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Honestly thank god. I couldn't handle being lied to like that right now.

I checked. This was filmed in Greece.

I used to haaaaate this movie. I grew up as, and still am, a giant ABBA fan, and I thought this movie was a spit in the face of ABBA's discography. We went to see this on the West End on a choir trip to London literally ONE MONTH before this movie came out, and I was furious with the entire endeavor. Now I will say after having seen this on stage the movie does a lot of good for the concept. Actually filming in Greece (I assume or at least just in a visibly similar area) really makes this thing come alive in a great way. But I still think creating some story around the ABBA songs is a terrible idea. A lot of these songs make no fucking sense when you really think about them any deeper. BUT THEY STILL SLAP! I softened over the years and when I saw Here We Go Again I kinda fell in love with it finally??? Maybe it's just truly my love of the actors chosen for the past scenes. Maybe it's my love for Cher. Speaking of - y'all gotta listen to Cher's ABBA album cause it's just as amazing. Idk what it was but I literally cried at the end and became obsessed with Lily James in even more ways.

It being in Cleveland reminds me of the Family Guy cutaway where Quagmire thought he could make a low budget movie with B list actors for a low budget action flick which stars Jeff Bridges and Laura Linney, a couple years before both their career resurgences, in Danger in Cincinnati where they deal with a a bomb that has an invisible explosion and decide to walk to their HQ rather than take a helicopter since it's not in the budget. As for the Action Star show, I remember VH1 doing a similar thing with their show Scream Queens which the winner of each season got a "leading role" in an upcoming horror movie. The winner of season 1 was in Saw 6 while the following season had a role for Saw 3D. The first winner basically had a five minute scene in an opening trap where she ends up taking off an arm to escape, and with no real lines except screaming at her opponent, and she did get a quick cameo in the next film. The second winner didn't get better as he role was just screaming while trapped under a car while Chester Bennington of Linkin Park tries to escape from the trap and save his gang.

Fernando is a great song. As for Mamma Mia, I didn’t hate it, and I’m not going to bag on it, but for some reason it really didn’t click for me this time. I’m not sure why that is as I remember liking it quite a bit. Perhaps it was the mood I was in, or, not to get political, the state of the world? It feels like good escapism, but it also feels too frothy. Like, when they world felt more optimistic, this would be light fun, but now it feels, I don’t know, shallow. Don’t get me wrong, I still think it’s a fine movie. I’m really not sure why I didn’t connect to it.

If I had to pick, Dancing Queen. On the other hand, Fernando exists...

I don't know what you all are talking about. This is terrible in every way.

As far as the movie goes when all was said and done I knew it was bad and full of plot holes and pointless beats and characters. Yet it was fun and it moved and the music was good. It was neither incredible nor terrible. I don't think I would watch it again, but I do not bemoan having seen it. To me it is one of the most perfectly average movies ever. It took me away for an hour forty and sometimes that's all you need.

That's mine too! In my humble opinion this is there best song musically. That opening synth stuff so good. I just want that playing. Since I want to add I'll throw in my number two which is... Also want to give a bonus shout out to King Kong Song which I doubt anybody will pick but is a fun rocky not very ABBA-like song.