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Hairspray (2007)
Excellent Musical, Travolta almost kills it.
First, I love musicals, and I enjoy John Water's more "mainstream" movies (Hairspray, Pecker, Cry Baby). I loved nearly everything about Adam Shankman's re-imagining of the original film, except for a few things. First, Nikki Blonski, Zac Efron, Amanda Bynes, Christopher Walken, and Elijah Kelley are all absolutely stunning, great voices and great acting. John Travolta and Michelle Pfeiffer are terrible. John Travolta's voice waivers between a Midwestern accent to his normal, JT voice, to some other weird accent throughout the movie. After the cuteness of Travolta being a woman wears off, you realize that his acting is quite bad...Pfeiffer too.
So the movie and music are excellent, songs are top-shelf, Travolta almost kills it all with his confused, poorly-acted character.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
Not true enough.
I have love "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" since childhood, reading this particular book over 10 times. I just finished it again today and watched this movie again. Unfortunately, this film relies on fabricated tension instead of the tension still built into the book, and it makes for a very weak story that never really builds to the emotional climax the book delivers. Some tense words from the book are simply removed from this movie, or re-fashioned in the name of excitement. The movie adds tension that simply doesn't exist in the book. It hurts to say that it this is a clear attempt to follow in the LOTR greatness and simply comes up short.