Mamma Mia! (2008)
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Reviews Counted: 178
Fresh: 97 | Rotten: 81
This jukebox musical is full of fluffy fun but rough singing voices and a campy tone might not make you feel like "You Can Dance" the whole 90 minutes.
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 42
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 23
This jukebox musical is full of fluffy fun but rough singing voices and a campy tone might not make you feel like "You Can Dance" the whole 90 minutes.
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Longing to discover the identity of her true father before she exchanges her wedding vows, the daughter of a once-rebellious single mother secretly invites a trio of paternal candidates to her upcoming wedding in this feature adaptation of the beloved stage musical. Independent-minded single mother Donna (Meryl Streep) has always done her best to raise her spirited daughter, Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), while simultaneously running a successful hotel on a small Greek island, but now the time has
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Dominic Cooper
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All Critics (181) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (103) | Rotten (83) | DVD (19)
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.
Top CriticStreep'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.
A lot of fun.
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.
Like a big gay Terminator, Mamma Mia! will track down your cynicism and blast it into smithereens: it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you're having fun.
It would be easy to underrate the deceptively effortless master acting class that Meryl Streep puts on here.
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.
Audience Reviews for Mamma Mia!
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- Sam: You always knew how to make an entrance.
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- Rosie: It's very Greek.
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- Rosie: Typical isn't it? You wait 20 years for a dad and then three come along at once.
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- Donna: Somebody up there has got it in for me. I bet it's my mother.
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