June 7, 2009
Loved It!
Allison Janney, Amanda Bynes, Brittany Snow
Set in Baltimore during the 1960s dance TV craze, a zaftig high school hair-hopper, Tracy Turnblad, graduates from outsider to celebrity trendsetter and along the way she stars on "The Corny Collins S...( read more
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DVD Release Date: November 20, 2007
Stats: 96,656 reviews
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Flixster Reviews (96,656)
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May 30, 2009Brilliant cast. Story about a girl called Tracy who wants to be a dancer on her favourite TV show the Corny Collins Show. Corny is played by James Marsden, who is very cute. It has serious moments when it touchs on the social divisions between races in the 1960s. It takes a while...( read more)
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March 19, 2009I wonder how tired these actors must have been, It seems as if they had their month's worth of working out after one day of shooting. But the movie itself is upbeat, fun, well-choreographed, and it touches on important themes, so it's not just a brainless guilty pleasure.
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January 20, 2009Directed by: Adam Shankman.
Starring: John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Nikki Blonsky.
<< "I think I've kind of been in a bubble...thinking that fairness was gonna just happen. It's not. People like me are gonna have to get up o...( read more) -
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November 19, 2009The song is great. it makes us fine.
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November 19, 2009the songs are great, the story was suck, i was fall asleep while watching it... i just heard the songs hahahahaahahahaha
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November 18, 2009I saw the broadway version and I hope the movie is as good as the one in NY.
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November 18, 2009It honestly didn't bother me that John Travolta was in drag. I actually didn't notice most of the time. I also love the singing and dancing. That's something I always enjoy in movies.
Critic Reviews
July 20, 2007
Claudia Puig, USA Today
July 20, 2007
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
Marc Shaiman's peppy music conspires with Shankman's energized, retro-musical choreography to make for a giant cinematic grin -- a dimpled dental testament of faith in the powers of nice over nasty, t... full review
July 20, 2007
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
John Travolta is no Divine. And this shiny musical just doesn't have the crazy, messy charm of John Waters' original. full review
July 20, 2007
Pete Hammond, Maxim
It rocks the house! Guaranteed to be an unqualified 100% summer smash, it's a total blast. You have got to see Travolta's hilarious, risk-taking performance to believe it! He (or is it she) and the e... full review
July 19, 2007
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
Hairspray is a playful, kitschy, sweet but snarky tribute to the era of sky-high bouffants, TV dance parties and desegregation. full review
July 19, 2007
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
That Hairspray is good-hearted is no surprise. The surprise may be that this Hairspray, stuffed with shiny showstoppers, is actually good. full review
July 19, 2007
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
By the big finale, even homophobes will tap their feet. OK, maybe not. But the less close-minded are sure to respond. Hairspray has a beat. And you sure can dance to it. full review
July 18, 2007
Armond White, The New York Press
Based on John Waters' 1988 satire of civil rights-era nostalgia, this movie-musical adaptation makes the same mistake as the 2002 Broadway incarnation -- it domesticates Waters' parodistic anarchy int... full review
July 16, 2007
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
Adam Shankman's movie of the Broadway Hairspray gets better as it lumbers along, but there's something garish about its hustle -- it's like an elephant trumpeting in your face. full review
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March 12, 2009I loved Hairspray with John Travolta. I have Hairspray on DVD with John Travolta. Hairspray is my favorite John Travotla movie. In Hairspray I liked Tracy, Link, Penny Seaweed, Motormouth Maybelle, Little Inz, Enda, Wilbur and Corny Collins. I have Hairspray the 2007 movie movie Soundtrack on my IPod
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January 14, 2009Recently bought the soundtrack!! My favorite is "You Can't Stop The Beat" and "Welcome To The 60's".
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November 18, 2008Hairspray is awesome it is my favorite movie and any time it is on tv i watch it
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March 30, 2008I love this film ive lost count of the amount of times i have seen it, it cudnt be betta and Zac luks pretty fine init to!!!!
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February 27, 2008I love musical movies! This movie is AWESOME! The cast and songs are AMAZING!!! I can't stop listening the songs!!!XD
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