Very well executed

That was an excellent one.

Simply A Masterpiece

An Exercise In Nonsense

This is a weak remake of the Bishop's Wife, a wonderful film from the 40s with Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven creating the characters as they were really meant to be from the novel by Robert Nathan. There were some aspects of this movie that I liked. The children were uniformly good. The camera work and street scenes were well orchestrated. The singing was a joy. But the script has Denzel Washington basically lusting after Whitney Houston, which is not supposed to be what the movie is about. In one scene Dudley (Denzel) and Julia (Whitney Houston) are gazing into a store shop window. He is telling her in a tone that is obviously sexually oriented. . . that if she wears a certain negligee her husband would'nt want more of a present than that. But it is he that is practically drooling. C'mon, he is supposed to be an angel!? Everything that was sweet and wonderful about the original film is missing from this one. I have usually liked Penny Marshall movies in the past, but this one misses the boat.

Nothing here for Conan the Barbarian or Texas Chainsaw Massacres fans, but plenty of moving, comforting, bolstering spirit for those who understand that the "big bang" wasn't a self-causing event. The stately Bishop's Wife is a fine and worthy film, but in The Preacher's Wife we not only give the lie to the notion that all sequels are inferior grade "let's cash in on the cachet of the original" vehicles. All the principal players are incandescent, bringing questions of faith, hope, love and charity into affecting relief. (If we have the capacity to care) We are, in this film drawn into the lives and concerns of its major characters. Some of these are: the struggle of a pastor of a financially troubled church to hang on to his mission, his integrity and the love of his life, his wife's worries about the life and health of their marriage, the fate of an orphan bosom friend of the pastor's son, and the struggle of a homesick (for earth) angel to stick to his assignment and forego extraneous corporeal and earth-bound pleasures. If you have a heart and soul you can't but be grateful for this film treasure.

I just couldn't get into this film, a re-make of sorts of "The Bishop's Wife." The first hour was either annoying or just plain boring, and by then I didn't care what happened in the rest of the movie. Not much happened throughout this film, anyway.The angel in here, "Dudley" (Denzel Washington) said things no angel would say, such as "If you're up there, Lord, then.....""If???" He's an angel and he doesn't know if there is a God? Puh-leeze. What an insult to anyone's intelligence and beliefs. Only the secular film world have a dialog like this, where "Secular Humanism," not Christianity, is worshiped, as it is in this film. Whitney Houston looked good in here, the best I've ever seen her. Washington went around with a sappy look on his face through most of the film. I wonder if he was just embarrassed starring in a dumb movie like this.

THE PREACHER'S WIFE, to me, is a very romantic and touching movie. I thought that Julia (Whitney Houston) looked very pretty in the black dress she wore when she and Dudley (Denzel Washington) went to Jazzie's together, which is where she sang "I Believe In You And Me." I would have to say that "I Believe In You And Me" is my favorite song of this movie. She sounded good when she sang that and every other song she sang in the film. Reverend Biggs (Courtney B. Vance), to me, was a good preacher and father. One of the funniest things about the film is when the boiler broke when the choir was rehearsing. That was weird, but it was funny! In conclusion, if you are a fan of Denzel Washington or you should see this movie if you haven't seen it. When you see it, prepare to be touched and amazed.