Mamma Mia! Critic Reviews

You can have a perfectly nice time watching this spirited adaptation of the popular stage musical and, once the hangover wears off, acknowledge just how bad it is.Read the full review

This is a movie guaranteed to please crowds, if only because it insists on their affection so strenuously.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

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

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

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

Though the filmmakers may have been imagining they were re-creating the old days of MGM musicals, it's the Village People's misguided "Can't Stop the Music" that comes to mind instead.Read the full review

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