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Hairspray

2007

Adam Shankman

John Travolta, Queen Latifah, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken ...

5.8

18,673

Musical. Comedy Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, has only one passion--dancing. Her dream is to appear on "The Corny Collins Show," Baltimore's hippest dance party on TV. Tracy seems a natural fit for the show except for one not-so-little problem--she doesn't fit in. Her plus-siz Hairspray is originally based on the 1988 John Waters comedy about star-struck teenagers on a local dance show. The new version of the film ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Though not as scabrous, as sharp or even as musically memorable as John Waters’ original, it retains much of his filthy, big-hearted sensibility"	POS
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"Big hair. Big movie. Big fun."	POS
United Kingdom	Will Lawrence Empire	"This lively and unashamedly kitsch adaptation of the stage musical, itself adapted from John Waters’ finest mainstream movie, is a real crowd-pleaser (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Dennis Harvey Variety	"Unpretentious, feel-good pic (...) there’s a goodwill and esprit to the whole exercise that is hard to resist"	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"The film isn't deep or thematically rich or filled with amazing characters. Instead, it's an excursion into song and dance, and works admirably on that level"	POS
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"Though it bears little resemblance to the original 1988 John Waters cult film, it is still energetic (...) a musical in the bouncy retro Hollywood style (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	David Denby The New Yorker	"The movie version of the hit Broadway musical Hairspray is perfectly pleasant--I smiled to myself all the way through it--but it’s not as exhilarating as the show."	POS

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