The Reel Rejects - HAIRSPRAY (2007) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!

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Starting point is 00:01:37 What is going on there, Citizens of the Reject Nation? I am joined by Aaron Alexander because today I have realized every lady on the channel has seen hairspray. But not Aaron. Hi. Us two dudes are going to watch hairspray today. Out of everyone here at the channel, we're not the pairing you would expect for hairspray. We're not the typical demographic, but that's okay. That's okay.

Starting point is 00:02:03 I like musicals. I like chick flicks. I don't even know if it's a chick flick. I don't know anything. I know it's a musical. That's all I know. Well, guys and girls, leave a like on this video. Also, be sure to subscribe and put the notification bell because we got a lot coming out in December.

Starting point is 00:02:17 Thank you to Prepper for helping to set it down these highlights. Thank you to all who have joined our Patreon page by becoming super sexy rejects. That's where you can catch the full-length reaction watch along where you sync up with their own copy of hairspray. And we also cover several things over their except. things out of there exclusively with highlights and watch-alongs included. Aaron, you ready? I was born ready. To sing and watch movies.

Starting point is 00:02:37 That's the intro of me. But we're going to sing during this movie. Maybe we shouldn't cover this together. Just get a little notes. Directed and choreographed by the same person. I've ever seen that before. That's cool. Leslie Dixon.

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Starting point is 00:06:23 Let's get those jingo balls holiday ready with Manscaped. Okay, so we got the credits rolling. Aaron, please, my friend, who I did not intentionally bring here. You mean, because he's black. A racial movie. We almost watched City of God, which would have been way more on the nose. I think, I don't know anything about it. I saw, I think I saw black people and the covers.

Starting point is 00:06:50 The cover? I don't even know what that movie is. I don't know what it is either, but I was like, no, let's watch hairspray. I'm sure this will be just a nice fun time. Wow. With no social commentary whatsoever. I enjoyed this movie. It was fun.

Starting point is 00:07:09 It was a lot of fun. The music was catchy. The dancing was incredible. The sets were awesome. All the acting was really good. The lead girl is super charming. everybody just fucking freaking killed it i can't say the f word maybe at this point in the video i can but uh yeah i thoroughly enjoyed it i thought that there was such diversity and the types of

Starting point is 00:07:32 music we saw in the movie i thought the performance especially i think it was i guess for the credits it was an 80s movie first and then a stage play in 2002 really yeah good just by the order of what the credit said oh fascinating okay i would have thought this came out in like 19 um It came out in like the mid-2000s, this version of it anyway. Oh, yeah. I thought this play came out in 1962, exactly. Huh. No.

Starting point is 00:08:00 Oh, no, it came on the 80s, you said. The movie came out of the 80s movie. You would have thought it came out of the 60s. I mean, I said, I'm just joking. I know, I know. I was saying that I thought the stage play would have come first. That would make sense, but I guess not. Maybe, okay, maybe they made the movie, then,

Starting point is 00:08:20 The movie inspired the play, and then it's one of those situations where the play version inspired the new iteration of the movie. Right, right, right, right. Like it be a thing. Okay. That happens sometimes. Let's watch the original one now. Let's do it. Back to back.

Starting point is 00:08:37 Compare back to back. I mean, this is the exact same movie. There's not a creative bone in this movie's five. But this time, we're taking shots every time they say Negro Day. Oh, yeah. And I'll chant it. three times every time I can get away with it

Starting point is 00:08:55 and I'll give you a look which you don't know if it's approval or disapproval but you mean every look yeah that's just the fear in me it's okay it's how I respond it's okay you either gain a lot of respect or get a lot of haters

Starting point is 00:09:07 either way but what you're not like about it only two things only two things but it doesn't take away from the rest of the review I think that there are moments I think just a causality of like just musicals and

Starting point is 00:09:20 general where they're like moments or beats that were like skipped over for the sake of the plot like for the fact that uh they didn't they got canceled or their negro day got canceled off screen and we didn't even see like the process of that and then uh there's one other thing that that happened off screen that i was like oh this has happened a little fast um well i get what you're getting out because things get resolved quickly very quickly like there'll be a moment of tension or conflict and then resolution can kind of come at the time it was the most prolonged was the whole thing with the cancellation.

Starting point is 00:09:56 I can't say the word, right? You say Black Day. It's a Black Day. Okay. African-American Day. What about G-Day? Monarch says that referring to Godzilla. Nope, that sounds offensive in some way now. Say N-day. Say any day. They canceled the Black people's.

