Mamma Mia!: Musical Hell Review #3
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- Original Air Date: June 2, 2012
It's big fat Greek wedding time, complete with Pierce Brosnan "singing" ABBA.
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Pride and Prejudice
Spaceballs
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
A Streetcar Named Desire
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I think the problem with any ABBA musical is that a lot of their songs (or at least the most popular ones) are party songs, written for the dance floor with mostly the beat and sound in mind. You can't put ALL OF THEM in the same narrative and expect it to flow.
Her problem in this video however seems to be that she hates ABBA songs in general which is a shame.
That's probably the problem with disco musicals in general, disco music is more dance music than for example pop.
However, I actually think that almost every ABBA song tells a very clear and interesting narrative. One of their songs may be a plead, a character song or a rebellious anthem. That's why I like ABBA, the writers put so much different topics and personalities into their songs.
can can you can, but you need to write the plot around the songs, not just write a plot and make almost no ties to the aongs
3:22
Diva makes a good point here.
3:39
Why are we using Katy Perry's I Kissed A Girl as a counter comparrison? I'm not complaining, but the point is far too obvious.
Obviously this movie didn't borrow much from the show, where much of the upbeat songs are executed better. Also they had to make some adjustments to the story, which were pretty weak in hindsight.
I wanna know why they're having a Catholic wedding in Greece. Greece has less than 1% of its population as Catholics, the main religion being Eastern Orthodox.
Donna isn't from Greece, so she might be Catholic
In the stage musical, Donna is lapsed Catholic with a strict Catholic mother
Because this movie can do very little to nothing right.
Mostly because it's only barely set in Greece, none of the characters are Greek in origin, the only reason it's connected to Greece at all is that it's a scenic Mediterranean locale, and Greek Orthodox ceremonies are inherently way too visually and in-every-other-sense distinct to just pass by without comment in a film aimed at midwestern Wine Moms that isn't actually *about* Greece or Greek Culture in any way? Catholic can slip right on by as 'generic but coded to represent a certain type of traditionalism connected to wanting a father to walk her down the aisle'. Greek Orthodox would code the exact same thing, but would involve actively going out of your way to do something that does literally nothing for the story but can't pass by in the same way to a Western audience because it's Traditional by the standards of pre-V2 Latin Mass catholicism and a significant percentage of the viewers would just be confused.
This really strikes me as one of those CinemaSins-pointing-out-the-'plotholes' moments rather than any sort of genuine insight. No character in this movie or the play has a Balkan, Russian, or Rwandan surname, which would kind of be enough on its own (the only people I've met that belong to one of the various Orthodoxies but don't have a matching surname married in) and it's set at what's basically the personal low-end seaside resort a washed up celebrity retired to. There's really no reason to expect anyone to be Greek Orthodox.
Don't get me wrong I do like Mamma Mia, but with a bride to be creeping in her mother's love life in her diaries is better suited by those controversial pop songs that are celebrated for liberation.
Case in point
3:39
“How does she have the current addresses of 3 men she hasn’t had contact with in years” how does the letter get to bill when he literally lives on a boat?
"the three dads realize they're happy sharing Sophie" why does that sound DirtyBadWrong?
Gregory House Because it is, apart from being silly.
haha☺
Because this movie's (bleep)ed up.
I know this was from 4 years ago but you may want to be made aware that when it's termed "dirtybadwrong" that usually means it's all three of those things in a way you find titillating, usually sexually. Maybe you DID mean it was a kink of yours, but I figured I'd let you know just in case.
@@RivkahSong I did not.
Every time I hear Pierce Brosnan's singing, I want to put my ears to a grater. I can forgive Russell Crowe's imperfect voice (more a case of being out of his depth than bad singing) and I can even tolerate Gerald Butler to some extent, but Brosnan is where I draw the line of bad singing.
Toirdhealbhach Rí Chonnachta He killed ABBA for me.
harrietamidala1691 Even autotune can’t fix Pierce Brosnan.
@@ahabtheplant When I finally managed to hear the song he butchered, my thought was "Wow, this song is a lot better when sung with somebody with actual talent"
Pierce won Worst Supporting Actor at the razzies for this
@@thespider2566 I actually like his acting in Stars a great deal. There's a humility to him that other Javerts skip
why couldn't Sophie just have a DNA test?
