"By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering."
--Roger Ascham

12.13.2007

Mamma Mia!

The Golden Globe nominations were announced today. That movie I blogged about a long time ago, Atonement, got a heap of noms. Once there was a fluff interview with James McAvoy in my Newsweek, and it went on about how attractive he was, and I don't see his appeal. Then again, there are lots of heartthrobs and hot women who I think aren't beautiful at all. But I do have odd taste sometimes. I would post a photo, but I don't want to waste blog space with Britain's answer to Tobey Maguire.

Anyway, the first teaser for Mamma Mia! came out, and it looks cute enough. Agent99 will have to chime in here, since she's the only one to have seen the stage show. I haven't seen it [yet]. Parker, you should consider it. It has the dead Lilly from Veronica Mars (aka Karen from Mean Girls), thespian Meryl Streep, and Mr. Darcy. And lush Greek locales.
If the video below isn't showing up, click this link: http://www.cinematical.com/2007/12/13/first-look-mamma-mia-trailer/

4 comments:

Parker said...

I love all of those actors, but I just can't stomach musicals lately. There's a slight chance I can handle this one if they're singing straight ABBA songs. Are they the original songs or musical-ized version?

Inessa said...

I want to say they're straight up ABBA songs, but only Agent99 can say for sure. Now I'm remembering how crazy I was for ABBA in high school. (Did I just admit that?)

lcbannon said...

i'm still totally crazy for abba and i now need to go find the gold CD. i loved the musical! so much fun, and i had extremely low expectations. this movie doesn't look half bad!

lcbannon said...

oh, and i'm pretty sure they were straight up abba songs. i don't remember anything being changed to "fit the script." if anything the script was written around the songs!