Mamma Mia!

[MaineWriter]

It received a scathing review in The New Yorker, yet I want to see the movie anyway thanks to your recommendations!

I have a feeling that at the end of the year, Mamma Mia! will be on some critics' top ten lists, and for other critics, it will show up on their worst movies of the year list. It seems to be that people either love it or hate it.

I am in the love it camp, only because I had so much fun!

[Lumière]

I saw the movie trailer - Looks like a ball!
Besides, for Meryl Streep, I'll watch anything ... well, almost.

Kinda hoping to go check it out this Sunday or so..

[David In Indy]

I saw the movie trailer - Looks like a ball!
Besides, for Meryl Streep, I'll watch anything ... well, almost.

Kinda hoping to go check it out this Sunday or so..

MILLI!!!

Where have you been? I've missed you!

I love Meryl Streep too. I'm hoping to see Momma Mia this weekend too, along with TDK.

Have fun at the movie Milli!!

[Lumière]

MILLI!!!

Where have you been? I've missed you!

Missed ya too, bud. 

It's looking like I might actually go check out the movie tonight instead of Sunday.
I think I'm in just the mood.
Should be fun!

[delalluvia]

Loved it.

A couple of scenes were over the top, the actors straining for the pitch, but hey, it's a musical.

I didn't like the tying up the loose ends so neatly, they didn't really have to do that, but that's Hollywood.

OMG

I will buy this movie simply to drool over the setting. 

I so want to live in the Greek islands.  I've even been perusing the housing.  Fairly cheap, actually, but of course that's only if I am able to make the same kind of money there as here...in a foreign country...where I don't speak the language.

It's a dream.

[Kelda]

the loose ends were also tied up in the show too so to be fair they haven't hollywooded that part up.

Yes, I agree the scenery is beautiful.

I was interested to find out that a good proportion of it was filmed in Italy. My colleague went on a walking holiday on the italian coast last summer and saw meryl Streep getting an ice cream - she was very dissapointed not to see Pierce Brosnan!!

[delalluvia]

the loose ends were also tied up in the show too so to be fair they haven't hollywooded that part up.

Oh well.  Guess it's just the story then.

Yes, I agree the scenery is beautiful.

I was interested to find out that a good proportion of it was filmed in Italy. My colleague went on a walking holiday on the italian coast last summer and saw meryl Streep getting an ice cream - she was very dissapointed not to see Pierce Brosnan!!

Hmm, now that you mention it, I guess some of the wooded scenes were probably filmed in Italy.  I am not aware of such lush forests growing on many small Greek islands.  They are pretty much bare rock.

[Kelda]

still beautiful though eh? And the greek islands were used for other parts of the film - no idea which parts were filmed where though.

tell you what, if you ever get that house in Greece, you might have me as a visitor!!!

[Shakesthecoffecan]

OMG, I saw Mamma Mia last night and it was wonderful! It was such a fun romp, an interesting plot, characters and the singing! Now mind you Pierece Brosnan does not have the greatest singing voice, but wow! The fact these actors are using their own voices is such a treat.

In places it is sappy and sweet but it is supposed to be. You get so caught up in the energy of the movie that the schtick of chasing one another across roofs during the performance of "Take a Chance On Me" does not seem lis schtick at all.

I laughed and I cried and I will see it again. Meryl Streep is amazing. Absolutly amazing!

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKx_14vJNZg[/youtube]

[Kelda]

that vid has made me want to see it all over again!