Extremely Overacted!!

Rating: 5/10 (23 August 2008)

I went to see "Mamma Mia"last night after keeping it on my list of must-see movies. Although the music/dancing scenes were great and very professional and polished the movie itself was a great disappointment to me. I love Meryl Streep. In all of her movies she is a wonderful actress going back to "Sophie's Choice" and more recently "The Devil Wears Prada",but I just couldn't connect with HER singing and dancing,whether it was really her voice or lip syncing,and even though she was very energetic and did a great acting job,it seemed so incongruous.
And what about Pierce Bronsman? He just seemed ridiculous and could not sing for beans! I also felt there was so much overacting! I did see this movie on TV recently in a Swedish or other Scandanavian version and it was so natural.The performances were not overdone and you felt it flowed so spontaneously. This movie was so loud and so exaggerated that it lost it's effectiveness for me.I would rather have seen it on DVD, and not waste my money.There was no empathy at all with the main characters and no character development so it left me feeling empty even with great music for the most part.