Movie Review: Mamma Mia

"Mamma Mia" the movie was adapted from the hit Broadway production by the same name. It features the music of the seventies singing group ABBA. It stars Meryl Streep as Donna, single mother of daughter Sophie, played by Amanda Seyfried. The story revolves around Sophie's upcoming wedding and her need to find her father in order to know her true self.

After rummaging through some of her mother's old trunks, Sophie comes across a diary that Donna kept before and during her pregnancy with Sophie. On a whim, Sophie writes to each of the three men that Donna mentions in her diary and invites them to her wedding. The wedding is being held on a Greek island where Donna runs a small hotel. All three men, Sam Carmichael (Pierce Brosnan), Bill Anderson (Stellan Skarsgard) and Harry Bright (Colin Firth) meet for the first time on their way to the wedding, not realizing that they were each once romantically involved with Donna.

Once on the island, Sophie tries to hide the men until her wedding the next day but Donna finds them in her goat house. She insists that they leave but they go only as far as Bill's boat. Sophie seeing them on the boat believes that they are leaving and swims out to change their minds. The four of them spend the day getting to know one another. Meanwhile, Donna is back at the hotel frantically trying to figure out how they knew about the wedding and why they are there. Her best friends, played by Julie Walters and Christine Baranski try to calm and reassure her that nothing is going to upset Sophie's wedding day. Finally, on her wedding day, Sophie admits to her Mom that she read her diary and that she invited them because she wants to get to know her father. Only...which one is her father?

This is one of those movies that you want to watch over and over again. It makes you want to get up off the couch and sing and dance along with them. I love the fact that the actors and actresses actually do their own singing even though none of them are professional singers. I felt this added to the realism of the movie. The movie is filled with the music of ABBA; so if you are a fan of the group, you are a flower child of the 70's, or you are just someone who loves a good romantic comedy, you will love "Mamma Mia."

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