Mamma Mia! 2008
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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Everything's in twinkle overdrive. As with most stage-to-screen transfers, about a half-hour of material has been excised, and Mamma Mia! never had that much story to begin with. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Mamma Mia! presents itself as a piece of clever counter-programming to this summer's surfeit of pounding, effects-driven comic-book movies. But filmgoers eager to sample its sunny, synth-pop pleasures are likely to feel just as bludgeoned. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Streep has a sweet voice and knows how to use it, but it's sad to watch a perfectionist remove part of her brain and try to convince us she's having a jolly time. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The year's most aggressive chick flick, with a score of irresistibly catchy ABBA tunes sweetening the dumb story like peaches in cottage cheese. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Likable, serviceable, and eminently danceable. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: None of this would matter much if this movie wasn't anchored by a star turn, and Streep delivers yet another in a career full of them. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Constructing a play -- and now a clumsily staged film -- around ABBA songs is the definition of a frivolous enterprise, and little has been done to temper the ecstatic mood with other shadings of human emotion. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Mamma Mia! is not going to make you think, nor does it want to. But it will make you sing, as long as Brosnan keeps his mouth shut. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: As my dignity tried to flee the premises, my heart wouldn't let me go. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: A sage once advised being wary of movies in which the people on screen are having more fun than the people in the audience. Mamma mia, was that good advice. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: If you're invited, you might as well enjoy yourself. Just don't say I didn't warn you. And don't you dare say I hate ABBA. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Streep certainly gives it the old college try and so do Walters and Baranski, who are experienced singer/dancers. Somehow they all end up looking just as flamboyantly amateurish as everybody else. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Feels like a souvenir program: something to revive the feelings you had watching the stage performance. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: He sheer exuberance of the production overcomes its difficulties, and the incongruous mix of nostalgia, James Bond crooning and the world's greatest actress bouncing up and down on a mattress is an undeniable kick. Mamma Mia! is major fun. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: I won't really defend Mamma Mia!, but I will recommend how to watch it: Just stop rolling your eyes and listen. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Taken for what it is -- a fluffy, intergenerational farce as a frame for some seventies musical nostalgia -- Mamma Mia! just gets away with it. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: If Mamma Mia! works on any level at all, it's through the sheer radiance of Meryl Streep. Read more
Rafer Guzman, Newsday: The ingredients seem perfect: a stellar cast, an unassailable soundtrack and source material from a proven hit. Somehow, though, this sugary mix turns into a sour hairball that will have you gagging to expel it for 108 minutes. Read more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: The legal definition of torture has been much aired in recent years, and I take Mamma Mia! to be a useful contribution to that debate. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Even minor elements like sound editing and makeup are botched, a sure sign of carelessness, or cluelessness. Early scenes show characters forgetting to lipsynch to their prerecorded songs. Read more
Bob Mondello, NPR.org: Would be more persuasive if you felt any real chemistry between Streep and Brosnan. But how could you? They've been singing ABBA songs at each other for two hours. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: The costumes look cheap, the choreography is clunky, and the cinematography's terrible - a real shame, given the gorgeous setting. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: A fun, crowd-pleasing alternative for an audience whose idea of entertainment runs more to infectious '70s pop ditties, spandex, sex-starved women of a certain age and bare-chested hunks than watching a caped sadist torturing criminals. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: None of them can sing, and nothing they do looks natural. Rarely have I witnessed so many pros appear so clueless. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: It gets by on the featherweight golden oldies of ABBA, and the treat of seeing and hearing some golden oldies of the cinema break character and belt out a song. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: By turns entertaining and excruciating, Mamma Mia!, the jukebox musical that strings together 19 ABBA hits on a narrative thread flimsier than dental floss, had me smiling and wincing, often at the same time. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Mamma Mia! delivers exactly what one can reasonably expect from it. It's a faithful adaptation of the stage play of the same name but, more importantly, it's a repository for ABBA songs. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: There are the wall-to-wall songs by ABBA, if you like that sort of thing. I don't, not much. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: When Brosnan opens his mouth, the wrong sounds come out. And yet they're among the few things in Mamma Mia! that feel anything close to right. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: This isn't a movie. It's a vacation. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: The movie's spirit is somewhere between High School Musical and Hedwig and the Angry Inch; it's at once dorkily wholesome and proudly slutty. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The adaptation of the long-running stage hit is a crowd-pleasing gusher of escapism, not the least of which is respite from summertime teen action fare. Read more
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: Cheese -- but what wonderfully salty, sinfully satisfying cheese it is. Read more
Hank Sartin, Time Out: This movie isn't just unapologetic fluff; it's aggressive, out-loud-and-proud fluff. Just like ABBA. Read more