Another one of Broadway's most popular musicals makes the jump to the big screen this weekend.
"Mamma Mia!" is based on the bewilderingly popular Broadway musical and international stage hit.
The story, such as it is, was written to fit the songs by Abba, the 1970s Swedish pop group, and stars Meryl Streep.
The multi-Oscar winner plays a single mother who's raised her daughter, portrayed by "Big Love" co-star Amanda Seyfried, at a rickety hotel she'd inherited on a sun-drenched Greek island.
Now the altar-bound daughter longs to find the father she'd never known and bring him to the wedding.
After finding her mother's steamy diary, she's invited the three likely suspects: Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgard and Colin Firth.
What follows is a musical explosion with the Abba songs sometimes exhilarating, but soon it looks just like a music video with some of the less exciting numbers endless.
Christine Baranski, the noted Broadway stage actress, and Julie Walters play Mamma's best friends.
They come for the wedding, but you know they'll soon meet the three bachelors.
The movie sounds looped at times, even when they're speaking instead of singing, and all the
numbers begin to run together.
"Mamma Mia" is picturesque, and a few Abba numbers are great sing-alongs, especially 'Money Money'" and "S.O.S.", but no matter how gorgeous the Greek island backdrop is, these are, after all, superb actors, who are neither singers nor dancers, and after some of the numbers drag on a bit, it begins to look like just a karaoke night at Club Med.
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