Mamma Mia is a mega cheesy affair

CHEESE FEST: Mamma Mia insists on treating a ridiculous plot with seriousness.

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Cast: Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgard and Colin Firth Christine Baranski and Julie Walters

Director: Phyllida Lloyd

Never have I been more relieved to see the end credits of a film as I was while watching Mamma Mia, the new musical based on ABBA songs.

It's another thing that the end credits of this film took on a life of their own, going on and on and on, one over-the-top number after another, before they finally came to a complete end.

Mamma Mia is one of the cheesiest films I've seen in a long, long time, and even Meryl Streep couldn't make it much better.

Adapted from the long-running stage musical of the same name, the film stars Streep as Donna, a single-mother who's raised her daughter on a sun-drenched Greek island where she runs a sprawling-but-shabby tourist villa.

Her daughter Sophie (played by Amanda Seyfried), now 20 and engaged to her local sweetheart, has been longing to learn the identity of her father. On finding her mother's old diary, Sophie secretly invites three of Donna's old flames to the wedding celebration.

Enter Sam, Bill and Harry (played by Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgard and Colin Firth respectively) who show up, oblivious to the reason behind the invitation. Cue for Donna to throw a hissy-fit, and for practically everyone involved to break into a series of all-song-and-dance ABBA renditions, while you cringe in embarrassment.

Unlike the stage show whose emphasis is on the 18 songs and not so much on the wafer-thin story, Mamma Mia the movie insists on treating this ridiculous plot with more seriousness than it deserves, taking away from the fact that the songs are key not the drama.