My Grading System

A+ = Masterpiece (I hold back on this one.) / A = Great. / A- = Really Good. / B+ = Good. / B = Decent (Serviceable). / B- = Flawed but okay (For those times there's something redeeming about the work). / C+ = Not very good (Skip it). C = Bad. / C- = Awful. / F = Complete Disaster (I hold back on this one too).

Note on Spoilers: I will try to avoid ruining a story by going into too much detail. But if I wish to include some revealing points to my analysis I will try to remember to add a separate spoiler paragraph.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Mamma Mia (2008)

Some movies are just pure happiness.  The stage show built around ABBA songs comes to the big screen and it's as appealing as sunshine.  Sophie Sheridan (Amana Seyfried) has never known who her real father is so she reads her mother's diary and invites the three men that could possibly be the one to her wedding: Sam Carmichael (Pierce Bronson), Harry Bright (Colin Firth) and Bill Anderson (Stellan Skarsgård).   When her mother Donna (Meryl Streep) realizes that her three long lost loves have arrived on the island hotel she owns and manages she turns to her two best friends, Rosie (Julie Walters) and Tanya (Christine Jane Baranski) to cope.  Simple, brilliantly directed, acting about as perfect as can be, dancing, catchy songs that everybody loves (even if they say they don't): what's not to like.  Sure if you don't like musicals or ABBA this might not be your cup of tea but its such an joyous, silly and unoffensive work of celebration I truly don't know how you could hate it.  Grade: A-
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