Released 1-13-12
1-14-12 at ElCon with Dede
PG-13 (1:57)
RT Critic: 38% RT Audience: 76%
Liked it
Directed by Todd Graff
Warner Brothers Pictures
Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton
The young, male lead, Jeremy Jordan, just stole the show. He was adorable, comfortable, and a wonderful singer. Great music. lots of fun. Hairstyles galore...they must have had a huge budget for hairstylistss alone. Every subplot had a happy ending, the entire movie ended with a "one year later" big bang. A poignant scene (one of my favorite) with a minor tear shed, and lots of great musical entertainment.
Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah live in a tiny town in Alabama, and have always sung in the church choir together. The choir competes in an area competition, but there's a choir from Detroit that always beats them. Once again they are on their way to compete against them, when their director dies and Queen Latifah is named as the new choir director. She and Parton have always been at odds, and since Parton had been married to the previous director, they are even more at odds now.
Parton's grandson, Randy, arrives and shakes things up...not only with Queen Latifah's 16-year old daughter, but with the choir. He relates really well to Queen Latifah's autistic son, too. Ups an downs (have to have conflict in a flic, right?) mixed in with some really nice music and you have two hours of excellent entertainment.
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