There is NOTHING damn creepier than John Travolta in that sanitised version of the original movie. This ain't Uncle Miltie...this is a wink and a nod to "Kids, if you enjoyed this film, check out the original with the mom played by a REAL transvstite who in other John Waters films ate dog poop."
I swear to God, I am going to take that mind-numbing musical DVD from my kids, pop it into my video editor and remove every trace of that no-talent, effeminant, wheezy, middle-aged bonehead Scientologist and scatter his electrons to the winds.
>>this is a wink and a nod to “Kids, if you enjoyed this film, check out the original with the mom played by a REAL transvstite who in other John Waters films ate dog poop.<<
LOLOLOL!!!
EVERY and I mean EVERY person I know who actually enjoyed Hairspray didn’t make it through five minutes of the original film. I saw it in the eighties and tried to watch it again. Poo.
I’m sorry but I have to give credit for someone in Hollywood taking a basic dark movie and turning it into a movie so filled with joy, so full of the message that “you are not how you look” and so happy that it was wonderful.
I’m glad your kids enjoyed it. You can tell them that after lent, they are more than welcome to come to my house and watch it on our 50” Plasma with the Surround Sound. We can all sigh at James Marsden and Zac Efron.
Yes, in my house we are the “Nicest Kids in Town”.