I Wanna Dance with Somebody Skips Too Quickly Through the Tracks

When we already know its awful ending, why do we want to watch a movie like I Wanna Dance with Somebody? (Which, technically, has had a last-minute retitling to Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody.) We’re all too aware of what’s going to befall Houston in a hotel room in 2012, so everything preceding it feels like a march toward ruin. That weight drags down director Kasi Lemmons’s film; inevitably, perhaps. Things start well, as they so often do in path-to-stardom stories. We meet a young Houston, a gifted church singer whose family is already ensconced in the music… Read Full Article