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I saw the movie 'Mamma Mia' and thought that it was quite entertaining and enjoyable. I recommend it...and you get to see Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan sing!!!

Pierce Brosnan has always been so good looking, but I have to admit that he is starting look old.

Great music (Abba), fun dancing and singing, a cute story line, and filmed on location on the island of Skopelos in Greece.

Alice

I remember Abba the first time around.

Charles, getting old.

I understand it's a "chick flick." Guys be warned...

No, It's just that your eyes are like mine ---
--- they just don't see as young!

I thought the movie was good but I also thought it could have been better. To me, the casting was a bit off. Meryl was great but, I have to say, Pierce bothered me a bit. I just think they could have found a better singer. It did look like everyone had a great time making the movie because they all just seemed so happy. I didn't really like what they did with Colin Firth's storyline. I don't remember that bit being in the stage production. I really like Colin Firth. Without giving too much away, I enjoyed the bit at the very end when they started rolling the credits. I thought it was hilarious!

My mom is dying to see the movie, ABBA music and Pierce Bronson in one? Sounds like heaven to her. My poor father...lol

I hesitate to admit this but my husband is an Abba fan

He keeps their CDs in the car for use on journeys

At the start of them I siiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh - not my taste at all

Abba was one of the great groups and remains among my favorites

Many years,

Neil (who also has their CDs in the car. Go Raymond!! )

Grrr - and bearing in mind he is deaf the volume is pretty high

Blasted Chemo has really wrecked his hearing

I can see my shuffle is going to be in use on long journeys now

I actually became familiar with Abba as a teenager on a visit to Greece in 1977, where they were very popular. For some reason, I don't remember them being that popular in the U.S.

I do love their music though...it is upbeat, wholesome and fun.

My husband likes them too.

I agree with Katie G. that Pierce Brosnan was not the best casting, and that he is not a great singer. I suppose that he was one of a very few good looking and big name actors in that age bracket. Personally, I always thought that Pierce Brosnan has (and it was still obvious in this movie) an intense, edgy, almost scary, bad temper/mean person-like look in his eyes...which is fine for James Bond, Thomas Crown, etc., but not other roles that depict a more generous person like the character in this movie. In any case, it was still a fun movie to watch.

Alice

I agree about the type of music - and it's catchy - I'll give you that.

But when played all the way from Glasgow to the South Coast of England and then every time we are moving campsite in France and then all the way back home - it does get wearing [ it can be a 6 week trip , but not at all this year ]

The other delight is listening to Celine Dion

Earphones and Shuffle now for me

LOL!! I can only imagine!!

(and I still can't get the tune of Mamma Mia out of my mind, after seeing the movie five days ago!--which doesn't mix very well with prayer and attending DL, I must admit!
I tend to have the problem of music remaining in my head.)

Be well,
Alice

I understand that's called an earworm

Enjoy!!!

http://www.moviefone.com/movie/mamma-mia/25931/trailer?trailerId=2123444

I saw it on Saturday as well. Not the greatest movie, but entertaining and worth seeing nonetheless. You cannot beat the music. Some shots of a great little GO church at the end!

I was drug (dragged?) to it yesterday by two of my girl friends up here in D.C. Entertaining, but, for guys, painfully cheesy at times. There were times I just had to look away (like when Pierce Brosnan sang).

However, the lead actress, Amanda Seyfried, is a very, very talented singer. Beautiful, too.

I got a kick out of the wedding scene, with a Catholic priest, wearing a traditional-style stole, in a Greek Orthodox church with an iconostasis behind him. LOL.

And why is that in movies Catholic weddings never have the priest fully vested, and it's never a Nuptial Mass? Annoying.

Alexis

I was dragged to it as well... A group of us with intentions of seeing "The Dark Knight Returns" went out for a gal's birthday down to the downtown theaters in a section with a lot of restaraunts, bars, etc. We met for dinner, discovered the the lines that went around the block for tickets (what were we thinking?) and the birthday girl announced the alternative: Mamma Mia. (The three gals were for it, the BF of the birthday girl demured "Its YOUR birthday... sigh...")

From Batman to Abba - that wasn't what I was expecting!

I actually thought it was kind of fun. I thought it odd that Meryl Streep (who is almost 60) was playing the mother of a 20 year old that she (if I followed correctly) was supposed to have concieved right out of college/study in Paris. The role should have been played by someone 38-40something.

As far as the Wedding set... I don't think they put a whole lot of thought into it... It was supposed to be "Metho-Anglic-tholic" generic "priest-like-substance" as far as I could tell. Accuracy never seems to be all that important for the "God stuff" in Hollywood.

"Carpatho-Presbyterian"?

Simple Sinner,

Yes...my husband and I were just talking about how strange that the years didn't match up.

Meryl's Streep's character was playing an 'aged hippie' which means that she would indeed be sixty now, but that doesn't jive with her having conceived at the age of seventeen to twenty, a child, that was now twenty also!!!

She should then be more like forty, or if her character must remain sixty, her daughter should be forty!!!

The era seemed generic, so taking that into account, the mom could have easily been forty, and the movie could have been set in the 1990's, and that would have made sense-- except for the fact that she and the gents all look sixty! *Is anyone confused yet*?!?!?!

Anyway, the marriage ceremony was ridiculously pan generic!!! The mother said that she was raised Catholic...hmmmm.....but that didn't look like a RC ceremony, or did it?? It has been too many years since I attended an RC wedding.

Alice

My wife keeps several Neil Diamond CDs in her van. I've warned her about this.

It was stolen a couple of weeks ago, CDs and all. When we recovered it a week, later, nothing was broken but the ignition, but they'd left a dozen more Neil Diamond CD's

hawk, who really did have the van stolen & recovered

That's a wonderful tale - I bet your wife is happy even though you clearly are not.

If I had to guess, I would say that they stole the van, started listening to your wife's EXCELLENT taste in music, were inspired to start a collection, left the van were you would find it, and made amends by adding to it.

I bet their lives are changed forever... Praise God!

Eternal Optimist you are

"I am I said
To no one there
And no one heard at all, not even the chair"

That man smoked too many organic compounds in the 70s.