Hairspray

Dir: John Waters
Star: Ricki Lake, Divine, Colleen Fitzpatrick, Jerry Stiller

[3] - A particularly unsubtle plot, which shoe-horns a racial integration message into a TV dance show setting, still leaves you a fair bit to enjoy in this mildly trashy (by John Waters' standards) film. The music is naff and the dances cringeingly awful; the acting is good, especially from Divine who plays both the heroine's mother and the (male) owner of the TV station. Stylish and colourful - can't see anyone doing a similar film about the 80's!

6/10

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