Mamma Mia has been made with the most delicious, joyful abandon and all it asks is that you joyfully and deliciously abandon yourself to it and don't make too many observations.

| Aug 23, 2018

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 18, 2012

The story is ... urh. No film has ever had a more irrelevant story.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: B | Oct 18, 2008

A sage once advised being wary of movies in which the people on screen are having more fun than the people in the audience. Mamma mia, was that good advice.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2008

The legal definition of torture has been much aired in recent years, and I take Mamma Mia! to be a useful contribution to that debate.

| Jul 21, 2008

A lot of fun.

Full Review | Jul 21, 2008

Miscast, poorly shot, possibly choreographed by a spastic eight-year-old, Mamma Mia! is a mess, but it's kind of an impressive mess.

| Jul 20, 2008

The movie version of the musical has been released or rather unleashed, powerful enough to make the most hard-hearted indie rock absolutist clap along.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 18, 2008

The movie's spirit is somewhere between High School Musical and Hedwig and the Angry Inch; it's at once dorkily wholesome and proudly slutty.

| Jul 18, 2008

If you're invited, you might as well enjoy yourself. Just don't say I didn't warn you. And don't you dare say I hate ABBA.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 18, 2008

Streep certainly gives it the old college try and so do Walters and Baranski, who are experienced singer/dancers. Somehow they all end up looking just as flamboyantly amateurish as everybody else.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 18, 2008

Likable, serviceable, and eminently danceable.

| Jul 18, 2008

Cheese -- but what wonderfully salty, sinfully satisfying cheese it is.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 18, 2008

None of this would matter much if this movie wasn't anchored by a star turn, and Streep delivers yet another in a career full of them.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 18, 2008

This isn't a movie. It's a vacation.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 18, 2008

When Brosnan opens his mouth, the wrong sounds come out. And yet they're among the few things in Mamma Mia! that feel anything close to right.

Full Review | Jul 18, 2008

A fun, crowd-pleasing alternative for an audience whose idea of entertainment runs more to infectious '70s pop ditties, spandex, sex-starved women of a certain age and bare-chested hunks than watching a caped sadist torturing criminals.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 18, 2008

The costumes look cheap, the choreography is clunky, and the cinematography's terrible - a real shame, given the gorgeous setting.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 18, 2008

he sheer exuberance of the production overcomes its difficulties, and the incongruous mix of nostalgia, James Bond crooning and the world's greatest actress bouncing up and down on a mattress is an undeniable kick. Mamma Mia! is major fun.

| Original Score: B | Jul 18, 2008