When Darrin was a child him and his mother were thrown out of their church and home town of Monte Carlo for his mother singing what some members of the bible belt considered unholy music. So Darrin finds himself living much of his younger life going from one town to the next in wave of unsavory places and deeds. So, Darrin finds himself as a Junior Executive on an Advertising Agency in New York who is constantly avoiding bill collectors while he tries to scratch his way to the top in a tidal wave if one like after another, as it seems Darrin is unable to tell the truth. But that is all about to change as his Aunt Sally has passed away and she has left Darrin $150,000 in her will under one condition and that he is to take charge of the local gospel choir and lead them to a national championship for gospel choirs. Darrin quickly jumps at the chance as this could be the answer to all his financial troubles and also because he has his eye on a local Lily that he use to grow up with and now has to turned into a beautiful woman. But Darrin is about to learn quickly that the job is not going to be as easy as he thought it would be as the choir is horrible and he seems to have some local residents intent on seeing him fail.

I am normally one of the last people to leave the theatres when I see a movie, not so in this case as the credits rolled and everyone stayed for one last gospel song I fled the movie not wanting to sit through another one of these tedious musical barrages. And that’s what the movie was it was tedious, it was slow and for the most part it was boring. Honestly how many different gospel songs can a person take before you wish and pray they would just get on with the plot before you fall asleep. The movie has its funny parts, the movie has its entertaining moments, but the movie also has about five billion gospel barrages that just get so tedious you want to scream. Don’t get me wrong I can enjoy a good musical that uses it songs to advance the plots and characters this movie does not do so, it seemed more like hey we got Beyonce Knowles she can’t act so we got to spend ¾ of the movie singing. I know for a fact Cuba Gooding Jr. is a good actor, I have seen him be one, that’s why I have to question why he continuously gets himself cast in parts like this that lack all creativity. The movie uses every single cliché for a movie that could possibly be used that I had to laugh when they kept on introducing one cliché after another packing the movie full of them. The movie ends how you expect to end, the movie plays out how you expect to play out and at no given time do they try to do anything more than sing one song after another. No thank you, that’s what CD players are for not movies.
2 stars out of 5