Mamma Mia!

The irony of this post following the memorial post to Estelle Getty is palpable. This post is to tell you to get your monkey asses to the theater and see the craziest musical movie of all time, Mamma Mia. It is what the genre is supposed to be (that's right Rent, you hang your head). A crazy romp through music and beautiful frames. The fact that I want to do this on the heels of saying Good bye to a TV icon grandmother is unplanned. Extolling your mom, and recognizing extremely talented people. Incongruous. How funny life can be?

Mortality observations aside, seeing this movie will redesign how you look at life and all it's simplicities. The setting is gorgeous, the cast too. Set on a Greek Isle, remote and craggy, the set provides opportunities for staging that will have you breathless at the activity. Stairs, ladders, drain pipes, vistas, lagoons, piers, donkeys, olive groves, I could go on, but I'm too busy humming the score. The music has a devil beat that gets those of us with happy feat to start the delicious chair dancing. Belzebub's got a devil put aside for me. And soon the arms are into it, and your getting notes from the row behind you. I'm telling you that if you don't feel anything while watching this movie have someone check your pulse or just toe tag yourself DNR.

It's material is based on Pop music from a day gone by, with a romantic comedy heart and a head for impeccable delivery. The unbridled energy grabs you and won't let go until it's had it's disco way with you. Gnarly good times. Please, Merrill and Pierce singing their hearts out? Christine Baranski AND Julie Walters as backup singers? Does this come with a side of linguine white clam, cause I don't know how it could get any better. Mamma Mia! The townspeople and wedding party provide a crazy Grecian Chorus to echo the action and dialogue and to even provide council at times. What is this Aeshchylus? Just getting back to our old Grecco roots in theatre I guess. Oh, and it's homotastic, ie Fabulous. There will be shrieking from the community, be ready to find fellow Mo's in the audience. This crazy film has had me going all week, biding my time until I can see it again. This is good because after seeing The Dark Knight, everyone needs a little sunshine. Go see this movie. Now.