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Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Friday, July 18, 2008 - 5:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
I'm just back from seeing it. Loved it!! Yes, it's fluff -- but good fluff. (Well, except for Brosnan. He cannot sing. Don't think he was good in the part generally?) Audience was laughing at / during some of the dance numbers and clapped midway through at something and at the end. Been a long time since I've experienced that. (I don't go to many movies though.) Beautiful colors and scenery. Feel-good movie and music. Left the movie happy. We need more like that. I want the DVD NOW!

Msbullwnkl
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08-16-2005

Friday, July 18, 2008 - 6:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Msbullwnkl a private message Print Post    
Okay, our trip to see this movie (once I get to Georgia next week for my wedding dress fitting) we will be going. Thanks for the reassurance!

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Friday, July 18, 2008 - 6:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
The credits scene is hilarious!

I so agree with you, Color. Just go and enjoy and don't try to look to deeply into it. You couldn't help but smile.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Friday, July 18, 2008 - 8:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Just got back. FANTASTIC FUN!!! great fluff, but so was the musical. Meryl did a great job as did all the women. Poor Pierce, bless his heart, he can't sing, but he gave it a good try.
I don't think the dancing was supposed to be great choreography. I got the feeling in alot of scenes it would be like what might happen at a greek wedding. I think alot of it was supposed to be campy.
I am with Color and Mamie...just go have fun. See Tolstoy or Le Mis another time!

Rissa
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03-20-2006

Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 5:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
Tex, I had said a similiar thing to my hubby about the campy. I think they should have gone all out with it, like they did with the boys/flippers on the dock or when the chorus comes out of the water. Those were really funny, over the top moments. It was the times when it wasn't campy when my eyes started rolling. LOL Like when Meryl and girlfriends were performing at the bachlorette party.

Probably going to see it again tonight, going to be even harder not to sing out loud the second time. LOLOL

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 6:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Rissa, i thought it looked more like what it would really look like for 50 year old trying to recreate their act from their 20's.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 6:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
I think part of the great fun is all the ABBA music and how it's woven into a story. I wonder if the people who are disappointed in the movie are those who are younger and don't really know the ABBA music like an old foggy like me! LOL
the songs just make me giggle and feel very nostalgic.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 7:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Again, I loved it. I very rarely see movies in the theater. I'm seriously thinking about seeing this again SOON. I can't wait for the DVD. After the movie yesterday, I headed over to Borders and got my ABBA Gold! CD sale going on there.

Earthmother
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07-14-2002

Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 7:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Earthmother a private message Print Post    
I just happened to be in San Antonio when Abba came out with "Fernado". The radio stations there played Abba all day long. It was the same week that "Saturday Night Fever" was released and kind of got lost in all the disco stuff. When I returned home to Cali, I found that Abba was rarely played. Maybe they were more popular in Texas than here. I am begging my "love guns and roses" sister to go with me to see it, but she seems to think she might get ill, so it looks like I'll bribe my niece to go with me.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 7:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
I love this photo

Mamma Mia

Landileigh
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07-29-2002

Sunday, July 20, 2008 - 11:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landileigh a private message Print Post    
i haven't enjoyed a movie as much as Mamma Mia in a long time! Holly and I saw it last night, and were singing the songs and having a blast. So Pierce Brosnan isn't the best singer, not all movie musicals has the best singers. But it was done in the style of the old movie musicals and WE LOVED IT!!!

Marysafan
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08-07-2000

Monday, July 21, 2008 - 7:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Marysafan a private message Print Post    
I went to see it with my sister-in-law and her two sisters. We had a blast! Agree about Pierce...poor fellow...just not a good singer.

My nephew's wife and her best friend also sat with us and they seemed to enjoy it too...so it wasn't just a generational deal.

Just good fun! Had all I could do to keep from singing and dancing in the ailes.

One good thing about those 8 gazillion commercials I saw for the movie...by the time I went I knew all the words to Mama Mia!

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Monday, July 21, 2008 - 11:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I still find myself singing the songs and I saw it on Friday!

