And, believe it or not, I loved John Travolta as Edna. He played it well. He (or the director) decided to play the part as if he was a woman. He didn't go for some sort of over the top swish, he played it realistically.

The cast all in all was great. Nikki Blonsky was terrific. She totally sold me on her character from the very beginning. Walken, Queen Latifah, Michelle Pfeiffer were all great. And Zac Efron and Elijah Kelly are adorable.

With that being said, ultimately I prefer the stage version to the movie. But the movie totally rocked. There were just some adjustments made to the film that I didn't agree with. The songs "Big Doll House" and "Mama I'm a Big Girl Now" were cut, the latter was sung during the credits by Blonski, Ricki Lake and Marissa Jaret Winokur which was a nice touch. However, cutting the prison scene stole a wonderful moment where Link rescues Tracy from prison. Not only that, but "Without Love" (one of my all-time favorite Broadway tunes ever) was hacked up in the process. Instead of it being a moment where Link and Seaweed resuce their maidens, it turned into a scene where Seaweed and Penny rescue Tracy from Penny's mom's house and Link is forced to sing to a picture of Tracy instead. Bleh! The fact that the picture sang back saved the moment from being really dull, but I still wanted to see my favorite moment from the stage version captured precisely on film. Oh well.
Another scene had Tracy making a stand at a protest and then ended up with her running away leaving everyone else to be jailed. That was a wtf moment.
John Water's and Ricki Lake's cameos were nice.