Mamma Mia review

You should have seen the review that I did by now of the sequel to this movie. But I need to see the original movie and do a review of it. Maybe the sequel will make more sense when I do this. So enjoy this review.

We begin with a person on a boat. She is singing a song. That was early. The main character sends a letter to three different men. Let’s hope that I can keep track of all the different names of people this time around. There is a montage shown of all of these different men in different countries and places. That’s where the title card of the movie is and starts.

The protagonist meets with her core group with two other friends. She doesn’t know who her dad is. She reads from her mother’s diary of the story that I know about from the sequel that I’ve already seen. This leads to the second song and first really long one of the movie. Apparently dot dot dot is the same thing as yada yada yada. And I thought it was just a thing Trump tweeted all the time. She invited all of the three men under the idea that her mother sent it.

The three men wind up on a boat ride together. We also see people on a ferry. It then goes back to her friends for a while. We then get to more people arriving at the place. Donna meets up with her two main friends. They drive somewhere. Sophie is the name of the person who is getting married. Rosie and Tanya are the names of the friends of Donna.

The men realize on their way going together that they haven’t heard from Donna in such a long time. There is some awkwardness with people when they arrive. Donna then gets to the third song of the movie talking about how overworked she has felt and she wants money in the rich man’s world. There might have been an earthquake or some reason why the dolphin cracked in some way.

Bill, Harry, and Sam arrive with Sophie greeting them. She wants them to come in a certain way to avoid any sort of weirdness. Donna is possibly drunk when she is with her friends, hanging out. Sophie takes her possible fathers to a room where she talks about some of the past. She then has to hide them when Donna shows up.

Once Donna notices the old flames from her past there, she breaks out into the main song that the movie is named after and fourth song of the movie. This leads to some weird people joining the song and her falling into the place. She talks with them some as she wonders why they are there.

Donna is crying for some reason while her two friends sing badly until they start to sing better about whatever the issue is. I do not understand this. She tells them that all three of them showed up. Her two friends learn about the three potential fathers. The town people laugh at her as extras often don’t mind their own business in musicals. Where did the men go?

Back at Donna’s place wherever it is she is staying at, her friends sing Dancing Queen, the sixth song of the movie. There seems to be a lot of strange costumes in this scene. But at least the extras know to join in with this.

Sophie wants to make sure that her dads don’t just leave on their boat. One of them took a guitar for some odd reason. One of them starts singing. It seems like she is getting details from them to figure out who might be her father. But this might not be the case as we get way less flashbacks then in the sequel. I still don’t know why she is being so secretive about things.

She talks to her fiancée and he sings the eighth song of the movie. She joins in the song as well which seems to be very sexual in nature. Who were those random men on the dock who joined in the song?

We then get to the bachelorette party. That’s when Donna and her friends come out and do yet another song for this movie. They went kind of overboard with all of these songs in it. At least there’s a little plot in this movie. The dads show up during this song. What could happen next?

How many of these songs were recycled in the sequel to this?  There is then another song since the men showed up and the women are horny and tie these men up because that’s normal. Sam talks to Sophie alone while this song happens in the background, off-screen. Sophie tries to figure who her father is and talks to the rest of her potential fathers one on one. Bill thinks that he’s the father.

What song number are we at next? Masked men show up at the bachelorette party and they aren’t worried as it is all part of the elaborate song sequence. Sam thinks that he is the father and talks to Sophie about it. Harry also thinks that he’s the father and I don’t think that anyone thinks of doing a last minute DNA test. Surely those were around when this movie is set.

The next day, both Donna and Sophie worry about what is going on. Did someone just say donkey testicles? Why? Harry and Bill talk to each other and the whole sort of general awkwardness continues. Some random woman is listening to this. She sees some of what is going on. Sophie and Donna are talking to each other. Donna is confused about what’s going. But she doesn’t want to wedding called off.

Sam talks to Donna. They try to figure out things. Men don’t get menopause. This leads to another song. How are people supposed to know when they are supposed to do this anyways? Sorry, I shouldn’t be taking musicals too seriously.

I forget if Christine Baranski is playing Tanya or Rosie. Whoever she is, there are some sort of moves that she is putting on a black guy. She sings a song to him and may have hooked up with him last night, even though it wasn’t seen in the movie, to my knowledge at least.

Harry reaches with Donna and he gives money for the wedding. Sophie asks for help and then runs off. Her fiancée talks to her and both of them get upset. Sam then talks to Sophie some about some of the things. We then get to another song that starts with Donna singing. She reminisces about her daughter’s life. Things are slipping through fingers all the time. They talk more about what is going on. It turns out that Donna will give Sophie away at the wedding.

We then get to the bride riding a donkey for some odd reason. This movie is just so weird. But what, nowadays, isn’t weird? Of course, this came out around ten years ago. Sam talks to Donna and yet another song happens. I haven’t seen the video that I posted here to recap this movie, but I have the feeling that Jeremy doesn’t like this movie at all. While I do, it wouldn’t be hard to see why. I don’t get the meaning of all of these songs.

We then get to wedding in question where her mother walks her down the aisle. They then get to the dad sort of reveal where the three fathers are here. This is kind of awkward, but that doesn’t seem to last long. Actually, it does get more awkward when they all seem to speak up and the beginning of the wedding is delayed. They want to put off the wedding and the character says what everyone is thinking when Sophie wants to call off the wedding for now. This is Adam Decker, whoops! Kind of got ahead of myself there, didn’t I?

Sam then wants to marry Donna and they wind up together. Now I have to watch the sequel again sometime. But when? We get to what might end up being the last song of the movie. It is hard to tell for sure. But what made Sam the right person? Or is this just a way of saying that he probably is the dad, even if we don’t know for sure. He sings a song at this wedding. All is said and done, I think.

I don’t know who this random woman is that wants to be with Bill, but she sings at the wedding and that’s how we get to him possibly taking a chance on her. But will this romance that came out of nowhere mean anything? The crack from earlier then shows up with water bursting out of it. I don’t get it! This sure is a silly movie.

After a quick reprise of Mamma Mia, the song, we go back to Sophie singing to the audience some. We then see her with her dads as people leave. She has a dream in the end, alright. Thus, there is a reprise of Dancing Queen as the credits roll.

Well, this was quite a strange movie, but what musicals aren’t? Do you know of any? Now I know details about the sequel that I wouldn’t have known otherwise. But at least I know the whole story of the fathers. Now I think that this was a good movie, even if a lot of it didn’t make sense.

There is an encore for us of the Waterloo song, I think. It is hard to tell for sure. But it seems like the curtain call of the movie. Sorry if this wasn’t that great a recap. I do not know if anyone likes these or are interested in them. I doubt that I could ever write these for a living.

I think that’s it for this blog post. Sorry if things were too weird about it. I wonder if any of you can guess where I took a break while watching this to do other things before I came back to finish it. There’s not much else to say so maybe now I will end this review for real. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.