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Spanning the '60s and '70s, Dreamgirls is about the pop-cultural battle of glamour vs. soul: of Deena (Beyoncé Knowles), the pretty singer, vs. Effie (Jennifer Hudson), a vocal volcano but a bit plump. Curtis (Jamie Foxx), their manager, banking on Deena's smooth sound and looks to peddle the Dreams to white audiences, will do anything to make the sale. The piece plumbs the lure of compromise, the risk of diluted dreams and broken hearts...
...Press Play” is stuffed with upbeat tracks and A-list cameos that reflect his flamboyant and entrepreneurial persona. Featuring appearances from Kanye West, Pharrell, will.i.am, Mario Winans, Just Blaze, Nicole Scherzinger, Christina Aguilera, Big Boi, Ciara, Timbaland, Twista, Shawnna, Nas, Cee-Lo, Brandy, Keyshia Cole, Jamie Foxx and Mary J. Blige, it is safe to say that it cannot help but generate some quality songs...
...sick dirty Lenny" ? had its drawbacks. Frequent arrests, for example. But the advantage of being outspoken was that he could speak about anything. Most comedians marched to a very conventional tune. A few, like Sahl and Dick Gregory, specialized in political satire; a few others, like Redd Foxx and Belle Barth, did "blue" material, at least by 50s standards. (Today it would barely be aqua.) Lenny's satire was more ferocious than Sahl's, his language saltier and more freewheeling than Foxx's. This combination of topic and tone, and the fact that nobody else was out there with...
...must be said, however, that Mann the writer is perhaps a little too taken with detail. Basically, his undercover-cop duo (Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell) are pretending to be high-level, freelance drug smugglers making a deal with a Hispanic cartel that does not think small, and in the first part of his film Mann dawdles them through a labyrinth that's not conventionally menacing. Foxx and Farrell don't have a lot to do in those passages, which permits us to spend plenty of time with Li, who plays the criminal gang's enigmatic financial whiz, and that...
There's nothing mysterious about Harris, playing Foxx's cop lover. She's brave and tough minded, and her fate is what finally energizes the movie's concluding chapter. Mann is good at action, especially when it comes to surprises--the sudden blossoming of blood behind a gunned-down bad guy, the mighty explosion that we aren't expecting...