Mamma Mia! - Review

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1. adam Says:
   July 16th, 2008 at 17:53

   who is david that you mention?

1. JoshT Says:
   July 16th, 2008 at 18:00

   @adam Fixed!

1. Jeannie Says:
   July 17th, 2008 at 02:15

   This has to be the worst movie I have had to endure. It is a teeny, corny and sickly movie. Why Ms Streep would consent to such a trashy film I have no idea. My husband wanted to walk, I fought to stay awake and thought the end was never going to come. Arghhhh!!!!

1. monkey smith Says:
   July 25th, 2008 at 22:23

   I haven't seen this movie... yet but I think you people are funny, and bitter!!!! ^-^

1. Hom Lee Says:
   July 25th, 2008 at 22:23

   this movie was...... interesting...... there were famous people in it.... and it was fun for a rainy summer day and there was really good popcorn, and soda, that alone should make the movie worth while! So go see the movie, enjoy the popcorn and soda, and get over your bitterness.. ^-^

1. Cheryl Melinz Says:
   July 27th, 2008 at 01:19

   What is wrong with the critics of this part of the world? What school do they attend to learn how to critic a film or any arts. Most every “film Critic” just gets it wrong, for the public.
   
   The public, common people, who spend good money to see these films. We loved this film.
   
   We go to films to be entertained. To release ourselves of the daily routines that pull at us day by day. It is a necessity to come to those films and for a short while be completely and thoroughly entertained and to escape the real life, as it were, for just a while and believe.
   
   The film MaMa Mia was the film that put us in that place. It entertained, made one feel sad, happy and touched the hart with emotion and joy. Isn’t that what it was intended to achieve?
   
   My husband is not an emotional man, but he got tears in his eyes and felt great emotion when Meryl Streep sang her last song. That says to me she did her job and did it well.
   
   The film captured the audience through the whole film. It was greatly appreciated.
   
   To read the critics of this film in such a negative manner makes me wonder what really promotes those critics to write such negative reviews. It is perplexing!
   
   I realize they have been trained and have a completely different perspective when they critic a film, but I must ask myself if different ones only critic on what they themselves appreciate. I can not believe that does not have a play in the critics view. Yes, they can make or break a film with one negative thought. But, it is not always what the majority thinks or feels. We are the ones that determine what we like or don’t like, regardless of what a professional critic might believe.
   
   We pay for the films and the industry of films depends on what the public determines to be of value.
   
   MaMa Mia is a good movie with hart. And, as a musical its great fun and most anyone will feel very good when they leave the film. Isn’t that all that we really want, to feel good even for a short time in our lives? Go see the film! You won’t regret it! It's a great movie!
   

1. Mojo4141 Says:
   July 28th, 2008 at 00:53

   This is hands down with out a doubt the worst movie I have ever seen. The previews were very miss leading. I had to watch the whole movie to give it a shot just so I could say it was the worst movie I had seen,but just my opinion. So if you see someone you don't like recommend this movie to them.

1. Dee Says:
   July 28th, 2008 at 11:44

   I have now seen Mamma Mia twice, its fun, does not take itself seriously in this miserble hostile world its great to be able to escape. The bad critiques of this movie should shot. I know many people who have seen Mamma Mia and loved every minute of it. I cannot understand why people complain about it containing Abba music of course it does what it says on the tin. Go see it its heart warming and hilarious

1. Mike Says:
   July 29th, 2008 at 01:47

   Oh Dear, some people have a problem with a good old fashioned uplifting musical without any gore, crude vulgarity or blood. How refreshing just to sit and be entertained for a couple of hours by one of the modern age of film's finest and most versatile actresses and an excellent supporting cast. Yes, the plot was hokey and maybe that's what made it so enjoyable. We get plenty of reality on TV and in the everyday news so singing, dancing and a happy ending were just what the doctor ordered for many frustrated Americans. Way to go Meryl!

1. cjsmom Says:
   July 29th, 2008 at 01:48

   I loved this movie!!! I admit that I am a movie snob. I avoid chic flics and a lot of so called comedies but this movie is just pure fun. I think there is also an inside joke about these usually serious actors having fun and we the audience having fun with them as well. I have to say that when Meryl sang Winner takes it all and the duet Slipping through my Fingers, I did have tears in my eyes. She may not be the best singer but she's definitely better than I expected. I took my 14yr old son and when he realized that it is a musical and specifically ABBA for that matter, he was rolling his eyes and throwing mean looks at me. I told him he can go see other movies but he ended up staying and tried to suppress his laughter at some scenes. For the next 3 days, he can't help but belt out some of them ABBA songs. Maybe you with the Y chromosomes need a dose of ABBA

1. Vanessa Says:
   July 31st, 2008 at 13:27

   If i had not gathered a group of friends to go see it, I would have walked out in the first 5 minutes. This was terrifyingly awful. Why can't I remember Pearce Brosnan as a suave Bond, instead of a tongue- detached warbler who sounded like he was trying to pass a gall stone? Meryl- the best actress of her generation- was the winner until the " the winner takes it all" solo.
   Why didn't they cast singers?

