I’m not a music person. I love music, but I’m a theater person by love and trade, and that includes musicals. Believe it or not, Mamma Mia! (yes, the Abba musical) is a very well-done piece of theater. In my opnion, it’s the best that a jukebox musical can be, possibly because the music is so lame in itself that you can easily fit it into your made-up plot. There’s only 1 or 2 songs in the entire thing that don’t really flow very well within the book. I suspect this is why the Bob Dylan musical, (Times They Are A-Changin) and the Johnny Cash musical (Ring of Fire) crashed and burned so hard, the songs are already so loaded with meaning.
So I was very excited to hear they were making a movie of Mamma Mia! I was even more excited when they cast Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth. I was a little concerned about Amanda Seyfried (Veronica Mars, Mean Girls, the truly horrible Wildfire) as the daughter, but the trailer has erased all concerns. This trailer has even made the totally jaded Megan and Sarah (who hates musicals) want to go see it.
Plus, shirtless Dominic Cooper (The History Boys) is a reason to see ANY movie.