Starting point is 00:10:20 there you go you can say that but I really want to say the word I'll pay you money somebody say it man it's not a hostile moment right there it's like 50 cents

Starting point is 00:10:36 for everything yeah yeah I know yeah I think yeah it's the causality of of it being a musical because they want to make this this experience that's both

Starting point is 00:10:50 fun that has this plot carry the music that they're trying to do but in that some of the character moments both plot wise as far as like how they progress and individual character moments are kind of sacrificed because of that sure i think that's just the causality of just the kind of story where we're watching but overall i enjoyed it i had a lot of fun with it i can't say it's my favorite musical but it's definitely a really enjoyable one there's like a number of songs i can think of like baltimore was really great that you can't stop the beat at the end was really great um who's that guy who said was there twitch so he was a dancer he's like a really famous dancer uh that he was on like so you think he can dance he was like really big with

Starting point is 00:11:32 his family on uh on what's the app the clock act tick tock and uh yeah he was like he like did a lot of stuff for like the community for like younger dancers and stuff and then either i think it was either late last year or really this year uh he kind of undelived himself so oh did Did he? Yeah. Yeah, it was a big thing. But, yeah, he was a really good guy. He was really positive and really impactful on both dancers and just like non-black people.

Starting point is 00:12:02 Yeah, yeah, he was a good guy. But it was cool to see him pop up in this movie. I liked his little cameo. But yeah, man, I liked it overall, man. What did you think? I liked it quite a bit. I thought it was really fun. and I obviously have no idea what the 80s version is like or the 2000s I had no idea

Starting point is 00:12:26 had no idea what this movie was even about I expected a period piece just due to some of the images that I had seen and I really I thought it was like some things just be a little repetitive from what we said during the reaction vibrant colorful full of charm and charisma just laced throughout every performer gave their a game even for someone like a man to buy and she really knew her role which is like there's something so funny about how simple of a character she is like it's it's not like I don't want to I want to make sure to phrase this properly because I don't want it to sound like I'm justifying something here because it's not to me I feel like it was super intentional of how her character like just this like completely kind of air

Starting point is 00:13:15 head dry type of performance that I thought was really, really funny. And, and, but yeah, our main, our main character lead was amazing as well. John Travolta, too. John Travolta, great. Yeah. It took me a while

Starting point is 00:13:31 to get lost in it. Like, I would be, I was really aware almost every time they cut back to John Travolta that it was John Travolta. Oh, yeah. I never, I'm only ever stopped seeing John Travolta. I was just like, okay, I accepted that this is John Travolta playing this mother and he's like I think it's part of the fun though yeah is like knowing it's John Travolta that's like you need a bit of that awareness like you never stop seeing his face but I feel like he does a good job with his mannerisms of portraying that this is a woman who's like a recluse who was like a lot of fear and and well I think self not deprecation what's the word um insecurities yeah I think what helps is he's so committed to it oh yeah

Starting point is 00:14:15 And not in a way that's like, I'm playing the joke of, I'm a guy in a, in a, in a big suit, and I'm a woman, you know, he's not like Eddie Murphying or something. Right, right. He's just really committed to the character. And because of his commitment, uh, even if you're like, even if you still see John Gibraltar, it works. Yeah. Like within the context of the film. So I thought he was great. I think, I think Michelle Pfeiffer was very effective. as the villain of the movie. I thought she was excellent. The costumes were gorgeous and the choreography. It's fun to see a musical where a lot of the times, what I really liked about is that it felt like a film, you know, and granted, it's like based off of a, it's a remake of an 80s movie,

Starting point is 00:15:04 but what I really loved is, you know, seeing that it was directed and choreographed by the same person was really interesting to me because this could have easily been something where it relies so much on just the performances and the choreography yeah but the movies really directed like there's so many shots in this film and the editing is kind of flawless in the way they capture the musical sequences there's such great variety of musical numbers and uh i was i was so impressed by just how composed every musical number was that it wasn't just reliant on performers singing and dancing and getting a few shots like there was so much effort put

Starting point is 00:15:52 into directing this shit out of this movie you know and and I love that and you get this like a really cathartic epic finale but I do I would I would agree with you though that like yeah I mean it's it's long it feels long you know and maybe we're more aware of the time just because of the kind of date we've had but you know so it's under two hours technically but Yeah, yeah, you just have to feel a little bit towards the end. Yeah, but when you do get to the finale, you're like, this is a really great finale. Oh, it's fun. There was never a moment where I wasn't enjoying that final song.

Starting point is 00:16:25 But I did find myself kind of craving a bit more, I guess the word is like sitting with the tension and really feeling it at times. Instead of like getting resolved. Because it took a while for like tension to really kick in. It was like a 40 minute mark. And I think you kind of need some of that, like the actual main plot to feel some of the drama. you know and what's in those moments to breathe a little bit more yeah but it's a musical so you're often getting swept up in musical numbers and maybe that's not what you're really going to get like my favorite kind of musicals are are the ones that that can be um that can really go in and out

Starting point is 00:17:03 a little bit more often and and really experience the drama of the scenes when there's not a musical number happening do you see a tick-tick boom i have not that's a great i've heard that's a great musical Yeah. I haven't seen that one. But as it stands, I mean, I think it's a pretty grand... It's a grandiose. It's a grand larger-than-life film. And, you know, the message is pretty simple.

