Stunningly bad

Rating: 3/10 (30 November 2009)

I'm not sure how they managed to have a great cast, great fun songs, and still turn out such an awful film. Bad storyline, woeful direction, dreadful choreography (have they even seen any musical film to see how that such films should be done?), and just about everything in the film is wrong.
The worst sin however is the complete misuse of the songs. Why on earth for example did Meryl suddenly started singing Winner Takes It All in her scene with Piers Brosnan when he says he wants to give Sophie away? The scriptwriter seems to be completely oblivious to the lyrics of the song ("You've come the shake my hands"? Huh? Piers didn't come to shake your hand), and can't write a scene so that the song may fit in. It's a breakup song with the singer acknowledging she herself being the loser in a love triangle, and you can't have a breakup when there is no relationship between them for years. The same can be said about nearly all the songs in the film. Quite staggering really. They just simply drop the songs into the film with no attempt to fit them into the proper context.
The only good thing is the songs despite their misuse, otherwise it'll get a 1.