You should write for Salon.

I am so sorry some people live their lives to brings others down. I absolutely "Loved" Mamma Mia! The music, the dancing, the absolutely illogical premise and the feeling of joy I felt when it was over. I did not want the feeling to end. I am a male of a certain age, and my partner is a female of a similar age. We attend movies with the intention to enjoy them, and we almost always do. People who choose to dig into the minutia of perfection have my sympathy.

If you want to have a good time and let the world go for awhile, see Mamm Mia!

peace,

st john

Just like the stage show was good silly fun. I've seen both, both have their merits...unlike this review.

Gosh what's wrong with a nice break from reality especially this summer! All the rest of you gals can have Pierce Brosnan, just leave Colin Firth for me! I'll watch anything he's in at least once.

My friend, a professional singer, and several other friends which included a voice teacher at a community college, attended Mamma Mia on Friday, July 18. She said:

" WE LOVED IT!!!! I didn't really know story line and had never seen Broadway play.... it was so fun!... Meryl Streep is just incredible, singing, dancing, stunts, so limber and in great shape.... it was a hoot... the scenery in Greece is breathtaking!...the waters, the mountains and architecture... there's this church at the top of a mountain that had a lighted pathway from town all the way up the mountain to the peak where this darling church was sitting...one of the scenes where daughter's wedding (Sophie) was to take place with surprising events......it was exhilarating!....anyway, hope you get to see the Movie...it's dazzling... I enjoyed Pierce Brosnan and the girl who played Sophie, the daughter, is absolutely adorable....sweetest thing and an angelic voice..........the scenery alone is breathtaking...music bright and funky and fun...all Abba's music as you may know...."

I've always wondered about the "career" we call the Critic. It's basically either nasty comments for the sake of showing their expertise? Or is it just one person's opinion. Usually I'll see a movie if someone with similar taste liked it, or if the trailer and cast looks good, along with the story.

Obviously Stephanie doesn't seem to like the movie, but the play and movie have their fans and they have many of them. So it's like all art which is subjective.

I do think critics seem to think anything but foreign films need to be ripped to wreads, and that they are somehow so above us all in their taste in little known or watched foreign films, subtitles add extra points to show how brilliant they are.

I'll make up my own mind as usual as to what I want to watch, but thanks for your one opinion.

LIGHTEN UP!

I mean it's a movie based on a musical composed entirely of ABBA

songs.

What did you expect,light opera?

I saw the movie today and it was:

a. campy

b. funny

c. full of overwrought performances and passable singing

(see campy)

d. lighthearted.

I predict it will be a big hit like the play and especially beloved by older women (and their daughters) and,of course,gay men(a necessary component for any cult classic) and anybody who

feels like not taking things so deadly serious for the length

of a movie.

Jeez. Isn't the price of gas and bread serious enough?

I would definitely see it again (which I hardly ever do with movies) and I've seen some pretty good movies this summer (The Visitor,Up the Hguang (SP?) River and Encounters at the End of the World were all very good...but sobering to say the least).

So, all you Dancing Queens and go see it and have a good time!

If this sounds like a stupid movie to you, don't go see it!

I barely knew who ABBA was when a friend of mine got into the chorus on Broadway (he's still in it!). I went to see it with my kids and two of my sisters, who both hate musicals. Was it silly and fluffy? Of course it was, and we all had a great time.

I would not be surprised if everything SZ says is true....so what!

I'll still see it and most likely enjoy it.

he is real batman is real

people are complaining about "Mama Mia!" being too much of a stretch, but not raising an eyebrow over a grown man in a bat suit??!

From this review, the movie sounds a lot like the musical. A bit forced, a little stiff, a little too much fun. It works live, or at least it was cute enough and drenched with enough ABBA music to work, but it seems not to have translated well into film. I wish I could say I was surprised. It's a pity Streep had to do this to herself. Oh well!

I loved it, I cried, I was dancing in my seat and yes there's a sound problem--so what? I'm going to see it again and buy the DVD.

Shades of "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert." One very short shot of MS facing away looks amazingly like Terrence Stamp. And of course, who can make a movie any more without some gay reference?

Don't take this movie seriously.

I saw it, I had a cheesy grin on my face for most of it and cried a couple of tears during "The Winner Takes It All".

That's a successful movie.

Which Stephanie obviously didn't see. However, when I was dragged by a friend to see the musical (ABBA never moved me musically), I actually liked the storyline, despite its implausability.

It IS a musical and a comedy, and I have yet to see a musical comedy that is truly realistic.

In short, all the complaints she has made about the movie apply also to the stage version, so what's the point?