![]() ![]() ![]() There\'s also a funny pseudo-seduction scene between Pfieffer and Walken, but I spent the whole time thinking about Batman Returns. Elijah Kelly does a great job as Seeweed, and Amanda Bynes kept making me laugh with her goofy wide-eyed look. ![]() Travolta is highly entertaining as Edna, looking like a very heavy Sofia Loren, and his duet with Christopher Walken (in which both dance and sing) is certainly a highlight of the film. The story is pretty straightforward and fun, and the characters aren\'t exactly deep - but there is a strong message about integration, accepting yourself, and going for your dreams that shines through. Newcomer Nikki Blonsky plays Tracy, and the rest of the all-star cast includes Zac Efron as Tracy\'s dreamguy Link, Amanda Bynes as the lollipop-sucking best-friend Penny, Christopher Walken as Tracy\'s dad Wilbur, James Marsden as Corny Collins, Michelle Pfeiffer as the scheming Velma Von Tussle, and Queen Latifah as Motormouth Maybelle. On Broadway, the role of Edna was played by Harvey Fierstein, but in the film, it\'s John Travolta donning a fat-suit and enduring hours of make-up to play the portly matron. But will Hairspray suffer the same fate as the last film-to-broadway-to-film adaptation, The Producers? The answer is a resounding \"no\"! The film was adapted into a Tony-winning Broadway musical smash by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, and now the musical has been reconverted into a film directed by Adam Shankman. But soon she\'s caught up in the civil rights movement, and tries to get the show integrated. Her mother Edna was played by the cross-dressing Waters regular Divine, and the story focused on Tracy\'s dream of dancing on The Corny Collins Show, a locally-broadcast dance show. John Waters\' 1988 Hairspray took place in 1962\'s Baltimore, and starred Ricki Lake as Tracy Turnblad, an overweight hyperactive teenager who just wants to dance, and has a progressive view on integration. ![]()
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