Pretty bad

Rating: Null/10 (21 July 2008)

Mamma Mia will go down in film history as 2008's Lost Horizon. www.imdb.com/title/tt0070337 It was badly cast, badly filmed, badly lit and badly written. This should have been a celebration, but it is really nothing more than a dud. It is proof, yet again, that the person who directed it on stage should not be allowed to transfer it to screen. Susan Stroman's horrible film version of The Producers should have been a lesson to all, but then this mess of a movie is made and makes the same mistakes all over again. If anyone can believe any of the relationships in this film, then it is a mystery to me how, as nothing about it rang true. Even on a whimsical level, it was a bad effort. and this is from someone who grew up loving Abba and enjoyed the stage show for the bit of lighthearted fun it was. But this movie never reaches that either. It has no idea what it is meant to be, and fails on every level. And if you never thought Meryl Streep could give a bad performance, take a look at this and she achieves that feat here.