Posted on 07/20/2018 2:50:39 PM PDT by simpson96
The world is already a toxic place where any kind of sane future is newly threatened daily, so why, in a summer heat wave of ugliness and political danger, do we deserve yet another dumpster fire with delusions of grandeur as nauseating and stupid as a sequel to the monumentally inconsequential Mamma Mia!? Call this embarrassing dog’s dinner Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again or just call 911. Either way, it is nearly two hours of relentless, plotless, artless junk.
Considering the tack-on taste a majority of summer movie escapists live with, an inevitable gang of misguided kids will probably welcome more cornball songs by the Swedish pop group ABBA, happy to join a wasted cast of thousands all bumping, jerking, twitching, and jumping up and down like spastic pelicans while pretending to have fun, but the alleged professionals in the cast who actually seem to relish trashing their craft for money look like they just woke up in a bed of red ants.
How can so many accomplished people turn out a microwave musical so bad it makes karaoke look positively adventurous? Let me count the ways.
Ugly bright colors that look like somebody just regurgitated a spoiled banana split? Check.
Absence of anything remotely approximating a story line? Check.
Banal to the bone dialogue? Check. (snip)
Direction that looks phoned in from the West Indies in the rain? Check.
Wasted actors who should have stayed in bed but came out to pay their mortgages while enjoying a paid vacation? Check.
Ghastly, offensive songs bordering on the sub-mental that substitute for missing plot, action, character development, tempo and narrative coherence? Double check.
Millions of hors d’oeuvres that look like they were catered by the chef of a Five Napkins Burger in Bosnia? Check, check, check.
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“This movie is a shambles that is meant to be looked at with your mouth wide open.”
(snip)
“Edited with a blowtorch, on the rare occasion when anything resembling a scene threatens to amount to something, the dominant theme emerges again: When in doubt, sing another terrible song. Bring earplugs.”
Whew! I was gonna wait in line to pay $12 to see a bunch of washed-up hollywood actors lip-synch music I can get on google play for free.
It’s nice to see Rex Reed is still writing! I remember when Dick Cavett, getting annoyed at him, asked him what was his favorite color.
Rex must be 90 years old!
Rex Reed is still alive?
I didn’t know Rex Reed was still around giving movie reviews.
I can’t think of ever hearing him give a review of something he did like. Rex and Leonard Maltin may be the last of the reviewers I grew up hearing. Gene Shalit, Siskel & Ebert all gone. Remember Mr. Blackwell (Richard Blackwell) the guy who would criticize women’s clothes every year? He would be torn to shreds on Twitter today.
Rex doesn’t seem to understand women very well.
Didn’t Rex Reed become Racquel Welch? Why is he still with us
Sharknado’s cousin?
Michael Medved is still around and reviewing movies on his radio program once a week. He and another guy took over for Siskel and Ebert on at the movies on PBS and then maybe even commercial TV
Hey, “Myra Breckinridge” was Rex Reed’s best work. The greatest movie ever made.
I saw a few minutes of the first movie recently on tv where Meryl Streep was singing very badly. Switched channel.
“The Great Gatsby”? I remember seeing Reed on some show make an entrance in a raccoon coat, and proclaim that it will be the “year of the Gatsby”.
Rex can still bring it.
No one can savage a bad film like he can.
It's a 5-sphincter topper on my Must Miss list.
Mamma Mia!:
Meryl Streep, though she might have made some blockbusters in her time, her really bad movies are YUGE mistakes. This was a nothing burger of a movie and to see they have regurgitated it, the clean up brigade is a necessity.
Mamma, save US from this bile of a movie.
It’s Rex Reed
The summer roster is terrible. The only thing I want to see is Ant Man, and then maybe Hotel Trans 3. The rest is one big yawnathon.
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