Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Very best movie i ever watch

So much average

Don't listen to the negative reviews

The main problem with this movie is that there weren't any great songs. All the songs were just so-so, nothing stood out. If your movie is about someone making it in the music business, then there needs to be a great song. Besides that nothing was great about any of the characters nor the acting. Jordan Sparks isn't much of an actress. Everything was so cliché in this. Youngest sister has the most talent but is to scared to be the lead. Oldest sister is the lead but hooks up with the wrong guy and begins using drugs and being abused. Then there is the mom who tried to be a star herself, but succumbed to the evils of show business. Just so done before.FINAL VERDICT: Skip it.

The worse thing about this movie is that they fall in line with everything else that Hollywood does today and that's piggyback off of the truly great movie makers of yesterday. Zero talent in regards to coming up with your own ideas and concepts so you use one from the past, change a few things and in the end you create an extremely poor version of a great classic. Not only does the story completely change from what we know, but not one of the characters holds a candle to any of the originals. For a story placed in the 60's much of what they did change does not even seem to match up with the times. The only reason this movie gets a three from me is for the new songs in the end being semi-decent songs even though they also did not fit with the times and simply because I like many of the actors. I'm just sorry they all agreed to such a poor rendition of this timeless classic. This movie was so drastically changed from the original it should have never been considered a remake, but I gather that was done simply to ride the coat tails of a truly great story.

First let me start by saying if you ever see a movie directed by Salim Akil, or a movie written by Mara Brock Akil, or a movie produced by either of these two clowns, think very hard as to whether your hard earned and much valued money should go toward the junk they call movie magic. These two jokers have duped the movie going public with the most transparent, poorly written, poorly produced and directed trite I've viewed in years. To say I disliked this attempt at a movie is to be too kind, it stinks!! Now the good...I actually liked the acting, Jordin Sparks showed promise, as did the entire cast including Whitney. The music was decent, not great but decent and it helped you make it through the drudgery of this terrible and predictable so called movie. The bottom line on this piece of junk is that it is so bad I've already forgotten about it....enough said, skip this one and watch out for Salim Akil and Mara Brock Akil who are trying to pass themselves off as directors, producers, and writers, they are frauds and I personally hope I never hear their names again.

I am a fan of the late Whitney Houston, so I had to see this to say my "goodbyes". Whitney is very good as strict mama Emma, but I can see her character worries about her daughters, Sister (Carmen Ejogo), Dee (Tika Sumpter)& Sparkle (Jordin Sparks). The actress playing Sister is awesome & you feel sorry for her. Dee is spunky but Sparkle is kinda like a wall flower. Only a few references to drugs, sex but has a strong violence element between sister & Satin Struthers (Mike Epps). I bought the original film & think the original is more grimy. Epps character is one you'd like to kick him in the pants! The music is awesome and the film looks really good. You feel like you're really in the 60's. Before this film I had never heard of Ejojo or Sumpter, but along with Sparks, they have a bright future! Ceelo Green is wasted in this film, his part is nearly a cameo! It's good to hear him sing something other than his hit "Forget You". I don't claim to be a great writer but I review only things I've seen. Hope everyone who loves a good film with good acting, singing and a good story goes to see this. Whitney would have been proud of this last film.