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The Fighting Temptations

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The Fighting Temptations (2003)

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Reviews Counted:29

Fresh:16

Rotten:13

Average Rating:5.9/10

Consensus: The music is the only saving grace in this predictable and eager-to-please comedy.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for some sexual references

Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Sep 19, 2003 Wide

Box Office: $30,213,026

Synopsis: Darrin Hill (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) has just lost his job with a New York advertising firm and bill collectors are chasing him all over the city. But just when he thinks his luck has completely run... Darrin Hill (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) has just lost his job with a New York advertising firm and bill collectors are chasing him all over the city. But just when he thinks his luck has completely run out, Darrin discovers he's the only surviving relative of his Aunt Sally who has just left him $150,000.00. Traveling back to his small hometown of Montecarlo, Georgia, to attend the funeral and collect his inheritance, Darrin soon discovers that Sally's written a tiny catch into her will. Her last wish is that her beloved nephew create a choir, enter it in the annual Gospel Explosion and bring home a victory. Between the bickering and the difficulties finding talented singers in the community, not to mention that his heart just isn't into the whole thing, Darrin has his work cut out for him... until he meets Lilly (Beyonce Knowles). A beautiful jazz singer with a voice to match, Lilly awakens feelings in Darrin he didn't know he had. Suddenly, collecting the money or heading back to New York City aren't important anymore, and he realizes that Aunt Sally left him something much more than an inheritance. -- © Paramount Pictures [More]

Starring: Cuba Gooding, Beyonce Knowles, Mike Epps, Latanya Richardson

Starring: Cuba Gooding, Beyonce Knowles, Mike Epps, Latanya Richardson, Steve Harvey, T-Bone, Wendell Pierce, Rue McClanahan

Director: Jonathan Lynn

Director: Jonathan Lynn
Screenwriter: Elizabeth Hunter, Saladin K. Patterson
Producer: David Gale, Loretha C. Jones, Jeff Pollack
Composer: Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, James "Big Jim" Wright
Studio: Paramount Pictures

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This is an exhilarating musical -- but it's dragged into Thumbs Down territory by a dreadful story that creaks along between the rousing gospel numbers.

Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | comment Comment
09/22/03
Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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The only real question in this flaccid narrative ... is when everybody will stop talking and start singing again.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
09/19/03
Michael O'Sullivan
Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post
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May not be great cinema, but it's a guaranteed crowd-pleaser.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
09/19/03
Ann Hornaday
Ann Hornaday
Washington Post
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Has practically nothing to recommend it save its music: Take that away and Jonathan Lynn's movie is as ordinary as an unsold TV pilot episode. But what music.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
09/19/03
Geoff Pevere
Geoff Pevere
Toronto Star
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The music is glorious.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
09/19/03
Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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A woefully thin and pointless musical comedy.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
09/19/03
Steven Rea
Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer
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A messy, sprawling family barbecue of a movie that barely gets by on salesmanship, energy and maybe more than a little chicanery.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
09/19/03
Gene Seymour
Gene Seymour
Newsday
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When Gooding and Knowles appear together, they drain off energy like batteries hooked in reverse.

Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | comment Comment
09/19/03
Bob Campbell
Bob Campbell
Newark Star-Ledger
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A hoot and a holler.

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09/19/03
Megan Lehmann
Megan Lehmann
New York Post
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A raucous gospel comedy that's as broad as co-star Beyonce Knowles' vowels and chockablock with foot-stomping, up-with-the-choir music that will have even atheists praising the Lord.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
09/19/03
Jack Mathews
Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
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From its exhilarating first scene -- set in a black Southern church -- The Fighting Temptations rocks

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
09/19/03
Eric Harrison
Eric Harrison
Houston Chronicle
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A lot more fun than you'd expect for an MTV-produced vehicle for pop diva Beyonce Knowles.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
09/19/03
Liam Lacey
Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail
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A bit more endurable than a Sunday morning service on a simmering Southern day in an un-air-conditioned church.

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
09/19/03
Terry Lawson
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
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Some first-rate music in a third-rate movie.

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09/19/03
Robert Denerstein
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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A good story sung by great voices.

Full Review Source: Denver Post | comment Comment
09/19/03
Michael Booth
Michael Booth
Denver Post
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The Fighting Temptations is not brilliant and it has some clunky moments where we see the plot wheels grinding, but it has its heart and its grin in the right places.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
09/19/03
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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The Fighting Temptations is junk.

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09/19/03
Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Boston Globe
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That best supporting actor Oscar for Jerry Maguire is beginning to look more and more like a fluke.

Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | comment Comment
09/18/03
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Implausible and predictable.

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09/18/03
A.O. Scott
A.O. Scott
New York Times
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A rousing, warmhearted comedy, as infectious as the gospel music it celebrates.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
09/18/03
Kevin Thomas
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Los Angeles Times
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