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"The runaway West End stage musical smash gets the Hollywood treatment, and proves to be almost as equally smashing in movie theaters as it was in Broadway theaters. Actually, there's only one real reason Mamma Mia is on this list. It's b'cuz I really like ABBA's music.... alot. And sayin' that does not make my hardcore pimp-ass any less hairier. So, you know.... shut up. "
“I love musicals, ABBA, Meryl Streep, and a lot of the character actors appearing in supporting roles, but Mamma Mia! is, without a doubt, dreadful. Much of the blame goes not on the vague sketch of a plot, plenty of musicals have stories that merely exists as a threadbare setup between songs, but on Phyllida Lloyd’s amateur hour direction. The film is edited to shreds mistaking frantic cuts for energy, and an inability to understand that merely repeating the choreography from the Broadway stage for the camera is not successful staging. Some of the cast seems game if a bit lost, Streep in particular appears to be over-doing it and Colin Firth is clearly having the time of his life, but a lot of the film feels lost at sea, like Pierce Brosnan’s winced performance or the fact that several” read more
" Director: Phyllida Lloyd Based on songs by ABBA Starring: Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Amanda Seyfried, Dominic Cooper, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters, Rachel McDowall, Ashley Lilley, Philip Michael and Niall Buggy Donna, an independent single mother who owns a small hotel on an idyllic Greek island, is about to let go of Sophie, the spirited daughter she’s raised alone. For Sophie’s wedding, Donna has invited her two lifelong best girlfriends - pract"