Entertaining social engineering

Rating: 7/10 (12 July 2008)

Thoroughly entertaining view of sewer morality. Did you all get the lessons boys and girls: Marriage is optional and certainly not the preferred option and of course fathers are entirely redundant and unnecessary. Did you love the line "You don't need a father, you need a family"? A real classic. All set to a great beat (I love Abba music) and a fantastic cast. Always helps to add some sugar to make the poison go down well -you don't even know you're drinking it!. I only wanted to see the movie to see Colin Firth and was not disappointed. His Bjorn imitation during the credits at the end was my favourite bit. All the actors were great...except maybe for Pierce Brosnan who I thought came across a bit awkward. He seemed to come across too serious and just didn't seem to fit in somehow. The photography and scenery were superb. I felt at times like I was at an IMAX theatre.