It sounds campy, but crossing them feels magical, like a connection to the past.
This movie gets dismissed as campy and cheesy, mainly because it is campy and cheesy.
Bright, campy and wonderfully light, "Hairspray" reminds us that fun comes in all shapes and sizes.
Oh, yes, there are still watermelons to slice, but that campy mechanic has been significantly downplayed.
"Seems kind of campy, but there's a lot of discipline to it, " says Gregg of his craft.
Meanwhile, this angry, somewhat campy man described how he had worked without pay for 15 years to maintain the old movie projectors.
The Belvedere is a campy, Venetian palace-inspired, clothing-optional resort for men that sits like a diamond tiara on the bay side of the island.
Like much of what the Public Art Fund promotes, "Discovering Columbus" can seem like campy fun a million-dollar confection brought to you by the city's billionaire mayor.
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It ushered in a new way to approach action adventure movies (as well as some pretty bad Indy copycats, some of which were fun in a campy way).
Losing the campy sound effects and adding a rich bossa nova touch, Nouvelle Vague makes "Master and Servant" more deeply sexy than Depeche Mode could have imagined.
The name is an homage to the campy television series.
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The movie is full of inspired touches as well as excessive ones: its appeal lies in the way its humor always treads the line between sendup and campy overkill.
Yet it's rarely seen nowadays, and the Roundabout Theatre Company's 2008 Broadway revival was a monstrosity in which Richard Greenberg rewrote Mr. O'Hara's no-nonsense book to coy and campy effect.
Back then, the inventively trashy filmmaker John Waters was having campy fun with early-'60s hair and fashion, and with his cross-dressing hausfrau, but he was also dressing down a certain set of early-'60s attitudes about conformity and racial segregation.
But Heng shows he is as effective an actress as the women who took on the production, delighting hometown crowds with campy aplomb but also investing his Emily with moments of dramatic poignancy in more "straight" portrayals before international audiences.
Do your homework - some estancias are just private homes that begrudgingly rent rooms for profit, others are campy circuses that bring in buses of camera-snapping tourists - but do not miss a chance to live out your cowboy dreams in the Argentine pampas.
Within a few months, Mr. Grahame-Smith completely restructured and rewrote the screenplay, injecting it with campy humor that plays up the film's absurd premise: Barnabas Collins, a vampire played by Mr. Depp, emerges from a coffin after 200 years to find himself in the polyester, lava-lamp world of 1972.
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