I Was Converted From ABBA Hater To ABBA Fan.

Rating: 9/10 (11 June 2010)

When I was younger I hated ABBA. Even the mention of the song 'Dancing Queen' made me want to puke and feel embarrassed for it's fans. I preferred hard rock like 'Sabbath' or the 'Stones'. I simply couldn't stand most pop and disco.
Now that I'm all grown up(another way of saying 'old')I must have mellowed or something because now I love ABBA. If you had told me twenty, even ten years ago, that one day I would be an ABBA fan I would have said that wasn't possible. No way. Well it was possible and now I own the movie and an ABBA video collection. NEVER thought that would happen.
I only went to see this movie because of Streep and that I've developed a taste for movie musicals as I got older. Even though I like musicals now, I still thought this would suck and stink and make me puke. Instead I was hooked from the first song and I couldn't stop laughing at how funny the movie was.
Now that I look back, I see the threads of my acceptance in the making. Before I was into hard rock and the stuff like the 'Dead', I bought Osmond brothers records and liked the Partridge Family. So I can kind of see how this happened.
I recommend this movie as simple easy going fun for everybody. I do not endorse, however, the heavy alcohol consumption in the film. I mean these woman drink like they're W.C. Fields. Alcohol can be fun for adults, but if not done in moderation it can be a killer. So have fun with this. Just don't drink your brains(or bladder)into oblivion.