The only good thing about this movie is the music...and Amanda Seyfried

Rating: 3/10 (15 July 2015)

The only good thing about this movie is the music...and Amanda Seyfried.
A girl, played by Amanda Seyfried, is getting married. She doesn't know who her father is and invites to the wedding three men whom she suspects one of is her father. Cue song and dance, all set to ABBA music.
Incredibly cheesy and lame. Plot is very basic and the characters and/or performances are mostly ridiculous. Julie Walters' character has to be one of the most irritating in cinematic history.
So bad I can't believe great actors like Meryl Streep, Colin Firth and Pierce Brosnan agreed to appear in this.
What prevents this from being a total cringefest and bore is the music. (Well, most of it - some of it isn't great - depends on the singer - see later). Just the fact that the music was originally by ABBA creates a large sense of nostalgia (well, with me, at least). Plus, the original songs are great. In the movie, they're generally good, but there are a few exceptions. Pierce Brosnan really shouldn't sing, yet he does, and on more than one song...
The only other plus is Amanda Seyfried. Great performance by her - charming, sweet and engaging. Very nice to look at too...