Fantastically odd little movie.
The thing is, so much of it is truly horrifying and terrible. And I'm sitting there going "Oh God, really, they're singing into a tampon... oh fucking God" and then five seconds later, every woman on the island is running around and joining in on "Dancing Queen" and I'm literally thinking "this is the most phenomenally awesome thing I've ever seen."
And pretty much every single scene was like that. No joke.
Need another example? How about the number where Sophie and her cheese-tastic fiance are singing on the beach and it's gross and he's a terrible singer and all of a sudden? Yeah, like 20 dudes come out of nowhere, abduct him, and they all do syncronized dancing on the pier wearing only swimming briefs and scuba fins. And I happily laughed my ass off. And no, I did not make an ounce of that up.
It was incredibly hit or miss. And the misses? Were bad. Really bad. But the hits? Dude, they were so fucking awesome.
Like I said, fantastically odd little movie.
I think I kind of loved it.
And the best bit was easily the "Winner Takes All" number. Holy shit. I'm not ashamed at all to admit to crying in the movie theatre at that one. Meryl Streep and Abba were blowing my mind.
