Comments on: Mamma Mia! The Movie

By: Glenda Elswick

Glenda Elswick — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:24:37 +0000

My two daughters and I went to see Mamma Mia a few weeks ago. I have NEVER been anymore disappointed in ANY musical in all my life. The casting was ridiculous as NONE of them could sing worth listening to them. I thought Sophie was bearable, but ALL the rest were hideous and wayyyyyyyyyy too old to play the roles they had. PLEASE GO SEE THE BROADWAY MUSICAL as this cinema version is NOT WORTH even the mere $1.50 I paid. geapt

By: D. Hinson

D. Hinson — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:26:43 +0000

Ok, so I love Abba and Meryl Streep–she’s one of my favorite actresses. I also loved Mamma Mia on Broadway the three times I saw it there–but this movie was awful! Yes, everyone acted very well, but it did not translate well to the big screen in this adaptation. The minute the movie started I could tell it was going to be a mess, with the cast in that “Look at us–we’re in a musical!” mode. The lighting was so terrible, when scenes transitioned I kept thinking they were going to be dream sequences with the overly bright halo effect lighting that was scattered throughout the film. Poor Meryl Streep didn’t even escape unscathed as the movie was so embarrassing to watch. I would have walked out if I had been alone, but my partner, who is not a very discerning movie viewer, kept thinking it would get better. He has rarely ever said that he did not like a movie we’ve been to, but even he said he hated it afterwards. Don’t think it was because we’re not 50-something women either–we usually love chick flicks!

By: G.V.

G.V. — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:11:26 +0000

I saw the play in London several years ago and even though it didn’t strike me back then as a work of art, compared to this movie it sure felt like it. While I appreciate Streep’s charisma in a part which really doesn’t play to her incredible dramatic skills, everybody else in the cast gave me the feeling I was watching an improvised high school play done by people with very little talent. I was always a fan of Brosnan’s James Bond but his musical talents are no more than mediocre, specially while singing (that may be too strong a word) SOS and just standing there with not much to do but stare at Meryl, during her interpretation of THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL. I also found odd they would choose such an weird looking girl in the lead (with eyes just like a frog). I guess it didn’t feel to surprising that with so many people dancing near the water, a bunch of them would “accidentaly” fall in it and it’s not like I was expecting CASABLANCA but the only fun I had in watching MAMMA MIA was laughing at its awfulness.

Strictly for people who love to make hores-cabooses of themeselves on dance floors.

By: P. J. Ricci

P. J. Ricci — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:43:55 +0000

This movie is horrible. The music blows. It sucked in the 70’s so how can you make a play/film out of it. Pure pure crap. Most people have no taste nor sense of art. I would rather have dry heaves than endorse this disaster on anyone. It is torture.