History YMMV / Dreamgirls

* DudeNotFunny: An InUniverse example. I'm the film, when Jimmy drops his pants on national television, he expects others to find it funny. The others then criticize him for making a fool out of himself instead.

* HeReallyCanAct: See AwardSnub

* AwardSnub: Most people felt Eddie Murphy should have won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance as Jimmy. The release of ''Film/{{Norbit}}'' during award season caused him to lose it.

* IAmNotShazam: Despite the title of the film and the song, they are called the Dreamettes, the Dreams, and then Deena Jones and the Dreams.

* AwardSnub: Most people felt Eddie Murphy should have won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance as Jimmy. Film/{{Norbit}} caused him to lose it.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: There's a scene where the Dreams are recording "Heavy", the shots before we actually see them recording is clearly of the Detroit "12th street" riot of 1967. There's even a small recreation of the event before we see them performing a rehearsal of Heavy at the television studio. The following scene, there's a brief shot of the marquee that states that the year is 1966, making the riot irrelevant to the plot (except to display the CivilRightsMovement that was appropriate for the era).

* TearJerker: In the film [[spoiler:Lorrell learning of Jimmy's death. Even though he was a self-destructive jerk she's so heartbroken over his death that it's impossible not to share her pain.]]
* TheWoobie: Effie and Deena

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Try having the girls sit in the studio, recording a song for hours, while a riot is taking place just outside the studio. You can literally hear helicopters and sirens during Deena/Curtis/Effie's dialogue. Of course, early on there's a television in the control booth televising the riot, but Curtis literally pays it no mind. Instead, he looks onwards with his cigarette in hand.

* AlternativeCharacterIterpretation: Did Curtis ever really care about either Effie or Deena, or did he just use them the way he used everyone else? [[spoiler:If he had known that Effie was pregnant with his child, would he have still kicked her to the curb, or would he have tried to work out a situation that would work for all of them?]]

*** Which was an expy of Magnolia, that Diana Ross starred in.

** JerkassWoobie: Effie, not a {{jerkass}} [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold per se]] still counts. Although she was selfish, rude, and self-absorbed at first, she loses her spot and her boyfriend, who she really wanted to stay with while she was pregnant with his baby. It's not that hard to feel sorry for her. Plus, seeing him getting married to Deena must have hurt her a lot.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Try having the girls sit in the studio, recording a song for hours, while a riot is taking place just outside the studio. You can literally hear helicopters and sirens during Deena/Curtis/Effie's dialogue. Of course, early on there's a television in the control booth televising the riot, but Curtis literally pays it no mind. Instead, he looks onwards with his cigarette in hand.

** JerkassWoobie: Effie, not a {{jerkass}} [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold per se]] still counts. Although she was selfish, rude, and self-absorbed at first, she loses her spot and her boyfriend, who she really wanted to stay with while she was pregnant with his baby. It's not that hard to feel sorry for her. Plus, seeing him getting married to Deena must have hurt her a lot.

* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Not stated in the show, but honestly, Curtis becomes [[AmbitionIsEvil overly ambitious]], and after Effie falls in love with him he jilts her in favor of her friend Deena, while also cultivating her into a marketable product. And after all this Effie still states "You're the best man I'll ever know" and swears up and down that they're perfect for each other.

* AwardSnub: Most people felt Eddie Murphy should have won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance as Jimmy.
** Film/{{Norbit}} caused him to lose it.

* HilariousInHindsight: In the movie, (and also in DestinysChild) Beyonce plays the SpotlightStealingSquad. However after the movie came out Jennifer Hudson and EddieMurphy took it over.

** {{Norbit}} caused him to lose it.

** JerkassWoobie: Effie, not a JerkAss [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold per se]] still counts. Although she was selfish, rude, and self-absorbed at first, she loses her spot and her boyfriend, who she really wanted to stay with while she was pregnant with his baby. It's not that hard to feel sorry for her. Plus, seeing him getting married to Deena must have hurt her a lot.

* {{Woobie}}: Effie and Deena

* {{Woobie}}: Effie and Deena.

** [[{{Norbit}} I can't think why he didn't.]]

* {{Woobie}}: Effie, and {{YMMV}}, but Deena as well.