Mamma mia, here we go again, my my, I wish you were, a better host. The movie wasn't bad, but it's wasn't good.

Rating: 6/10 (25 March 2015)

No Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! More! I can't stand you anymore. Mamma Mia, now I really know, my my, I can let you go. Directed by Phyllida Lloyd, the movie is pretty mediocre. Don't get me wrong, I love the Swedish pop group band, ABBA and their songs. "Lay all your love on me", "Fernando", "Dancing Queen" and "Mamma Mia" are all in my music playlist. I even love musicals, but I was never a huge fan of this Broadway hit. I'll give you, my reasons why. Like the stage musical, the movie doesn't mixed the songs with the story that well. Honestly, what does a story about 20-year-old, bride, Sophie Sheridan. (Amanda Seyfried) who invite three of her mother's ex-boyfriends: Sam Carmichael (Pierce Brosnan), Bill Anderson (Stellan Skarsgard), and Harry Bright (Colin Firth), to her wedding in Greece, so that she can find out, who her father is; have to do with ABBA!? It doesn't. Honestly, I don't know why the movie isn't set, during the disco era. The movie is apparently set in the early 2000s, way past, ABBA's popularity. I guess, the movie is supposed to feel nostalgia, but the settling of Greece as the backdrop wasn't much help. Greece is a beautiful country, and the movie shot the locations, very well, but it never felt like, the place channel the feeling of ABBA. I don't know, why the movie wasn't set in Sweden, in all places. When, I think of ABBA, I think of Stockholm. Sadly, if anything, this movie should had just went into biopic musical route, like 2014's Jersey Boys and have the movie be about the band, rise and fall. It would make a better film. This jukebox musical feels like it was written by drunk people who just went through a Marryoke. Somehow, they thought that partaking in drunken karaoke with a wedding theme, would make a good musical! And you know what? It doesn't work. Jukebox musicals movie like 2007's Across the Universe & 2001's Moulin Rouge work, because they took time, to make sure, the songs they use, have some connection with that of what happening on screen. They use it to add depth, and feeling. In this film, the ABBA songs feel like distractions. The songs were so random. It was obvious that they were thrown, willy-nilly. They even add songs to pointless comedy characters that hasn't nothing to do with the main story. It just there to add to the run-time. The songs rarely fuel any real deep emotion, or make us understand anything about any of the main characters. Honestly, I still don't know, anything about Sophie and her relationship with the groom, Skye (Dominic Cooper), after their song number and they're supposed to be the main focus. The movie is just careless, about the wedding sub-plot. It almost seems, secondary to the sub-plot of Sophie's mother, Donna (Meryl Streep), getting back with one of her exes. The movie has one of the weakest reason to conflict, I have ever saw in a film. They is really nothing much in stalk. I don't want to ruin the whole ending, but it's really stupid. There was no reason for the odd twist. I really hope, people got their money, back if they helped fund this wedding. This was an utter waste. Another fault of the film comes from the acting, and singing. Amanda Seyfried is OK in her role, but her character is such a clueless idiot, that I stopped caring for her. I was really hoping for Skye to leave her for another woman. I really couldn't stand with most of her bad decision making. Meryl Streep as Donna was ridiculous. It's nice to see that, she was having a lot of fun with this film, but I wish, she took her singing a little more serious. It's sound so mediocre. The worst singing, has to be Pierce Brosnan. This was his Waterloo. He can't carry a tune. It was painful to watch. The other supporting characters are just there for comedy relief, and in my opinion, takes way too much time away from the main characters of the film. I really couldn't get behind, seeing middle aged people doing god-awful dance moves with over the top costumes, while squeeing and giggling like schoolgirls. It really hurt my eyes and ears. I don't want to see this dancing queen. The movie has a problem with being way too cheerful, hamming and upbeat. Its reasons like that, the movie fails to be, really funny. Don't get me wrong, it's OK to have an upbeat story, but the movie could have play more on the misery of setting up a wedding, to a higher degree. There was so much, they could had done, to make the movie, funnier. It feels disappointing. I do love the cameos of the band, ABBA as Benny Andersson appears as a piano player during "Dancing Queen." Bjorn Ulvaeus appears as a member of the Greek Pantheon during "Waterloo." It's nice to see them, again. Overall: There are better chick flicks musicals out there, ones that are smart, funny, dramatic, even groundbreaking, but Mamma Mia isn't that. This film is disjointed, clichés, nonsensical, and fairly cheesy. I don't recommended. Just buy the Mamma Mia soundtrack if you want to hear ABBA songs.