A cotton-candy gloss on gleeful provocateur John Waters' sweetest movie, director-choreographer Adam Shankman and screenwriter Leslie Dixon's adaptation of the Broadway musical is so cute, sugary, bubbly and eager to please that its essential blandness could almost go unnoticed.
Congenitally cheerful tubby-teen Tracy Turnblad (Nikki Blonsky) and her best friend Penny Pingleton (Amanda Bynes) live for rock 'n' roll, and in 1962 Baltimore, rock lives on "The Corny Collins Show," a locally produced American Bandstand knockoff. Tracy dreams of dancing on the program, especially if it gets her closer to dreamboat Link Larkin (HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL's Zac Efro...
Released:
2007
Rated:
PG
Length:
117 mins