Empire Magazine
Offering plenty of body and a lot of lift, Hairspray gels kitsch styling with show-stopping tunes to mould a memorable musical.
CNN.com
Bright, campy and wonderfully light, Hairspray reminds us that fun comes in all shapes and sizes. It's also one of the few 'event' movies this summer that doesn't outstay its welcome. That's worth singing about, no matter what your name is.
Times
The unexpected pleasure of Hairspray is that it doesn’t beg to differ.
The Guardian
John Waters had uppermost in his mind was the secret of gay identity and gay feelings inside the teenagers of 1960s Baltimore - the time and place of his own early years. None of the characters in this campy film is gay; or, to put it another way, they all are. Hairspray looks like it's sending up the straight, heterosexual world, but it also resembles a big, brightly coloured closet which declines to reveal its contents.
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