Hairspray is the remake of John Waters 1988-movie, telling a tale from Baltimore in the 60's. Amanda Bynes are for once going back to the supporting role, as her character is 'Penny', the best friend of lead character 'Tracy Turnblad' played by Nikki Blonsky. 'Tracy' is a big girl, and big girls doesn't get to dance on TV like she dreams of doing on the local hot show.
Hairspray is a musical journey, a tale about an unlikely heroine and a movie with a lot of charm. It's still nothing original or inspiring, but quite enjoyable as it's. Blonsky does well in the lead, Michelle Pfeiffer, John Travolta, Christopher Walken, Queen Latifah, Chris Marsden, Zac Efron, Jerry Stiller, Brittany Snow and Allison Janney is among the rest of the supporting characters along Bynes, and the star struck cast obviously helps this story a lot.
It still shouldn't come as a surprise I again enjoyed Bynes mostly, as she did very well in the best friend role without stealing away scenes from Blonsky. All in all Hairspray often shows proof of the potential I feel lays in the story. Sadly its not focused enough in the delivery, it's too much of a morale tale and some of the supports do a little to much as stars like Travolta, Walken and the rest probably wouldn't have been there if they didn't get the screen time. Still it ruins the story, and to me it stays another "what if.."-movie.
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