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Review: 'Mamma Mia! The Movie'

This loopy ABBA musical has Meryl Streep playing a superannuated American hippie running a funky hotel on a Greek island and preparing for her daughter's marriage.
Published: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT - Source: Csmonitor.Com - Read the article

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Mamma Mia!

Starring: Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard, Jul... Review: Meryl Streep can do anything: sing, dance, do splits, act her heart out. She (almost) saves this clumsy, overwrought film version of the Abba musical that's been running on stages from Broadway to Barcelona since 1999, grossing over $2 billion and luring more than 30 million ticketbuyers to hear Abba songs by Sweden's Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson shoehorned into a plot where they don't really fit. Who can argue with that kind of ³money, money/Always sunny/In a rich man's world success? I can, at least where the movie is concerned, because the three formidable women responsible for the show ­ producer Judy Craymer, writer Catherine Johnson and director Phyllida Lloyd ­ let the magic slip through their fingers on the treacherous trip from stage to screen. The plot is stil... Rating: 2 Stars
Published: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:44:55 GMT - Source: Rollingstone.Com - Read the article

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Mamma Mia! tops UK box office

Musical Mamma Mia!, starring Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan, dances its way to the top of the UK box office.
Published: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:23:02 GMT - Source: News.Bbc.Co.Uk - Read the article