Mamma Mia

[trinityvixen]

Just came back from Mamma Mia. This is the second time I've seen it, so the rather thin plot was a tad grating. I still love the music to pieces, and you have to physically restrain my sisters and I (all of whom were in attendance) from singing along, but I dunno. It felt a tad flat until the end where they bust out the shiny outfits and sing for real.

One thing I noticed? Musical theater conventions really grate on me. Number One offender with a bullet: the seranade made as an aside. You know what I mean, even if I can't dredge up the technical term. Basically, where two people are prominent onstage, and one freezes out of the spotlight while the other sings about them and twirls around them as they don't react to it. That's getting really old. I think it would be more character dynamic if the other person, you know, reacted. But I suppose it would muck up the last-act turnaround if feelings were out in the open from the outset, wot?

Comments

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I couldn't have done it.

I will freely admit that it's a brilliantly constructed movie, but I could not make myself watch that again.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I know quite a few movies like that. They were good but so relentlessly depressing or depraved or whatever, that a second viewing might have made me jump off a roof or lose my lunch (or both). It's easy to say they're good, not so easy to sit through them twice.