Exactly
because there can't be a movie with it. It's the entire plot
If she knew anything about genetics, she would know that the blonde guy is her father.
Because Maury Povich can't sing??
Darth Belal 😝😂😝😂😝😂👏👍👊
"Sophie gets dressed like a feminine hygiene ad". i cried, along with all the other wedding-related jokes
The worst thing is that Abba would actually lend themselves to a good jukeboy musical... If the writers didn't limit themselves too only their best knowwn songs. Abba songs do cover a great variety of themes that go beyond cheeful lovesongs and can even get dark at times
I think the songs that haven’t been used will be in the sequel. Yes there is a sequel coming up next year.
They didn't really use that many in the sequel. I think the reason they don't use the less known ones is because that wouldn't bring enough wine moms to the seats
There are some great songs of theirs that could be used for different purposes. So annoying
I know this is really nitpicking, but is any one else bugged that for a show set in Greece, the church at the end looks nothing like a Greek Orthodox church? There should be icons covering every wall, and the priest should be wearing a completely different set of vestments. Sure there are other Christian denominations in Greece, but the Orthodox are the largest, and a large part of Greek culture.
Plus the fact that the priest is English for some reason
...no one in this entire show in Greek. Literally every last character has a surname that makes it very clear none of these people are greek, unless the leads are the one Greek Orthodox 'Sheridan' family on the continent, and it's set at the personal seaside resort a washed-up musician retired to, presumably because it's a mediterranean villa rather than because of any sort of ancestral connection to this imaginary island an Ex's rich aunt bought for her. The play and movie have nothing to do with Greece in that they could easily be set in Italy or Croatia just as easily without changing anything, except making it more obvious that they ripped off an Italian film for the plot. Oh, and the characters are all explicitly Catholic, it's explicitly a catholic wedding, and that is explicitly a catholic priest. Expecting anyone to care about portraying important parts of Greek Culture in a movie that is basically about people of Northern European descent taking an extended vacation in Italy-with-the-serial-numbers-filed-off is a pretty bizarre thing.
On top of that, it's a film aimed at midwestern wine moms and Greek Orthodox ceremonies are...visually distinct, to say the least. It's the kind of thing that can't slip by in this kind of production without going out of your way to address it to the same extent they would have to if Seyfried's character was Sunni. Catholic slips by as 'generic but traditional enough to make the obsession with a dad walking her down the aisle make a little more sense'; Greek Orthodox would convey the exact same thing but call a ton of attention to itself along the way.
There's basically no reason to expect this family of obvious ex-pats with an Irish last name and associations exclusively with people from Northwestern Europe and North America to belong to a religion that is incredibly uncommon in the Anglosphere, in a play that has nothing to do with greek culture or identity. I really, really wish that they'd just set this thing in Italy back in 1999 so people didn't keep leading with this CinemaSins-tier plot hole.
I once tried to write a Jukebox musical using the music of Aqua to prove that Jukebox musicals are dumb. After watching this, I kind of want to revisit the project, this time because I'm pretty sure I could do better than this, plot wise. And I still think Roses are Red could make for a decently trippy dream ballet.
Raye J I used to listen to my MP3 player on long drives and would make better plots for stories than this movie... should I mention I was 11?
Raye J
Move over, Lin Manuel Miranda!
Please tell me that you've revisited this project?!?!!!! Funny story, because of quarantine I'm also making a jukebox musical based off of a girlband from my childhood
I'm waiting for clearance from Ton Scherpenzeel to start the Kayak jukebox musical......
Jukebox musicals are totally dumb- AMEN!!!!
I remember being dragged to the theater to see this. The minute Pierce Brosnan started singing I wanted to season my delicious popcorn with rat poison and moth balls.
I wanted to shred my ears with a cheese grater. Movie theater popcorn sucks.
I'm surprised it took you as long as "Pierce Brosnan singing" to wanna do these things. I seriously wanted to slit my wrists right from the beginning!
@@Litrocks13 LOL I resisted the urge until then.
Am I the only one who likes to pretend Colin Firth 's character in this is actually his Kingsman character in disguise? Since They' re both named Henry and all...
