Love the music, hate the story

Rating: 3/10 (3 June 2017)

I remember summer afternoons playing over my friend's house when we were kids. Her older brother's bedroom was in the basement and we would play his ABBA albums on his stereo. Loved it and still love ABBA to this day. Hence, the reason I watched this film. I am giving it 3 stars because of the ABBA songs; I would have liked to have given it a higher rating with the ABBA songs, but unfortunately, the rest of the film is trash.
The writer/script obviously hates marriage and treats it as though it were an evil anathema. Sophie is supposed to be getting married. Problem is, she doesn't know who her father is. She confiscates her mother's journal and finds out her mother was, shall we say, less than moral in her younger years. She wants to invite the sperm donors to the wedding. Her fiancée scolds her for it because well, he just loves her so much, he wants to take the wedding funds and use it to travel instead of wasting it on getting married. Sophie, trust me, you can do better. Find a man who will put you first instead of himself. Of note, if I lived on a Greek, tropical island, I'd be ecstatic. Why travel when you already live in paradise.
Meantime, mother Donna's friends arrive for the wedding. Why is is that some women, when they turn 50, act like imbeciles? Donna goes to the dock to meet her friends at the ferry. They whoop and yell like idiots while Donna has to gyrate and shimmy all over the dock like a fool. Her friends return the greeting with equal idiocy. They embarrass themselves in front of the natives.
Almost every adult in the film is either divorced or separated; they are miserable and wonder why Sophie is "wasting her life getting married". She ends up not marrying Sky. Donna ends up marrying Sam, one of the sperm donors. Which is a surprise since she complains about male menopause throughout the film and wonders how she could put up with a man around.
Stupid story, although we do get plenty of ABBA! We could do without Pierce Brosnan's singing, though.