Movie Reviews: "Joyful Noise"

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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.”

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