The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular 1970s group ABBA.The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular 1970s group ABBA.The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular 1970s group ABBA.
- Nominated for 3 BAFTA Awards
- 16 wins & 27 nominations total
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- TriviaPierce Brosnan had no idea what the project was about when he signed on. The producers told him it was being filmed in Greece, and Meryl Streep was starring. Brosnan said he would've signed on for anything involving Streep, describing her as "that gorgeous blonde I fancied terribly in Drama School."
- GoofsJust after Tanya and Rosie arrive, Donna takes the laundry down and says "You'd think they would figure out a machine that would make the beds." Her mouth doesn't move during part of the sentence.
- Crazy creditsAfter the final scene of the movie Meryl Streep, Christine Baranski and Julie Walters appear on a sound stage in matching 1970s glam-rock costumes and sing "Dancing Queen". When they finish Meryl 'asks' the audience if they want an encore. The three ladies are then joined by Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgard who are similarly attired. Along with Amanda Seyfried and Dominic Cooper, they provide a rendition of "Waterloo" as the main credits roll.
- Alternate versionsStarting August 29, 2008, it was released in select theaters under "Mamma Mia! The Sing-Along Edition". Like Hairspray, the film was released in theaters with the lyrics at the bottom of the screen for audience participation.
- SoundtracksI Have A Dream
Written by Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus
Performed by Amanda Seyfried
Courtesy of Universal Music
Featured review
Mamma Mia!
So you meet a girl and you start talking, things are going really well, you share a lot of common interests. You're especially attracted to her because she loves both "Mulholland Dr." and "Lifeforce" and can discuss the minutest details of labyrinthine television giant "Lost". Another common interest is a shared, unabashed love of ABBA. You ask her if she's seen "Mamma Mia!", she says she hasn't but probably wants to at some point though it looks cheesy. The DVD's out a couple of days from the conversation, so she suggests watching it together. Now it's Wednesday, the DVD was out yesterday, but knowing that she has a thing for aging, over-the-hill action stars and the movies they are involved in you attempt, after watching the sugary-sweet trailer for "Mamma Mia!" again, to avoid it by suggesting that you rent "Rambo" instead (she doesn't know that you rented "Mamma Mia!" the night before this phone call). To your surprise she expresses relief, and you watch Stallone destroy what seems like the entire Burmese military force. The movie's dark and grim, more so than you expected, and not very good, but you have fun and everything goes great. Now you're confronted with the choice of either wasting your "Mamma Mia!" rental or sitting through it alone.
What the heck, right? No. This was one of the most painful things I've ever sat through. Last year Julie Taymor made "Across the Universe", a lunkheaded, moronic, unbelievably simplistic and ridiculous movie set in the sixties using Beatles music, but it had a good cast, good performances of the songs, a neat visual style, and a dependable sort of romantic feel that took me by surprise. "Mamma Mia!" on the other hand, is a musical where NOBODY can sing OR dance, where every scene is dumber than the last one, where "Dancing Queen" is reduced to something far worse than even having a girl over and then realizing that your mom's friends are coming over for drinks under the pretense of them being 20 again, and having to be in the same house as all that. There's not one good performance here, not one good line of dialogue, the film is flat and boring visually, the choreography is unbelievably awful, and the story as bland and idiotic as can be.
What a completely worthless, putrid waste of space which didn't provide a second of entertainment, which butchered every song, which was clearly done without any energy or commitment, as an internet acquaintance of mine said, it feels like a bunch of stars taking advantage of a paid vacation to Greece. What a completely horrible film, what an insult to ABBA and to fans of their music. ABBA didn't become popular because they appealed only to women over 35 or gay men, and while I've enjoyed several things with that target audience this is so exclusively aimed at that audience that it truly boggles the mind. Get someone to write a good musical based on ABBA songs, PLEASE.
What the heck, right? No. This was one of the most painful things I've ever sat through. Last year Julie Taymor made "Across the Universe", a lunkheaded, moronic, unbelievably simplistic and ridiculous movie set in the sixties using Beatles music, but it had a good cast, good performances of the songs, a neat visual style, and a dependable sort of romantic feel that took me by surprise. "Mamma Mia!" on the other hand, is a musical where NOBODY can sing OR dance, where every scene is dumber than the last one, where "Dancing Queen" is reduced to something far worse than even having a girl over and then realizing that your mom's friends are coming over for drinks under the pretense of them being 20 again, and having to be in the same house as all that. There's not one good performance here, not one good line of dialogue, the film is flat and boring visually, the choreography is unbelievably awful, and the story as bland and idiotic as can be.
What a completely worthless, putrid waste of space which didn't provide a second of entertainment, which butchered every song, which was clearly done without any energy or commitment, as an internet acquaintance of mine said, it feels like a bunch of stars taking advantage of a paid vacation to Greece. What a completely horrible film, what an insult to ABBA and to fans of their music. ABBA didn't become popular because they appealed only to women over 35 or gay men, and while I've enjoyed several things with that target audience this is so exclusively aimed at that audience that it truly boggles the mind. Get someone to write a good musical based on ABBA songs, PLEASE.
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- ametaphysicalshark
- Dec 17, 2008
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- Also known as
- Mamma Mia! The Movie
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- Budget
- $52,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $144,330,569
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $27,751,240
- Jul 20, 2008
- Gross worldwide
- $694,665,577
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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