Starting point is 00:17:30 Don't be racist. Don't be racist. Don't be prejudiced towards people of other body sizes. I did like that. Because we've seen a lot of movies. There's a lot of movies out there about, like, defeating racism. And while that's a message that for some reason needs to constantly be driven home to even to this day, dealing with body images in the same movie, I'm like, oh, that's actually something I've never even really thought about it.

Starting point is 00:17:57 And for it to be like, who you put on TV. Right. And to be accepting of that and to embrace all types. I thought was a really, really neat thing to do like a duel of both of those, actually, in one movie. Yeah, I thought it was interesting because it started off about her. about Tracy and her being perceived as not being worthy to be someone on TV because of her body size. And then there were like the seas planted in about Negro Day like in the beginning. And it felt like it was going to be her overcoming this whole journey of like how she's perceived in the world and how that affects her generally.

Starting point is 00:18:38 Oh, they made a musical too. I mean a live version. Interesting. but yeah that it turned into this larger thing of inclusion not only with people of altering body sizes but of race as well and i think once we got to see the aspects of race that's when like the thing really like kind of carried off and i think if we would have gotten a little bit more moments to breathe or a little bit more of the tension of that kind of like how you were saying i think it would have been like a heightened experience but i think maybe that's just how the musical is on its own but yeah like i thought that that number where they were all walking through the street was really good you know it wasn't really about the dances about the performance was about this moment this this this act that they're doing in solidarity one another because they are experiencing and injustice so yeah also the the variety of music was really great from the music number

Starting point is 00:19:32 musical number we saw with uh much not michel fifer what's her name bernie snow not brittney snow Do you say Britney Snow? Is that how it was? No, the classic song with Christopher Walkin and with John Travolta. And that song versus like the more traditional kind of stuff with Baltimore that like feels like very musical theatery. And then we had the song where they're walking the street that feels like very just like old school, very much rooted in black culture. And, and, uh, oh, Queen Latifah. Queen Latifah song.

Starting point is 00:20:07 Queen Latifah was also great in the movie as well. I thought she absolutely murdered her performance and I also like the satire like there's a lot of yeah satire yeah there's some good satire in it there was a great satire when they make fun of the 60s I thought that was really fun I like the scene where it's it's it's what's her name's number or it's a john Travolta's number and she's going out and like the exaggerated like there's all the kids in the car and then like the pregnant lady what you were talking about because at first that's what you were talking about so that's what we remember that was that the movie has a really funny satire yeah no it's it hey this this very round ron and tomatoes has now also as i've been wanted to compare the ron tomatoes of both both the movies have an incredible audience in critic scores oh wow the 2007 that's when this came out 2007 yeah um but yeah like the eddie

Starting point is 00:20:57 murphy comparison to someone else also said that wow someone said when blonsky dances it's embarrassing. That's really mean. She was like the best part of the movie. Who is that black guy Amanda Binds was into? He was great. He was excellent. He's a superstar. He was excellent. I have a theory that the main girl, she's so charismatic in such a life and such energy in this movie. I have a feeling she's more of a theater actress. They got someone from the stage to be the lead of the. That would make a lot more sense. Elijah Kelly. I feel like he's probably a theater actor too okay let's see what has she been in so far a lot iMd beat the chick oh this i guess is yeah there's her movies right here

Starting point is 00:21:47 huh i have no idea what that huge gap between 2003 and 2013 she didn't do anything for like 10 years i guess one thing in 2017 yeah tv all right let's look up Elijah kelly i feel like a lot these guys are theater actors yeah yeah oh he was in the butler i haven't seen the butler i've never seen the butler either what oh dude that's perfect for for us as just friends yeah it's friends as buddies that's just friends nothing nothing else nothing no reason we'll wear our negro day t-shirts to the movie blind people blind people you ever seen ray you want to watch a movie ray with uh with uh with Jamie Fox?

Starting point is 00:22:37 The Ray Charles? Yeah, Ray Charles. I know that movie really well. It taught me that racism exists. You haven't seen it? I have seen it. It's a great move. We should watch it again.

Starting point is 00:22:47 I'll watch you watching the movie. Okay. Yeah. What about roots? Seen roots? No, I have not seen roots. I haven't seen roots either. That sounds like a really fun reaction right there.

Starting point is 00:23:03 Or Django and Chain. You want to watch Django Unchained? Of course. Have you not? No, I love that movie. It's one of my favorite movies. Dude, you got me so excited. I was like, that was the time.

Starting point is 00:23:13 Views. I've never seen the Kill Bill's now. Yeah, I had someone for you, and they dumb messed it up. Oh, they watched them? Lame. Boo. Andrew Gordon. Oh.