They're both called Harry lol
I love that idea, though you'd think if kingsman Harry would disguise himself, he wouldn't use his real name
Yeah, that makes this movie a bit more tolerable.
God PLEASE!!
@@lpsmurder Harry is a variation of Henry! It’s like John and Jack. So it works!
The best part is that she just ends up with three dads. Does it make sense? No. Is it ridiculous? Yes 100%. But I love it anyways
I love Mamma Mia despite all it's flaws. I totally agree with a lot of your points here, but this film is my ultimate guilty pleasure and I won't stop loving it for a long time ^^
8:44 And its gonna be really weird when the sequel comes out and the three dads are not going to look like they do in this scene when they flashback to Donna's past.
Im a little sad that you didn’t give voulez vous a little saving grace since the energy is really amazing in that scene and really has a good chaos that mirrors the chaos within Sophie.
Another thought: if you do the math (and if this movie is supposed to be taking place in 2008), Donna had her unprotected flings with these guys in the late eighties (never mind the flashback appearances of the men). Which would have been AT THE HEIGHT OF THE AIDS EPIDEMIC. Donna should be grateful that the result of all this was a daughter she loved, not something MUCH worse!
Not that there is any indication in the movie, but I think it's supposed to take place in the late 90s when Mamma Mia first premiered. (This would explain, among other things, Donna's disco-era wild years and Sky wanting to set up a web site for Donna's B&B.)
Jennifer Schillig And that would explain why the internet seemed so foreign to Donna.
Which makes Donna a female equivalent of Jeremy in Peep Show!
I like ABBA very much but to be honest, I don't think anyone watches "Mamma Mia", no matter if it's the musical or the movie, because of the extremely interesting and detailed plot (which BTW also was the plot of a 1960s movie with Telly Savalas, set in Italy, on a WW2 reunion party). They want to sing-a-long the great music of ABBA, which is more authentic in a theater than in a move theater. And as you mentioned, this movie contains many nice locations. And nice arrangements.
The German Stage production, which I saw, was very good, had good looking actors with talented voices, and it had the spirit of the music. You can't always put that on screen. And Pierce Brosnan singing is really not that good. Apparently he only signed for this movie so he can be with Meryl Streep in Greece and forgot that he actually had to sing and dance there too and therefore started learning.
And BTW: There was even a ripoff of this musical, called "Mamma - Come Together". It features the same plot only featuring the music of ABBA AND The Beatles. So you could here Sophies friends singing "Yesterday".
@Isabelle R This is good too. If you enjoy it, then this is great. It is just how I see it. I would have watched Mamma Mia even if the plot was a different one.
Although in the interviews leading up to the sequel, Pierce Brosnen left this quote: "My singing may be terrible, and they may not have hired me to sing. But I choose to SING!"
Couldn't Sofie just get a DNA test.
Sadly no
that would make too much sense!
yes but
That’s how mama mia should have ended
I was in the play. It takes place before DNA exists even though it been updated to modern day in some adaptation
The reading of her mom's diary is definitely the creepiest thing about the movie .
I just love the cheesy-Ness of EVERYTHING, it's just so unapologetically over the top and that's fun for me
BTW, given your obvious crush on Colin Firth, how are you going to react to his voice coming out of adorable little Paddington Bear?
I survived Hugh Jackman as a singing penguin and Michael Crawford as a cranky badger; I think I can cope.
I'm even more excited to see Peter Capaldi as grouchy neighbor Mr. Curry! As long as he doesn't go full Malcolm Tucker on Paddington, mind you. Having an important role in this should make up for his scenes being cut out of Maleficent.
Jennifer Schillig I hope he calls Paddington, Puddington. You know, like pudding brains.
Musical Hell Now I wonder how you reacted to Kingsman...
Or The Kings Speech?
ABBA are a million times better than this movie. x
"Jukebox musicals"...I wasn't aware they had a name...I just know I hate 'em...Hollywood's done that to the Beatles twice.
I actually like the music of ABBA...but not when it's being sung by people who,musically,are just not up to the task...listening to Pierce Brosnan sing "S.O.S." is like listening to Tom Green attempt to sing "Brandy" (which he did,in the first "Charlie's Angels" movie).
