MAMMA MIA! (2008) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Phillida Lloyd
Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, Pierce Brosnan,
Stellan Skarsgard, Julie Walters, Christine Baranski
A young woman about to be married decides to invite her father to the wedding. The thing is, she's never met the old man, who could be any one of three guys her mother hooked up with way back when. So she invites all three of them, and they all show up. Wait till mom finds out about this. There are some great screwball possibilities here, but the movie's pure kitsch, not that it's trying real hard to be anything else. It's a chick flick with an ABBA soundtrack, and the players throw themselves into their songs with varying degrees of abandon, the show-stopper being Streep's lively, foot-stomping rendition of "Dancing Queen". The jump-suited production numbers that play with the end credits have to be seen to be believed.
