Chick flick

Rating: 3/10 (20 August 2008)

This movie isn't terrible, just not that good.
I've never seen this before, but maybe it's happened. A movie musical where all the actors are singing 30 year old pop songs. This is a good idea in that Abba had some truly great songs. This means that the movie musical has mostly great songs in it as opposed to most musicals that have only one or two good songs in them. On the negative side I can't help but compare the singing in the movie to the actual singing by Abba. The singing actors come out a really bad 2nd. The writers of this movie where able to come up with a movie musical doing little or no music writing. If you were to take out the songs I think that this movie would have very little going for it.
It's hard for me to see how most adult males could really enjoy this movie. All of the central characters are female and a light romantic comedy. I find some chick flicks enjoyable, but not this one.
My girlfriend bought the sound track CD to this, was disappointed, then bought the Best of Abba CD by Abba. If you want to buy a CD buy the one by Abba, not the one from the movie.