“I’m Bond, James Bond”
You’re lucky I wasn’t drinking anything because otherwise, you’d owe me a new keyboard
To be completely fair to Sophie, her little faint at the end of “Voulez-Vous” can be excused by the fact that it was her bachelorette party, and thus she was probably very, very drunk. Her actions throughout the film are still idiotic, but passing out at an event where she’s been drinking heavily does make sense.
Omg how the" hell" do you only have 721 subs?
Chris Heart It's 721 more than I had when I started out a year ago (moved over from Blip after a content purge). Please feel free to share my videos and help get that number higher, though!
+Musical Hell You left out quite possibly the biggest sin, all the implied ties that are never explained. Donna has a hit disco group in the 70s and meets those three guys around that time and opens her hotel in Greece, yet the daughter she bears in on in her 20s? Also why are all Sophies friends British? Did Donna send her to boarding School in England so she wouldn't have to learn Greek? If so how did she pay for that? Did she stay with Rosie when she went to school, which would explain why she's seen Rosie more than Tanya. But then Donna's Diary shows that she was in Greece with Sam first and then Bill then Harry, but then Harry says that he was the one who followed Donna to Greece. It would make more sense that she knew Sam before she met Harry, but then Harry should have been the first one in Greece based on what he told Sophie and then Bill was there visiting his Grandmother and then Sam( the guy she's known the longest) would have come for her last. But none of this explained. The connections and the timelines don't add up. Forget this being a bad movie, its confusing as hell and I have never been able to explain it. There are too many plot holes.
+Musical Hell +1 after this.
In a way but it's escapism
I guess we'll find all that out in the sequel!
Watching Mrs. Weasly do slapstick omg
I had no idea it was the same actress until she said that!!
personally, I think Bill might be her father, seeing how they both have blonde hair and blue eyes.
I seem to recall that's the canon, according to the creators...
I don't think it was ever confirmed unless someone can give me a source otherwise. The original actress that played her in london, Lisa Stokke had brown hair, and the actors that played the three dads probably have diff
It's Stellan Skarsgard. He's everyone's father.
ABBA only did about 12 disco songs (out of about 120 songs)-so no they are not a disco group-they are a pop group. Points off for that major major error.
I love this movie. It's the best excuse to burst into random Abba songs with my girlfriends whenever we get together for a sleep over or whatever.
Just then put an abba cd on and skip the movie
"Synchronized gay pride team" -- LOL. (I also did not love this movie.)
Mamma Mia is a remake of "Bueno Sera Mrs. Campbell" with Gina Lola Brigida.
Why are a lot of these female-oriented movies so sickingly sweet?
Fantasy fulfilment. I hated this movie, but the idea of a beautiful wedding in greese, no actual problems, no consequences, it's pretty snazzy.
You are never too old to frolic!
I have questions about Diva. Did she get this gig *because* she's a demon who knows a lot about musical theater? Or is this job a punishment or something like that and she developed a passion for musicals as a result of getting the job? If the character has a developed back story I'd watch that video lol
There is a backstory that is slowly being shown bit by bit as opposed to all at once. The "Portal 2 the musical" review was the first look into Diva's backstory, and I believe there is one more video released (so far) that explains thing a little but I don't remember which one. It was said on either Twitter or Tumblr (I don't remember which one) that Diva's story is similar to Wicked the musical.
"I see you've kept my bagpipes."
"They reminded me of your voice."
The cold harshness of that reply had me in stitches!
Musical Hell, nice James Bond reference
I personally like this movie, because I’m secretly a sucker for syrupy sweet stories like this. It also helps that I’m actually quite fond of ABBA.
On another note, I think Diva’s voice is pretty nice as well.
3:40 okay to be fair, according to the sequel, that’s basically what happened right before she met sophie’s three potential dads...
The "Lay All Your Love on Me" segment always cracks me up, the choreography is just... something else
Everybody rags on Pierce Brosnan's singing in this movie, but if they'd calm down and really pay attention they'd see that he can't dance either.
Maybe plot is stupid but no matter how bad my mood is, it will still make me happy. In addition I don’t think this movie should make much sense, it feels more like parody.
