SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

trimblair ABBA is the star of this show. The dancing and singing is fine. Meryl is a distraction with her "half the country is too stupid to understand my art, entertained by MMA and football" baggage she brings with her. You go home singing MAMA MIA and smiling. That is the most any movie can hope to achieve.

Prismark10 The pop group Abba did produce great songs and their music has lasted. My daughter loved Abba even when she was a toddler, she was born years after the band had broken up. I had to book tickets for the musical Mamma Mia on a visit to London some years ago because she kept pestering us and she was only 5 years old at the time. This film adaptation of the musical consists of Abba's greatest hits wrapped around a thin story. It really is a greatest hits musical and if you think about it, some of the main cast (Meryl Streep) are too old for the role.Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) is getting married in her idyllic Greek island and wants to invite her father. However she has no idea who he is. Her mother Donna (Meryl Streep) had three lovers in a short space of time when she was a young woman and then fell pregnant. Donna has raised Sophie on her own and also ran a dilapidated hotel.By looking at her mum's diary Sophie has tracked down the three men, Bill (Stellan Skarsgard) Harry (Colin Firth) Sam (Pierce Brosnan) and invited them to the island who all come looking for Donna.Obviously Donna would had been a teenager when she had her lovers making her a woman in her early 40s when Sophie gets married. The film is cheesy fun but the songs do come thick and first almost to paper over the cracks in the story and in Donna's hotel. You cannot help getting involved with the fun and silliness as well as listening to Brosnan's singing. You have to laugh at Christine Baranski and Judy Walters trying to entice the men.

Jared_Andrews I'm not opposed to musicals, as long as they are done well, like 'La La Land.' And though I would not call myself a huge fan of ABBA, I do enjoy a handful of their songs, many of which were used in the movie. Still, this is certainly not a movie made for me. If you love musicals and ABBA and cheesy romances, you'll probably love this movie too. If your tolerance for an absurd storyline and endless decadent musical numbers is low, you should avoid this one. At first, I didn't have to try-I just liked it. Meryl Streep and Amanda Seyfried exude such bubbly energy and joy that it's all easy to enjoy. The plot is somewhat believable-a soon-to-be-married girl invites three strangers to her wedding, anyone of whom may be her father. She hopes to meet her father and have him walk her down the aisle. Her mother, who hasn't seen any of the men in 20 years, has no idea what her daughter has planned. One thing leads to the next, and one song leads to the next, and try as I did, I couldn't manage to keep liking the movie. The whimsy wears thin before long. Eventually, it all builds to a ridiculous bit of inconceivable nonsense. Then more reckless decisions are made and celebrated. The next sound you'll hear isn't music. It's the slap of countless palms hitting foreheads throughout the audience. Even before the troublesome ending, the movie just runs out of steam. Then it carries on for another hour. Evidently, it's difficult to construct a cohesive and compelling movie plot around a bunch of ABBA songs (no kidding!). And to anyone who isn't an ABBA superfan, the songs become exhausting. Song plugs feel forced, and actual non-song-related conversations disappear, as does any hope that the downhill slide can be stopped. What else is there to say? The beautiful island and mostly charming characters are not enough to overcome the weak and absurd plot.

dastedham The overall IMDB rating for this film is accurate and earned. It's just OK. The music and cinematography, along with costuming are all lovely, and I think they take center stage. The acting isn't that great, and I was disappointed in Amanda Seyfried, who seemed at times like she couldn't take herself seriously. The film in its entirety drones on too long for its plot/theme. The most irritating thing for me is the main struggle for Sophie, that she doesn't know who her Dad is and "boo-hoo" he can't come to her wedding. I just didn't feel enough sympathy for this trivial "problem" as the script or acting didn't garner it, and lots of people deal with the same thing or worse. When she fights with her mother and chastises her for it, I just got a bratty vibe and it was unappealing at most. Otherwise, cutesy is the best word I can use for it.