Good, but not great

Rating: 7/10 (27 March 2009)

Having seen the stage production on Broadway, my expectations were high and I was mildly disappointed. The movie does excel in 3 places. The Greek Island Location, The wonderful ABBA music and Merril streep.Merril's voice is so good, especially with "the winner takes it all" one just can easily ignore the obvious point that she simply looks to old for the part. At the end of the stage performance, the audience was dancing in the aisles. This after standing ovations after each number. Just didn't happen with the movie. And Pierce Brosnan, come on. Go back to being James Bond. This is worth seeing if only for ABBA's music. In checking out the trivia in IMDb, I was amazed that Mz Streep did the winner takes it all in one take. Hard to believe. You have to be quick to catch the two ABBA original cameos.