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Monday, July 21, 2008 - 2:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
YEAH! I'm so glad that I'm going to enjoy it.

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 5:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
Told my four friends who went with me that I can't wait to see it again and get the dvd, because there is no way you can watch this movie without missing half of it, there's so much going on all the time! It was a giggle-fest for us, heard several men in the theater laugh, too, but there was a woman in the row ahead of us who cried all the way through. She must have been re-living some of her past.

The Dancing Queens were hilarious!

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 6:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Urgrace, me too! I want the DVD NOW!!!

Yesitsme
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08-24-2004

Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 6:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yesitsme a private message Print Post    
I agree that Pierce can't sing well and was probably miscast....but he is cute. And I wish there would be more of my favorite Colin Firth... he would have been better in Pierce's role and Pierce in his. But as a whole I thought the casting was great. My girlfriends and I went and we had a great time. Sang throughout the movie... and it didn't seem to bother anyone!

Dovez
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08-27-2005

Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 6:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dovez a private message Print Post    
my dh and i saw it up here in a small mtn town yesterday afternoon.
what we didn't know was that it was senior day at the movies and there were oodles of white haired individuals who had no idea what the heck was going on. so,needless-to-say, only we were singing the words to the songs and swaying our arms.
it was a far different experience than seeing the play in london where 400 people poured from the theater singing dancing queen!!! now that was memorable.

Holly
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07-22-2001

Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 7:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Holly a private message Print Post    
Seeing the play in London sounds like a super experience, Dovez. I loved the stage version too and would definitely see it again.

Pamplemousse
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09-28-2003

Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 10:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamplemousse a private message Print Post    
Loved this movie, as someone who liked Abba back in the day I knew all the songs/lyrics. Movies like this look like SO MUCH fun, i'd have loved to be one of the extras in something like this (can't sing or dance worth a lick so it is a no-go) Can't wait to get this on DVD

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 10:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
I've been thinking the same thing, Pamplemousse. Would love to have been an extra. Great vacation havin' fun there in those Greek islands.

And good idea, Yes -- Pierce and Colin switch parts.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Friday, July 25, 2008 - 3:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
Waahhhh!! My mom and dad went to this yesterday and loved it. Dad even said they're going to try to get tickets for the stage version that is coming to GR next week. Maybe I'll leave the DS and the nephew off at the golf course next week and go see it. :-)

Nancy
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08-01-2000

Saturday, July 26, 2008 - 10:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nancy a private message Print Post    
I have seen the stage version in nyc and just got back from the matinee showing of the movie--i thought it was great although i will agree pierce is not the greatest singer--I had seen a local review(really an editorial in the paper) from someone who is a musical director who hated it--thought the singing was bad--dancing was not shown fully etc etc--but if you go in with that eye then yes probably not the bsst movie--

Vsmart
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02-10-2003

Sunday, July 27, 2008 - 9:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vsmart a private message Print Post    
Dragged DH who had no idea who ABBA was even tho he is 60 & hasn't been to a movie in years. He loved it & wants to borrow my CDs. And visit Greece!
I saw it live in SF & Vegas. Movie is even better.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Sunday, July 27, 2008 - 12:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
LOVED IT!!!!! Can't wait to go back and see it again!!!! Streep was terrific, and Pierce overacted his little heart out during the songs to make up for his lousy singing voice. Cracked me right up. (We couldn't even make out the words when he was singing, now THAT's bad. Betting he gets a Raspberry award this year.) Julie Walters and Christine Baranski steal the show as Streep's BFFs, IMHO!!!

I also love that they use REAL people with REAL faces and REAL bodies as the extras, townsfolk, etc. When the hefty old granny tosses her bundle of whatever she was carrying, and joins the dancing women, bouncing along in all her uh, rubinesque, glory it was a moment of sheer delight. It was a 'right-on sistah', moment for me. I had me one silly grin in that dark theatre, I tell ya.

Told DH I want the DVD 'the minute' it comes out. Then I'm thnking it might be fun to throw a Mamma Mia party and give prizes for best costume and best AND worst singing voice. LOL.