I finally watched that terribly tacky musical called Mamma Mia! starring Meryl Streep in the lead role. The lady has won several Oscars, but dear lord, she cannot sing!
The worst song in the film, is most definitely Streep’s rendition of The Winner Takes It All; she wails like a banshee and gesticulates so wildly to long lost love (Peirce Brosnan), it’s almost embarrassing! At this point, I must say that Brosnan looks his usual drool-worthy self, but dear lord, he must not burst into song, either.
70s costumes were funky, not frumpy. But here we have just frumpy. And the dancing…pure indulgence, as Simon Cowell might say, mercilessly.
Anna Seyfroid is a favourite and she’s brilliant in Big Love as a troubled Mormon girl who struggles with dad’s bigamist lifestyle, but in this film, the girly avatar just doesn’t fly.
The cast bursts into song at the drop of a hat, but even though I shall love Abba songs eternally, the music sequences in the film, besides being mostly terrible, seem very forced, unlike in ‘Across The Universe’, a musical trubute (and work of art) to the The Beatles.
Well, save for a song by Christine Baranski, who sings about being seduced by a younger dude as she is being seduced by a younger dude. She plays Streep’s fiesty middle-aged cougar friend, who has had four hubbies and several plastic surgeries.
Tags: abba, across the universe, anna seyfried, big love, Christine Baranski, mamma mia!, merryl streep, mormon, peirce brosnan, simon cowell, the beatles, the winner takes it all
