The Fighting Temptations (Full Screen Edition) [DVD]

Fantastic family entertainment with great music My 89-year-old mother could not stop laughing

Great storyline and entertaining.

The songs were the best part of the movie. Please note that the comedy aspect was also great! Thank you

This is a fabulous movie. It is a comedy about a young African American man who works in an advertising agency in New York. It is not uncommon for him to lie to get ahead. He is very ambitious. His lies are found out and he is fired from his job. Meantime his Aunt who lives in the deep south dies and leaves him an inheritance. When he gets there he finds out there are strings attached to the inheritance. He must lead the choir in her church to win the state contest for all church choirs. The problem is though he was raised a Christian he has not followed the Lord for many years and the people in the choir are terrible singers (all but a few). He goes to great lengths to find people in the church to join the choir, then tries the community and eventually even takes a couple of guys from prison to help him reach his goal. Cuba Gooding Junior, Beyonce, T-Bone and other great singers are in this story. Not only is there a lot of hilarity in this movie, there is lots of great music and a love relationship that forms between Cuba and Beyonce. The message in this movie is for people to return to God and it pokes fun at religiousness. I myself am a Christian and it does not offend me. Sometimes there is hypocrisy in the church and we need to learn to laugh at ourselves.

The entire movie was great, but I especially liked how not being so judgemental caused a lot of souls to start attending church/return to church and perhaps one day turn their entire life over to the Lord. The one thing that was distasteful and could have been omitted was when the guys were driving down the street and saw girls walking down the street with daisy dukes on showing their bodies and the guys were acting like animals. The movie would have still been great if that scene were left out.

I have really enjoyed this movie. This is the second DVD I have ordered this supplier shipped it very fast. It was exactly what I wanted. Highly recommended.

This is a fun movie but there seems to be something missing during the whole film. The cast is great (maybe that's what they thought would bring in the customers), the plot is predictable, the script is weak, but the gospel music is great and the actors enjoy rocking to it. The music seems to light up the environment and screen when it is going on.The story is sorta like... a wayward guy gets his groove on and goes right after spending his whole life playing tricks on everyone including his family. With his newfound girlfriend, a cool, Christian gal shows him the way it needs to be and being placed in a position of true authority and responsibility he must come through for himself and the rest of the characters.Simple, fun, enjoyable, musical. A few slow spots during the 120 minutes but the music picks it back up each time.

Nice movie to watch and enjoy!