David Brent

I agree.

I just stated a fact, that Abba have a large gay following.

As did Liberace, Will Young, Priscilla Queen of the Desert and Bette Midler.

Dave.

Freddy

All their music is good but 'Winner Takes it All' and 'The Day Before You Came' was for me their pinnacle. Separate the music and lyrics from their songs and still the quality is there.

Although not having seen the musical I sometimes feel a good, serious film could have been made using their their songs as a timepiece for the 70's and early 80's in Britain. So much happened during that time both in the country and individually for a lot of people.

Freddy

The world wags on.

narabdela

I couldn't agree more. They are both superb.

silverwhistle

I was never an ABBA fan. So, no.

"Trust me, I'm a doctor...!"

Marky B

Apparently,it has had people dancing in the aisles.
Ta Ta
Marky B

I am special. The heavens always open for me.

silverwhistle

The Wizard of Oz had my father dancing in the aisles – when he was a small boy. He and his cousin were thrown out of the cinema by the manager.

"Trust me, I'm a doctor...!"

scholes

Meryl Streep started life off as a singer, before she went into acting.
I liked Abba.
Girls dancing in close knit circles around countless handbags evokes times of yore.
Even Bono eventually conceded that their music was timeless. He did a charity gig with them I think.

It wouldn't be my type of film though.

MB

I was made to go and see this on Friday.

It is really, really, really bad. Really bad.

But mildly entertaining. The audience was united in disbelief at how bad it was though which was quite amusing.

The story has absolutely nothing to do with ABBA (I did really like ABBA) - but Bjorn and Benny are executive producers.

CaptainWaggett

I thought it was great. Sure, nobody involved is much of a singer but the songs are great and it's so ridiculous, it's completely awesome. My audience (mostly pensioners since it was a midweek matinee) absolutely loved it - people really were joining in.

MB

I'm just a bit of a sourpuss in this regard, I think. I don't like musicals..I'm not the market this was intended for..none of us were that went..

I think that is you enjoy Andrew Lloyd Webber etc - then it will be you thing.


There was a man behind me who said 'Oh dear god' 'please, god no' right throughout the film - completely deadpan - that was very entertaining!

The story structure wasn't bad...but everything else..nah - not for me

Brief Encounter

It was good, light-hearted fun - what more could you really ask for of an Abba movie? It was never going to be the Threepenny Opera now was it!!

MB

Well I would have liked to have seen an ABBA movie, perhaps...

It doesn't really matter..it reminded me , very much, of a 'Bollywood' movie. I have never got the 'fun because it's kitsch' thing about those, either. It's probably me.

JeanF

I've seen it and it's great. Just love all the songs and enjoy singing along with them. It's not a great movie just a bit of fun and lightheartedness.

christoph404

Possibly like many people of a certain generation on this site I remember Abba winning Eurovision and have always quite liked much of their music, not something a grown man could readily admit to many years ago without fear of ridicule, now its quite acceptable to express a fondness for the group and their music. Having said that the film clips I have seen of Mama Mia look truly awful, the clip of Meryl Streep running along singing with a group of villagers in tow looks like a glossy ad for Olive Oil or something similar. A friend of mine was "taken" to see it by his wife and two daughters and reported a cinema full of women and gay men and a few uncomfortable looking chaps like himself who he nodded at through the darkness in recognition of their common plight that was in central Lodon mind.

Captain Casper

I had to take the good lady to see it. Watching 15 or so menopausal old bags frugging along to "Dancing Queen" in the aisles was excruciating. I spent an hour trying to self-harm with a Nacho. Whoever cast Brosnan did so without an audition of his singing "talent".