JamesG
01-13-2012, 08:44 PM
Movie Reviews: Joyful Noise
Reviews for Joyful Noise are decidedly negative.
Stephen Holden in the New York Times writes:
“It is a flimsy movie musical whose parts are pasted together with chewing gum and Scotch tape.”
Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times concludes:
“In trying so awkwardly to include a little something for everyone, Joyful Noise succeeds in finding a little something to disappoint everyone.”
Richard Corliss in Time magazine is admittedly of two minds about the movie, writing:
“Inside every movie reviewer lurks two creatures: the critic and the fan. The critic analyzes and cauterizes, coolly judging a film’s manipulation of its audience. The fan sits there and sobs.
I felt that peculiar schizophrenia watching Joyful Noise.”
Rex Reed in the New York Observer piles on the complaints about the movie, but then concludes:
“Grousing aside, this is a disarmingly sweet movie, enjoyable to the hilt.”
Elizabeth Weitzman in the New York Daily News praises Queen Latifah:
“Queen Latifah radiates such effortless charisma that she can elevate the lousiest film.”
Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune is no Dolly Parton fan:
“The script makes several, inevitable references to how many plastic surgery procedures Dolly Parton's character has undergone. But she didn’t get what she paid for: the top half of her face doesn’t seem to match up with the bottom half.”
Lou Lumenick in the New York Post uses a different description:
“Parton looks like a Madame Tussaud’s exhibit that was left out in the noonday sun.”
Then there’s Carrie Rickey’s description in the Philadelphia Inquirer:
“Parton resembles a tube of toothpaste squeezed so vigorously that it looks as if some of her upper torso has been forced up to her lips and cheekbones.”
-IMDB News
Reviews for Joyful Noise are decidedly negative.
Stephen Holden in the New York Times writes:
“It is a flimsy movie musical whose parts are pasted together with chewing gum and Scotch tape.”
Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times concludes:
“In trying so awkwardly to include a little something for everyone, Joyful Noise succeeds in finding a little something to disappoint everyone.”
Richard Corliss in Time magazine is admittedly of two minds about the movie, writing:
“Inside every movie reviewer lurks two creatures: the critic and the fan. The critic analyzes and cauterizes, coolly judging a film’s manipulation of its audience. The fan sits there and sobs.
I felt that peculiar schizophrenia watching Joyful Noise.”
Rex Reed in the New York Observer piles on the complaints about the movie, but then concludes:
“Grousing aside, this is a disarmingly sweet movie, enjoyable to the hilt.”
Elizabeth Weitzman in the New York Daily News praises Queen Latifah:
“Queen Latifah radiates such effortless charisma that she can elevate the lousiest film.”
Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune is no Dolly Parton fan:
“The script makes several, inevitable references to how many plastic surgery procedures Dolly Parton's character has undergone. But she didn’t get what she paid for: the top half of her face doesn’t seem to match up with the bottom half.”
Lou Lumenick in the New York Post uses a different description:
“Parton looks like a Madame Tussaud’s exhibit that was left out in the noonday sun.”
Then there’s Carrie Rickey’s description in the Philadelphia Inquirer:
“Parton resembles a tube of toothpaste squeezed so vigorously that it looks as if some of her upper torso has been forced up to her lips and cheekbones.”
-IMDB News