"Mamma Mia!": how can you resist it?

I can't wait to see this movie... every time I catch a preview of it, it makes me feel like getting up and dancing and singing out loud. I remember the first time I heard Meryl Streep singing... it was Amazing Grace in the film Silkwood and I was just blown away!

The music of ABBA is one of those that everytime you hear it, it makes you feel happy... so when you combine their music with the fantastic performers in this film, it only leads you to believe that this film should be great! 

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Anyone who watched "All My Children" while Bianca and Maggie were on should also recognize Amanda as the actress who played Joni Stafford opposite Jamie, Reggie and as a part time woman of Fusion...before Joni disappeared into Martins' attic! lol

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I cannot wait for this film. There are only 5 celebrities alive whom I would care to meet; the 4 members of ABBA and Meryl Streep. Meryl Steep + ABBA=Mamma Mia= The Perfect Storm. I can't wait.

I've seen Mamma Mia performed twice in London's West End, and LOVED it both times.  Just brilliant. 

My first time, I was sitting second row.  The whole audience is on their feet at the end, dancing and singing along ... extremely good fun.  :)

Can't wait to see it on the big screen, particularly with this cast!

Oh how I love Meryl! She is and always be my favourite actress, and is one on the view actresses I go see a film for just because she's in it. Have seen all of her films, except one or two from early in her carreer. Now, this is something diffirent, because the film itself is reason enough for me to go see it (yes, I'm a ABBA 'fan') That ms. streep is in it makes it all the more fun though! And she's singing again! Can't wait!

woosh

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seen every single movie that has Streep in it. In fact. she's the only actress whose movies I don't even check beforehand because... well if she's in it that's good enough for me.

I'm also a huge fan of ABBA.

So, for me Mamma Mia! is a stroke of genius. Sometimes, I give the Universe a big, fat A for arranging things exactly as they should be.

I've seen it twice with two different casts in the UK and absolutely LOVED IT!!!!

I'm already booked up to watch it next Friday in the cinema here too!!! CANT WAIT!!!

attended the Mamma Mia premiere today in Stockholm! :-)

Check out Meryl Streep hugging Agnetha and Frida:

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesliv/film/article2836959.ab

Seen the play three times and will continue to see it everytime I am near it. I can't wait for this movie.. I hope it will have the same buzz in the audiance that the sing along in the play has(fingers crossed). I just know it will be a great time! Looks like I have to start warming up the old pipes for the sing-a-long. *clears throat*

LOVE Meryl! remember scribe girl's love for her on this blog? awww

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geez you could've at least picked an orginial headline trish...

next week. Plan to see it with my daughter :)

Wasn't an Abba fan, but in hindsight, their songs are pretty much irresistable :)

And with Meryl Streep singing and doing the splits, who can resist?

Meryl StreeP was on Jonathan Ross last night (BBC1) and she was as gracious as ever.

You can catch a repeat tonight at 00:25am, or catch it on youtube or BBCi.

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I love ABBA..I own ABBA gold and I went to see Mamma Mia very shortly after it first opened back in 2000. It was fantastic and I will never forget it. I think it helped that it was my first West End experience. Everyone was up dancing and having a good time.

But, I just cannot bear to even watch the trailer for this film! It makes my eyes burn!! I can cope with cheese and over the top acting in the West End...but there is no way I'm paying £7 to see it in the cinema. I don't know what difference it makes, but perhaps I'm just a film snob. I don't like mixing the genre of musical with film. It rarely works well in my opinion. Grease, The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins and Moulin Rouge are all fab and all classics. Anything else makes me want to vomit.

I love Meryl Streep but why oh why??

a) saw the theatre show a couple o' months ago (international). It rocked!!

b) saw movie on Saturday. It rocked!!

c) downloaded soundtrack of both on Sunday. Se above!!

d) Parts of Greece DO look like that. Take it from the local.

Go. Watch. Sing heart out. Dance with better half on the way out of the movie house.

(Ms Streep is breathtaking when singing "Winner takes it all").

the movie is going to be out on July 10th here and i can't wait 'til then! i'm definitely going to buy the soundtrack and listen to it forever LOL

i love meryl to bits and i think i grew up listening to dad's Abba tapes so i'm super thrilled! i know meryl is going to be something awesome.

I can't believe that no one has mentioned Amanda Seyfried's role on Veronica Mars. RIP Lilly Kane.

Best. Show. Ever.

I actually have wanted to see "Mamma Mia" for a very long time now and haven't been able to in my area.  If you add in my Meryl, I don't know how I could possibly go wrong by going to see this movie. 

It has catchy songs that I know I will be singing in my car for months to come, just like I did with "RENT".  I love that they are bringing the broadway musical genre to the big screen.  I only wish more people would give them a chance in the hope of encouraging movie makers into being less timid about bringing more of them to the masses. 

Just returned from seeing "Mamma Mia" at the local theater.  Fabulous!  Blew me away.  I have always been a fan of ABBA and Meryl Streep, but wow.  Meryl deserves her 5,000th Academy Award nomination for her solo rendition of "Winner Takes It All".  A great actress who can sing?  She does take it all.

And when the whole cast dances to "Dancing Queen", the whole audience went wild!  Everybody clapped several times during the movie.  Not too many movies inspire wild applause, do they?

Last but not least, how many bands in the world have had not one, but two films feature their music?  "Muriel's Wedding", starring Toni Collette and Rachel Griffiths, featured ABBA's music as well.

Go see "Mamma Mia", it will definitely put a smile on anybody's face.