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  • Lonette sang this the best. The song loses its meaning without Sister's vulnerability and desperation. Neither AF nor En Vogue evoke that kind of emotion.

  • How come no one ever gives Darlene any love? She too black for ya'll????

  • @FatBabyCheeks Excuse me, I meant Delores.

  • He meant Lonette McKee we all make mistakes ...not Vonetta McGee who died a few years ago. beauty in heaven. who ever is singing lead? ah no.

  • @nystar1881: Thanks for clearing that one up.

  • He meant Lonette McKee we all make mistakes ...not Vonetta McGee who died a few years ago. beauty in heaven. who ever is singing lead? ah no. oh Lonette, sorry am spoiled my EnVogue

  • Well I will be honest here, I have looked at the cast at IMDB, and I am not impressed. Jordan Sparks cannot in her wildest dreams ever replace the young Vonetta McGee. There should have been an open casting call for that important role. So would I go to see it? Hello, the original Sparkle has my undying support, I will take no replacements.

  • @Jevezy uh...Vonetta McGee was not in Sparkle. Jordan would be playing Sparkle, who Irene Cara played in the original.

  • @FatBabyCheeks: I meant Lonette McKee, simple mistake, but I still feel that Jordan could never replicate the acting that Lonette did in the original Sparkle movie.

  • @Jevezy Jordan is cast in the Sparkle role, not the Sister role, originated by Lonette Mckee. Even Irene Cara couldn't keep up with Lonette. lol

  • @FatBabyCheeks Agree with you that is why I was deeply against the movie being remade. Some movies are classic and should never be touched, Sparkle is one of them.

  • Damn, damn, damn that Bobby Brown, I mean Satan, uh Satin. These fu8kers are killing all our songstress.

  • @DoMoreGoodDeeds lol you crazy! lol

  • my favorite song from the movie it just rox in every way

  • 0:47 is that awkward moment when your mom is in the audience listing to you singing a dirty song.

  • This song taught me how to be a grown lady! Uhm

  • Jordin sparks would be a perfect role for sister she can sing real good and she has that look if anyone wants more info about the re-make of sparkle look it up on wikipedia

  • They really should have left this movie alone...oh well

  • @freejdc2 I agree! They should have just made a whole new movie "inspired" by Sparkle rather than a "remake". Seriously, they have Omar Epps as an "abusive comedian" (?????) rather than a pimp/drug dealer/hustler. LOL Not to mention the "new" cast is TOO OLD for this story! I mean, if you are 35+ years and still getting your azz beat, you deserve to get your azz beat! Sparkle was about high schoolers. Ah, Hollywood...

  • FOREVERLOVE FUSION IS COMING BACK MY LOVE

  • DAMN!!!!! Irene and Lonette were some true beauties!!!

  • If only Aaliyah hadn't been killed in that plane crash. She would have been perfect in the role of Sparkle. E. Lynn Harris was originally supposed to do the re-write wih her as the lead. I can't see anyone else in that role.

  • I saw everyone cryn in the movies. Even me. Damn, This was and is still the shitttt.

  • I'm pretty much in agreement with everyone else on here. I can't see Jordin Sparks as Sparkle, some films JUST SHOULDN'T BE REMADE!! If they did it with UNKNOWN actors/singers like the original, it would have SOME charm to it AND Lonette or Irene MUST be in the movie!! I still mad TPTB didn't include Lonette or Irene's vocals on the soundtrack! I love Ree-Ree, BUT Lonette & Irene should've gotten some recognition.

  • @dh1173 Agreed. I posted a review on Amazon concerning this same thing and dman near got cyber lynched.

  • momz was look at ya boy like she wanted to kick his ass lmao

  • GORGEOUS WOMEN!!!!

  • Dose anybody see satin is like the devils name

  • Her mama is NOT pleased with Satin's ass

  • They got Jordan Sparks playing sparkle. Are you kidding me. Nobody wants to see that. Don't touch a classic. Be inspired by it and make a movie similar. You don't see people remaking Forest Gump. Come on now smh.

  • I don't like en Vogue's version, because they sang almost identical to Aretha Franklin, what's the point. Plus it always annoyed me that they wore the "Hooked on Your Love" dresses for their Giving Him something he can feel video. This movie is sacred to me - don't play. I don't know why but I'm not feeling anyone doing songs or remaking this movie.

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  • Yeah I did 5 scenes in the remake.......and I believe she does get abused!!!!! Oh and its going to be great. The girls are really good!!!

  • Irene Cara KILLED in this song, even though Lonette McKee was the lead singer. Her hand gestures and movements were to DIE for....go ON, girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • OMG ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES!!!!

  • yes indeed...damn, damn, damn that Satin...I still cry at Sister's downfall..LOVE Sparkle. Not sure about the remake though I can see Jordan Sparks in the lead.

