Film Review – I Wanna Dance with Somebody

In 2012, singer Whitney Houston died in Los Angeles, ending a career that achieved enormous success through unparalleled talent. She was an icon, rattling the entertainment business in ways few could, amassing a global fanbase to secure her legacy after her passing. “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” intends to understand her glory years of success and painful personal struggles, giving Houston the bio-pic treatment, with director Kasi Lemmons (“Harriet”) and screenwriter Anthony McCarten (“Bohemian Rhapsody”) in charge of making sense of it all, from thunderous stage performances to debilitating drug addiction. It’s a lot of life to explore, and “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” just isn’t up to the challenge of organization, delivering what quickly becomes a television movie-style take on Houston’s creative years and crumbling, muting the extremity of her behavior to reignite interest in Whitney Houston, Inc. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com