Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on April 2012

Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton vie for control of a church choir as a Big Competition looms. Yawn. I could have forgiven the rampant artifice, the staggering predictability, the cornball acting, the awful script, the useless subplots, the shameless exaggeration, and the many, many other contrivances if the movie had delivered even a little of its implicitly promised gospel music. But this marriage in hell of Sister Act and Glee is more about pop songs in choir robes, and for a movie about church choirs, there’s precious little spirituality. But Lord, that don’t stop them from preaching.