It was Saturday and Russ and I have been trying to fit in a weekly date so we decided we would meet up for a matinee. I call Russ' mom to arrange for someone to watch the kids, Both of them napped, I pump a bottled for Thatch, Aly is clean and dressed with shoes, I can't believe it I might just make it on time! (a rare occurance since having baby #2, I just can't seem to get both kids and myself ready and out the door . . . ) I strap everyone into car seats, raise the garage door and start the car . . . wait start the car . . . shoot, umm . . . START the car! Crap! I left the map light on last night while I was reading the mail, seriously! Unpack 2 kids from the car, call Russ at work:
Mindy: Hey umm . . . so my car battery is dead.
Russ: Ha ha, your kidding me right!
Mindy: Nope I left the map light on.
Russ: I'll be right there.
Mindy: Sorry.
Russ: (click)
Even though Russ had planned to work right up until it was time for the matinee he immediately left work and headed for home to pick up the kids and myself. Despite his speediness having to drive from Downtown St. George out to Ivins, back into town, drop off 2 kids, back in the car, to the theater, buy 2 tickets, and get movie treats . . . we were late! So we had a change of plans and instead of seeing Swing Vote (which I have heard it HILARIOUS) we went to Mama Mia, now before I continue I would just like to say that many of you have already seen this movie, loved this movie, and will be very unhappy with my review so if you are in the aformentioned grouping stop reading now for fear of offense.
Continuing . . . We get seats just as the movie is starting as my eyes adjust to the darkness of the theater Russ and I look around and immediately notice we are the only people under 50 in the theater, interesting even weird. Yet as the movie progresses Russ and I are laughing hysterically, just not at the things we are supposed to be laughing at, you see this movie nothing more than sexual inuendos put to ABBA songs or as Russ so eloquently put it Geriatric Porn! For those of you who are unfamiliar with the story here is a brief synopsis:
Young girl (Sophie) is about to be married and wants to know who her father is before she weds. Reads through her mother's old diary and discovers that there is a possibility of 3 men who could be her father (a little slutty of her mother don't you think?) so she sends invites to all 3 men and they all respond and come. The mother is shocked to see them and here is a real twist, she doesn't even know which one it is. Well to make a long story short Sophie decides she doesn't want to get married after all and she and her boyfriend are just going to travel the world (because why get married when you can just travel and have sex right?), the mother ends up marrying one of the 3 guys from her youth, and the other two father candidates end up finding love (one hooks up with the mother's friend Rosie and the other turn out to be gay and is hitting on a BOY young enough that he could be his son). Where are our VALUES?
Here are a few highlights (and I really mean lowlights):* The random Greeks popping out from every corner and rooftop as the back up singers throughout the musical
* The beach scene with Sophie and her fiancee trying to be all sexy making ridiculous poses that made me LAUGH OUT LOUD!
* Tanya (one of Sophie's mother's friends) climbing all over some 20 something kid in this freaky Mrs. Robinson sort of way that honestly gave me the creeps! Not OKAY to even imply to a sexual relationship to someone you could have given birth to!
* The camera angles and cinematography just made me laugh.
* During the song "Dancing Queen" When Tanya uses the brush as a penis (this was just one of MANY phallic symbols, simply too many to mention but that one was by far my favorite I REALLY laughed at that one).
The Top 2 Lowlights:
*The Aphrodite's Fountain Scene at the end, when all of the sudden the ground cracks and they are dancing in a geyser of water (this is when the Geriatric Porn comment was made by Russ, exact quote, "Now it's a wet T-shirt contest, but with old people, this is like geriatric porn, seriously we are the only people her under 60!"
ALL TIME FAVORITE:
The man playing the piano on the Pier~! Totally random man during dancing Queen sitting on the pier with a piano! Both Russ and were hysterical over that!
Overall not one I will ever see again but I did like the music and found myself singing Mama Mia and Dancing Queen the rest of the day so there is a positive (unless you were Russ and had to listen to me sing all day so for him no highlights, oh well it was good for a laugh!)
6 comments:
Yes, I agree. Horrible movie, I don't think I laughed the whole time. I liked the guy playing the piano during dancing queen too, but that was about all I liked about the whole movie. Maybe I would have liked it better had I gone with girls instead of Mark, but I highly doubt it.
HA ha. Now I feel TOTALLY guilty for loving the movie!!! I agree, but I totally laughed my hind end off. I think the thing I lOVED about it was #1:the music, #2:it felt good to laugh, #3: I lived in Greece and that was totally Greek humor to a T. You are wonderful Mindy and your blog made me laugh too, you are so great!!!!! I hope I can still be your friend even though I loved it. :) I am so dumb I missed most of the induendos, too focused on the music. Silly me. Adam says I live in a "bubble"...maybe it is true.Heee Heee.
I also now feel totally guilty for liking the movie. I agree it did have a lot of sexual humor and induendos. ABBA music just makes me happy and reminds me of being on vacation with my family. Anyway, I have been trying to get my email address to you so you can email me Tayden's first day of 1st grade picture. I tried to email through the contact page but my computer is really not cooperating so I thought I would just leave it on my comment- merrillchristina@yahoo.com. Thank you for saving me from a gap in my 1st day of school pictures.
Mindy, I am not a good one either to talk to about Mamma Mia. Kim and I have watched the Broadway play twice at the Capitol Theater, and I have seen the movie twice at the theater, but I am an extreme ABBA fan too. And I mean extreme. I hated the part in both the play and movie of them trying to imitate a mans body part. That is my worst part.Most Broadway musicals seems to ruin some part of it for me. (I look forward to that being over.) I guess I am a dork, because I must have a lot of stuff go right over my head.
What I did not like about the movie, was that one of the dad's ends up being gay. Not so in the stage play. That was dumb to do. That ticked me off.
One thing funny to me about the story, is that when women meet with old high school friends, they are giddy and giggly, and it puts them back in that age. Literally! You laugh at the same stuff you did then. You continue where you left off. You knew each other at a certain age, and you don't know each other as mature adults. Least, that is how it is at my class reunions and when I get with my old friends. It puts you back in high school. That is the funniest part to me is watching those ladies act like that. It really cracks me up. You know that they had to be an interesting 3-some as young girls!
I loved the Greeks popping up everywhere. Our whole group hooted every time. And if you paid close attention to the friend of the brides mom, with that young boy, she majorly trys to dismiss him and tell him what a baby he is in the song and he keeps after her. She didn't want something to happen with him. That was favorable anyway. He was a young punk to her. That was my most unfavorite song and dance of the whole play.
I loved Mamma Mia so much, I took all of my kids to go see it, except Wes. He had to work. It is OK that you didn't like it. We all have our things that we like differently from each other. My favorite scene is when all of the women go down to the pier, and sing and dance. I want to stand up and dance with them and sing, and jump in the water too. I sooooo much loved that scene. I am sure you really care about all my commentary! Sorry.hehehehehe. Thanks for sharing. I loved reading what you thought.
I just spewed my drink all over the keyboard... seriously you have me laughing so hard! I went with some friends and you should have seen the old ladies dancing in the isles. By the time we left the theatre my sides were killing. Not sure I even remember that much about the movie, but the ladies watching that were singing and dancing were hilarious!! Too bad you couldn't have been in the theatre I was in, 100% pure entertainment!!
Sorry about the keyboard Mindy! I agree your theater sounds like it would have been PURE entertainment, who needs a movie with all that craziness going on! If I had been there I might even want to see it again!
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