Mamma Mia Review

14-07-2008 14:10

Cast: Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgård and Julie Walters

Dir: Phyllida Lloyd

Rating: 3.5/5

The revival of the musical continues as Meryl Streep leads an all star cast in the latest to hit the big screen, an adaptation of the hit Broadway and West End show.

An independent, single mother who owns a small hotel on an idyllic Greek island, Donna (Streep) is about to let go of Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), the spirited daughter she’s raised alone.

For Sophie’s wedding, Donna has invited her two lifelong best girlfriends practical and no-nonsense Rosie (Julie Walters) and wealthy, multi-divorcee Tanya (Christine Baranski) from her one-time backing band, Donna and the Dynamos. But Sophie has secretly invited three guests of her own.

On a quest to find the identity of her father to walk her down the aisle, she brings back three men from Donna’s past to the Mediterranean paradise they visited 20 years earlier.

Seeing Meryl Streep belting out Super Trooper in a spandex may not be what we have come to expect from this Oscar winning actresses film but it's what you get with Mamma Mia.

And Streep's desire to participate in such a project further highlights her versatility as a performer as well as her ability not to take herself too seriously - and who would have known she was hiding a rather impressive set of vocal pipes.