8/22/2023 0 Comments Songs from sparkle 2012Other than that there is a little overacting, a lot depressing problems that may bring you down, and a few editing issues that need to be wrapped up. However, those who love good closure on their drama will enjoy the last thirty minutes of the movie, especially if you are a Jordan Sparks fan. While you finally get a few happy ties to the story, by that point I just didn't care from the spiraling downfall the story was, and just wanted to be out of the theater. Unfortunately this fast pace fails as one gets closer to the end, where they then decided to drag out the painfully slow details. Skipping on these details again denies the audience story for their money, it helps get them to the musical songs (and consequentially the ending) faster. There is one positive to this shallow story/character design and that is less time dwelling on a rather stale drama. Another sister had career desires, but they just skimmed over that and showed very little struggle or challenge to her goals. From the trailers you might know that the girls' mother failed in the music industry, but Houston's character never really told us the details of what happened. Sure there is the main plot story of Sparkle wanting to become a star, but aside from that the shallow subplots, love interests, and backstory are cheated out. For one thing this drama surprisingly has little character and story development for such a cast. Now let me discuss the weaknesses of the film. It's artistic, sappy, and cliché, but it's something I have to give props to for helping drive the movie along. Happy moments had the girls singing upbeat numbers, while sadder parts of the story had blues and soul music to help mirror the dismay and redemption. One last thing to mention is that the songs were selected to coincide with the attitude of the movie at that point. As you can guess Houston does well too, but she has only one song on the list that has some power to it, but plays little purpose other than showing off talent. ![]() Ejogo has some pipes as well, but her numbers are more of a storytelling/entertaining bit that made some of the audience members howl in delight at her gorgeous body. Her powerful voice and spirit in her numbers captures the emotion of the tune, somehow bringing her thoughts and passion to life. Sparks in particular puts her chords to the test as she hits high pitched notes that drag on for half a minute. While I'm not the biggest fans of these styles, I have to admit that these girls can sing. After that the music goes into a variety of emotion filled blue tunes, a couple of upbeat hits, and of course one or two gospel like melodies that may you have clapping in awe. From the start Cee-Lo Green gets the score pumping with an upbeat, and surprisingly clean, jazz song that will get you rocking in your seat. I'll warn you now that this movie is all about the soul, jazz, and blues music and those who would rather stick carrots in their ears than listen to this music should avoid it. If setting and outfits aren't your cup of tea, then the next strength would probably be the music of this movie. Various jokes and cultural reference spanned off of the outfits (most of which was clever and cute), and from how the older audience members were reacting seemed to take them back to the good times. Speaking of outfits, the wardrobe department applied their skills well as each of the three sisters wore their own style in both clothes and hair styles. Throw in some well designed outfits and classic mannerisms to help spice up things and you get an impressive artificial MoTown. The club scene at the beginning is a just the start of the impressive scenery work of the group and helps bring the audience into the world a little bit. ![]() Tristar pictures did a nice job bringing the late 60's Motown world to life with all of its funky soul and gospel power. As usual, we'll start with the things that did impress me in this film and the first thing I'll mention is the setting. Will she succeed? Does it sound interesting to you? It didn't to me, but I went to this film hoping to be surprised or impressed by something. However, Sparkle's life has some complications that will test her character and squash her dreams, especially from her mother (Houston). To her luck, a young upcoming agent named Stix (Derek Luke) pursues Sparkle and her sisters and attempts to help make them stars in Motown. Sparkle (Jordin Sparks) has a dream to make it big as a musician, but her stage fright and lack of confidence leaves her hiding in the shadows while her sister Sister(Carmen Ejogo) lights up the stage. Instead I went to see the latest musical drama entitled Sparkle, a movie about an African American girl of the same name. ![]() However, I haven't received the gift to see dead people, nor have I gone crazy. I'm seeing ghosts! At least I thought I was when I saw that Whitney Houston was starring in a movie.
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