Makes you *feel* something - happy!

Rating: 9/10 (30 July 2008)

My partner wanted to see this film and it wasn't my own first choice. I love Abba the group and their music in general so I was intrigued enough to agree to see the film. At the beginning I was starting to think it was going to turn out as perhaps I had expected - a cringe-worthy girlie flick. And I think perhaps in some ways it still is. But the more I watched the more I found myself feeling something unusual. I began to feel happy, even joyous within myself. By the end I had a few tears both of happiness and for my own nostalgic days of youth when Abba-mania ruled and the future held all sorts of possibilities.
I was stunned to see Pierce Brosnan break into song and I thought it was very brave on his part. He wasn't too bad, actually for a man he's pretty good, and the film *is* supposed to be about a bunch of ordinary people not professional singers, after all. The singing may not always be sublime but it seems real and straight from the heart. Boo to all the naysayers. Let's see you do better!