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Beyonce makes it bearable


The Student Activities Council’s Wednesday night movie for this week was "Fighting Temptations," starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Beyonce Knowles.

Gooding’s character, Darrin, is an advertising agent from New York who returned to his hometown in the South because his aunt has died. He plans on returning to New York immediately after the funeral but finds out that he stands to inherit money from her if he stays in town, restarts the church choir, and takes them to the “Gospel Explosion” competition.

One of the singers, of course, was Beyonce. She soon becomes his love interest as the choir works to become successful.

“I thought the movie was okay,” Justin Owens, a junior Engineering major from Memphis, said. “And, it had Beyonce in it, so that’s always good.”

“It wasn’t all that bad,” said Paul Carter, a junior business finance major from Sardis. “But, Beyonce probably helped out for me, too.”

“I thought that it was really good,” said Jennifer Reed, a political science major from Columbia. “The gopel music was really inspirational.”

Personally, I thought that the movie was lacking in a few places. The musical part was very good with Beyonce and other guests such as the O’Jays doing what they normally do for a living. It was when the movie tried to be either funny or dramatic that it ran into problems. Often, it just wasn’t either one, and the singing couldn't completely carry this two-hour long film.

If you are a fan of Beyonce or music in general, then maybe you can get enough of them to like this flick. If not, try to fight the temptation to see this one.