On Saturday I got to sneak out for a couple hours to use my gift certificate for a free showing of “Mamma Mia,” the theatrical version of the stage play utilizing ABBA’s fantastic music and the lovely skylines of Greece.
I loved the play when I saw it on Broadway. I mostly loved it because it started the amazing Louise Pitre, who has an amazing voice and the most beautiful head of silver hair I’ve ever seen. She was luminous onstage. She’s altogether gorgeous, she is. As for the play, it was cute, the music was (obviously) fantastic, and the crowd loved it.
The movie has gotten rave reviews, and since I had seen the play I knew I’d enjoy it as well. I got to the theater just as the previews started and took my seat. And while I had a few technical issues with the movie, I have to tell you that I loved the movie.
From Yahoo! Movies:
Donna, a single mother who owns a small hotel on a Greek island, is about to let go of Sophie, the daughter she’s raised alone. But Sophie has secretly invited three guests of her own. On a quest to find the identity of her father to walk her down the aisle, she brings back three men from Donna’s past to the Mediterranean paradise they visited 20 years earlier.
The cast was great – Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Julie Walters (who looked FABULOUS), Colin Firth (yummy), Amanda Seyfried, and Dominic Cooper (who recently starred as Willoughby in the Masterpiece Theater remake of “Sense and Sensibility”). The scenery was great. Mostly. But WOW did they have a lot of obvious greenscreen shots. They were VERY distracting and were frustrating. They obviously filmed part of it in Greece. Why not just film ALL of it in Greece? Surely they could have found an actual hotel location that would have worked?
Meryl Streep’s voice was decent – not as good as I expected, though, given the fact she has opera training in her background. Amanda Seyfried (from “Big Love” and “Veronica Mars”) has a surprisingly sweet lilting voice. Pierce Brosnan? Props to him for singing with a strictly average voice. *lol* Colin Firth has a surprisingly girly voice. Heh. Mark Darcy would never sing like that.
Anyway, it’s a fun movie and I admit that my toe was tapping through the whole thing. I’ll probably be buying this on DVD at some point.
4 1/2 jumping splits out of five.