Diar Rhrea!

Rating: 3/10 (27 January 2009)

The occasional moment of brilliance - like Meryl Streep's interpretation of The Winner Takes It All - only serves to hammer home the fact that Benny & Bjorn deserved a much better context into which to place their songs.
The plot - such as it is - is preposterous. As if three grown men would drop everything and race off to a Greek Island at the behest of a woman with whom they had a fleeting Summer romance 20 years earlier (with no subsequent contact) and all in order to attend the Wedding of someone they don't even know. It's a rotten, empty premise for a film that goes nowhere quick - but not quick enough!
The casting is appalling. No chemistry between Donna and her mates. The two lackluster juvenile leads would be better cast in a daytime soap. Nobody can sing - and it's a musical!!!
Really, words fail me. I haven't seen such a stinker since Love Actually. That it is the highest grossing British movie of all time is enough to make this punter despair.