revelle64

This movie is absolutely hilarious and provides a in-dept view of the emotional and personal crisis that everyone experiences as they grow older. It's characters cover a wide spectrum of personalities and careers that most of us can relate too. Often times our expectations of the future are never realize when we get to "our future". Accepting one's stage in life is a really emotional crisis, especially when it falls short of what we thought we would be doing or would have accomplished at certain stages in life. All this while laughing heartily at Tracy Morgan and Allen Payne, Debbie DeSouza, Erika Alexander, Kadeem Hardison, etc. Excellent movie and aside from one mature sexual scene involving Tracy Morgan(which was actually more comedic in nature) it is free of the usual over-the-top sexual content and lustful behaviors that generally describe young adults.

Watching this movie was like feeling as if you were there. The director did an excellent job of making the viewer feel as if you were on the bus with Ray Charles and that the viewer knew Ray intimately. The music, the 50's and 60's style and fashion were presented beautifully. The way his mother is presented and the death of his younger brother was explosive and riveting. You were able to see were Mr. Charles got his temper, perseverance, and feisty nature from by watching his mother. While I have an issue with his mother and brother reappearing as if still alive and living in a world were they are still back in the 1930's...since they both at this time in his life are deceased. (both are dead) and talking to him and physically embracing him. It is for this reason that I didn't rate it a perfect "10". Mr. Charles made many mistakes and bad decisions, but it was great to see a "real national hero" perservere and overcome. The movie was overall an excellent tribute to a musical genius...Mr. Ray Charles.