Pleasantly surprised by this. The one thing I don't understand is why they felt the need to cast John Travolta as the *mother* and put him in a fat suit. This kind of makes a pastiche of fat issues in America, which is odd in a movie otherwise about (racial) tolerance.
This review of Hairspray (2007) was written by Rene P on 12 Apr 2012.
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