Mamma Mia! (2008) is not a bad movie, but I think it must have been much better as a stage production. Starring Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan, the movie version is very uneven, at times really soaring, and at other times really missing.
I think it missed most when it tried to be too much like a live production, and it did not translate well to the big screen. They are different genres and require different things to make the same story work.
The story is written to make the songs of ABBA fit into a coherent play...at times that works too, and at times it doesn't. The music was fun to hear, but dammit...I can't get Chiquiquita out of my head! Make it stop!!!
Somewhat fun, Mamma Mia! never really performs well.
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