1. Jan Says:
   August 3rd, 2008 at 20:02

   Typically, I am a movie snob, avoiding movies with minimal plot, but some friends invited me to Mama Mia, and I accepted the invitation. Prior to this, I had read the reviews and had not planned on going. Well, I loved this movie!!!!! It was silly, corny, cheesy, so kitschy, and so much fun!! This is the most fun I have had at a movie in years! And I loved that Pierce Brosnan could not sing. It was appropriate! It was great fun to see him in that kind of tongue in cheek role along with Meryl Streep and the rest of the cast. All of the boring, stuff shirt stick in the mud types just need to stay at home. It will be their loss.

1. DEBBIE4166 Says:
   August 5th, 2008 at 16:55

   I have seen the movie twice and I can't wait until I can see it again.
   I have since bought the soundtrack and listen to it daily. With all of the horrible things going on with this world right now, it was such a pleasure to sit and have a smile on my face for 2 hours!
   
   Ms. Streep is a phenominal actress in all of her movies. And what a great singing voice! I enjoyed all of the other cast as well.
   
   This was just a FEEL GOOD movie! It is finally a pleasure to watch a movie without violence, cursing and sexual content(of all kinds).
   
   Cudos to Ms Streep, Pierce Bronson to make a movie that is out of their realm to entertain the public.

1. gay broadway show luvr Says:
   August 11th, 2008 at 01:27

   I agree with just about every word the movie reviewer wrote. Embarrassingly, my mom didn't drag me to this, I dragged her. I was sad for us both to have to help each other stay awake through the welcome 10 pm end of this mess of a movie. We actually laughed at the actors, not with them. I don't know which was worse, the singing, or the casting! I have seen this on the Broadway stage twice, and thoroughly enjoyed the honest performances. This cheap imitation was a total letdown on ALL levels. God, the singing was awful! Hollywood, shame on you. You should have held out a little longer for better SINGERS, even if they were unknowns. You just butchered a great show, not only with the bad singing and bad casting, but the terrible choppy scene editing. The locations were great though, I enjoyed the view of Greece better than what was going on in front of it for almost the whole picture. The costume design was even lackluster. I expected over the top and I got stuff tired outfits that looked like they got dragged out of an old magiician's trunk. Amanda's goofy over-zealous perkiness got on my nerves from the beginning! Dominic was annoying as Sky and didn't even look like a drop dead 10 perfect hunk, more of a cookie cutter gay porn star, rating about 5 1/2. That ridiculous faux London accent of his - yuck! Meryl Streep, you oughtta be ashamed - you deserve an Oscar for THE worst performance of your career - so fake and unbelievable, both in acting and singing. You remind me of an aging Bonnie Raitt in this movie! Pierce Brosnan - NO amount of voice lessons will EVER help you sing better - you are an embarrassment to this picture too - and couldn't you have done some crunches or lipo for those sagging abs of yours? Nobody wants to see and open shirt full of molten fur on a sagging middle aged set of flabby abs. Baransky, you flopped on your face as Tanya. I did not believe you as an actress. And the Rosie character was also terribly miscast. Not funny, not believable, and very unattractive to look at. There was ZERO chemistry between this whole crew of performers. I would not call them actors, they do not deserve the title. ALL songs (and their orchestrations) in this movie were cheaply produced and it really sounded like they cut corners on the recording of the score. One of the new songs added in at the end was totally ridiculous and unneccessary. This movie is SO bad, I don't even think it deserves to be transferred to DVD. This 35 MM reel should be cremated and have the ashes scattered over the ocean, never to be seen again. Hollywood, go back to the drawing board and make it again someday with better direction, more suitable cast, and production values! I was going to round up a whole bunch of friends to go see this, but I'm so glad I can now tell them all to save their money and pass on it. I'm so disappointed, I think the theater should refund my 16 bucks back for the two tickets I bought. My mistake though, I only relied on the glitzy previews before I went instead of reading the online reviews as I should have! SAVE YOUR MONEY FOLKS - DO NOT GO SEE THE FLOP KNOWN AS MAMMA MIA!

1. anniehobson@googlemail.com Says:
   August 18th, 2008 at 16:59

   i thought mama mia was a real good movie i enjoyed it alot and im gunna see it agen i cant wait 2 see it on stage my mother has already seen it and she seys itz fab

1. Nancy Says:
   August 29th, 2008 at 04:58

   I absolutely loved this movie. Wasn't interested in seeing it at all until my sister practically dragged me, and I'm glad she did! Silly, maybe corny, yes, at times. But god, those old broads just belted some of those songs out, and I've never loved or respected them more as actresses--they looked like they were having such great fun! I never ever thought I'd see Brosnan in anything that made him halfway resemble anything warmer than a reptile--but I just loved his gravelly, off-note, finally-passionate-about-something singing! And Meryl's "Winner Takes it All"! Funny who the "winner" turns out to be in her version of this...
   
   I think it is a women's Zorba the Greek. There's the "women's side" of the "full catastrophe" (of being left behind, giving up your innocence for people who may or may not be worth it, being a single parent, having to work twice as hard to get half as much...). But it's treated first with the maturity that twenty years of experience and insight brings, then finally with joy, dancing, singing, weddings, drinking, flirtations... Wasn't it Maya Angelou who talked about being juicy? Well, this movie is sappy, but it's also JUICY;-)
   
   My sister thinks this film is the perfect antidote to what's sure to become a hateful next few months in our country, with the mud-slinging, overly serious people telling us what one-half the country should despise and mistrust about the other half. I agree, and think all politicians should be forced to watch this movie, even if just for the pure silliness of it all. Hanks, ABBA, Streep, et al, KUDOS!!!

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