Fun stage show becomes a movie mess
Fun stage show becomes a movie mess
Posted by
labelitlove 137 days ago
The film version of the jukebox theater musical "Mamma Mia!" is a mess.
It plays a little as if someone had left a radio playing in the background while a movie is steadfastly trying to play itself out in the foreground. The ABBA songs are there (and, yes, they are irresistible, in a shallow sort of way), but they have little or nothing to do with the story, and they are persistently dogged by hordes of scantily clad island folk who wave their hands and jump to suggest they are infected with an aggressive case of joy.
You'd be better off to buy the album. Not the soundtrack album, but a compilation of ABBA's greatest hits.
The film arrives in theaters today, and its producers point out that the stage musical is taking in $8 million a week and that people are paying more than $100 for a ticket. More than 30 million people have seen the stage version, a number of them in downtown Norfolk.
Fans expecting the movie to become a smash hit may be disillusioned by what they see onscreen."
It plays a little as if someone had left a radio playing in the background while a movie is steadfastly trying to play itself out in the foreground. The ABBA songs are there (and, yes, they are irresistible, in a shallow sort of way), but they have little or nothing to do with the story, and they are persistently dogged by hordes of scantily clad island folk who wave their hands and jump to suggest they are infected with an aggressive case of joy.
You'd be better off to buy the album. Not the soundtrack album, but a compilation of ABBA's greatest hits.
The film arrives in theaters today, and its producers point out that the stage musical is taking in $8 million a week and that people are paying more than $100 for a ticket. More than 30 million people have seen the stage version, a number of them in downtown Norfolk.
Fans expecting the movie to become a smash hit may be disillusioned by what they see onscreen."
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