Mamma Mia! Critic Reviews

It's a delightful piece of filmmaking with a marvelous cast topped by Meryl Streep in one of her smartest and most entertaining performances ever.Read the full review

The movie takes the ABBA jukebox musical that ate London, and is still eating Broadway, and turns it into a surprisingly sensuous experience.Read the full review

The good-natured silliness is contagious. When Streep runs singing through a Greek village, it's like a spirited homage to "The Sound of Music."Read the full review

Mamma Mia! is fun, the music's terrific and the cast is appealing.Read the full review

It's airheaded just like the songs it embraces but, if you enjoy them, there's every reason to believe you'll appreciate the film.Read the full review

It makes bursting spontaneously into song seem like a perfectly reasonable--indeed, highly desirable--thing to do, and it leaves the audience wanting to do the same. I see a big uptick in late-summer karaoke parties.Read the full review

Yes, of course this is fairly old-fashioned entertainment, but it's really, really entertaining.Read the full review

Scribe-creator Catherine Johnson (also in her first screen outing) and theater-opera vet Lloyd can't seem to find the right tone or style for their globally celebrated material.Read the full review

It's tempting to say that Mamma Mia! has the worst choreography of any big-screen musical in history, though that would imply that what happens in the film IS choreography.Read the full review