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New 'Mamma Mia!' Trailer Plays Up Streep Slut Humor, Vaguely Swedish Noise
Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 7:44 AM on March 21, 2008
No sooner did the Universal logo appear onscreen than straight men around the world shrugged at the sight of the new Mamma Mia! trailer, a glittering, sensory-overloading hint at this summer's forthcoming tribute to the revolving institutions of ABBA, Meryl Streep, and general gayness.
No sooner did the Universal logo appear onscreen than straight men around the world shrugged at the sight of the new Mamma Mia! trailer, a glittering, sensory-overloading hint at this summer's forthcoming tribute to the revolving institutions of ABBA, Meryl Streep, and general gayness.
While we respect the near-seismic impact of the film's Broadway source material and its iconic star, we're especially interested in the backloaded allusions to Streep's character's licentious past. By "allusions," we mean her half-hearted denial of "sleeping with hundreds of men," or her friends' cheeky amusement at her charming history of looseness, or her spread legs in the foreground of a shot featuring the panty-melting trifecta of Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgard. Additionally, the accompanying melodic drone isn't even ABBA, but rather something akin to American Idol ABBA, one degree and two volume notches removed from tuneless cruise-ship ignominy. Are we the only ones missing the discriminating taste (or at least the genetic coding) required to think this was a good idea?
- Mamma Mia! [Universal]
Comments (AU Comments · US Comments)
PopGoesCanberra
Posted March 29, 2008 10:40 PM
It's going to be AMAZING. Face it.
ophthalmologist
Posted 10:24 AM 21/3/08
Meryl looks pissed off in about 80% of the footage, yikes. As Ms. Siriano would say, this trailer is like a hot tranny mess up in here.
ophthalmologist
Leviticus_71
Posted 10:24 AM 21/3/08
I feel like i'm stating the obvious...but I'm sure Seyfried will bring the script to it's most understandable ending...A spin off for Big Love. She'll be a polygamist child with three moms and three dads.
Leviticus_71
fembot
Posted 10:24 AM 21/3/08
@Sweet Panda Love: other than lots of sequins and singing - no, not really much happens
fembot
Benovite
Posted 10:24 AM 21/3/08
Love ABBA, saw the show, thought it was meh, movie looks fun though.
lol@metroville.
Benovite
TheStarterWife
Posted 10:24 AM 21/3/08
@Sweet Panda Love: SPOILER! Now I'll never see it.
TheStarterWife
Sweet Panda Love
Posted 10:24 AM 21/3/08
Not having seen the stage show, I'm not sure - but does anything happen beyond the girl inviting her three dads to her wedding? Because it feels like the same clip plays five times in a row.
Sweet Panda Love
metroville
Posted 10:24 AM 21/3/08
How pissed is Greg Evigan that he didn't get the call for this one?
metroville
fembot
Posted 10:24 AM 21/3/08
yeah, I saw the musical - pretty freakin gay..
fembot
Lula Mae Broadway
Posted 11:19 AM 21/3/08
Loves me Meryl doing comedy and singing - "Postcards From The Edge" anyone? Have never seen Bway show on principle, but this looks like fun.
However (trailer geek here) what was up with the audio mix? Spot was broadcast way lower and muddier than any other spot on ABC last night. Whatever shop did the finishing for that spot should give Universal their money back.
Lula Mae Broadway
Victor Ward
Posted 12:10 PM 21/3/08
@Sweet Panda Love: AND THEY PLAY ABBA. Please don't destroy my admiration of you by saying that is not enough.
While watching this trailer, I suddenly realized that I relate to every Abba song there is*. I'm not sure how this makes me feel, exactly.
*except Does Your Mother Know?
Victor Ward
sundaeg1rl
Posted 1:33 PM 21/3/08
As a massive lifelong fan of ABBA, I'm disgusted at the way all this has panned out. First the stage show, and now this. Every time a new version emerges it cheapens the original magic of the music, and that's what brings on the tears and nausea. Once again, the masses have destroyed something I love *weeps*
sundaeg1rl
hummingpenguin
Posted 1:33 PM 21/3/08
"panty-melting trifecta" maybe 5 years ago or so...they're all looking a little jowly these days.
hummingpenguin
Little Mintz Sunshine
Posted 1:33 PM 21/3/08
While I find Brosnan to be one fine piece of man, I get a bit uneasy when he expresses any feelings other than mild derision...it's like watching that kid robot in A.I. laugh...
Little Mintz Sunshine
gwendemarco
Posted 3:52 PM 21/3/08
@Little Mintz Sunshine: Or that AH! tango face from Thomas Crown.
gwendemarco
fishwife
Posted 2:41 AM 22/3/08
What happened to Colin Firth? One minute he was it and the next he's playing someone the same age as Pierce Brosnan and the same hotness bracket as Stellan Skarsgard???
fishwife
Reason
Posted 8:12 AM 23/3/08
People, you're missing the point. Dominic Cooper is in it!
Reason