Oh, Fun

[madrobins]

We took time out from Harry Potter tonight to go see Hairspray, which is just an enormous, genial, goofy party on film. Everyone concerned looks like they're having too much fun. I found myself just grinning through the last half of it. Curiously Queen Latifah, playing Motormouth Mabel, was a little down-energy, as if she felt the weight of singlehandedly representing the civil rights movement. But it's just marvelous fun; go see it.