I had to wait to give my review on this heavily promoted film called, Joyful Noise till today. The movie stars, Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton, Keke Palmer and Jeremy Jordan. Guest appearances by Courtney Vance and Kirk Franklin. Here’s a summary of the movie below:
Movie Summary
The small town of Pacashau, Georgia, has fallen on hard times, but the people are counting on the Divinity Church Choir to lift their spirits by winning the National Joyful Noise Competition. The choir has always known how to sing in harmony, but the discord between its two leading ladies now threatens to tear them apart. Their newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill (Latifah), stubbornly wants to stick with their tried-and-true traditional style, while the fiery G.G. Sparrow (Parton) thinks tried-and-true translates to tired-and-old. Shaking things up even more is the arrival of G.G.’s rebellious grandson, Randy (Jeremy Jordan). Randy has an ear for music, but he also has an eye for Vi Rose’s beautiful and talented daughter, Olivia (Keke Palmer), and the sparks between the two teenagers are causing even more heat between G.G. and Vi Rose.
My review: I went to see Joyful Noise last Tuesday and did a press junket on Wednesday with actress KeKe Palmer and Kirk Franklin. They were too fun and great to talk to. Now as far as the film is concerned, I didn’t care for it. You can tell that they didn’t have a big budget, the cinematography was a bit grainy and I just couldn’t follow along. First off, I’m not a church goer like that and I also do NOT like gospel music. So ofcourse I felt lost in the movie but I still wanted to go see it because I wanted to like this film. They used some secular music and I was shocked at a lot of curse words. People in the theatre that was older than me frowned on that as I looked around.There also was some sexual content.They said the reason for that was because even Christians are human too. Okay.
Basically the story line was all over the place and it just lost my interest after about 30 minutes in. I thought that Dolly Parton did a good job in the movie but the casting director should have found a different actress for the role of GG Sparrow. Parton seemed to upstage everyone in her scenes and with her style of dress(hence her choir robe) it was VERY distracting. I was paying more attention to Dolly’s plastic surgery,her waistline and wigs that I couldn’t focus on anything else they were talking about lol. If you love feel good movies and musicals twisted with gospel songs then you just might like this movie. It just was not for me and a bit corny. I give the film a C-. Joyful Noise hits theaters today!
