Movie Review: Enormously Entertaining 'Hairspray' Takes Hold, But Lacks John Waters' Kitsch

July 17th, 2007 3:14pm EDT  Post a comment

The world probably didn't need another film version of John Waters' 1988 romp ''Hairspray'' any more than it needed a Broadway musical version of it. The whole cycle reeks of that movie-of-a-stage-production-of-a-movie debacle that has tainted the legacy of ''The Producers.''

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