Mamma Mia Movie Poster

What’s great being a Nuffnanger? You get free preview tickets to watch Mamma Mia – The Movie! I love ABBA and I absolutely love musicals so I was really excited to see the movie adaptation of this famous Broadway musical. The fact that my favourite actor, Pierce Brosnan, was starring as well was icing on the cake! :)

Be warned, spoilers are below!

Mamma Mia opens with the sweet beautiful voice of Sophie (played by Amanda Seyfried) singing “I Have A Dream” as she looks across the beautiful blue waters of Greece before she posts 3 very special wedding invitations to 3 very special men in her life. Two are sophisticated businessmen and one a traveller but they all share one common link – any of them could be Sophie’s father!

Sophie’s mother, Donna (played be Meryl Streep) runs a little hotel on a beautiful Greek island and is bus preparing for her only daughter’s wedding. The only problem is that she doesn’t know her daughter has invited the 3 men she has spent a brief moment of happiness with.

What follows is a wonderful time of song and dance as the unusual love story unfurls into chaos. Like a true musical, most of the movie were songs instead of dialogue and the way the ABBA golden  favourites were weaved into the movie were really wonderful. The dancing was superb and throughout the show, the cinema of bloggers were often peppered with laughter. The only drawback about watching this musical in the cinema was not being able to sing along with the songs! :) Especially when each song had subtitles in all 3 languages akin to a karaoke session!

Fans might be surprised to know that Meryl Streep can actually sing really well and they might also be surprised to know that Pierce Brosnan doesn’t sing too well!

It was a great, light-hearted show with a nice happy ending and it has only piqued my interest to watch the Broadway production when it makes its way to our shores or Singapore! :) Do catch the movie if you can! You’ll have a great time especially if you’re an ABBA fan!

Mamma mia, here I go again
My my, how can I resist you?