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I can tell right now that this movie is bad, and not good-bad the way we all love but just a pitiful attempt to lull us into a They Live style of dullness.

I have not seen it nor will I ever watch it even if you tied me to a chair and taped my eyelids open.  Why?  Because it's pointless!  Even if by some miracle someone decided they would want to see this they'd watch the play.  But no, let's take this pathetic excuse for a premise and make a blockbuster extravaganza from it!  Seriously, I have 3 possible daddies that I never met before, should I take a DNA test to figure out who it is?  NO!  That's easy and simple, let's have a crazy scheme to pick out my real father.  Not only that but pretty much every person in this movie is uglier than The Elephant Man, and the previews want to make me shoot myself with a nail gun.  I'll stop now for fear of my head exploding.

Hey, I wouldn't be so quick to judge this film.  Movies like Citizen Kane and Casablanca were both panned by the critics when they first came out. Even It's a Wonderful Life was never a classic until it began being shown on TV. A movie like Mamma-Mia . . .

Oh, who the hell am I kidding! Of course it gonna suck! It's Abba music for Christ sake! I'm old enough to have lived during Abba!'s hayday It wasn't pretty! God help us all . . .

But for the record, Abba made a film called Abba: The Movie (1977) that is just bad enough to be laughable (If you can deal with the music)

oh god! these previews are making me have flashbacks of Rent and From Justin to Kelly; oh the perils of having a fouteen year old niece....  :hot:

I saw it on Broadway and survived...barely.  Of course Broadway shows are going to be made into movies eventually.  However, the ongoing trend seems to be reversing.  Taking films like Legally Blonde and Dirty Rotten Scoundrals and making them into Broadway shows.  The whole thing is lame IMHO.   

I don't think that Abba are too bad a band, if a little dated. I seem to remember that Elvis Costello cited them a as influence. (Just listen to the piano motif on "Oliver's Army".) However the move itself looks like the stuff of nightmares for someone like myself who hates musicals (even "The Forbidden Zone"). All that winsomely energetic, over drilled song and dance dross does my head in every time.

I liked the musical play, but I am not too sure on the film.  Though I think my wife may make me take her.

I really thought you were serious there, what a relief.


I am so sorry for your turmoil.

Actually Sister there is nothing worst than From Justin To Kelly when it comes to movie musicals.  I reviewed it, it was awful. 

My girlfriend was a big fan of the play and went and saw the movie the other day.  I'm glad to say I participated in neither of them, but her feedback was the movie was horrible.  Something about you shouldn't get the director of the play be the director of the movie... 

Anyways, one of her biggest complaints was that some of the musical numbers weren't even Abba songs.  Seems a bit silly doesn't it?

So score one for the anti Mamma Mia movie poll.

Last week I saw a commercial for this film on TV and my oldest nephew who is 4 was in the living room when it was on and said to me "Mommy sings songs from that all the time".  I'm not really huge on musicals so I will most likely not watch this movie.

Unless you count High School Musical, but I suppose that shouldn't really count, as it's a tv movie made for kids.

But damn is it terrible.  Only high point of that is it stars Ashley Tisdale, who I find attractive (she's in her 20's, so it's okay to say that.)

I can't wait for Evil Dead: the Musical: The Movie! :lookingup:

And, yes. It is FREAKING hilarious. And full of cursing (both Candarian style and bad language) and gore galore (we're talking first three rows soaked in fake blood, Gallagher-style). If you're a straight guy, female, or just a gore hound, go see it live.

I saw the trailer, heard Merryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan "sing" and went  :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout:

On the poster, Stellan Skarsgard is smiling as if he knows what was in that case in Ronin.  :teddyr:

  I saw the trailers and thought that there was no way I'd ever see this movie (and with the same conviction as Quint saying he'd never wear a life jacket again). I don't know why but then I started thinking that maybe I would see it IF Ed O'Neil aka Al Bundy was in it as one of the "Dad Candidates", as Al Bundy. He could just walk around and Bundy up the joint while all the colorful,winsome, sincere and well scrubbed cast memebers looked on in horror. I can't explain my reaction, that's just what happened. But I bet it'd make for a better movie.

(still waiting for manos musical)

I don't know if this has been mentioned yet...
Mamma Mia is the fastest selling DVD in the UK and it was in the cinemas far longer than The Dark Knight.
Pierce Brosnans singing is so bad, it's good.

oh...uh...I guess this is a bad thread to admit to singing along with ABBA songs when no one is around.....

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If no one is around, it's fine.
Sing along to your hearts content.

Karma for you for being able to admit this  :teddyr:

I generally avoid all musicals so I have not, and likely will never see it.  The idea of creating a story around ABBA music also just does not do anything for me.  I don’t change the station when they are on but I don’t seek them out either. 

I am most likely going to watch Sweeny Todd (with Johnny Dep) at some point when a friend of mine and I can get together to watch it.  He has badgered me into giving it a shot. 

This film was on sale for £22.99 in Tesco!  :buggedout:

I've seen the stage play twice (once in Boston and once in Las Vegas) and the movie once.  The stage play was very well done (I liked the Boston production a bit better than the Las Vegas production).  The movie isn't as good as the play, but it's okay.  But you MUST watch it to hear Pierce Brosnan singing.  I assume it's his real voice because it is absolutely terrible.  Everyone in the theater started laughing when he broke into his first song.

hey guys. this movie is suckish, seriously :hatred: who would pay for a pathetic attempt of a movie. the devil probably created this :hot: who would waste their money and lifes watching this terrible thing. oh and by the way, i know people who would pay to see this "mamma mia" film at the cinemas, and then pay.....to see it again :question: :question: so if you want to watch a cool movie, watch hancock. its epic, funny, cool, and all those things we really like. so this movie is :thumbdown: :thumbdown: :thumbdown:

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My wife owns this POS film. She loves it. Granted it's like nails grating on a chalkboard to me. I would rather drive nails into my head that suffer through it.

The wife and I saw this on Broadway and I just didn't get into it.  I don't like Abba to begin with.  Then a few weeks ago she caught the movie on HBO.  First watching she said she didn't like it but sadly it grew on her.  Luckily she seems to be over it. 

Although I've done musicals on stage in the past (Local productions, and things of that sort) I generally tend to avoid the movie musicals, because they just seem more forced and hackneyed than their stage counterparts.  Even Sweeny Todd was a bit of a let down for me, now that I look back.  It was basically a very watered down version of the stage show.  I understand that you can't put all of what was on stage in the film, and that in itself is the problem I have with movie musicals in the first place. 

As for Mama Mia...I never liked the play to begin with, and it made me even madder that it was nominated for so many Tony Awards.  It was all part of the very cheap and disturbing trend of basing plays on things that are already popular, whether they lent themselves well to musicals or not. 

So, I will never see the movie version, and from the sound of things, I made the right choice.

I'm hoping they make a movie version of THE JERSEY BOYS . . . and also hoping they don't screw it up.  So far, it's my favorite stage play.  I've seen it twice and would gladly shell out another $100+ to see it again.

Seriously. This movie is f-ing stupid. It makes no sense, and worst of all the song gets on my last frickin nerves. I know i should say the full word but this movie has just left me speechless. Gayest movie ever.

We watched this one when my sister rented it for a get-together.

I admit to liking it "okay," especially as a full-family time-waster.  I certainly did not hate it as many here (including some who have never seen it...   :lookingup:  ) apparently do.

Oh well.