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Friday, July 18, 2008 12:00 AM

"Mamma Mia!"

Pierce Brosnan sings! Meryl Streep dances! Can't you hear ABBA's "SOS"?
By Stephanie Zacharek

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  • Friday, July 18, 2008 03:35 AM

    Well, I have seen it

    As I live in the UK, where it opened last week. And Stephanie is probably right about its objective merits.

    That said, however, it was the most fun I've had at the movies in a long, long time. People were dancing in the aisles at the end. Could it have been better? Probably. But it was the first time in a long time I've left a cinema feeling happier about life than when I went in.

    —cam5y1 Read cam5y1's other letters

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