  • @Damali5610 she actually is  playing her im not sure but im sure hope she does sparkle justice

  • i only saw this movie once and i loved it, i been lookin for it every since i saw it that one time. i didn't know they were doing a remake on it whitney who can agrue but beyonce she's not the best actress. i would like to see tamia she's beautiful and the girl can sang her ass off. by the way is this movie true?

  • white ppl are just as bad, so before you judge look at all race's becus a man tried to hooked my brother on that shit and guess what! ( he was white ) i think everybody can be fu'ked up no matter what race so i say don't trust no one.

  • My fav movie!!!!!!

  • MAMMA knows what' s going on!!

  • THIS IZ MY ALL TIME FAV MOVIE,,,,LOVE IT

  • I don't care what anyone says, this is a classic movie! I look forward to the remake! If it were up to me, I would have Tamia possibly play the role of sister. I love Beyonce, but there ate others that need exposure too.

  • @KrissyCo1 Tamia is a really good suggestion

  • lol at ppl bringing up beyonce's name when she has nothing to do with this movie

  • THAT DAMN SATIN!!

  • @kevinhagan17 "Levi; show Ms. Taylor to a taxi..."

  • @kevinhagan17 SATIN sounds real close to SATAN!

  • i honestly feel that taking drugs is a 2 way street. People cant force you to inject stuff in your body. even after he left her, she didn't stop using, she just asked sister for money. Yeah i hated that dumb dark guy 4 getting her started but i also blame her for not trying to stop. At the end of the day, mothers know best. She should have just listened to her mom.

  • Wait until the remake of sparkle the movie comes out

  • once again i'll say .. moma said nevr trust a blacks ass niga with a colgate smile

  • who was prettiest? I think Lonette was pretty but Sparkle was cute with the better body...tough competition!..both were beautiful...

  • Sparkle my favorite movie EVER!! Love the movie and classic soundtrack

  • I don't want to see a remake of this movie. It is a classic and they should leave it alone. I hate Hollywood remakes, won't be wasting my money to see it the cinema or borrowing in from the video store.

  • Thumbs up if your excited for the Spakle remake ft. Whitney Houston

  • I just hope they stay faithful to Curtis Mayfield's music. I'd hate to hear it butchered with bland, souless production.

  • Classic film, classic soundtrack...

  • Awww man The story line was so lclear during this song! Writers did an amazing job!

  • this is my favorite ghetto movie..of all time....being a harlem girl...we would watch this movie ..like ...weekly .....stay away from dealers in harlem ..yeah right...lol

  • @kellytv777

    GHETTO?? WTF because they're Black you call it ghetto, hun you're Black you should know better than that...

  • @kittykittymewomeow2 The movie actually has a tagline that says, "From ghetto to superstars".

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  • @kyasst and one more thing, the original movie Sparkle wasn't that good to begin with, horrible editing, weak overall reviews, it just became a cult classic but it was not considered a masterpiece. Thank GOD they will remake it and bring it to another level. It was watchable but far from perfect, so get a clue, they are not remaking Godfater or Gone with The Wind, just an average movie Sparkle that has potential for a LOT of improvement. See ya :)

  • @whfan007 Really? I liked the movie. The music is good and the actors are really good and really pretty. I know that the editing wasn't good but I just thought it was because it was made in the 70s. You are right that it probably wasn't as good as Godfather but still. I find the movie good and relatable.

  • @kyasst @kyasst lol yeah a has-been with her last cd #1, and with 2 upcoming movies. Even if Whitney never sings a note she's a legend. Just like Michael Jackson before his death it's been decades since he made an impact and was considered a joke by many "wacko jacko"for decades etc. yet when he died everyone said "omg". the bottom line is, when an artist acheives such greatness they go down in history, if Whitney FARTS she stil gets attention than all your favs combined

  • lol im mad theres 3 part harmonies on the background parts but theres clearly only 2 background singers...

  • what movie was this from again? i watched this movie b4 but i forgot the title

  • GORGEOUS WOMEN!!!!

  • Lonette McKee is stupendously beautiful!! She was so good in this movie!!

  • poor beyonce everyone hates her! its sad because she's amazing!

  • in the movie he killed her because of jelousey he knew that she had talent and all of the other man wanted her so inorder to keep her she had to controle her buy taking her looks making her dependent on drugs and she no longer talked to her family so he was able to do her any kind of way thats why

  • I REALLY <3 THIS MOVIE

  • Ashanti would have played in sparkle.

  • My favorite old movie.

  • i like en vogue better

  • Sade would kill the lead. Nobody else

  • @sens2807 SHE IS TOOOOOOOOOO OLD

  • @sens2807 the one with the golden yellow dress.

  • Which one is Sister you know the one Aaliyah was set to play and win an Oscar for Best Actress for in 2005?

