This movie is crap but I was laughing all the way through it. The problem is, I couldn't figure out if I was laughing with the movie or at it. It's bad, yes, but is it supposed to be that bad? I mean, it is ridiculous in that fabulous way with an absurd story and a group of supporting actors always there to sing back up. Meryl Streep delivers probably her worst performance of all time, but it takes someone as talented as her to deliver something this bad. I know that doesn't make a whole lot of sense but see this movie and it will. The site of her rolling around on a roof top singing Mamma Mia is something that will probably never leave my mine, nor would I want it too.
I said I laughed all the way through the movie up above, and that is a bit of a lie. This movie is long, just under two hours, which is about 20 minutes too long for this type of stuff. The film is sweet as candy, but like the sweets, your stomach starts to hurt after too much. There is a scene late in the film where one person, hell, none of you are ever going to see this so I may as well go into story details. Right before her daughter is to be married there is a scene of Meryl Streep singing to Pierce Brosnan that is one of the most boring sequences in recent films. Nothing happens, absolutely nothing. The camera simply spins around the two as they stand there and she sings. This lasts the entire song but feels like the length of a whole album.
The movie is actually just on big mess. I know what happened in the last ten minutes or so of the film but I'm not sure why or how. The person who was going to get married didn't, which apparently is what the husband always wanted, and then anther person does get married in what must go down as the quickest engagement to matrimony in the history of movies. People don't even appear to be part of the same space as the background, almost like they had been photoshopped in. White lines surrounding their body while the beautiful background just sits there on a whole other plane. And the less said about Julie Walters embarrassing performance the better.
NOTE: Please stay for the end credits. Its one of the most bizarre and out of left field sequences I have ever seen.
2 comments:
I think this is my new favorite movie.
this is one of the few plays i've actually seen, which ended up being great... it's funny to think of ol' Pierce taking a stab at singing though, yeeesh
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