Dreamgirls (2006) MOVIE REACTION!! (PATREON REQUEST)

Dreamgirls- Thank you so much for such a fun reaction to this beautifully acted movie, Mangual!! I really love this movie. It isn't one of my favorite musicals, because I absolutely love the classics. However, Dreamgirls is powerful, beautiful, and full of talent by all of the actors who play these amazing characters. First... Jennifer Hudson is absolutely phenomenal!! And she deserved every award she won for her role as Effie White. It is difficult for anyone to outshine a powerful performer like Beyoncé, but Jennifer Hudson not only does so here in Dreamgirls, but she excelled and sang so many heartbreaking and fantastic songs. Especially her number one song that put Jennifer Hudson on top... And I Am Telling You, I'm Not Going. Wow! You can absolutely feel her pain in this moment. This song is heartbreaking and powerful, and I doubt that the people who cast Jennifer Hudson for this movie expected her to be able to sing like this at first. However, my favorite song Effie sings... I am Changing, when her friend manager helps her to finally get the job in the nightclub years later, when no one else would hire her. Again... you can absolutely feel emotion and the power behind Effie's words as she sings this beautiful song. This song is my overall favorite song throughout the movie, even though all the rest are incredible and powerful as well. Second... Deena Jones is played by Beyoncé Knowles. I have to admit, I am not typically a fan of Beyoncé, especially as a musician. I would much rather see her in movies, than to see her perform music because I typically don't like her style of music. However, I really love Beyoncé in this movie. She isn't as powerful as Jennifer Hudson, but she definitely holds her own and I really love her character. I especially love her song towards the end titled, Listen. Again... you can absolutely feel the heartbreak as she struggles with finding her own voice and the will to leave Curtis, especially after finding out the truth about what she and Curtis did to Effie, when she discovers Curtis had stolen Effie's and C.C.'s song. This song is beautiful. Eddie Murphy as Jimmy Early... Wow! I have seen Eddie Murphy in a ton of movies and I have loved him in a ton of his movies. He's hilarious in so many roles. And I have even seen him sing before too, but never like this. I've never seen him play a role like Jimmy Early before and he's just incredible. He too deserved all of the awards he won. Jimmy wasn't always a good man. At least not as a husband and boyfriend. But he was a good man and a good friend to the women, C.C., Marty, and Curtis... until Curtis screws him over time and time again. Which tragically results in Jimmy committing suicide by overdosing on heroin. By Curtis constantly trying to change Jimmy's style of music, Jimmy lost his soul and without it, it killed him that he had come to hurt the women he did truly love because he had wronged them... Lorrell and even his wife. Without his music and soul, his heartbreak was all he had left, and he couldn't live with himself any longer. I cry every time when Lorrell comes out screaming and crying upon learning that Jimmy died, not only alone, but that it took more than a day before anyone even found his body because he was all alone. So, so sad. As for C.C., Lorrell, Michelle, Curtis, and Marty... I love each of these characters, with the exception of Curtis of course. Jamie Fox played Curtis brilliantly of course, but I hated his character because he was a terrible person and he wronged everyone he ever came across in some way or another. But I love Effie's brother, C.C., as well as Lorrell and Michelle too. I love that C.C. writes the songs for their family, especially hen he comes to write one final song for his sister. And I love that by the end, Effie, Deena, Lorrell, C.C., Mary, and even Michelle, are a family once again and are as close as they ever were despite the tragedies that pulled them apart for awhile. Oh... and Effie's daughter, Magic... is adorable and so sweet. I really love her and I love the moment in the very end, as Effie comes out on stage to sing with her sisters once Deena reminds the world that there weren't just three Dreams, but four. I love seeing Effie sing with them again, especially in the moment when Effie is singing to her daughter. So beautiful. I absolutely love this movie's overall storyline. It's very sad how people in the music world, as well as in the acting world are treated if they aren't skinny, of a certain race, or exactly what people who claim to know what we want. And it wasn't just back in these days, but today as well. People trying to break into these industries as artists are constantly told that image is everything, and it's wrong. So sad. Dreamgirls isn't based on a true story, or on real people. However, these characters are fashioned after real famous sings... Diana Ross, Gladys Knight, and the Pips. And tragically... the injustices shown throughout this brilliant and beautiful movie are very real. Both back in the days this movie was set in, as well as today. Image isn't everything like we are constantly being told. And artists like Jennifer Hudson in this movie prove this time and time again. And I applaud those people like Jennifer Hudson who continue to fight for their dreams in spite of being told they aren't pretty enough, or have the perfect image the people want. This movie was Jennifer Hudson's first big break and the beginning of her career, and it's incredible that she won an Oscar for her role as Effie White in Dreamgirls, when so many actors, actresses, etc... don't typically win one, if at all, until much later into their lives. Amazing!! :) Thank you so much for another great movie reaction, Mangual! I really love it when you react to musicals and I would absolutely love to continue to introduce to you some of the musicals that I have loved since I was little and that I grew up with. Musicals that are from the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s. Thank you, dear friend! :) Sincerely, Heidi

Heidi Elizabeth Marcum