I've had a fantasy kicking around in my head for some time. Create a musical called "Mama-sama"; strip out all on the ABBA and instead insert Japanese pop songs, regardless of the lyrics. That could work, right?
**Sidious voice** DEWITT.
My school's rendition of this had a very obvious answer. Donna was white, Sophie was POC, and Sam was the only suitor to not be white.
My school’s version had a similar situation, though for us Bill was the obvious father. Our Donna was reasonably tall and blonde, and our Sophie was short with very dark brown hair. Our Harry was tall and dirty blonde, our Sam was POC, and our Bill was white with very dark hair.
Pierce Brosnan sounds like a foghorn in this movie. I loved the awesome, perpetual super-Englishman Mr. Darcy -- I mean Colin Firth -- even more b/c he submitted himself to the shame of this movie. And of course Stellan -- his natural craziness added a looney quality that made for a few funny moments (the very few funny moments). Amanda Seyfried is just UGH. And the Crystal Light ad sums up the movie's tone perfectly -- I snorted Perrier all over my iPad, so brava diva!
he should have stayed onatopp of things.FRANKIE CROFT SMALES
Fun fact: Sophie's fiance now plays Jesse on 'Preacher.' Now that I know that it makes both feel really, really strange.
Where can I join the synconized gay pride team?
The bond edit caught me off guard, I almost did a spit take, well done
I like Mamma Mia. You don't have to take it so seriously. I agree with all the points in this video but honestly if you just let it be fun and enjoy it its ok
I can definitely understand people NOT liking the movie (the ladies' 20mins of reunion shrieking just about put me entirely off, I admit) but I still enjoyed most of it, and thought the songs were actually well worked into the plot? Some of Diva's criticisms of this aren't quite on point - "Money money money" for example isn't about Donna wanting a rich man, it's about the fact that she's a single woman in a misogynistic world and kinda wishes SHE was rich!
Will you do a review of the sequel "Mamma Mia Here We Go Again"? :)
I'm surprised you didn't mention how stupid Pierce Brosnan looked when he was singing. 11:26 - 11:40
He can act just not sing the characters i feel are fine 😁
I didn't mind that so much, either his singing or his slight awakwardness - it made the whole feel less cheesy, and honestly he's not that bad!!
7:31 Gettin' some serious "Safety Dance" vibes here.
Your yelp of horror at 19:47 was literally me throughout this entire movie.
I found out that I'm doing Mama Mia! in community theater in 2020! Pray for me you guys! Next summer's going to be a long one!!
Meeee too. Who are you?
I LOVE the Pride and Prejudice special with Collin Firth and Jennifer Ehil.
I found this channel a few days ago, it’s like a musical version of cinemasins
I frickin love it :D
These reviews are so much fun to watch! I'd love to know your thoughts on Across the Universe. It's a guilty pleasure of mine and actually was kind of a gateway into me becoming obsessed with the Beatles. But a review like this would be fun! Keep up the good work!
Thank you for making this review, Diva from Musical Hell. You gave me an idea for something to review. I also enjoyed your Home On The Range review.
This channel deserves more subscribers.
It may be Musical Hell but this channel is part of RUclips Heaven. Well done, Diva!
Love all the crappy plot its not chekov but bad singing aside they did it with love and glee i found the sequel a bit less like that 😎
Poor Diva was so calm and collected back in 2012. I wonder which musical abomination broke her.
My guess is either Glitter or Love Never Dies!
While jukebox musicals are usually lazy cash grabs, I would LOVE to see a musical centered on the songs of Adam Young aka Owl City. I've been a fan of his music for years and his songs are so beautiful and otherworldly. They lend themselves perfectly to a jukebox musical.
I rewatched this recently and I gotta say, as completely cheesy as it is, I still kinda love it? I most likely gonna go see the sequel lol. Also wtf I had no idea preacher/Howard stark was the fiancé holy shit
I played Bill in my theater troop prodution. Him and Rosie ARE a couple.
I’m playing Rosie right now...and I agree. 😄
I loved your reaction to seeing the guys in abba outfits
Wow... obvious AutoTune on Brosnan's voice is obvious. I shudder to think of how bad it was before that.
Isn't... isn't your parents going down the aisle with you pretty common these days? Turning a transferral of property to simply having the ones who raised you with you?
