REVIEW: 'I Wanna Dance with Somebody,' the official Whitney Houston biopic, gives us the hits, the highs and the lows — but it really just wants to be the greatest love letter of all.
, part stunt casting and part inspired choice) sit up straight when he heard the young Houston sing at a tiny night club in New York City, and sign her almost immediately afterward. The talent was what inspired her mother, Cissy , also a renowned and touring singer, to sacrifice the spotlight so her daughter could properly shine. The talent is how Houston went from simply making records to breaking records.
And Ackie helps sell Houston as a singular talent even when it’s not her singing those legendary songs at Mt. Everest-level runs ofnotes. The British actor is the one tasked with giving us the ambitious artist, the woman with the golden ear for hearing future hits in rough demos, the creative collaborator who embraced the pop in R&B and who brought so many R&B stylings into ’80s pop music, in between the trilled and crooned lines.
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