Anyway, another difference -- and this is a big, important one -- between this movie and Dreamgirls is that this doesn't appear to be a break-into-song musical. This movie uses music as it's used in real life: at concerts, in recording sessions and the like. NOT at pivotal moments in the movie where the theme music rises until our leads break into song. And the final difference between the two films is that there's no American Idol alum in this cast. That's nothing against Jennifer Hudson, because she knocked that role out of the park. But there are only so many AI vets with the chops to take on a big-budget movie, and the quota on risk-taking of that kind has been filled this decade.

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