Walken is fantastic in this role as he brings everything that has made him a star to his character, and the performances don’t stop there.Īmanda Bynes is perfect as Tracy’s lollipop sucking friend Penny. Travolta plays the awkward Edna perfectly and her marriage to Wilbur (Christopher Walken) couldn’t be any more entertaining. The trailers make John Travolta’s performance as Tracy’s mother, Edna, look gimmicky, but that couldn’t be any farther from the truth.
I wish every day was Negro Day!” you will be rolling and 100-perecnt sold on Hairspray, and it just gets better. Once you hear Tracy Turnblad, played terrifically by newcomer Nikki Blonsky, say, “I saw you on Negro Day. Yeah, heavy handed shit, but thanks to an accomplished script containing large doses of comedy we never really feel the true weight of the subject matter. The “dance dream” storyline is only the setup for the larger story of equality among people, racial integration and the absolute abolishment of segregation. Well, it is about that, but there is so much more to the story it is shocking it isn’t promoted. Hairspray, based on the trailers, looks like a film that is only about a fat girl trying to get a spot as a regular dancer on a popular television show. In fact, I would say I saw a completely different movie than the trailers were promoting. However, this was one of those times that I was happy this was my job and I had to go see it because what I got was a movie far better, far more interesting and just more than what the trailers led me to expect.
In fact, I was dreading going to the screening. Thanks to some of the worst marketing ever for a movie my interest for this latest version of Hairspray couldn’t have been any lower.
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