It was hard to watch this movie without a catalogue of other movies going through my head. Granted, this movie was made before the movies I was thinking of-- "What's Love Got to Do With It," "The Five Heartbeats," "Ray," and others--but I saw similar threads in them all. It seems, fictitious or not, every music story has a rise to fame, drug use by someone, and some type of tragedy. I should probably view Sparkle through a different prism but it's hard for me to do that. It was a little fast paced in its build up but OK.
Review of Sparkle
