The Best Feel Good Movie I have seen in YEARS

Rating: 10/10 (7 August 2008)

I have not felt this uplifted in a very long time, because I am at work I cannot go on and on and on about this movie, so I will just say how amazing it was. Meryl Streep was breathtaking and amazing . . . The Winner Takes It All was out of this world. Is she perfect vocally? No, but the emotion she puts into her songs, especially that one, and her AMAZING (amazing and perfect are different things) voice just sucked me in. Baranski and Walters were utterly fantastic.
If you are expecting an earth shattering, message carrying, deep movie, then no, this is not the movie for you. but if you just want to feel good and leave with a smile on your face and witness a legend in her prime (Streep) then you will be blown away. It is a musical, most of the time corny and cheesy are synonymous with musicals, so are there moments? absolutely, dancing with flippers? I could have done without that, but other than that, fantastic film! I have to admit, I have seen it more than once. I really have been blown away by some of the unbelievably harsh comments from some of the members, we obviously saw 2 completely different movie (and no, i am not a silly teen or an old woman as i am sure some might think, i am in my late 20s, classically and music theater trained). OK, well, that ended up much longer than i had planned! :)