Sam Amico
Whitney Houston deserved better than this. That seems to be the theory of most people who have seen the recently released Houston biopic, I Wanna Dance with Somebody.
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As of now, it has a 44 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes, the review-aggregation website that sort of acts as the bible of the television and film industry.
It also received just 6.8 out of 10 stars on IMDB. Most people will tell you that if something doesn’t have at least eight stars … well, don’t waste your time.
Sadly, Houston passed away in February 2012 at the age of 48. Her debut album, Whitney Houston, was released on Valentine’s Day in 1985. She immediately became a worldwide sensation, her amazing voice and beauty dominating the pop charts for the next several years.
But it appears the biopic doesn’t do her justice.
According to Vanity Fair, the movie “whizzes through the years, skating blithely over The Bodyguard, never once mentioning Waiting to Exhale, and barely addressing Houston’s drug use until it’s become the problem that will destroy her.”
I Wanna Dance With Somebody
The review from Deadline wasn’t much more promising, as the publication wrote that “details of the past, present, and future are crammed into the same scene without attaching meaning to any of it. It makes I Wanna Dance With Somebody feel like a series of vignettes about Houston instead of a complete narrative. There’s no theme, no message, and nothing to keep the audience engaged during the viewing experience.”
The purpose of a biopic is to adapt someone’s life to the screen, and Houston is undoubtedly a talent that deserved such a movie. While the acting has been praised, it appears the filmmakers failed at the primary purpose.
And that was to tell the whole story of Whitney Houston.
Instead, we receive a “Wikipedia-style exploration,” as Empire wrote.
Of course it’s terrible, have you heard her sing?
I don’t care who it is. I’m not going to pay money to see it in a movie theater.
lol!!
No one cares about that piece of shit crackhead.