Stephanie Zacharek, in Salon, on "Mamma Mia":
| Ah, summertime: That sunny, carefree three-month window during which, ideally, we're supposed to be having fun at the movies -- and if we're not, we need to be beaten into believing we're having it. I don't normally think of Meryl Streep as the dominatrix type, but watching her and her two BFFs, played by Christine Baranski and Julie Walters, grinning and giggling their way through "Mamma Mia!" I felt I was being thoroughly, and unenjoyably, punished.There's a lot to like about this movie- the songs are good, Amanda Seyfried is a true talent as the female lead, and it's beautifully shot. But Baranski and Walters' second-rate AbFab routine all but ruined the movie for me. Posted by Stephen Silver at July 18, 2008 03:08 PM