Erin: Hahaha. No, the original musical is based on a Jon Waters movie called Hairspray. The stage musical came out...6th or 7th grade and won like 8 Tonys and a Grammy. Then recently they re-made it into a movie. With Zac Efron. Major 'ew'-ing.
Danni: Zac Efron is a very unattractive person. Not just physically, but he just looks like a sex offender to me. A mustache-less sex offender. I get the feeling he raping you with his ridiculously blue eyes. He actually reminds me of those children from The Bad Seed.....
Erin: I haven't seen the Bad Seed yet...still. I didn't like the way they changed Hairspray to make it a movie, plot-wise. I didn't really like John Travolta as Tracy's mom...and I didn't like Zac Efron as Link. He's unattractive and neither his look nor his voice fit the time period. *shrug*.
Danni: I haven't seen The Bad Seed either. It used to be watch instantly on Netflix, but ours got canceled before I could get it. :( Oh, how I wish I had Netflix again. I do have to say that I liked Amanda Bynes in Hairspray. She was just cute and funny. But I just don't like musicals period. They're all so... chipper.....
Erin: Not all of them are chipper though (West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Were the World Mine - though it's not a starge musical - Chicago). I liked Amanda Bynes in the movie too but they didn't give her character enough to do. She was in so much more of the original musical.... And you should totally get Netflix again! So many good movies for Instant Play...it's great for doing homework :)
Danni: Fiddler on the Roof I like. From what I saw of Hairspray (which wasn't much at all) I think it's mostly poop. All of the characters annoy me except for Amanda Bynes' character and I have a feeling that it's because she didn't talk as much as everyone else and also wasn't a racist. Zac Efron annoyed me throughout and Jon Travolta struck me as an annoying whiny mom-thing. He/she just pranced around knitting or folding clothes or some crap and whined about how she was unloavble and was forced to live a life of captive misery. *YAWN* And then there's the main character, whatshername, with her obnoxiously optimistic and cheerful attitude. Nothing is more agitating than an overt optimist.
Erin: And what about Christopher Walken? For some reason I just really loved him in this movie. Nikki Blonsky made a fairly good Tracy, she had a good voice for the part, but main characters are almost never interesting. But something was taken out of her character when the musical was Disney-fied. There were so many dirty jokes and if-you-know-what-I-mean moments that - thanks a lot, PG-Rating - got deleted. This being said, I probably liked it better, adaptation-iwse, than Mamma Mia. It is a travesty that they cut "Mamma, I'm a Big Girl Now" from the movie. It's one of Hairspray's most well-known songs and the musical just isn't the same without it. Amber (Brittany Snow) has a much more prevalent personality in the stage musical. Another hilarious and inappropriate thing cut out of the movie is Penny (Amanda Bynes) declaring at the end "I am now a checkerboard chick!" By the way, on the note of racism, you do realize this takes place in the early 60's, right? Be black was just starting to be cool. Penny's end get up (in the stage musical, at least) is a go-go dress and go-go boots.
Danni: I was sad that Christopher Walken was in Hairspray. I like him. He's a badass. And that's as far as my knowledge of this horrendous movie goes.
Erin: And what about Christopher Walken? For some reason I just really loved him in this movie. Nikki Blonsky made a fairly good Tracy, she had a good voice for the part, but main characters are almost never interesting. But something was taken out of her character when the musical was Disney-fied. There were so many dirty jokes and if-you-know-what-I-mean moments that - thanks a lot, PG-Rating - got deleted. This being said, I probably liked it better, adaptation-iwse, than Mamma Mia. It is a travesty that they cut "Mamma, I'm a Big Girl Now" from the movie. It's one of Hairspray's most well-known songs and the musical just isn't the same without it. Amber (Brittany Snow) has a much more prevalent personality in the stage musical. Another hilarious and inappropriate thing cut out of the movie is Penny (Amanda Bynes) declaring at the end "I am now a checkerboard chick!" By the way, on the note of racism, you do realize this takes place in the early 60's, right? Be black was just starting to be cool. Penny's end get up (in the stage musical, at least) is a go-go dress and go-go boots.
Danni: I was sad that Christopher Walken was in Hairspray. I like him. He's a badass. And that's as far as my knowledge of this horrendous movie goes.
Mama Mia was another god-awful movie/musical I had the great displeasure of seeing. Amanda Seyfried's neck-vien-bursting, crazy-eye-bulging creeper smile gave me terrifying nightmares for the following 3 months. The flipper on the dock dance also made me want to curl up in the fetal position, sob my little eyes to Jupiter, and urinate all over the people sitting in front of me.
