Honestly, the only reason this even entered my radar was because of Cha Cha Smooth. Ice Cube was just a happy accident.
Dakota Johnson has what you might call a questionable career in filmmaking up to this point but Fifty Shades did bring her to mainstream attention, regardless of actual worth, and she's really not hard to gawp at for a couple of hours, if we're honest.
The story of a musical superstar Grace Davis (Tracee Ellis Ross) and her assistant Maggie (Johnson) and the consequences for the pair of them when Grace is offered a Las Vegas residency works very well, given the the idea is not exactly original. A lowly, often downtrodden, nobody with quiet dreams of infamy and riches are ten-a-penny really.
One of my peers was read to utter that this was crowd-pleasing fruit and I think the analogy is spot on. It's very easy to sit through, never challenges too harshly and for the music lovers in the audience, there are many treats to be had.
There isn't a single stinker of a performance amongst the lot of them which goes some way to edge out the potential sass, keeping it classy and genuinely authentic.
Overall, very hard to dislike and easily one Johnson's better efforts so far.
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