Don t get the wrong idea. The Joy of Singing also could be titled The Joy of Singing Rather Than Being Murdered. One of the meetings of Madame Eve s voice class begins with her tearful announcement that two of the group have been found dead. Her students eye one another uneasily. Who will be killed next? We wonder, too.
This is the goofiest thrill-sex-music-spy movie in many a moon, with a surprising amount of nudity and an even more surprising amount of singing, ranging from opera to Amazing Grace to I ll Stand By You. Its MacGuffin is a missing USB memory disc containing unspecified uranium secrets.