"Hairspray"

Great musical. The plot follows the aspirations of a short plus-size girl to get on a dance reality show and win the guy of her dreams in 1960's Baltimore. Not much of a plot, but the execution is practically flawless. It touches a lot of subjects: being different in body size, in skin color, in attitudes and occupations as well as parent-children relationships, and even parent-parent ones. And does it in a lightweight manner with almost non-stop singing and dancing, so the viewer is never bored, never being uncomfortable or embarrassed about what's happening in the movie. The hairdos, the behaviors are ridiculous and over top. It's still great. And even though Christopher Walken and John Travolta are cast in weird roles, it almost works.

I'm still humming one of the songs a day after I saw the movie. The only question is whether the songs will survive for another ten or twenty years, like "Grease" (10/10) or "Saturday Night Fever" (8/10). For now though we have 9/10.