  • Can sum one tell me how suster died .. was it an over dose r what

  • Read most of the comments and no one has even mentioned the songwriter/composer, Curtis Mayfield!

  • Lonette killed this all-time, classic, performance from the movie. I love it just as much as Aretha's version.

  • aaliyah was supposed to play sister right

  • @Mario856 Yes

  • mary alice is aunty

  • I just don't understand how a woman let a man turn her out and beat her ass like that and She wasn't strong enough to avoid the situation that's some crazy shit.

  • Beyonce can't act at all She need to stay her ass out the movies with her stuck up and conceited ass Lol.

  • what?? they r remaking this???

  • I love this movie<3

  • - My Favorite Part.!!!!!!

  • Owww, owww if the do a remake of this movie i would like to see Paula Patton, Beyonce(of course), Gabrielle Union, Laz Alonso and Anika Noni Rose. I think this would be a good cast for the remake of this movie.

  • @nunea80 KEEP OVA EXPOZED BEYONCE OUT OF IT, PLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!

  • @DAPEACHEE1 YES!!!!!!!!!

  • @nunea80 no beyonce, anika noni rose, laz alonso, even alicia keys, but no beyonce, she's done enough

  • @koffeebrwn I agree with you...NO BEYONCE. She would make people stay away from this movie. Alicia Keys would be great as Sista and Anika Noni Rose would be pretty good as the other sister. Who would play "Sparkle"; I have no idea, but I hope it's an actress that's relatively unknown, but very talented. It would be her breakout role. Laz Alonso would be good as Sparkle's love interest. But again, please leave Beyonce out of it.

  • @girraud hahahahahahahahaha you're so funny but you're telling the truth leave no good acting ass her out this isn't a time to play or screw up a classic

  • He's just going to drag you, into the gutta, with him!

    I love this movie!

  • one of my favorite movies i don't understand why they are trying to remake it because honestly i don't wanna hear Beyonce's dramatic vocals nor do i wanna hear Alicia Keys or whoever they cast for this movie...& if they do remake i want them to please get REAL actresses not singers *sigh* PLEASE don't remake a classic, Lonette & Irene are untouchable in this movie...that's just like they're about to remake Juice with Soulja Boy playing Tupac's character "Bishop" smdh

  • @evahill38 i agree. let the classics be classics or get real actors. I know the beyonce queens will hate but she don't need to be in any movies. Her gift is in performing music and the stage. The screen ain't her thang at all. Maybe she should set her sights on Broadway.

  • @evahill38 are you fucking serious soulja boy playing tupac, hell no they might as well turn that into a comedy, cuz it won't be taken serious

  • Really

  • They are making a new sparkle movie

  • Thanks so much for posting this "Classic Movie" Sister-Lionette McGee was absolutely beautiful in this film.! Just love this movie all of them were beautiful. This is "real acting" The transition that sista went through in this movie was so sad. Still one of my all time favorite movies.

  • This movie is fine how it is. It doesn't need to be made over because no one can redo the powerful message this movie sent .

  • HERE IS THE TRUTH. LIONETTE, IRENE, GORGEOUS THE OTHER SISTER A COOK!!!!

  • She was stupid she let him beat on her and turn her out on drugs BEAUTIFUL sister like that with a weak mind

  • oh i cried when that niga beat sista ......

  • I love this movie!! And lonette mckee is so freaking beautiful.

  • Aaliyah was destined to star in a remake of this film and was cast as Sparkle i believe had she lived she would have won an Academy Award for Best Actress or nominated it is a strong but believable prediction. The remake would have came out in November 2004

  • This is my freakin movie! I wasnt born when it came out, but you can appreciate talent at any age!

  • @ambrosha14 Me Too Girl. Its Just Somethinq About This Movie!

  • couldnt the singer TAMIA sing this....

  • is this a true story

  • Thank you for posting the ORIGINAL version .... !!! My fave movie EVER

  • @lacharme89 what movie is this taken from

  • @misskat18 The movie is titled "Sparkle". Originally starring Irene Cara, Phillip Michael Thomas. 

  • I love this movie! A true classic and so authentic. Except that the background vocalists are only two in number, yet 4-part harmony. :-)

  • i wish aaliyah would have already remade this movie before she had pass , cause i love the story of this movie . R.I.P baby girl

  • Lornette Mckee was beautiful

  • Written by the late great Curtis Mayfield

  • ok i think unknown actress who can sing would be great for this movie remake if it ever happens.

  • I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!!! it doesnt help that my boo phillip michael thomas is in this movie too. i was shocked when i found out aretha sang this song and that it was on this movie. i was used to envogue who i grew up with

  • CLASSIC,WHY DID THAT MOTHERFU.... HAD TO GO AND KILL HER,SHE PLAYED THE HECK OUT THIS MOVIE

  • @sweetgirl26100 oh balck greezy niga.. he had to have her she was a redbone sista. and then beat her ...

