![]() Sophie has invited three men to her wedding. I’m sure most people know the story-line behind the famous ABBA inspired musical. It has been four, very fast I’ll admit, years since I have graduated high school! It doesn’t feel long, but as one of the messages of the play reveals, years do fly by fast. Abba songs do make everything better.Last night I had a night out with my dancing queen gal pals and we attended Reading Memorial High School Drama Club’s, Mamma Mia. For me, this is THE feel good movie of the summer. People do start singing out of nowhere – Abba songs on top of everything. If you don’t like musicals, just skip it. ![]() In the end I guess this is not a movie for everybody. The best song on stage ended being good on screen too! The Winner Takes it All, the most gut wrenching song of Abba. Having said that, all actors were so good, from the youngsters that played Sophie and Sky to Julie Walters and Colin Firth (both very funny) and the stars Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan who was as charming as ever. There is the fact that some songs were cut short, some scenes felt really rushed and some numbers were entirely left out (no *gasps* Knowing me, Knowing you! Sacrilege!) but I guess that is expected since the show had nearly three hours and the movie ended up with less than 2. But now he is back so what then?Ī touching moment between Sophie and Donna – Slipping Through my Fingersīut how did the movie fare in comparison to the stage show? Well, not as good, I am afraid but then again, I adore the play so much, it would never be a fair comparison to start with. I love all the songs, I love that behind all the uplifting façade of a fun musical, it is really a powerful sentimental journey for Donna who sees her baby growing up, leaving her and their home for the first time whilst having to face her love for Sam and the fact that he married someone else. She must then deal with all three men back in her life, she thinks Sophie doesn’t know about one of them being her father and all three men come to the sudden conclusion that they have a daughter which leads to some really comic scenes. When Donna sees them, she freaks out (leading to the wonderful number with the title song Mamma Mia) because she knows the fact that Sam is back is no good but then it is already too late. All three men, trying to re-kindle the friendship they had with that amazing woman, decide to go.ĭancing Queen sequence – I dare you not to want to stand up and dance! Now, Sophie found her mom’s diary from when back when, learns that she has three possible dads and sends letters to all of them inviting them to the wedding, posing as Donna. They never knew she ended up pregnant and things were left like that. Heartbroken, she had a fling with other two guys around the same time, Bill and Harry. Gee, the guy can sing) whom she fell in love with but he was engaged so he had to leave. Sophie was conceived in the 70s, when Donna was a “Dancing Queen” heading the group Donna and the Dynamoes (her two friends Tanya and Rosie – who have gone to the island to attend the wedding).īack then she met this guy Sam (Pierce Brosnan in the movie. The thing is, she doesn’t really know who her father is, and neither does Donna. ![]() What Sophie most wants right now is to have her father to give her away. Sophie is 20 years old and is getting ready to get married to her boyfriend Sky. She lives in a Greek Island – the amazing set for the movie, just incredible, I need to BEG my Greek friend to take me there ASAP – with her daughter Sophie. It is all about Donna – the character played by the amazingly beautiful and talented Meryl Street. It has a complete original plot with the songs of Abba entwined around the scenes and the thing is, Abba songs are so awesome and talk so directly about life that they hardly had to change the lyrics if at all. I know a lot of people think Mamma Mia is about Abba but actually it isn’t. I am a huge Abba fan and having watched Mamma Mia on stage three times (so far) I was really looking forward to watching the movie.
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