Monday, November 17, 2008

MAMMA MIA!



MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some sex-related comments.
Run time: 108 min

Who hates ABBA? Nobody, even those who used to listen to black metal/punk/underground music has been caught whistling Dancing Queen in their respective toilet, no matter how old they are. For millions of people, ABBA has been the synonym for guilty pleasure.

As a fan of Bollywood movies, the plot aren't as difficult as Matrix:Reloaded and occasionally, the characters cut from dialogue to dancing and singing, dangling from ladders, magically jumping on the roof and keep dancing until the music stops.

With Disney type of plot, even telling the whole story would be a spoiler. Donna (Meryl Streep) has a tourist villa in a remote island in Greece. She has a daughter, Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) who will be married to Sky (Dominic Cooper), kinda weird name to invent huh? Sophie doesn't know who her father is. From his mother diary, Sophie had a clue and invited three men who used to be Donna's love interest, Sam (Pierce Brosnan), Bill (Stellan Skarsgard) and Harry (Colin Firth). From there, you can follow the cheerfull story easily and enjoy the tops songs of ABBA weaved into the storyline. This is, by far the best antithesis for The Dark Knight.

Now put your intellectual mind to a holiday in this beautiful Greek island and try not get caught by your peers whistling Fernando in the public toilet while having a Gothic make-up or secretly digging your parent's basement to find ABBA cassettes or LP.

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