Review of Mamma Mia! (2008) by Darby W — 28 Apr 2012

The main reason why I liked this was because of the music and looking at my crush, Colin Firth (too bad he was gay in it). Pierce Brosnan/James Bond is hilarious to watch singing. Meryl Streep is always good in everything she does, but her friends in it were so annoying! Amanda Seyfried is adorable, and they could have cast a cuter actor to play her fiancà (C).

..[Of the movie version of "Mamma Mia!" in which he stars] If you are the kind of person who always wanted to see middle aged men in tight spandex trying to sing, then this is the film for you.

-- IMDb Quotes: Colin Firth...[About filming "Mamma Mia!"] This was quite terrifying, because the guys in this film were really out of their comfort zone with the singing thing. And you know, the first thing we did was to record our songs, because you pre-record before you shoot the film.

And then you have to shoot it live, which a lot of it was, and it was the fearsome Benny and Björn of ABBA, and they were notorious hard customers, and they booked me three days in the studio to sing a three-minute song.

So my mind was reeling with images of myself, you know, floods of Ambian-fueled tears, while I was being shouted out in Swedish by bearded men. But, fortunately, when I met them, they were friendly. There was something in their friendliness that had a reserve to it.

I thought, "I'm going to be friendly as long as I'm not crappy". And then half an hour later, they were actually OK. Pierce Brosnan and Stellan walked in and I looked at their faces, I was staring into a vortex of fear, both of them in spirals.

And nothing bonds you more than blind terror really. Within a few more minutes, the three of us were like The Andrews Sisters around the mike, you know. -- IMDb Quotes: Colin Firth.