  • @sweetgirl26100 Didn't she OD on heroin?

  • sister cant fly on one wing

  • One of my all time favorite movies!!!!!

  • oh yeah this is the move..

  • This song, in this movie always makes me fall deeper in love with MUSIC!

  • shooodooo my girls many say that im to young

  • @Iliketosee08 - Tisha and Tichina*, and yep I agree about those two.

  • I just hated that Sister fell prey to him. That was sad & tragic.....Mary Alice is a sista with deep old school total acting.....superb!

  • @ChrisAmericaUSA  "Deep old school total acting"...."total acting" not half-assed, clealry. So true. LOLOL . Love it.

  • i love this moie.and dammit dianna ross was cheated out of her award for lady sings the blues..i wonder if she really sang this song??

  • @Iliketosee08 umm idk about ashanti

  • I love this movie..

  • Lonnette McKee was so hot!

  • @kingrob29 Yeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssss indeed!

  • @kingrob29 She was of the few that could make a simple motor movement like a limp wrist or popping gum look like sex!!!

  • @musicmsl I'll have to see the whole movie one of these days. I have seen lady sings the blues though.

  • look out lady's this what we need .

  • I wonder why they didnt let Lonnette,Irene & Dawn do the Sound tract to this Sparkle ,I love Aretha but sista & the sisters did a Great Job

  • Aaliyah would of been fabulous in this. She was meant to play Sparkle but after her passing they cancelled the movie. Whitney's production company had rights to remake this, but they cancelled it after because babygirl wouldn't be able remake. NO ELSE would suit this Sparkle character, so they best no even try to do a remake. This would have been Aaliyah's oscar moment!

  • mi movie n mi favorite song! <3

  • lol grown folks music ! Love the movie ; always makes me cry :''(

  • I heard back at the begining of 2001 that Aaliyah was up for one of the parts and Whitney Houston had some rights to the re-make.

  • love the movie but a woman should know never date a negro who introduces himself as "satin" that can't be nothing but trouble

  • @vesti05 : HAHAHAA! You are right on. If I have a daughter, I will tell her the same thing!

  • @vesti05 , HYSTERICAL, LOL. But so true!!!!!

  • @vesti05 lol

  • Well i just love this part of the movie

  • They should make a New Modern Version of this movie!! With Ashanti as Sparkle, Beyonce as the older sister and who eva for middle sister lol

  • @Jwarr3n91 THAT DO SOUND GOOD!

  • @Jwarr3n91 We've had enough of Beyonce. Beyonce already did "Dreamgirls" with Jennifer Hudson stealing the show. Aaliyah needed to play either Sparkle or Sister because she had that type of natural slim, long haired, classic beauty appearance that they had. She probably was going to play Sister because she already recorded "Giving Up (Is So Hard To Do)". This movie would have been hers, she would have owned it. She did good in "Romeo Must Die" and she killed "Queen of the Damned".

  • I'm watching the movie right now on TVOne:)

  • Damn they aint got nothing on En Vogue! The remake is totally better!

  • @kjhdanger UM ENVOGUE ARE VERY TALENTED BUT THEY WOULDNT BE HERE IF NOT FOR THIS MOVIE AND THESE ARTISTS AND OF CORSE THE SURPREMES BUT THAT YOU COULDA KEPT TO YOUR SELF CAUSE IT WAS AN ALMOST IGNORRANT THING TO SAY

  • i love this movie...

  • I LOVE THIS MOVIE

  • if they remake this movie they need to get fresh faces

  • if they go thru with a remake i say for Sparkle: Teairra Mari, Christina Milian, ashanti, Karina Pasian,Tiffany Evans, or Lisa from American Idol. For Sister: Alicia Keys, Mya, and for Delores: Naturi Naughton (from Notorious played Lil Kim & 3LW)

  • @JERRiCKKABaBy - The only person I agree with from your list is Alicia Keys. The rest have no talent to be in this. I think Lisa Raye can do it too.

  • @wm0516 Lisa Raye's too old now and i think Christina would be a good Sparkle for the innocent factor and i said Karina Pasian because of her voice she could probably rip "Look into Your Heart" *sigh* but who else do you think? lol

  • @JERRiCKKABaBy - Alicia Keys , Melanie Fiona, and I can't figure out who would play Irene yet.

  • @wm0516 yea she's the hardest one to cast cuz they have to be just right

  • @JERRiCKKABaBy I like your choices, and I always said, if they were going to do a remake of Sparkle, have a twist in it, and have someone who was in the original movie be in the new one, in the cast, so I was thinking that Lonette McKee could this time play the mother of all three girls, I think she could pull it off, or is she still too stunning for producers to have her as the Mother.