Hairspray
Staged in Baltimore, a teenager turns celebrity suddenly from a show, but a plot arises to contend for her price which evolved into a chaos.
29 May 1960, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
16 December 1979, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1 August 1986, LaGrange, Georgia, USA
29 August 1987, Toronto, Canada
27 November 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA
16 March 1966, Toronto, Canada
22 November 1987, Los Angeles, California, USA
29 April 1958, Santa Ana, California, USA
September 08, 2012
It pays respect to the original while also carving its own image as a truly good musical.
July 28, 2007
Bright, campy and wonderfully light, Hairspray reminds us that fun comes in all shapes and sizes. It's also one of the few 'event' movies this summer that doesn't outstay its welcome. That's worth singing about, no matter what your name is.
July 20, 2007
Hairspray is one of the most enjoyable translations of a Broadway musical to the big screen ever.
July 14, 2011
Much as Hairspray serves as a showcase for the effervescent charms of newcomer Blonsky, its greatest trick is to revitalise the careers of a few old Hollywood faithfuls.
August 04, 2013
If any movie musical could threaten the standing of retro favourite Grease, it's this one.
October 18, 2008
For a star-studded big-budget musical, Hairspray does a nice job of retaining the funky sweetness of the original.
July 26, 2007
Waters cultists have ample reason to be wary, but the film retains a surprisingly subversive edge that undercuts its blinding surface gloss.
August 04, 2013
Director-choreographer Adam Shankman has come up with one of the purest entertainments of the summer.
July 06, 2010
The script is full of anachronisms, but Hairspray's sense of history delivers a needed spritz in the face.
July 20, 2007
Hairspray is an infectious aerosol comedy with nearly every hair in place.
March 22, 2011
In alchemy the transmuting of materials between forms distills them to their purest elements. In film, the opposite is true. The more iterations, the more muddled things get. Hairspray is good at what it does but not everything it does is good.
July 20, 2007
It's amiable, it's bouncy, it's got a sweet unknown in the lead flanked by a cast of bankable stars and, providing as it does an amiable and bouncy and sweet escape from a summer's worth of clunky blockbusters.
