{"id":1516,"date":"2008-08-03T21:58:19","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T02:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2008-09-28T13:38:16","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T17:38:16","slug":"mamma-mia-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2008\/08\/03\/mamma-mia-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamma Mia!&#8211;Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/image\/stars\/35o5.gif\" alt=\"3.5 Stars\" \/><br \/>\nIt stands to reason that a musical featuring ABBA songs won&#8217;t get much respect. After all, ABBA didn&#8217;t get much respect even back when they were popular. Still, they were popular for a good reason. Sure, they wore funny costumes and memorized the lyrics phonetically, but the songs were a lot of fun: bouncy, energetic and life-affirming.<\/p>\n<p>So I went into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0795421\/\"><em>Mamma Mia!<\/em><\/a> hoping for some good mindless fun, and I got it. For the first few minutes, listening to the inane dialog, I was worried. Then Meryl Streep started belting out &#8220;Money, Money, Money&#8221; and everything fell into place. There&#8217;s some serious talent here, not to mention pretty scenery.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to try to describe the plot. It&#8217;s some sort of silliness about a wedding on a Greek island, obviously strung together for the sole purpose of fitting in as many ABBA song and dance numbers as possible. It doesn&#8217;t mean anything. The only thing to do is sit back and enjoy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It stands to reason that a musical featuring ABBA songs won&#8217;t get much respect. After all, ABBA didn&#8217;t get much respect even back when they were popular. Still, they were&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2008\/08\/03\/mamma-mia-movie-review\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[180],"class_list":["post-1516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-mamma-mia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1679,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions\/1679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}