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It may not win a coveted award, but iIf you are looking for lots of fun and laughter, super movie stars, beautiful scenery, and toe-tapping music, then make sure you see the best musical comedy of 2008,Mamma Mia, the clever script which interjects music exclusively by ABBA into the story. I love movies, espcially the funny kind. There have been many good romantic comedies this year, but none of them lifted my spirits and my toes as Mamma Mia has.

The entire plot is a comedy of errors: no one knows who fathered Sophie, including her mother. The comedy begins when the men who are the suspected "donors" meet on their way to Sophie's wedding. Sophie has found her mother's journal and invites the men in her mother's life at the time of conception to her wedding in hopes of knowing her father by sight.

Lo and behold! Sophie cannot figure out which guy is her father. Her mother never tried. All three men left her life before she knew she was pregnant with Sophie. This fact lends itself to many humorous moments. Eventhough the movie begins as serious, it quickly turns into a very clever comedy with singing and dancing to move the plot along.

There is so much laughter and fun in this movie that it makes one want to see it again and again. All the characters are funny and talented. Donna, the mother, played by Meryl Streep is hysterical, literally and figuatively. Old photos of her with her beaus of the seventies are just too funny. Donna's two singing partners are funny, too. They sing, dance, prance, and flirt with the young people from Sophie's crowd.

The setting is absolutely gorgeous: real Greek Islands and blue, blue seas are featured. Even traveling around the island is funny; climbing up stairs in stilettos and dancing through the town gathering up women who love to dance is a scream, especially the old Greek fisherman hammering on the piano at the dock.

This movie is fun, fun, fun. Don't miss the credits at the end. You will laugh until you cry when you see Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth in tights and platform boots! The musical comedy will become a classic. They even made DVD'swith the sound track and the words to the songs so you can sign along with the show. Let me warn you that you will also fall in love with the voice of Amanda Seyfried. She is the young girl who plays Sophie. Pierce is also a great singer even though he has never sung in a movie before. Meryl Street also shines through her vioce.

All in all, Mamma Mia is a funny, cleverly contrived story that features the music of ABBA. It is also on DVD.

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