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Reception
[edit] Box office

Hairspray debuted in 3,121 theaters in North America on July 20, 2007,
the widest debut of any modern movie musical.[42] The film earned
$27,476,745 in its opening weekend, behind I Now Pronounce You Chuck
and Larry and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.[2] This made
Hairspray the record-holder for the biggest sales at opening weekend
for a movie musical.[3] This record was later broken by the release of
Mamma Mia!, which grossed $27,605,000 on its opening weekend.[43]
Hairspray has since gone on to become the fourth highest grossing
musical in U.S. cinema history, surpassing The Rocky Horror Picture
Show ($112.8 million) and Dreamgirls ($103 million), released seven
months prior.[4] Ending its domestic run on October 25, 2007,
Hairspray has a total domestic gross of $118,871,849 and $202,548,575
worldwide.[2] Its biggest overseas markets include the United Kingdom
($25.8 million), Australia ($14.4 million), Japan ($8 million), Italy
($4.6 million), France ($3.9 million) and Spain ($3.8 million).[44]
This made Hairspray the third musical film in history to cross $200
million internationally, behind 1978's hit Grease ($395 million) and
2002's Chicago ($307 million).[4] It is the seventh highest-grossing
PG-rated film of 2007, and has grossed more than other higher-budgeted
summer releases like Ocean's Thirteen ($117 million) and Evan Almighty
($100 million).[45]

Two weeks after its original release, new "sing-along" prints of
Hairspray were shipped to theaters.[46] These prints featured the
lyrics to each song printed onscreen as subtitles, encouraging
audiences to interact with the film. On January 4, 2008, Hairspray was
re-released in New York and Los Angeles for one week because John
Travolta was present for Q&A and autographs.[47]
[edit] Critical reception

Hairspray has garnered vastly positive reviews from film critics such
as Roger Ebert, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe, as well as a
smaller number of reviews comparing it unfavorably to the Waters
original. The film is one of the top picks on Metacritic, with an
average of 81%.[48] It scored a 91% "Certified Fresh" approval rating
on Rotten Tomatoes, also indicating excellent reviews,[49] making it
one of 2007's best-reviewed films.[50] Peter Rainer of The Christian
Science Monitor named it the 4th best film of 2007.[51] Lou Lumenick
of the New York Post named it the ninth best film of 2007.[51]

Ebert gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4, saying that there was "a lot
of craft and slyness lurking beneath the circa-1960s goofiness," also
stating that "The point, however, is not the plot but the energy.
Without somebody like Nikki Blonsky at the heart of the movie, it
might fall flat, but everybody works at her level of happiness..."[52]
Ebert also noted that this film is "a little more innocent than Waters
would have made it..."[52] Krishna Shenoi, of the Shenoi Chronicle,
called the movie "Shankman's masterpiece," saying that it moved away
from his previous works into a different direction, making a light
comedy that deals with serious issues maturely. Shenoi also said that
the film was everything he wanted Grease (film) to be. Lou Lumenick of
The New York Post hailed Hairspray as "The best and most entertaining
movie adaptation of a stage musical so far this century — and yes, I’m
including the Oscar-winning Chicago," calling it "one of the best-cast
movies in recent memory..."[53] New York Daily News critic Jack
Matthews called the film "A great big sloppy kiss of entertainment for
audiences weary of explosions, CGI effects and sequels, sequels,
sequels."[54] The Baltimore Sun review offered Michael Sragow's
opinion that "in its entirety, Hairspray has the funny tilt that only
a director-choreographer like Shankman can give to a movie," pointing
out that Shankman skillfully "puts a new-millennial zing behind exact
re-creations of delirious period dances like the Mashed Potato."[55]
Dana Stevens from Slate called Hairspray "intermittently tasty, if a
little too frantically eager to please."[56] Stevens noted that
"Despite its wholesomeness, this version stays remarkably true to the
spirit of the original, with one size-60 exception: John Travolta as
Edna Turnblad," saying "How you feel about Hairspray will depend
entirely on your reaction to this performance..."[56]

The New Yorker’s David Denby felt the new version of Hairspray was
"perfectly pleasant," but compared unfavorably to the Broadway
musical, since "[director Adam Shankman and screenwriter Leslie Dixon]
have removed the traces of camp humor and Broadway blue that gave the
stage show its happily knowing flavor."[57] Denby criticized the dance
numbers, calling them "unimaginatively shot," and he considered "the
idea of substituting John Travolta for Harvey Fierstein as Tracy’s
hefty mother... a blandly earnest betrayal."[57] Stephanie Zacharek of
Salon.com found Hairspray "reasonably entertaining. But do we really
need to be entertained reasonably? Waters' original was a crazy sprawl
that made perfect sense; this Hairspray toils needlessly to make sense
of that craziness, and something gets lost in the translation."[58]
Zacharek was also displeased with the way Latifah's performance of "I
Know Where I've Been" was incorporated into the movie, saying "The
filmmakers may believe they're adding an extra layer of seriousness to
the material... [but] the inclusion of this big production number only
suggests that the filmmakers fear the audience won't get the movie's
message unless it's spelled out for them."[58]
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