I Wanna Dance With Somebody – ABC Film Challenge – Female Director – I – I Wanna Dance With Somebody – Movie Review
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Writer: Anthony McCarten (Screenplay)
Cast
- Naomi Ackie (Lady Macbeth)
- Stanley Tucci (The Devil Wears Prada)
- Ashton Sanders (Moonlight)
- Tamara Tunie (Flight)
- Nafessa Williams (Black and Blue)
Plot: A joyous, emotional, heartbreaking celebration of the life and music of Whitney Houston, one of the greatest female R&B pop vocalists of all time, tracking her journey from obscurity to musical super stardom.
Runtime: 2 Hours 24 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: I Wanna Dance With Somebody starts as we see the early career of Whitney Houston (Ackie) learning from her mother Cissy (Tunie). After she impresses Clive Davis (Tucci) she gets snapped up and biggest the hottest artist in the world. however, her own personal life with her best friend Robyn (Williams) causes a stir.
Whitney continues to impress the world-defining critics of her work and marrying Bobby Brown (Sanders). However, her rise to super-stardom comes at a price. One she might never be able to recover from.
Verdict on I Wanna Dance With Somebody
I Wanna Dance With Somebody is a biopic drama following the troubled life of Whitney Houston. It goes through the whole career, from being discovered and becoming a megastar. Right, down to the fall from grace due to her addictions.
This does get to show us the basic of Whitney’s life. She has an amazing life filled with ups and downs that took her from the rest of the world too early. This is filled with brilliant musical performances, that show off her amazing voice. However, despite these big moments, we tend to gloss over the bigger moments too much. We don’t seem to focus too much on the tragic moments, the highest moments. There isn’t very much new that we haven’t seen or heard from documentaries.
Final Thoughts –I Wanna Dance With Somebody is the basics of a biopic.