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| | REVIEW / Big hair. Big movie. Big fun. |
 | | Enjoyable movies are released every week, but movies that have the capacity to delight -- movies like "Hairspray" -- are few and far between. |
 | | We might point to the characters, the script or the actors and make a pronouncement, but magic is elusive and has hundreds of components, big and small, from the set design and choreography to the way the light reflects off John Travolta's glitter dress. |
 | | The movie is enormously silly, and yet the movie still carries its serious message thanks to the smart casting of Nikki Blonsky, as the chubby Baltimore girl who dreams of local dance-show fame, and John Travolta, as her rotund mother, Edna. |
| sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/reviews/movies/HAIRSPRAY.DTL&type=printable (760 words) |
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