Naomi Ackie, who plays Whitney Houston in 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody,' is incredible. However, the film does not live up to her or Houston's excellence. Read beastobsessed's review:
at the Super Bowl. I also have watched all of those performances—many times—on YouTube, with Houston actually doing the singing.
that will go viral on Twitter or TikTok. But that becomes unbearably robotic. By the third or fourth timeThe performances run so long and are so exact in the copying of Houston’s mannerisms that, especially knowing that you’re not hearing Ackie sing live, the experience verges on watching drag. That is, in a way, high praise—it’s an artform, and one that I love. But at some point the uncanniness becomes bizarre.
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