Worst Remake Ever

I just watched the original 1988 "Hairspray" again last night, after about five years since my last viewing... and it struck me forcibly just how godawful the remake is. John Travolta might be a touch more attractive in drag, but he just doesn't even hold a candle to Divine, who I spent years trying to decide - "he or a really ugly she?" Every single one of the new characters, with the only possible exception of Michelle Pfeiffer, utterly lacks the sparkle and soul of the original cast, and the musical numbers really pretty much blow. What was the point in turning a movie about music into a musical, which loses most of the fantastic original soundtrack? Or taking a character like Edna Turnblad and turning her into a sniveling, chin-quivering, hyper-sensitive waste of flesh? Seeing the musical remake just made me appreciate the original version more.