Gimme a Man After Midnight
Originally published at Aurorean. Please leave any comments there.
Yesterday afternoon, I ended up watching Mamma Mia along with Julie and Kat, two of my NaNo/Front Row Girls buddies, at Trinoma. For such a sucky and crowded mall, Trinoma has one of the best cinemas in town.
I am admittedly not an ABBA fan. I'm familiar with some of their songs after doing a school production on Dancing Queen back in elementary. Don't ask. But I was willing to go through the film with the intent of if watching Meryl Streep and Colin Firth sing. And I wasn't disappointed.
Mamma Mia!, adapted from the musical with the same name, tells of the story of Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) who is about to marry Sky (Dominic Cooper, that sexy guy from The History Boys
). She lives with her single mother Donna (Meryl Streep) where her mothers owns a hotel called "Villa Donna" located on a Greek island. Before her wedding, she finds her mother's diary of twenty years ago talking about the summer romances she had with three guys and unknown to her mother, she secretly sends out three invites to her potential fathers: Sam Carmichael (Pierce Brosnan), an American architect, Harry Bright (Colin Firth), a British banker, and Bill Anderson (Stellan Skarsgård), a Swedish novelist, in hopes that her father will be present to "give her away".
The whole movie was charged with energy all throughout and will have you laughing and smiling from start to finish and by finish, I mean WATCH THE CREDITS. OMG
). Vibrant dance numbers and catchy songs riddle the entire film that'll make you dance and sing on your seat. The actors suit the characters well and are quite often funny. I did find Amanda's acting choppy and a bit too perky in some scenes although her singing voice was quite lovely. Meryl Streep was applaudable as always and it was a big transition for me since the last time I saw her was in The Devil Wears Prada. It's certainly a highly enjoyable summer film. Watch it, then watch it all over again. I know I will.
