Review of Mamma Mia! (2008) by Timothy H — 28 Dec 2011
Here I go again...
Sophie, played by Amanda Seyfried, is a 20 year old getting married. She lives in Greece with her mother Donna, played by Meryl Streep, who owns a shabby, little hotel. Where is the father, you might ask? Well, Sophie would like to know that as well. To try to find her father, Sophie reads her mother's old diary. And there she finds out that she actually has three possible fathers.
To try to solve the mystery, Sophie invites all three men to her wedding (she really wants her father to give her away). When Donna sees the three men, played by Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, and Stellan Skarsgard, she is none too happy. She is especially upset about seeing Sam, Brosnan, for he was her first love that broke her heart.
On the big wedding day, Sophie still doesn't know her dad is. But none of them seem to care about that. All three men agree that they are happy with a third of Sophie. And then, Sophie and her husband-to-be Sky, played by Dominic Cooper, decide to not get hitched a travel the world together. But why waste a perfectly good wedding? Well, Sam has an answer to that and proposes to Donna.
Weak plot? Yeah, that's what I think. And the choreography, well...I'll just say it's not the best. Now the music, that's where it's at. The movie is filled with great ABBA songs every five minutes or so. And I have to say, Seyfried really has some pipes.
All in all, a cheesy movie that for a few reasons, I still enjoyed.
This review of Mamma Mia! (2008) was written by Timothy H on 28 Dec 2011.
Mamma Mia! has generally received positive reviews.
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