Hairspray
|
List Price: Our Price: $4.55 You Save: $8.42 (65%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $1.97 (click here) Category: DVD See more DVD releases |
|---|
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
Movie Reviews of Hairspray
Movie Review: Delightful, just delightful
Summary: 5 Stars
Enough has already been said about this fun and funny movie. The only thing I would like to add is that the music is awesome, and I would love to find out if a soundtrack was released.
Technically speaking, the DVD extras are sparse, as is true for most films made before the DVD era. Pretty much all there is consists of the theater trailer which, if I'm showing the movie to newbies, I always show first as a sort of cinematic appetizer. The commentary is fine and informative. Other than that, I'm not sure the DVD needs any more extras, as this is a pretty straight forward film.
The sound and color transfers were done well, and the subtitles are very accurate.
As a teacher, I plan on using this movie as an easy and non-controversal springboard into discussions about the 60's, racism, and civil rights.
But hey, it's such a great film, deep meanings or not!
Movie Review: Memories
Summary: 5 Stars
Hi, when I first saw HAIRSPRAY I fell in love with the picture, the actors were just picked out and the parts just fit each and everyone of them. Like the first time I went to see GREASE at the movies I went to see that movie with about 16 different people every night and did the same with HAIRSPRAY it brought back memories with the music and in the 60's when I was a teenager I fell head over heals with the movie they don't make enough of these genre anymore wish they did. Any way loved it emensly and it will always hold a special place in my heart forever. I am now going to buy the DVD and play it over and over again and again. This is the movie that I fell in love with Ricki Lake and I just discovered Divine who was marvelous in both parts so if you want to go back in time just you sit back in your best chair and view this movie just like I did over and over again and again you get tired of it trust me.Movie Review: fantastic movie. nothing like the travolta version.
Summary: 5 Stars
this is a fantastic movie. it's campy and fun and very positive. this movie is a well known and much loved classic. it's entertaining for adults and appropriate for kids (if you're familiar with john waters and have some reservations) my preteen daughter showed it to her friends at her birthday party, and all the girls got up to try out the dances and giggled their heads off. how anyone could even think of comparing it to the travolta crap is beyond me, let alone like the other one better. this is the movie that started the whole thing. the broadway play was ripped off from this movie, and that other version is ripped off from the broadway play. this version is better in every respect. better cast, better writing, better costumes, better music. ricki lake is awesome.Movie Review: HAIRSPRAY IS THE BOMB YO!
Summary: 5 Stars
John Waters is a brilliant director, in Hairspray we see the final apperance of a much beloved Cult Icon. Divine was just about to hit mainstream, just when Hairspray hit the Top 5 Box Office. Divine passed away, none the less, Divine gave one last wonderful gem in Hairspray.Deboarh Harry, yet another "POP CULTURE ICON" gives a great performance, as does Pia Zadora, Ric Ocasek and Mink Stole. The movie is set in Baltimore, where TV Dance Shows and Theme Parks are segregated along Racial lines. Hairspray is light hearted and just jam packed with great music. This is also Ricki Lake's
debute, and she is just fantastic as "Tracey the Hair Hopper"
Buy, Buy, Buy........This movie is great for all ages, it's the other "Grease" that never caught on fire.
Movie Review: Cult 60's Never Sounded So Good
Summary: 5 Stars
John Waters scores big with this tribute to the crazy 60's, there is much to like here with Ricki Lake turning in such a good performance, she makes the film totally work.
The songs, the fads of the day and the gutter are not overlooked by waters who adds just the right touches of each.
You know you are watching a Waters film when you see Tracy (Lake) kissing with her boyfrind Link (Michael St Gerard) in an alley saying how romantic it is while she shakes a rat off her shoe.
There is a lot to enjoy here and Waters has a great cast from Ruth Brown to the late Divine (who died shortly after making this movie), so shake a tail feather and get ready for an attack on your 60's senses like no other film has done since The Wanderers.