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A sage once advised being wary of movies in which the people on screen are having more fun than the people in the audience. Mamma mia, was that good advice.
Streep's 'Mamma Mia!' Is Like Taking a Tiny Vacation
The legal definition of torture has been much aired in recent years, and I take Mamma Mia! to be a useful contribution to that debate.
The movie's spirit is somewhere between High School Musical and Hedwig and the Angry Inch; it's at once dorkily wholesome and proudly slutty.
If you're invited, you might as well enjoy yourself. Just don't say I didn't warn you. And don't you dare say I hate ABBA.
Yeah, it's all a little bit on the camp side. It's a musical based on the songs of ABBA. A little bit camp is probably the height of restraint.
A mostly ghastly spectacle
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Skip it, not because it's a chick flick, but because it doesn't aim to be more than fluff
After this, after "Movin' Out" (based on the deplorable songbook of one Willliam Joel), it's not even satire to suggest that the next big thing will be a musical inspired by the oeuvre of Howard Jones
...certain sequences are inherently far more affecting and engaging than others.
It wasn't a perfect adaptation, but it definitely captured the flavor, spirit and fun of the original material.
More fluff like "Mamma Mia!" than "Made of Honor" would make mid-year moviegoing a happier experience.
This special edition DVD of Mamma Mia! will be the perfect holiday gift for your ABBA-lovin' roommate%u2026and a reason for you to invest in earplugs. Ehhhhhhhhhhhh!
There's a neat free spirit versus family values message here, about a dad being no big deal when you can have three. Not to mention that family is more about who loves you, than whatever does or doesn't dangle between their legs.
Streep is quite simply a revelation - and you can't say that of many stars who've been around since Abba first ruled the charts in the '70s.
As for Meryl Streep, you sense that she's thinking what you're thinking: That she can't actually be in this movie.
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