Hear ABBA songs in MammaMia

I’ve just recently watched MammaMia movie. This movie really made me curious since the trailer said that I could enjoy various ABBA songs in it.

The movie started with a young woman singing ‘I have a dream’. It turned out that this young woman, Sophie, was getting married but she never knew who her father was. One day, she found her mom’s diary and found out that there were three possible men. Thus she decided to invite those men to attend her wedding party. She did this without her mom’s knowing, since her mom would definetely reject the idea. She only told her plan to her two best friends.

Meanwhile, her mom, Donna, is going to fetch her best friends and when they met, they did some crazy little reunion. Unbeknown to her that around the same time, those three men arrived. Unfortunately, Sophie’s effort to hide their presence failed. Then it started a little clash between mother and daughter, and memory-flooding-in reaction for the mother.

Overall, this movie’s plot or story is quite simple. About how a mother prepared her daughter’s wedding to realizationthat it was actually her own desire to wed since she never had one. But what amazing was how the script writter managed to fill in and to connect so many ABBA songs till it became a story. So practically there’re not many dialogues, instead the actors/actresses sang the dialogue. Almost like an opera, but with so much modern athmosphere and of course not with opera songs.

I considered myself as a fan of ABBA, since I really like their songs. But apparetly, I only recognize several of the famous songs. Well, I’m not a big fans to begin with anyway XD But this movie didn’t dissapointed me in the songs performances. And to my surprise, it was actually the actors/actresses themselves who sang the songs!! I thought they just do lip-singing or something like that XD Well, of course I never knew that Meryl Streep or Pierce Brosnan could sing and quite good in it XD

So anybody out there who loved ABBA, this movie is a must see. But don’t expect to see a ‘story’ in it, just enjoy those musics and the way it performed ^_^

‘So I say thankyou for the music and bringing it to me....’