07/18: Mamma Mia!
Cole:
Bobby:
Cole: I treasure the entire ABBA catalog.
Bobby: Fun summer entertainment. Who else can you ask for?
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Running Time: 108 min.
MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for some sex-related comments.
Directed By: Phyllida Lloyd
Starring: Meryl Strep, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard
The thing that can cripple a musical faster than any amount of lousy singers or weak stories is a collection of bad songs. The greatest musicals of all time feature classic, catchy numbers that remain stuck in your head as you leave the theater. It’s possible to write this kind of music from scratch, but it’s far easier to cheat and import the catchiest, shiniest, disco-est, Swedish-est music ever produced. That’s right, just take the best of ABBA’s catalog and surround it by a thin premise and pretty stars including Meryl Strep, and you have the best musical ever (and by ever, I mean in the last year or so), Mamma Mia!
What happens when a girl who doesn’t know who her dad is invites the three potential candidates to her wedding without her mom’s knowledge? Wackiness, of course, and this movie. There isn’t much more than that, save for the delicious dance numbers and getting a chance to see a former James Bond sing.
Because my biggest issue involving the music isn’t applicable in this one, I don’t have many complaints. The cast is solid, especially the dads (Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, and Stellan Skarsgard). It’s obvious that everyone was having a lot of fun filming this and that feeling bleeds over into the audience. The plot lacks in many areas, including any concludes any of the questions brought up in between all of the dancing, but I can’t complain much about this. A musical like this need not solve all number of contemporary social problems, it just needs to be easy-to-consume summer fare. At that it succeeds with a soundtrack of the gods and a cast that would have been a great James Bond 20 years ago.
Bobby: Fun summer entertainment. Who else can you ask for?
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Running Time: 108 min.
MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for some sex-related comments.
Directed By: Phyllida Lloyd
Starring: Meryl Strep, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard
The thing that can cripple a musical faster than any amount of lousy singers or weak stories is a collection of bad songs. The greatest musicals of all time feature classic, catchy numbers that remain stuck in your head as you leave the theater. It’s possible to write this kind of music from scratch, but it’s far easier to cheat and import the catchiest, shiniest, disco-est, Swedish-est music ever produced. That’s right, just take the best of ABBA’s catalog and surround it by a thin premise and pretty stars including Meryl Strep, and you have the best musical ever (and by ever, I mean in the last year or so), Mamma Mia!
What happens when a girl who doesn’t know who her dad is invites the three potential candidates to her wedding without her mom’s knowledge? Wackiness, of course, and this movie. There isn’t much more than that, save for the delicious dance numbers and getting a chance to see a former James Bond sing.
Because my biggest issue involving the music isn’t applicable in this one, I don’t have many complaints. The cast is solid, especially the dads (Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, and Stellan Skarsgard). It’s obvious that everyone was having a lot of fun filming this and that feeling bleeds over into the audience. The plot lacks in many areas, including any concludes any of the questions brought up in between all of the dancing, but I can’t complain much about this. A musical like this need not solve all number of contemporary social problems, it just needs to be easy-to-consume summer fare. At that it succeeds with a soundtrack of the gods and a cast that would have been a great James Bond 20 years ago.
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