Fun movie--interesting casting decisions

Rating: 6/10 (4 November 2008)

This was a fun movie to watch, and entertaining for anybody who is an ABBA fan. The casting, however, left me lacking. Meryl Streep, as much as I love her as an actress, was MUCH too old to play this role. This was a story about a teenage fling that ended in a pregnancy. When turned out by her mother, the teen stays on the island where the fling occurred. Twenty years later, she faces a "crisis" when her now 20 year old daughter wants to get married. The actress playing Streep's role, then, should be at most 40 years old. Streep does not pull it off, and in my opinion it detracted from the movie to see her try. The same could be said for her costars, Julie Walters and Christine Baranski.