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Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Sean Payne this is a fam a family film one that is worth sitting down and watching and enjoying it definitely has the Spirit of Christ within it g_g's family values call lawrence compassion understanding and it is well worth a watch his parents please use your discretion well on your children to watch this film this is definitely 1 of the best films I've seen in the last 3 years it is well worth it it has an amazing story line in all star cash the addition of dolly parton and queen latifah make it a film the film worth at least 10 out of 10 stars this is a film for the whole family film if you like great. Gospel music amazing sound then this is the film for you

Anthony Ehlers Joyful Noise is one of those movies you should dismiss as feel-good corn, but because of the great music and endearing performances of the leads you end up enjoying.Vi-Rose (Queen Latifah) becomes the new leader of a gospel choir when GG's (Dolly Parton) husband dies. The rivalry between the two women forms the main storyline. Vi's daughter Olivia (Keke Palmer) falls in love with GG's wayward grandson Randy (Jeremy Jordan.) All of them are involved in the choir and must work together if they are to win a major choral competition and bolster the morale of their small town, a community hit by the economic meltdown.Sound predictable? It is. But it's also a lot of fun. Queen Latifah is authentic and believable as a single mother trying to hold it together. Parton delivers some killer lines ("God didn't make plastic surgeons so they could starve"). Palmer gives a resonant performance of Michael Jackson's Man in the Mirror, and Jordan is likable, handsome and has a strong voice.

TxMike It doesn't have a very high rating, probably for good reason because story-wise, it is mediocre. But the story is just there to allow the actors to sing, and they do very often and very well.The premise is the choir in a Georgia community that competes every year, only to be eliminated by a bigger, better choir in the regional competition. Their plight is complicated by the two competing divas, Queen Latifah as Vi Rose Hill and Dolly Parton as G.G. Sparrow. Vi Rose wants them to just sing traditional gospel hymns while G.G. thinks they need to liven it up to be competitive.There are also several teens involved. Keke Palmer (who really was 16 or 17) is Vi Rose's daughter Olivia Hill, quite a talented young singer. Then showing up unexpectedly is Jeremy Jordan (actually 26 or 27) as Randy Garrity , G.G.'s nephew from New York. He is also a talented singer and musician but as a former "bad boy" has a difficult time getting accepted. Naturally he and Olivia take to each other as Vi Rose tries to keep them apart. There is also a good side story regarding Vi Rose's son with Asperger's, Randy befriends him and helps him.The story is fairly predictable, the singing is rousing, Parton and Latifah are good.

Ed Uyeshima If you love the exuberant singing on "Glee", chances are pretty good you will like this predictable 2012 musical and overlook the numerous plot deficiencies that bring the characters into a climactic singing competition. Naturally that means a lot of rehearsal filled with Whitney-style, gospel renditions of familiar Top 40 pop classics. On this level, it doesn't disappoint since the churchy arrangements bring out a roof-raising soulfulness that is otherwise missing from the flimsily plotted film. Energetic performances of Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror" and Paul McCartney's "Maybe I'm Amazed" definitely deliver the goods at key moments, but director/screenwriter Todd Graff ("Camp") relies on tired stereotypes and down-home hokum to fill out the framework of a story about a small Georgia town hard hit by the current economic downturn. Providing a beacon of light is the Sacred Divinity Choir anchored by two divas with opposing sensibilities, the conservative and financially struggling Vi Rose Hill and the saucy and wealthy G.G. Sparrow.The movie wastes no time in giving G.G.'s husband Bernard a fatal coronary even before the opening credits are complete. The uptight church pastor needs to find a successor and chooses Vi Rose over G.G. setting the stage for a stylistic war over the choir's musical direction. Naturally, Vi Rose prefers traditional gospel, while G.G. wants a more contemporary twist to the arrangements, which suits Vi Rose's 16-year-old daughter Olivia just fine since she is a budding soloist with those gymnastically limber, Mariah-inspired pipes you either love or hate. Complicating matters is G.G.'s juvenile delinquent grandson Randy, who of course, turns out to be a talented singer in his own right and falls head-over-heels for Olivia. Once you add Olivia's quirky younger brother Walter, who turns out to have Asperger's Syndrome, and Manny, a conveniently talented guitarist and Randy's rival for Olivia's affection, you have the makings of a suspense-free, by-the- numbers soap opera with the sophistication of a young adult novel.It wouldn't be giving much away to state that it all climaxes with a face-off between the choir and the prodigious Our Lady of Perpetual Tears youth choir, spotlighting lead singer Ivan Kelley Jr., who impresses with his knockout version of Billy Preston's "That's the Way God Planned It". The choir counters with a rousing medley of Sly and the Family Stone, Usher, Chris Brown and Stevie Wonder's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours". Outside of the singing, the performances are serviceable and little more. Queen Latifah and a cosmetically altered Dolly Parton play Vi Rose and G.G. to their accustomed, outsized personalities. As Olivia, Keke Palmer ("Akeelah and the Bee") has a strong set of pipes as does current Broadway sensation Jeremy Jordan ("Newsies") as Randy, but neither makes much of an impression otherwise. Poor Kris Kristofferson has barely a moment as Bernard and then shows up later in a fantasy duet with Parton on her touching "From Here to the Moon and Back". Jesse L. Martin ("Rent") is also wasted in a small role as Vi Rose's estranged husband who escaped to the Army when he couldn't find a job. This is a highly conventional, cliché-driven film that is probably best left as a soundtrack purchase.