Mamma Mia! What a Mess!

Rating: 3/10 (10 February 2010)

The premise:
Woman owns a hotel and has a Daughter. Daughter's to marry and wants to know who her father is. Amidst all this, you throw in Greece, ABBA, and the diary of the Woman into the Daughter's hand.
Go see it for:
* ABBA: Mamma Mia, Honey Honey, Take a Chance on Me, Dancing Queen, Our Last Summer, etc, - the film's as close you can get to an anthology of ABBA's works.
* Greece: Shot in vivid, resplendent colour, the island comes alive in the most vivacious manner ever.
Don't bother about:
* The plot line: It's thinner than Sheer! So every emotion is yelled out, and every tear is made into an ocean. Even then, you know you're seeing something thinner than Sheer!
* Meryl Streep: Yes she's a great actress. Yes, she's superb. Yes, she's my favourite too. But this role? Very disappointing!
Watch it with:
* The first date, the retro-date, the rockstar friend, and of course the parents.
Anything else?
Oh yes, only Colin Firth can remember his last summer well - with the notes and melody. The rest - Streep including - should not have gone ahead and sung such a flamboyant mess!