There are comedic scenes where the mother reads religious texts, listens to records entitled “The Lord’s Prayer,” and splashes holy water on her daughter. The character is depicted in a mostly negative light, which adds to the movie’s Romantic elements. Regrettably, the movie does not attempt to express that Jesus Christ loves and accepts all his children, and this love covers a multitude of sins (1 Peter 4:8). Inappropriate and distracting are two words that would describe John Travolta’s performance as Tracy’s mother, Edna Turnblad. John Waters had the cross-dressing transvestite, Divine, playing the mother in the original movie.
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