Review of ABBA: The Movie (1977) by Colin F — 13 Feb 2011

I will have to swallow my pride and say this was an excellent movie , I was surprised how much I enjoyed this, am not a massive ABBA fan but have always liked the songs. The movie has a dodgy story line of an Australian reporter (with a pink ford escort!) racing round Australia trying to get an interview with them and this links all the concert footage together to kind of make it into one big story, on paper this should not work but actually does and keeps the whole thing flowing along.

What is best about the film is the songs and the live performances, they really where the super group of the time with classics such as Dancing Queen, Waterloo and SOS performed to perfection, some of their less know songs also sound great, it took a few hours to get âI am the tigerâ? out of my head.

Also Lou Carpenter out of Neighbours is in it as ABBAâ(TM)s security guard! What the........ I have to admit a bloody good film!