I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Pretty Good

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

This is meant for a special crowd, who like musicals....and a cheesy story as a wrapper.Actually, I watched this movie because of Dolly Parton. I've just seen her live in concert not long ago. She really rocked the house... Personally, I think, she is a fab actress as well but these modern American movies don't do justice.It's a modern Romeo and Juliette kind of story. Certainly watchable when nothingelse is on.I gotta admit though, The Gospel music was FANTASTIC!!! If you care for a good Gospel but don't like movies - go and buy that soundtrack. It's ear candy, so to speak ;)But the script is mostly boring and packed with foreseeable lines. But I sat through cos Queen Latifah has a very enjoyable speech melody.Okay, summary: Gospel = 10script = 3Dolly/Queen = 10acting = 5

My review of the Joyful Noise Movie: Every single solitary, gimmicky, tired, old, wore-out, overdone movie cliché that's ever been used in any contrived, family-targeted movie in the history of cinema... and yet, the music was solid, the characters given some genuinely funny material to work with, and therefore there are worse ways to spend 90 minutes of your life. It was fantastic to hear new material from one of my favorite vocalists and lyricists, Dolly Parton... but it was worth the ticket price alone, to see Dolly "poppin' and lockin' for Jesus!" ...and I am personally convinced, beyond the shadow of any doubt, that Dolly Parton was manufactured by Jim Henson's Creature Shop.~ <3

I absolutely loved this movie! My family and I watched this movie three times in one week. The first time, it was just my mum and I and then the other two times were with different family members. While this movie is very cheesy and Keke Palmer over acts and over sings, I can't find much fault in this movie. The story line is great and the singing is impeccable. Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton make a great team and make the movie very entertaining and humorous. I am 19 years old and never really understood the fascination with Dolly Parton but she is incredible in this movie. She puts so much heart into every word that she says in the movie not to mention the fact that she is 66 years old and her singing still sounds amazing. Now, Queen Latifah, a woman with so much attitude that you can't help but laugh at some of the words that come out of her mouth. She also has an amazing singing voice. If you are a fan of musicals and know how to have a good laugh, I thoroughly recommend you watch this movie!

If you love the exuberant singing on "Glee", chances are pretty good you will like this predictable 2012 musical and overlook the numerous plot deficiencies that bring the characters into a climactic singing competition. Naturally that means a lot of rehearsal filled with Whitney-style, gospel renditions of familiar Top 40 pop classics. On this level, it doesn't disappoint since the churchy arrangements bring out a roof-raising soulfulness that is otherwise missing from the flimsily plotted film. Energetic performances of Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror" and Paul McCartney's "Maybe I'm Amazed" definitely deliver the goods at key moments, but director/screenwriter Todd Graff ("Camp") relies on tired stereotypes and down-home hokum to fill out the framework of a story about a small Georgia town hard hit by the current economic downturn. Providing a beacon of light is the Sacred Divinity Choir anchored by two divas with opposing sensibilities, the conservative and financially struggling Vi Rose Hill and the saucy and wealthy G.G. Sparrow.The movie wastes no time in giving G.G.'s husband Bernard a fatal coronary even before the opening credits are complete. The uptight church pastor needs to find a successor and chooses Vi Rose over G.G. setting the stage for a stylistic war over the choir's musical direction. Naturally, Vi Rose prefers traditional gospel, while G.G. wants a more contemporary twist to the arrangements, which suits Vi Rose's 16-year-old daughter Olivia just fine since she is a budding soloist with those gymnastically limber, Mariah-inspired pipes you either love or hate. Complicating matters is G.G.'s juvenile delinquent grandson Randy, who of course, turns out to be a talented singer in his own right and falls head-over-heels for Olivia. Once you add Olivia's quirky younger brother Walter, who turns out to have Asperger's Syndrome, and Manny, a conveniently talented guitarist and Randy's rival for Olivia's affection, you have the makings of a suspense-free, by-the- numbers soap opera with the sophistication of a young adult novel.It wouldn't be giving much away to state that it all climaxes with a face-off between the choir and the prodigious Our Lady of Perpetual Tears youth choir, spotlighting lead singer Ivan Kelley Jr., who impresses with his knockout version of Billy Preston's "That's the Way God Planned It". The choir counters with a rousing medley of Sly and the Family Stone, Usher, Chris Brown and Stevie Wonder's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours". Outside of the singing, the performances are serviceable and little more. Queen Latifah and a cosmetically altered Dolly Parton play Vi Rose and G.G. to their accustomed, outsized personalities. As Olivia, Keke Palmer ("Akeelah and the Bee") has a strong set of pipes as does current Broadway sensation Jeremy Jordan ("Newsies") as Randy, but neither makes much of an impression otherwise. Poor Kris Kristofferson has barely a moment as Bernard and then shows up later in a fantasy duet with Parton on her touching "From Here to the Moon and Back". Jesse L. Martin ("Rent") is also wasted in a small role as Vi Rose's estranged husband who escaped to the Army when he couldn't find a job. This is a highly conventional, cliché-driven film that is probably best left as a soundtrack purchase.