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| Hairspray (Widescreen Edition) | 
 enlarge | Director: Adam Shankman
Actors: John Travolta, Michelle Pffeifer, Queen Latifah, Zac Efron, Christopher Walken
Studio: New Line Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  273 reviews
Sales Rank: 708
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 117
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: TRNDN11212D
UPC: 794043112126
EAN: 0794043112126
ASIN: B000W4KT6E
Theatrical Release Date: July 20, 2007
Release Date: November 20, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 The Best Movie Musical EVER!!!! September 27, 2007
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I just want to tell you that this movie totally blew me away in the theatres!!! I went into the theatre with low expectations, because I hated the original! This movie has everything a good musical should great acting, great music, and lots of flash and color! This movie has great performances from all of the stars! John Travolta does an excellent job of playing a woman! Queen Latifah, Michell Pffifer, and Christopher Walken are all equaly as funny! Zac Efron, Britany Snow, Amanda Bynes, and newcomer Nikki Blonsky all give top notch perfomances also!
Now the music! This show has the greatest music ever in a movie musical in my opinion. Every song in the movie blew me away! From the inspirational opening number "Good Morning Baltimore" to the finale slam dunk "You Can't Stop The Beat". The other songs are also great. The solo numbers really showed off some of the actors as great singers such as "Ladies Choice" performed by Zac Efron, "Miss Baltimore Crabs" perfomed by Michelle Pffifer, and "Big, Blonde, and Beautiful" performed by Queen Latifah!!
loves it September 26, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I listened to the cd once before going to see the movie and i loved it! The music was so good and the singing was also good! If you didn't see it in the threater than you should rent it b/c it was a freaking good movie.
Funny, with a great message! September 26, 2007
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This movie is very funny. It also has great, upbeat music with a great message. This movie says to accept people the way they are no matter how different they are. This is definitely a DVD to buy!
Edna and Tracy September 25, 2007
25 out of 31 found this review helpful
Any film that features a touching love scene shot in a Baltimore backyard with laundry hanging on the line (as Moms used to say) between Christopher Walken ( Wilbur Turnblad) and John Travolta (as an almost scary Edna Turnblad) is OK with me. That that scene may also be one of the most romantic scenes of this or any year is crazy on the one hand and perplexing on the other. With that being said, director Adam Shankman has magically turned the stage musical into something that is more full of life, more effervescent than either the play or the John Waters slight, though terrific film of 1988.
Tracy Turnblad (Nikki Blonsky who almost makes us forget Rikki Lake from the film) is a Baltimore teenager: chubby of body, colossal of hair and bubbling over with good cheer and ironclad self esteem. The year is 1962 and the signs of change are everywhere Tracy goes foremost of which is the "Corny Collins Show," an American Bandstand-type show which features a "Negro Day" once a month: a situation that Tracy and her friends Penny (Amanda Bynes) and Link (Zac Efron) are desperate to change into an everyday occurrence. Edna, who hasn't left the house since 1951 and therefore very much aware and embarrassed of her size discourages Tracy from auditioning as a dancer for the show but Tracy, to her credit, feels confident enough about her dancing does so anyway and is finally accepted into the Corny Collins fold much to the chagrin of both Velma Von Tussle ( a gorgeous Michelle Pfeiffer) and her daughter Amber (Brittany Snow).
"Hairspray is also very much a capsule of its time and place: pregnant women smoking and drinking martinis, children in cars without seat belts buckled, boys and girls hair greased and sprayed to within an inch of its life (Tracy is accused of having a "hair-don't" at one point) and bigots spouting the kind of gunk that bigots do.
"Hairspray" is ultimately a big, calorie laden birthday cake of a film: you know you shouldn't imbibe but you can't help yourself. But along with the sugar rush of this spectacle there lays some lumps based on reality which point out, not only how much has changed since 1962 but more importantly how much has stayed the same.
Big-hearted, energetic and fun September 24, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
What can you say about a film that has you smiling from beginning to end? I enjoyed this film immensely. I loved its youthful energy. I loved its message of inclusion of those who don't fit a standard pattern of looks or behavior. I loved the music and especially the dance sequences. And I especially loved the fact that it championed black styles of dance and music without dismissing white styles out of hand.
"Hairspray" is the story of ingenous Tracy Turnblad, a short, heavyish high school student who dreams of dancing on a local TV teen dance show in early 1963. She is opposed by moralists (her friend's mother, Prudy), her protective parents, and the larger culture, represented by the station manager, a former beauty queen who is managing the fortunes of her ownmean, but not-untalented daughter. Traci works through all these obstacles, befriending a detention hall's wortth of talented black students, plotting to enter the dance content and to intergrate Baltimore TV while she is at it.
The film hit all the right notes and much of the credit goes to the acting. John Travolta's turn as Edna Turnblad, Tracy's Mom, was too-precious at first, but eventually found its feet. Michelle Pfeiffer was stunning as witchy vampy Velma Von Tussle. Queen Latifah lived up to her name as leader of the the black kids and the host of the TV show's once-a -month "Negro Day." The high energy of the fisst half of the film was deliberately tuned down for the more somber 3rd quarter in which characters worked out seeming infidelities and setbacks. But this just set up the explosive last quarter of the film, in which the opoosing forces had their showdown on the dancefloor.
Prior to seeing the movie, I knew practically nothing about Hairspray, so I had no expectations about whether it would measure up to the Jon Waters original or the Broadway play. But the film stood on its own. There was little campiness or post-modern irony in the film, which was fine by me, and it got the optimistic tone, the peradoxes and the look of the 1960s just right. The film was as guiless as Tracy herself, and did not try to make cheap points about tacky clothes or furnishings. Even Tracy's dad, played amiably by Christopher Walken, was not played as a snarky wiseguy, but as a man completely dedicated to his silly work (he ran a local jokeshop)and imprevious to even the most tempting of diversions.
Hairspray has not a mean bone in its body. It's beside the point that civil rights were not won on the basis of a few sign-carrying kids, one integrated TV show, or that the 1960s were an unlikely time for romance to bloom across racial lines. The larger message was clear: we are all dancers under the skin, and ought to bring the best of what we have, combine it with the best of what others have to give, and produce something to which we can all dance together. We are far from that reality, but works like "Hairspray" show that sometimes, the naive dreams of innocents are worth following.
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