Mamma Mia

[silverwhistle]

name='Marky B']Apparently,it has had people dancing in the aisles.

Ta Ta

Marky B

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.

[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".

[Steve Crook]

name='Captain Casper']Whoever cast Brosnan did so without an audition of his singing "talent".

Either that or they've got a very strange sense of humour



Steve

[Santonix]

Got dragged to the cinema to see this last night. I was not looking forward to it very much. It just didn't really appeal.

However!!! It was great, the cinema was packed and the place was rocking with laughter. I really was entertained for 2 hours. Don't worry about who can and can't sing, it doesn't matter. It's well worth watching

I will never pre judge a film again.

[Captain Casper]

name='Santonix']

I will never pre judge a film again.

Nor should anyone but I'd rather slam my nuts in the washing machine than go see Mamma Mia again.

[Santonix]

name='Captain Casper']Nor should anyone but I'd rather slam my nuts in the washing machine than go see Mamma Mia again.

Betcha wouldn't. lol

[bozzthegreat]

This film is pretty good if you go in there realizing it's a musical. Pierce Brosnan is pretty awful in it as he cannot sing but he adds a humorous factor. I enjoyed it.



Laura

[narabdela]

Saw this today with SHMBO. You really need to accept that the film is cheesy in the extreme, is fully aware of its cheesiness and indeed revels in it. It doesn't take itself seriously so why should we.



I enjoyed it, although Brosnan's singing is even worse than I was expecting.

[cumberbatches_woman]

i gave this 10 minutes and turned it off, what a waste of the likes of Julie Walters and the brilliant Meryl Streep.

[RogerThornhill]

My mother-in-law bought me a copy as one of my Birthday presents, it's strange because I always thought that we got on quite well.

[cumberbatches_woman]

awww Roger

[ShirlGirl]

This is a movie which obviously has a target audience. This thread is full of negative opinions, but if you don't like musicals and don't like Abba songs, it's not for you at all, so why go to see it in the first place?

It was loads of fun for "menopausal old bags" (thank-you Captain Casper) such as me and my two girlfriends (actually post-MOBs). We went along in the right frame of mind and had a ball. I wouldn't see it again though - it just wouldn't give the same level of enjoyment the second time around.

BTW, I didn't mind Pierce Brosnan in this. He's a delight to the eyes at any time and the fact that he was a bit out of place and can't sing too well somehow made him all the more appealing.