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Saw Mamma Mia Last night

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eidsvold · 10/07/2008 23:37

and loved it.

What a great laugh/feel good - music wash over you film.

Boy can Meryl Streep sing!!!

IT was just great.

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Moomin · 08/08/2008 19:35

I saw it Thursday night.

I feel like a family man must feel when he's slept with a prostitute.

CountessDracula · 08/08/2008 19:38

I really want to see this
I am very glad that others have blubbed as the thing that was putting me off was the amount I blubbed when I watched the documentary about the making of it

zippitippitoes · 08/08/2008 19:39

i thought abouit seeing it but saw dark knight instead

CountessDracula · 08/08/2008 19:40

I warned dh I would prob blub all the way through it if we went to see it and he looked at me like I was insane

(he should know by now)

but WHY are you all blubbing at it?
Why is it so moving? or whatever it is

tortoiseSHELL · 08/08/2008 19:41

I saw this, and loved it! But Pierce Brosnan blew Colin Firth off the screen! Meryl Streep is fab!

Moomin · 08/08/2008 23:22

It was very very cynical.
It knew what buttons to press and it pressed them mercilessly.
I feel cheap and used and quite guilty.

and I'm quite aware that I'm cynical too. I could write quite a substantial review on how I found it to be a huge disappointment but I've already had a rant to poor dh about it I won't

mears · 09/08/2008 02:16

It is a pure feel good non brain testing film that is good fun. Can't understand how anyone would not enjoy it. Was so glad to give my brain a rest.

The only film I have been to in years that the audience clapped at the end.

Enjoyed the film as much as the stage show.

alipiggie · 09/08/2008 04:28

CD why did I blub. The words in The Winner Takes it All. Very poignant for a newly divorced single mum. Best feel good movie for a long time. Here in Boulder, we all cheered at the end . I want to go and see it again.

Moomin · 09/08/2008 10:15

I know mears, I wanted to like it - that's why I went. I wanted a no-brainer good laugh and a sing-song with my friend. It was a recipe for the ultimate girly night - happy hour, loads of girly gossip then Mamma Mia for a sing-song. But it just left me

Soapbox · 09/08/2008 10:32

I liked it, but I think it would have been better had it not stuck so faithfully to the stage version. It worked so well on the stage but didn't quite have the same impact on the big screen. It would have been better had it been directed differently.

However, that said, I blubbed my way through a lot of it, mnuch to the embarrasment of my DCs who were with me!

I find the whole thing about lost youth moving. How we lose large chunks of the people we were as young adults, tied down by our past decisions. Slipping through my fingers was so poingnant - I have a 10yo DD, whom I feel has already slipped a little way away...[blub]

tortoiseSHELL · 09/08/2008 10:34

Our audience clapped as well.

The sight of Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth in Abba style trousers and boots will stay with me.....

PortAndLemon · 09/08/2008 10:43

I blubbed during "Slipping Through My Fingers" -- had DD on my lap (it was a mother-and-baby screening) and it was immediately apparent that at any moment she'd be leaving home and leaving me behind. Mind you, she's four months now and it hasn't happened yet...

turquoise · 09/08/2008 11:13

I was crying and laughing all mixed up together most of the time - I know it's cynically pushing all the right buttons, and cheesy as hell, but it doesn't matter.

For me the blubbing was because it echoes a lot in my life - middle aged single mum, daughter, fabulous lifelong friendships, no love measuring up to "the one" ...

Lots more laughter and fun than tears though, and I thought Meryl was amazing. And Julie Walters is always fab - I loved Chiquitita and Take a Chance.

The songs, the beautiful setting, the campness, the way they're all clearly having a ball - it just makes me feel better, no matter how crappy a day I've had. DD (10) and I have already been twice, and will probably go at least a couple more times before the DVD comes out - so it can't just be a perimenopausal thing, she loves it as much as I do. And she cried at Slipping through my fingers too!

mears · 09/08/2008 23:53

I would love to snog Pierce Brosnan

ladymariner · 09/08/2008 23:59

I thought it was absolutely fantastic, I laughed out loud and I cried my eyes out when Meryl sang Winner Takes It All, and Slipping Through MY Fingers. I went with my best friesnd, and my mum and dad, who are both pensioners and we all had a blast, it was that kind of film

we had the soundtrack on in the car very loudly all the way home, we were all singing along! Brilliant

IllegallyBrunette · 15/08/2008 20:57

I have just got back from seeing it with my mum and dd1. We all thought it was great and I could tell that dd1 was enjoying it from the tittering coming from her direction.

Waswondering · 19/08/2008 21:08

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Bobbiewickham · 21/08/2008 13:21

Well, I really wanted to like it.

Unfortunately, I sat there clenching my buttocks with embarrassment and had to be levered off my seat.

Pierce Brosnan should be biting his knuckles with shame.

And why can't Meryl Streep move properly? Was she trying to be zany? I hate zany.

Hairspray miles better.

Plonker · 03/10/2008 23:44

For anyone who is yet to see this film ...GO WATCH IT!!

I watched it for the second time this evening with dd's (8 and 5) and we LOVED it!!

Thankfully, the more sex related subliminal messages went right above dd's heads' and no explaining was needed

The cinema was half empty but the atmosphere was brill (and headed by my singing/dancing/clapping/swaying 5 yo!!)

I literally laughed out loud practically all the way through.

Loved the 'Dancing Queen' scene and thought Rosie's 'Take a chance on me' was side-splitting
Meryl Streep is fantastic, Colin and Pierce are gorgeous, and yes, i cried at 'Slipping through my fingers'

Dd1 declared that it was just like HSM except miles miles better! High accolade from an 8yo

strummer · 04/10/2008 00:10

When I went with my mam, the cinema was packed with men, three women and the rest men!!!
I enjoyed it though.

cyteen · 16/10/2008 12:46

i saw this at a parent + baby showing and thought it was absolute gash. great music obv, meryl streep was superb as ever and there were a couple of bits i thought were well done (e.g. the 'does your mother know' sequence and meryl's heartfelt rendition of 'the winner takes it all') but on the whole it was so painfully cheesy even my high tolerance for crap was tested.

i still cried at 'chiquitita' though and laughed to see dominic cooper turn up as i went to school with him.

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