Um... no

Rating: 1/10 (15 January 2009)

I almost turned this off about 20 minutes into the film, and I never turn movies off. The stage musical must have been much better... I don't know; I didn't have the eighty-five bucks for a ticket when it played in Boston. The over-the-top hysterics by both groups of three women... the pancake-flat vocals of Brosnan... the shrieking cackle of Walters... where do I logically begin to figure out exactly why this movie was so terrible? I suppose I should say something nice to prove that I actually was trying very hard to find something I liked in it, so here goes: Christine Baranski was amazingly good at both singing and dancing. I never would have expected it. Maybe she should have played Donna. I love ABBA, I still have my vinyl and a few cassettes, and I'm going to go play them now. I can't recommend this film to ABBA fans, to musical fans, to Streep fans, or to anybody with any taste.