The supposed humor between Meryl Streep and her two pals came across to me like drunk people acting stupidly and nobody else finds them amusing, yet you have to watch them because they are being so loud and obnoxious.
If they insist on casting for name recognition in movie musicals, they should just bite the bullet and bring back singing voice-dubbing.
The stage musical makes so much more sense... They moved a lot of the songs around and changed the plot a little too
I hope Jersey Boys will end up being another exception to your general dislike of jukebox musicals. It may well be, since it seems to be at least as much biopic as jukebox musical. Something for a "Know The Score" in the near future, perhaps?
Anyway, as for me, I don't DISlike jukebox musicals...they can be done well. It's just that, as you said, they were overdone...and they crowded out other kinds of shows for a while.
I'm glad you've gone over to RUclips. BlipTV could be problematic on my laptop...and at least with RUclips, you sometimes don't get an ad, or can skip them sometimes. I'd like to tell advertisers that every RUclips ad that I can't skip, or worse, every embedded ad on a webpage, is another product that I resolve to avoid buying if I can.
(Oh, and Pierce? I love you to death, but please NEVER SING AGAIN. You want a Bond with a decent singing voice, do a search for Daniel Craig's.)
I'm inclined to be more lenient to jukebox musicals based on the actual artists/composers of the songs (Jersey Boys, Boy from Oz, Beautiful) because the concept works around my basic objection of "trying to force the songs and story together"--the music is already an important part of the characters' experiences. That doesn't necessarily mean they will be good, but it does make the whole thing feel a lot less forced.
As for the Jersey Boys film--we'll see what I think in the next Know the Score, which should be up June 23rd-ish.
The main problem with doing a musical based on ABBA is that either you have to do it based on their most vapid-sounding songs (which is what this did) and defeat the entire point of making a musical in the first place. Or you have to actually engage the subject matter of most of their lyrics.
And things like broken relationships, depression, political brainwashing, disillusionment with the abuse, depersonalization and artistic-shallowness of the music industry, (in some of the Swedish versions) anti-religiousness, the horror of war, oppression of political dissidents, species dysphoria and that one song that seems to be about murder, rape or both; are not things most people expect from an ABBA musical.
I (and most other people that actually like ABBA and not just their hits) would probably enjoy the hell out of that, but I don't think the same can be said about the Average-Joe/Jane who just likes to sing along to Dancing Queen and Mamma Mia on the radio.
(Too bad The Girl with the Golden Hair musical ABBA were working on for a while in the 70's never got anywhere.)
Too bad the vapid sounding songs totally FAIL in having anything to do with even the scenery and characters, let alone the story. They have a dance party in the movie and THEY DON'T PLAY DANCING QUEEN THERE!!! Instead 'Gimme!Gimme!Gimme!'... BECAUSE WHY THE FUCK NOT!!!! That song is NOT AT ALL about simply banging hot men. It is about how insecure media attention can make a celebrity.
wait I remember the furry song but which one was the murder rape one?
large and mildly threatening reptile Probably their song ‘Elaine’.
I've never heard any ABBA songs that didn't sound vapid
Honestly the only good reason of this movie is Colin Firth
"WHY ARRrrE THEY HERE?" ... "What are they doing here?" ... "I don't know WHYYY they're HERE!" ....."HARRY What are you doing here?"
The idiot plot is why I hate Frozen. If their parents would have spent five minutes talking to their daughters then literally none of the plot would have happened and Elsa and Anna would have been successfully and happily ruling together for years.
Me: He made been your father boy but he wasn’t your daddy
Sophie: 😧
Never thought I'd say this, but Butler is Len Cariou compared to Brosnan.
Gamer Rob Butler actually has some experience with music before he made Phantom, doesn't excuse the fact he was the wrong match for the role, but you're right, at least he understands the basics of music.
Diva, aren't you looking forward to the sequel, starring Cher?
the real enyoyment of this is watching Pierce brossnan make an ass of himself
21:08 Tom hanks? TOM HANKS?! HOW THE HELL DID HE GOT THERE?!!
