Is this a musical?!

Rating: 3/10 (22 February 2010)

Mostly, Meryl Streep can outshine in certain roles but, her star dims in this screech fest. The choreography may be fine for actors with talented legs but, not this group. To qualify or quantify the attempts at singing are pointless because, audible guttural emanations do not deserve it. After the first note was sung or the first toe tapped at a Broadway audition all but one performer would have heard the ubiquitous word, NEXT! Amanda Seyfried is the one that might have received a call back.
I have enjoyed attending live musicals, opera, ballet, dramatic theater, and concerts all over the earth, and I am embarrassed for the performers of this piece of Mamma Mia! The performers had little choice but to perform once tapped by their agents simply because the Grande Goddess incarnate was starring. Some of the performers must have worked out of friendship to her because, they knew she and 95% of the rest of the cast could not sing, or dance. An overpriced paycheck and a line to their resumes, both of which made most of their agents grin, in retrospect may not be fair compensation to the cast of this painful disaster.
The studio and the producers made too much money for delivering so little of anything substantive. This group's sincere desire of making something of quality for the people reminds me of every politician in D.C.: Take the money and run. This was their thinking: "Look we've got Meryl, we've got Pierce, so we can justify an expensive shoot on some gorgeous Greek island for a few months and make a wad of cash. Cha-Ching."
So, thanks to this film I have added a new phrase to my vernacular, such as: "I don't give a Mamma Mia! about Meryl Streep starring if she can't perform" and "That movie was a pile of Mamma Mia!".
I did hear some ABBA music in the background, which I enjoy, so my rating is a 3 instead of a 1. This is another film on movie review websites that has succumbed to a PR firm working into the night and and in the dark on website ratings. Come on Meryl, accept the truth, and save some money with your PR group and donate the excess. You don't need to control everything. Do you?