Starting point is 00:23:26 Now we're stuck with just watching Jewish movies here. Gosh, dang it. Anyway. Jackie Brown, never seen Jackie Brown. Oh, that has a lot. a black person it does a few of them there's a couple in there actually yeah man you sometimes you make enough of these racist satire jokes and people

Starting point is 00:23:51 were last funny and then once in a while people will just come at you happen today did they really on some old ass video of mine that i saw a comment on what and from years ago they were like that was i know you think you're funny but that was kind of racist and i'm like hey man law of averages. It's funny and then once in a while are like, whoa, that sounds racist. You made like hundreds of videos. You still just got to get alert for all the people that comment on your video?

Starting point is 00:24:17 Yeah, I was a lot of some Patreon video. Oh, okay. So it might have been really bad. Ooh. Oof. Because I could be more edgy there. I kind of want to see it now. I didn't even click on it.

Starting point is 00:24:27 I want to know what you said. Oh, what were we going to say about this? They said, they said like, I'm Asian and that's like and I know I think you're funny but that's kind of that's racist but if you make them like an Asian you get a pass because you're Asian and that's what I said like this is an old video and I'm Asian that's all I said there you go you get the yeah so I'm like what's up that's self-love right there how dare they yeah how dare they for assuming now let me tell you a black joke lady is what I said you oh you're

Starting point is 00:25:01 going to tell me the Christopher Walk in a saying he's saying in something You didn't ever see that music. I actually don't know if he sings in it, but there was that music video. It was like a really famous one. I was worried it was going to be like a famous movie that I never knew about. I don't actually, I feel like seeing stuff of him singing. I was always aware, but now I couldn't even call the hand. I couldn't even, okay, there was one like famous, the fat boy slim one is a huge, is a huge one where he's just, it's just him dancing the whole time.

Starting point is 00:25:28 What is this? I've never heard of that before. You've never heard of that? You've never heard of that. great it's just him dancing that's awesome he's got like i was aware that he has like a theater background so that's i think i just knew that he sings oh for sure and i've like heard like bits but i didn't i can't tell you like yeah he he sings this and that 72 million views dude no it's just like it's a great video i've seen it a bunch it's just him dancing the whole time

Starting point is 00:25:57 She's Christopher Walks and Dancing for three and three and it's a really good video Clearly the man's got it man's got the skill but yeah no overall hairspray I would give it like I just think for like the amount of creativity and from what I can see from the Ron Tomatoes comparisons that it's not just a shot for shot remake or I think they even create some songs for it oh wow um from what I can and it's funny too the movie's funny it's really funny it's fun and I think the movie the movie when it embraces the comment I think there's some very creative visual gags in here yeah and when they embrace that I think it's really effective so while like while the message is nice I wasn't like super moved by the message or something

Starting point is 00:26:42 I'm more like this is a fun movie fun songs and with great performances uh I think just for filmmaking like that was really like a like a 9 out of 10 just for that uh alone give the film the filmmaking of the film a 9 out of 10? I think my overall film experience is like an 8 out of 10. Okay. I probably go 7.5.

Starting point is 00:27:05 Okay, yeah, yeah. But I boost it up because I'm like, this took a lot of I think there's a lot of creativity in this movie. And I give it for the credit and knowing just how long it, having a basic understanding

Starting point is 00:27:19 of it takes forever to set up one shot. Yeah. And then to see just a how much ingenuity they put into like every single scene where it didn't feel like a mess it still flowed the entire time in a smooth way i was i was delighted by that but yeah there was something a bit missing for me so yeah i've seen other movie musicals that have moved me never had that like that heart like wrenching of that that heart grabbing number within the movie you know i

Starting point is 00:27:48 think they for the most part kept it like on the lighter side with their with their stuff but yeah i do agree with you in the sense that it was like a movie you would tell that was directed really well and like the shots look like they're really well composed and like the way that the they shot the music just felt very energetic the whole movie felt alive like you can tell a movie or like it's just very static and they don't care but they really you can really tell the love and care put into this film both within the performances and behind the scenes so yeah I would say overall the 7.5 because it didn't I feel like the the themes they touched on but both with the stuff with like the weight and the food and the block experience.

Starting point is 00:28:29 I think something I can identify with personally, but I think for both of those things being in this movie, it could have hit harder. Me? What? Crazy. Who would have thought? Yeah. I identify with the white people.

Starting point is 00:28:41 That's right. I gave it a 7.5 and yeah, it was fun. Yeah. Yeah, man. What did you guys think of Harrispray? What's your favorite musical number here? What's your favorite musical? Leave your thoughts down below.

Starting point is 00:28:54 Be sure to subscribe, leave a like, and hey, we'll catch you all soon. Peace out, Reject Nation. Peace out, peace out.

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