I bet he was looking for Wilson
aww, i like this movie. but i see what you mean about the structure of well everything it a bit like putting a parachute on a badminton shuttlecock . but still ∑:-3) i found itto have a charming sense of fun
*meow*
(mind you id gladly group most other comedians, comedies producers, comedy everything bar a few and and them down to you after packing them like a pomegranate alas that is beyond by powers and i keep hoping they'll produce something good some day) XD
This whole movie could’ve been prevented with a paternity test.
I don’t care what people say, I watched this movie for the first time with my mother and we both loved it. And every time I watch again I keep loving it.
Did anyone say you couldn't?
just discovered your channel and already know i’m going to be binging your videos for the next week or so. you’re great!!
nah this is one of the best movies ever
Why don't Sophie and Sky get married? They clearly want to be together, and being married wouldn't stop them from traveling around everywhere.
Reasons? Potatos? Legos?
@3:40 - @3:50 *Listens to the following song* Thank you I needed that.
Every single one of your criticisms is accurate and I love the movie anyway. Also, do the sequel.
"A command appearance on the Maury Povich show" - brilliant.
Mamma Mia is like Sound of Music. Seriously-Sound of Music is artistically TERRIBLE, with a saccharine, overwrought and completely historically inaccurate plot, AWFUL songs (seriously the title song and Climb Every Mountain are the only actually well written songs), bad singing from everyone but Julie Andrews and whoever dubbed Peggy Wood, and it's over long. Yet it's so perfectly cheesy that it's infectious and lovable and you can't help liking it. Mamma Mia-pretty much the 2000s equivalent.
Come to think of it, you should do a Musical Hell review of Sound of Music. There is SO MUCH to mock.
One of those “nothing about this should work and yet it does” movies? As uncomfortable as that is to admit, it’s not entirely wrong...
And yeah, Climb Every Mountain is absolutely epic- though I’d add Edelweiss to the list of Genuinely Great Songs. It’s nothing too special, but it has a very sweet simplicity to it.
@@Dreigonix The original Broadway even has "An Ordinary Couple", arguably the worst song R&H ever composed. So bad they had a whole other song written to replace it in the movie, "Something Good", which is only marginally better, and then SG has even been used in most revivals since.
Pierce Brosnan and Gerard Butler singing a duet would definitely be part of Hell's karaoke bar.
My school put on a production of Mamma Mia, and I have to say, despite the lack of an intelligent plot, it is EXTREMELY fun to perform in. The show exists as an excuse to dance and sing ABBA songs, and when Pierce Brosnan isn’t involved, and you just let yourself be swept up in the chaos, it’s genuinely enjoyable. Further, the pacing is WAY better in the stage show, with the Rosie/Bill flirting being better set up and Take a Chance placed before the wedding, as Bill interrupts Rosie as she fusses over the pews, conveniently adjusting any misaligned pews from the quick scene change, and Tanya’s flirting with Pepper being much more entertaining. All three dads get a proper song with Sophie, Harry gets Thank You For The Music, Sam gets Knowing Me Knowing You (telling Sophie about his failed marriage), and Bill gets The Name of The Game (which is, admittedly, kinda weird), and Harry sings Our Last Summer with Donna. The genuine love and care that can be seen in the dynamic between Harry and Donna in Our Last Summer is absolutely the reason Harry was made gay, since if he was straight, that one song would ruin any chance of the Sam/Donna plot working. The movie changed a lot of things, and killed a lot of Mamma Mia’s charm in the process, reducing what little plot it had to begin with to an incoherent mess
shame on you for calling ABBA's music disco. they had more range than that.
Sophia coming to the conclusion that it doesn't matter who her sperm donor is could be a good character arc...if it was developed more during Act 2.
It may have been a poorly written movie, but I think the average movie watcher just wants to have a hell of a good time, and I think Mamma Mia! delivers in that respect.
can you please review Mamma Mia here we go again
..."His future wife is a special needs patient." Perfect!
Eh, its stupid maybe but personally I DO feel very happy watching this movie. I DO feel the fun infecting me, it just... Makes me happy to watch Mamma Mia. Idk. I know a lot of people who feel the same... Idk. I know me personally enjoying it doesnt make it a good movie but... Idk it doesnt sit well with me to think it was trying too hard to be fun cause for me it succeeded in being fun.