![]() ![]() She invites them all to the wedding putting her mom's name on the invitation. Sophie has one problem, she has never met her dad, she finds her mom's diary and discovers that she has three potential fathers. She has a very loving mother, Donna, who is running a broke down hotel in Greece and used to be in a girl group called The Donna's. Sophie is a young woman who is about to tie the knot with her loving and adventurous fiancée, Sky, her life is great. So it was nice to just sit there and be happy with these characters and you can't help but laugh at the predicaments that they get themselves into. I did see this movie on Saturday and really enjoyed it, as cheesy as it was, I do enjoy musicals, I think the only thing is that this this is the happiest musical that I have ever seen. ![]() she said "no, mamma mia", I looked up all surprised, Mamma Mia sold out as well, people were really looking forward to this movie as well. I looked at her with a smiling face and said "oh, yeah, dark knight, I know". With this big opening weekend either you're going to see the darker film The Dark Knight or you are going to see something more light hearted like Mamma Mia! Now I work at a movie theater, a lot of people were just assuming that everyone was going to see The Dark Knight, yesterday someone came up disappointed saying "my show sold out". My old Mum and I came out of the cinema buoyed up by the experience of watching it, and I cannot recommend it highly enough to anyone who enjoys musicals and/or Abba's music. This film is an utterly joyous experience. Amanda Seyfried as Sophie is simply delightful - she sings well, carries the plot and all the emotion which goes with it, and is very easy on the eye. Julie Walters and Christine Baranski as Meryl Streep's two oldest friends are both very funny (Julie Walters has a particularly funny little bit of business in a rubber boat), and Baranski has her own knockout number. The four leading women are all wonderful. Brosnan's singing has been criticised, but he is always in tune, and he delivers a satisfactory vocal performance rather than dazzling with a polished singing technique (which he hasn't got). The music, produced by composer Benny Andersson, mostly wisely sticks very close to the original arrangements, and the occasional divergences (Greek bouzouki on I Had A Dream, for instance) are spot on. There isn't a weak song among the two dozen which feature on the soundtrack. The music - sitting through this film brings home the strength of the Abba catalogue. But the film ultimately stands or falls - and it stands, believe me! - on two things: the music, and the cast. The script is mostly fairly deft, and there is a sprinkling of decent laughs. The Greek locations overflow with sun and primary colours. And the songs, with one or two obvious exceptions (Money Money Money cued by the rundown state of the hotel) are very cannily worked into the story so that each one is relevant. The story, such as it is, is quite strong enough to enable the songs to be hooked onto it. ![]() So Sophie invites all three of them to her wedding and, as expected, complications ensue. The trouble is her father could be any one of three men with whom her mother dot dot dotted twenty years ago. ![]() Sophie, who lives with her mother in a dilapidated hotel on an idyllic Greek island, wants nothing more than for her father to be at her forthcoming wedding. So that's my starting point when considering this movie which I have just been to see with my 80-year old mother. Conversely, I've always liked Abba's music. I'm not a Meryl Streep fan - I admire her craft, but mostly haven't liked the parts she's played. I like, but don't love, musicals - my DVD shelves contain a selection, but the stuff there is pretty obvious: Singing in the Rain, King and I, Wizard of Oz, Moulin Rouge etc. ![]()
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