Good fun

Rating: 9/10 (12 July 2008)

Straight off the bat - I have never been to the cinema and had such an enjoyable time. I don't know if it was just because it was a Friday night and people were hyper, but all the way through people were laughing, dancing in their chairs and generally having fun. It was such a great experience. My friends and I left the screen literally dancing - and we weren't the only ones! Onto the movie - I adored it. It was bright and colourful, some gorgeous cinematography. I now want to move to Greece in a run down hotel. Some of the dance sequences were wonderful (Dancing Queen, Lay all your love on me), it was a struggle not to get up and dance! Meryl Streep was fabulous, I had no idea she could sing so well. She was so energetic and she bounced off Julie Walters and Christine Baranski like they really had been friends for years. I wouldn't say anyone in the film had an absolutely stunning voice, they weren't technically perfect, but the amount of emotion and enthusiasm that was put into the film as whole made that irrelevant.
Go see it. Take a large tub of popcorn, and a big group of friends.