hill.

elgordo15 I love music. It might be the 45 years of performing it on one level or another or it might be that I just appreciate well-produced music, but the music in "Joyful Noise" is superb.I wish that I could praise this movie even more, but I've seen it too many times already. There are shades of so many films past in here, the ones that come most to mind are "Brassed off" about a coal mining town in England fallen on hard times and their superb brass band who wins the national competition despite the town's reluctance to continue financially supporting it (sound familiar yet to anyone who has seen "Noise"?) and "The Preacher's Wife" with Whitney Houston and Denzel Washington about upheavals in the local church's choir. BTW, another big role in that movie, the Preacher, was played by Courtney B. Vance, who played (wait for it..) THE PREACHER in "Noise"! Didn't Vance at some point think to himself "Hey! I've done this before!". Maybe he did, I don't know, maybe he didn't care. I expected more from a movie fronted by such lights as Dolly Parton, Queen Latifa and Kris Kristopherson.If you want to hear some roaring good music though, rent the DVD, crank up the bass, sit back and enjoy. Look past the movie and take the music for what it is, superb!

Shamontiel Vaughn I've said this many times when reviewing books, music and movies for other sites. Regardless of what my opinion is, make your own. I should've followed my own advice when I heard about this movie. I was dressed and ready to go the weekend the movie released, but I read a bunch of reviews bashing the film talking about how there wasn't enough music or the movie didn't concentrate on KeKe Palmer's character Olivia Hill and Jeremy Jordan's character Randy Garrity. Both opinions were dead wrong. I didn't even bother to see the movie after reading all the feedback, and I wish I would've supported it in theaters. This was a great movie. There were some cons but the pros drowned them out.I love the way Queen Latifah sings (and raps) so anytime she's in a movie singing, I'm going to watch it. It just so happens that Dana Owens is a great actor, too, so she's killing 'em all in areas of entertainment (if I was into makeup, I'd buy her Cover Girl line, too). Although many people (my mother included) were head over heels about "Akeelah and the Bee," I wasn't into the spelling bee movie. I thought "Jump In" was a cute film though. Dolly Parton is cute enough to pinch her face (although she'd probably throw food at me, like she did in this movie, if I did so) and I enjoy hearing her sing. No clue who Jeremy Jordan is, but he was entertaining in this film and was meant for the part. The plot of the film is a small town that is really hurting for cash wants to enter a gospel concert again, regardless of how many times they've lost to other big acts before. When Randy comes into town to stay with Dolly Parton's character G.G. Sparrow, he takes one good look at his childhood friend Olivia and realizes she's all grown up. (Cue Musiq Soulchild's "Girl Next Door.") They like each other. G.G.'s cool with that. Queen Latifah's character Vi Rose Hill is not, but Vi Rose is also dealing with marital issues now that her husband has gone back into the army and trying to make sure her daughter stays focused. The movie made it seem like Vi Rose had an attitude for no reason, but every time she was mad, her concerns seemed valid. There were a couple of cursing lines and the "pretty" comment that didn't sit too well with me and made Olivia's part a little too rebellious. At no point in the movie did I get the impression Vi Rose had a problem with her daughter being pretty. She told her to button her shirt, and that's about it.Spoiler alert: The table scene with Randy and Olivia was a bit much, especially considering I've known a few Olivias when I was a teenager and none of them would be caught dead hiked up on somebody's relative's table. I raised an eyebrow at that one.Other than that, I enjoyed the movie. Dexter Darden's character Walter Hill was educational (had no clue what Asperger Syndrome was like) and interesting. Jesse L. Martin didn't play a large role, but every time I see him I want to sing a Marvin Gaye song. His mannerisms reminds me so much of the singer, and I was completely entertained with the salute-snake routine he and Queen Latifah did in the film. I loved all of the singing moments, from the Usher remakes to Michael Jackson to the gospel songs. The jokes were always funny. The one-liners were good enough to tweet, especially the one about sweeping. "Hell yeah" right back at you, Olivia. The scene with Dolly Parton snapping her fingers after Palmer came out all dressed up cracked me up. Dolly was meant to play this role.As far as Asian men, my gawd, beware! The first guy (Francis Jue's character Mr. Hsu) with the southern accent was fascinating to watch/listen to. He pulled it off. I did not expect those circumstances to end up how they were, but it kept my attention.This was a really good movie. Good enough to buy. And so I will.

fraun I was disappointed. I love Dolly! And I'm a huge fan of Kris Kristofferson and Queen Latifah, but I am amazed that Kirk Franklin would have anything to do with this movie. It was a prime example of churches behaving humanistic-ally, filled with Christians behaving like the rest of the world...using bad language, dis-respecting authority,using the Lord's name in vain, lying, and having one-night stands. Brings to mind the the answer I saw recently from a sidewalk interview clip, where the interviewer asked a passersby if they knew any Christians, and they said yes, but the ones they knew behave like everybody else. The portrayal of Christians in this movie just helps keep that image going......Shame on y'all!