After finding her mother's diary, young Sophie beliefs it will channel her course in trying to find her father who has not been a part of her life from the beginning.
20 September 1923, Gibraltar
1971, Costa Mesa, California, USA
16 May 1953, Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland
1956, Central Square, New York, USA
2 June 1978, Greenwich, London, England, UK
October 14, 2012
Like a big gay Terminator, Mamma Mia! will track down your cynicism and blast it into smithereens: it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you're having fun.
July 21, 2008
A lot of fun.
July 18, 2008
The movie's spirit is somewhere between High School Musical and Hedwig and the Angry Inch; it's at once dorkily wholesome and proudly slutty.
October 18, 2008
A sage once advised being wary of movies in which the people on screen are having more fun than the people in the audience. Mamma mia, was that good advice.
July 18, 2008
If you're invited, you might as well enjoy yourself. Just don't say I didn't warn you. And don't you dare say I hate ABBA.
August 25, 2009
A mostly ghastly spectacle
July 15, 2009
Mnoge od scena su nadrealno %u0161a%u0161ave
April 08, 2011
Yeah, it's all a little bit on the camp side. It's a musical based on the songs of ABBA. A little bit camp is probably the height of restraint.
July 24, 2012
It would be easy to underrate the deceptively effortless master acting class that Meryl Streep puts on here.
February 18, 2009
After this, after "Movin' Out" (based on the deplorable songbook of one Willliam Joel), it's not even satire to suggest that the next big thing will be a musical inspired by the oeuvre of Howard Jones
July 21, 2008
The legal definition of torture has been much aired in recent years, and I take Mamma Mia! to be a useful contribution to that debate.
July 18, 2008
Streep certainly gives it the old college try and so do Walters and Baranski, who are experienced singer/dancers. Somehow they all end up looking just as flamboyantly amateurish as everybody else.
