(And Corny Collins is the guys’ name, not my qualifier.) Tracy Turnbald (Ricky Lake) and her friend Penny Pingleton (Leslie Ann Powers) are obsessed like the rest of the teens, much to the dismay of their mothers. The year is 1962, and the Corny Collins Dance Show is sweeping the nation, or at least the area.

It seemed the type I knew there was dancing and it featured an overweight girl who kicked butt, and it seemed like it was campy and funny and tongue in cheek. But I was really hoping that I’d find another movie to add to my “decent movies that I can enjoy over and over again” collection. I’d never seen all of Hairspray, just a few minutes here and there. It’s also a movie that I really enjoy, partly because I actually like the message about women in this one, and partly because it’s really, really funny to me. It’s solid for what it is - a smart comedy about a girl who goes to law school for all the wrong reasons. (Just the first one, thanks, because the sequel sucked.) It’s not a bad movie by any stretch of the imagination, but I’d also never call it sheer brilliance. But some of the movies that are a couple of tiers down are the ones I watch over and over again. But some of the best movies I’ve ever seen - some of the most powerful, the most moving, the most evocative - I’ve only seen once. I’m not saying that I don’t like good movies, far from it. Lissa’s review: You know, sometimes the movies I like aren’t necessarily the best movies. “I wish I was at a hootenanny in Harlem.”

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