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Mamma Mia!

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by dooley_womack1, Jul 18, 2008.

  1. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    Huh? (not to you, to Time)

    And the critical consensus on the movie was C+ on Yahoo. I thought it was better than that, like a B-. It wasn't the feel-good, stand-up-and-cheer experience the play was, but it was pretty fun once it got going.

    Oops, up to B-. So I guess we agree.
     
  2. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    If you ever see any ABBA videos . . . Bjorn is the worst lip-syncher in the history of lip-synchers.
     
  3. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    Does Your Mother Know is in it. And Christine Baranski makes it a better number than it was in the play.
     
  4. Trey Beamon

    Trey Beamon Active Member

    Wow ... he's terrible. Then again, I was too busy watching Agnetha.

     
  5. gingerbread

    gingerbread Well-Known Member

    When I lived in Australia, Abba was bigger than Kylie ... bigger than INXS ... bigger than Men at Work. Abba was a way of life for most every single Aussie I knew. Probably still is. I sometimes felt like an extra in "Muriel's Wedding."
     
  6. BYH

    BYH Active Member

    PLAY I KNOW THERE'S SOMETHING GOING ON!!!
     
  7. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    Yeah, so was Knowing Me Knowing You.

    And Ginger, I sure the hell hope Abba is more popular than Kylie. Abba is a museum piece, the last surviving piece of Europop/Eurotrash from the mid-1960s to the mid-80s. And an excellent and tasty piece.
     
  8. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    This movie is going to do well here, and already has.

    It's going to do insane business in Europe.

    Have no desire to see the movie. Saw the play a few years back and was surprised how much I liked it.
     
  9. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member

    The review in the latest New Yorker is f'n priceless.

    Google

    Mamma Mia + Anthony Lane

    and laugh your ass off.
     
  10. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    I just checked, it's made almost twice as much worldwide as it has in the US.

    Casting Brosnan, Firth and Baranski is paying dividends...
     
  11. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    Or, go here

    http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2008/07/28/080728crci_cinema_lane

    And laugh your ass off. Good grab, Ben.


    I thought that Pierce Brosnan had been dragged to the edge of endurance by North Korean sadists in his final Bond film, “Die Another Day,” but that was a quick tickle with a feather duster compared with the agony of singing Abba’s “S.O.S.” to Meryl Streep through a kitchen window. Somebody, either a cheeky Swede or another North Korean, has deliberately scored the number a tone and a half too high, with visible results"
     
  12. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    They keep playing the soundtrack in a Barnes and Noble that I frequent.
     
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