If ABBA music makes you want to get up and dance, you will love this movie. With cast members bursting into Abba songs and breathtaking scenery, it hardly needs a plot. So it gets by with a skimpy one, but the movie is so much fun, who cares?
The movie opens right before the wedding of Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), a 20-year-old American who was raised in the Greek Isles by her single mother, Donna (Meryl Streep). Donna runs a charming hotel that is falling apart. Sophie has never known who her father is, but by reading an old diary of her mother's, she finds three possibilities, tracks them down, and invites them to the wedding. She is ecstactic when they all reply that they will be there, sure that she will know which one is her father right away, but when she meets them she has no idea. Furthermore, her mother is not at all happy about seeing these three guys again.
When Donna met Sam (Pierce Brosnan) 21 years ago, she thought she had met the love of her life. Unfortunately, he was engaged to someone else and left her to get married. The other two guys (played by Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgard) were rebound guys, and she doesn't know who Sophie's father is either. It's best not to pay too much attention to the timelines. They talk about being involved in the era of flower children, which would make Sophie closer to 40 rather than 20. I guess the movie wouldn't necessarily have to have taken place in 2008, but they also talk about developing a website for Donna's hotel, so it couldn't have taken place too many years ago. As I said, best not to pay too much attention.
Both Streep and Seyfried have good voices. Christine Baranski, in the role of one of Donna's friends, does a rendition of "Does Your Mother Know" that is lots of fun as well.
Professional reviewers tended not to like this one too much, but unless you're not an ABBA fan, I wouldn't pay too much attention to them.
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