Mama Mia! What a Flick!

I never thought Meryl Streep could be so deliciously funny and that Pearce Brosnan was deliciously banal. But oh, boy! The film is every ABBA fan's nightmare and dream come true rolled into one. The songs which we thought were so fantastically emotional when we were teenagers were placed in such everyday and comic contexts, that I was laughing and yelling out the songs at the same time. That was at about eleven in the night on the Tibetan New Year : the year of the Male Iron Tiger. HBO made my New Year Celebration rock!

In the UK, this film had beaten the Titanic at the Box Office!

Mamma Mia! received 'mixed reviews' from critics. Rotten Tomatoes reported that 53% of critics gave the film positive reviews based upon a sample of 168 reviews, with an average rating of 5.5/10. The Times gave it four stars out of five. Channel 4  said it had "all the swing and sparkle of sequined bell-bottoms." BBC Radio 5 Live's film critic Mark Kermode delivered an all-singing, all-dancing review, describing the experience as 'the closest you get to see A-List actors doing drunken karaoke'.The Guardian was more negative, giving it one star, stating that the film gave the reviewer a "need to vomit" while Bob Chipman of Escape to the Movies said it was "so base, so shallow and so hinged on meaningless spectacle, it's amazing it wasn't made for men".The Daily Telegraph stated that it was enjoyable but poorly put together ("Finding the film a total shambles was sort of a shame, but I have a sneaking suspicion I'll go to see it again anyway."). Empire said it was "cute, clean, camp fun, full of sunshine and toe tappers."

The casting of actors not noted for their singing abilities led to some mixed reviews as well . Variety stated that "some stars, especially the bouncy and rejuvenated Streep, seem better suited for musical comedy than others, including Brosnan and Skarsgård."Brosnan, especially, was savaged by many critics: his singing was compared to "a water buffalo" (New York Magazine), "a donkey braying" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) and "a wounded raccoon" (The Miami Herald), and Matt Brunson of Creative Loafing Charlotte said he "looks physically pained choking out the lyrics, as if he's being subjected to a prostate exam just outside of the camera's eye.

The thing that I loved about the movie was the off-key singing. It has an ordinary, everyday charm.  Get the DVD... I  recommend it! definitely rewatchable, reprisable, reusable, rewindable. !!!