Mamma Mia - Chaotic and Absurd

Rating: 3/10 (10 July 2008)

I probably saw the trailer more than a dozen times and randomly saw the movie last night. Well, it sucked. It was bordering on absurd. And I've never felt this horrible about a movie in a long time.
"Mamma Mia" was artificial and downright contrived  there was no flow with the story, the songs were hardly relevant to the situations, and the song numbers were so unnecessarily long (take "The Winner Takes It All" for instance.) There was hardly any conflict  just a lot of miscommunication. It was like a lengthy and overly-acted music video of sorts.
Meryl Streep acted so awkward, over-the-top and crazy, especially during that "Mamma Mia" song performance. I didn't enjoy listening to Pierce Brosnan sing and even Julie Walters was just too corny for my taste. Amanda Seyfried, Colin Firth and the movie location were the only saving graces of the film.
I don't know how such big names managed to be pulled to doing such a crappy project. Really. I hope they had fun doing it at the least. Maybe the stage musical is a lot better but I still can't imagine anything praise-worthy coming out of such a pretentious concept. Then again, I don't know, maybe I just totally missed whatever it was they wanted to portray.
Okay, so I'm completely bashing the film because I certainly hardly enjoyed it, but who knows, maybe die-hard ABBA fans would. (Oh, it was fun watching the three men in superstar outfits during the credits though.)