Review: Mamma Mia! (2008)

Title: Mamma Mia!
Year: 2008
Starring: Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance
MPAA: PG-13 for some sex-related comments
Kids-In-Mind.com: 4.1.3
My Rating: 5.3
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IMDb Rating: 6.6

Synopsis: Twenty-year-old Sophie (Seyfried) is living on a Greek island with her mother, Donna (Streep), and is engaged to be married. She'd never known who her father was until she stole her mother's from twenty years prior and finds that there are three possible men that could be her father. She invites these men, Sam (Brosnan), Harry (Firth), and Bill (Skarsgård) to her island to her wedding by letter, pretending to be her mother. The men come and when her mother finds out, she is not happy. She asks the men to leave, but Sophie begs them to stay and they do. Each independently thinks that they're Sophie's father until her wedding, when Sophie and her fiance spontaneously decide not to get married after all, Sophie decides that she doesn't want to know which one's her father, Sam falls for Donna, and everyone's happy.

My Take: This movie was, quite simply, not good. No one could sing terribly well, no one could dance, and the comedy was immature and stupid. With its all-star cast, the acting was fine, but that was about it. The plot was boring and lame and I quite literally felt tortured sitting through this. I have no idea how anyone could possibly like this show. It was absolutely awful.

Concerning the rating: The 5.3 puts this movie ranked 151st out of 156 films rated.

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