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Hairspray

Review By: Dan Deevy
DanDeevy@TheCinemaSource.com

So it turns out you really Can’t stop the beat -- Hairspray is a non-stop musical fun fest that will have you wishing you were a better dancer! As I left the screening I was both cursing my two left feet and hoping that they’d be giving us the soundtrack at the junket so I could at least sing along next time.

(Speaking of which, WE are actually giving away the soundtrack too, check it out here if you’d like to enter.)

My reviews lately have been oddly definite in my opinions which doesn’t happen often, but going from unabashadily loving Live Free or Die Hard to absolutely despising Transformers, there’s been very little middle ground for me this summer. With Hairspray I do have to say I think it could literally be the best movie of the year. Yes, Live Free or Die Hard was the best action movie of the summer, but I think Hairspray is gonna take the cake for the entire year.

For those of you who haven’t seen the either the original John Waters film or the Broadway musical, and are terrified it’s going to be nothing but frivolous jazz-hands-style fluff, fear not. You’re completely wrong. And for the millions who have seen the previous incarnations and are scared that this latest version won’t stand up to them, you may exhale now because you are going to love it too!

The backdrop for this feel-good musical is ironically Baltimore, Maryland, smack dab in the heart of the civil rights movement in the '60s. Tracy Turnblad, played by newcomer Nikki Blonsky, is a feisty spitfire of a girl whose one dream in life is to dance on the Corny Collins Show, a local version of Dick Clark’s American Bandstand. Even after shocking everyone and proving that a fat girl could dance on the show she finds herself face to face with another, even more powerful group of bigots as she attempts to integrate the program and for the first time show blacks and whites dancing together!

As I said before, the music in this show is infectiously good. I can’t imagine anyone, no matter how backward you may be, not enjoying yourselves. You will have to try very, very hard to dislike Hairspray.

The all star cast that has been assembled here is exactly that. Every member of the principle cast is a star in their own right. Let’s start with the obvious triumphant return of former heart ...