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yendi"The legal definition of torture has been much aired in recent years, and I take “Mamma Mia!” to be a useful contribution to that debate."
Anthony Lane's review of Mamma Mia! is delightfully full of snark. Also some very solid analysis of why it fails as a musical film and as an adaptation of a successful play.
As a bonus feature, Lane's column also reviews Journey to the Center of the Earth, in which he notes that other films might have benefitted from the 3-D treatment: "I might not have nodded off during “The Hours,” for example, if regularly prodded awake by the giant schnozzle of Virginia Woolf."
Anthony Lane's review of Mamma Mia! is delightfully full of snark. Also some very solid analysis of why it fails as a musical film and as an adaptation of a successful play.
As a bonus feature, Lane's column also reviews Journey to the Center of the Earth, in which he notes that other films might have benefitted from the 3-D treatment: "I might not have nodded off during “The Hours,” for example, if regularly prodded awake by the giant schnozzle of Virginia Woolf."