Fantastic!

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Well, I'm a huge fan of Beyonce Knowles; but, omg; this is Cop Rock just a few years later. Studied classic voice for 8 years, and was not expecting that type of quality; but, the situations where each character breaks into "song", is embarrassing. It's much like the feeling I had when as a college student I watched Steven Bochco's COP ROCK; but this is worse; did this even get an airing on broadcast TV? Poor Beyonce; Thank God she redeemed her self somewhat in "Dreamgirls." one star for trying to being creative; Beyonce is very hot in this; even for a gay guy, I find her exuding natural sexuality more than most of the vanilla, white anorexic actresses today. I hope she didn't put this on her resume'.

I liked this movie especially the music, sure Beyonce rocked it and really put some kind of flavor in her character Carmen, I liked her game, she looked amazing, very sexy and attractive, but... she was definitely mean : she enjoyed hitting on other people's men and creating trouble, she was selfish and manipulative, and hey, she got into a fight!! what kind of a Diva is that? and she ruined Hill's life. So at the end, I didn't quite understand when they said there will never be anyone else like her !? I mean, do you really want to have somebody like that in your life? I don't think so ! And to me, that's where the movie failed because in the end there was really nothing special or even likable about Carmen, she was just mean, you think she was beautiful? but what is beauty if you don't have it from the inside ! I think they should have removed the epilogue because it contradicts the whole movie and it seems kind of hypocrite too: So we're supposed to have some kind of pity for people just because of their looks? My answer is NO: wrong is wrong even if you look like a star, don't let the looks fool you, and most importantly know how to control yourself, something that looks good doesn't mean it is good, and sometimes you just have to accept your life the way it is, your girl might not be a Diva, her game might be "wack" but that's fine, because a diva could bring much more trouble in your life than you think. I thought the actors were great in the movie, especially Mekhi,Mos Def,and Beyonce, they were all so natural, they kept it real and that was good.

Robert Townsend for me was not the ideal choice to make this, nor would I have used Beyonce Knowles as my first choice to play the lead Carmen Jones in this updated version of Bizet's classic opera 'Carmen'.In the films defence I will say the music was great,and she may not act that well but Beyonce can sing people and she looks hot. Remixing some of the original Carmen score worked really well and Mekhi Phiffer was as always very good. On Mos Def I will say he is a peculiar guy, sometimes it seems he is acting real good, all laid back and sometimes it seems as if he is heavily stoned and cannot remember his lines! Overall the concept of remaking Carmen into this MTV hip hopera was a very good idea and I think it worked well, given most of the cast were non actors.

I enjoyed this, although it was too short to cover the story well enough. I thought Beyonce & Mekhi were both great, and Mos played a good villain. As long as you don't expect a true remake of the opera, you should enjoy it.