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.
So the movie and music are excellent, songs are top-shelf, Travolta almost kills it all with his confused, poorly-acted character.