What’s It About
Discovered by record executive Clive Davis, Whitney Houston rises from obscurity to international fame in the 1980s to become one of the greatest singers of her generation.
MOVIESinMO REVIEW
It has been ten years since her death, and they’ve somehow felt the need to make another Whitney Houston biopic. The TV movie Whitney, from 2015, focused on her troubled marriage. Whitney Houston – Her Life Story: Unauthorized Documentary was all about getting the dirt from somebody that knew somebody that someone knew. Whitney from 2018 put a timeline on her life as it showed her beginnings, eventual downfall, and death. In February 2021, Lifetime presented one called Whitney Houston & Bobbi Kristina: Didn’t We Almost Have It All. There are more, so what makes I Wanna Dance with Somebody special? In one word – nothing. The highlight of this movie is how well an actress can lip-sync to Whitney Houston’s songs. The main focus is on her relationships with other females, artists, her father, and her daughter. These were boring, uneventful, and already known to those who cared to know about Ms. Houston. The only thing new was Clive Davis. His relationship with Whitney was the one realistically believable aspect of the film. The rest of this two-and-a-half-hour snore-fest is just a collection of Whitney Houston’s greatest hits.
OUR RATING – AN UNINSPIRED 5
MEDIA
Genre – Bio-Pic
Street date
Digital – February 7th, 2023
DVD/Blu-Ray – February 28th, 2023
Video – 1080p
Screen size – 2.39:1
Sound – :English: DTS-HD MA 5.1, French (Doublé au Québec): DTS-HD MA 5.1, Spanish: DTS-HD MA 5.1, English & French (Doublé au Québec) – Audio Description Track 5.1 Dolby Digital
Subtitles – English SDH, Spanish, French
Extras
- Whitney’s Jukebox
- Deleted Scenes
- Behind-the-Scenes Featurettes:
- Moments of an Icon
- Becoming Whitney
- The Personal Touch