Turbulent surprise. Give up your resistance!

Rating: 9/10 (21 November 2008)

I have to admit that it was an "accident" that I even watched this movie. I had successfully ignored it on my flight to America, and I would have ignored it on the flight back, too, if not two things accidentally happened to occur in the same time: firstly, somewhere over Iceland we entered what is told to be the heaviest storm since "Kyrill", with heavy turbulence allowing me not even to dream of a bit of sleep. Secondly, the roundabout 70-year-old lady beside me watched this movie and seemed to be extremely happy with it (as it turned out, she had visited some ABBA-Concerts with her children some decades ago, remembered most of the songs and was mainly impressed about the accuracy "Mamma Mia" had been bend around the original song texts). So I finally gave up my resistance and the movie a chance.
It was worth it, that's why I write this comment. Enough has been written here about the story, I don't have to tell you how much I liked the performance of Meryl Streep (although I'm not at all a fan of her and was heavily disappointed about this whole Prada thing), or how beautiful the set was.
The only thing I want to say: If you have general doubts about this Mamma Mia idea, if you don't know whether you might like this stuff, if your girlfriend wants to lend this and you fear a boring evening on the couch: At least give it a chance. It's worth it.