Don't take a ch-k-ch-chance on this one

Rating: 3/10 (9 August 2008)

I'm a die-hard Abba fan from the mid-70s, so I loved the music. Always have. And the cast did a reasonable job of singing the songs. They don't hold a candle to Anna and Frida, but it would be wrong to expect them to. But I did expect the movie to add something to the music. It didn't. I came out of the cinema thinking I should have just stayed at home and listened to Abba Gold. My 3-star rating is for the music alone.
The plot was worse than corny. It was lazy. Not even the slightest attempt to make a plausible link between SOS and Gimme Gimme Gimme. They could have played all the Abba film clips one after the other and the resultant plot would have been more coherent than this tosh.
Finally, although I've always admired Julie Walters, I'd like to wring her bloody neck for her performance here. Shameless slapstick is all I can say. Extremely offensive, and the last resort of a brainless filmmaker.