Mamma Mia! (DVD)

My oh my
Born in 1976, I missed Abba first time round, but fell in love with the music as a five year old, and loving the vocal harmonies and pop finish.

I was dreading Mamma Mia and what possibly could destroy my dream, I would imagine every person remembers the school disco and Dancing Queen. Synonymous with Uncle Herbert murdering it on the microphone, I was a little nervous sitting down to watch this.

but

WOW

Meryl Streep deserved the Best Female Performance at the National Movie Awards (UK) earlier in the year. Utterly believable as a single Mum (Donna) who has a dream, her singing in this is absolutely brilliant. She belts out many of the classics, which we know and love Abba for - but the star of the show has to be Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) as her daughter. And my oh my she can sing.

Synopsis

Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, and Stellan Skarsgård play the three potential fathers to Donna's daughter (Sophie), the result of a summer of play in the Greek Islands. Sophie decides to invite her three potential fathers to her wedding convinced she will know who it is.

Julie Walters as Rosie and Christine Baranski as Tayna are simply fabulous in the supporting role, and also deserve a mention.

The songs of Abba have been reworked into dialogue, and interwoven into the plot of the film, and even Mr (I do not like Abba) Chris enjoyed it

So much so I put Abbamania on and had a round of guess the artist -

High School Musical Next. . . .