Cadillac Records

Soundtrack -- evoking Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Buddy Guy, Chuck Berry and more -- smooths out script's bumpy ride

Fans of musical dramas may experience some deja vu while watching "Cadillac Records"; the story is remarkably similar to one told in the middle of 2006's "Dreamgirls," in a montage sequence set to "Steppin' to the Bad Side."
There's the plucky upstart studio where African American musicians are pioneering new kinds of music. There's the driven record-label owner who's dispensing payola to DJs, trying to buy his way past institutionalized racism and cross over from the R&B ghetto to the white-dominated pop charts. [...]

di Tasha Robinson, articolo completo (3993 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 5 dicembre 2008