worst film of the year

Rating: 1/10 (16 July 2008)

my wife and i went to see this film this evening spurred on by positive comments from her sister .it left me cold . meryl streep was embarrassing trying to be giddy and julie walters made me feel ashamed for British thespians . i love abba when sung by abba in the context of pop music . the songs were shoehorned into the trite plot and seemed totally out of place . it may have been a great movie but after 40 minutes my wife leaned over and asked " what do you think of it " . "i think its shite " . "so do i " she replied . we got up and left . do not get me wrong ,i love musicals ;moulin rouge to singin in the rain i love em all . this was not a musical it was just a film version of one of a host of lets put a compilation of pop songs together with a weak plot and bang it on the west end . the last film i walked out of was "summer holiday " for the same reasons as this pathetic waste of time