Mamma Mia
Entertaining
and filled with lots of great Abba songs, this film is very much the stage
musical put on celluloid. The Greek
island setting is almost as false for its excessive beauty as stage scenery,
the characters are pretty one dimensional and it is left to Meryl Streep 
with
her undoubted talent and the ever humorous Julie Walters to breathe a bit of spontaneity
into the show. It could have been a
really creative and goose bump generating film as Priscilla, Queen of the
Desert was. It ends up a noble and
technically very exact musical and is also entertaining but is very much, as I
said, a musical with all that implies.
****
