Mamma mia! - 2008

Well I … sort of like it… I love the music of course because this is entirely based on Abba songs, so if you don’t like Abba, well don’t even start watching this movie. Here and there I didn’t like the exaggerated coreography and the things too silly. The story was nice: Donna (Meryl Streep) raised her daughter Sophie( Amanda Seyfried) all by herself. Sophie doesn’t know who her father is (obviously since her mother doesn’t know either), but now that she’s getting married she finds her mother’s diary of twenty years ago and sends invitations to the wedding to the three men that had a flirt with her mom back then. One of them is her father, and like a child she thinks she’ll know who it is the moment she lays eyes on him. Of course it doesn’t go like that. All three come, but she has no idea which of them is her father. Sam (Pierce Brosnan) was the one Donna fell in love with, but he told her he had to go because he was engaged. She knew Harry (Colin Firth) and Bill (Stellan Skarsgaard) and had a brief story with them too, so now even she doesn’t know who her father is. Wondering why Sophie invited them, they all convince themselves to be the father. At her wedding, Sophie and Donna clear things up between them; Harry declares he’s happy to be Sophie’s father, even for a third only, and the other two agree, so they won’t investigate the matter further. Sophie calls off the wedding deciding instead to travel for a while with her boyfriend, which was what he dreamed to do all along. Instead of them, Sam proposes to Donna saying he never stopped loving her, that he had come back to Greece for her but she was with someone else so once more he went home. Sam and Donna get married: happy ending. They really liked the number three here: Donna has two friends, Sophie has two friends, and three fathers. Donna’s single friend ends up going “take a chance on me” with Bill, so I guess they made Harry gay just to avoid the only three men with a name ending up with the only three women with a name. 

Amanda Seyfried was the happiest cast-choice here, I think. The others were all great actors but I don’t like how Pierce Brosnan sings (he’s ok and a very handsome man, but I wouldn’t have chosen him for a musical), and as incredible as it sounds I would have preferred different actors in all the main roles. .