{"id":1013,"date":"2008-08-25T17:09:15","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T21:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2020-01-08T08:15:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T13:15:18","slug":"sing-along-with-mamma-mia-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/25\/sing-along-with-mamma-mia-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Sing Along With MAMMA MIA This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; cursor: hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/Reviews\/Images\/MammaMia1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Critics might not have liked <strong>Mamma Mia<\/strong> all that much. (It has a 54% on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/mamma_mia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>.) I know that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/Reviews\/MammaMia.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I wasn&#8217;t really taken<\/a> with the film&#8217;s flat choreography and\u00a0poor direction.<\/p>\n<p>However, enough people seem to have connected with the iflm for it to rake in nearly $125 million at the box office in its six weeks of release. Probably a good deal of people&#8217;s attraction to the movie can be attributed to the catchy tunes of the 1970s\u00a0Swedish pop group Abba, around which the film&#8217;s Broadway play progenitor was crafted. If you happen to fall into that category, then today&#8217;s your lucky day. Or rather, this weekend is your lucky day as a Sing-Along edition of the movie will be hitting selected theaters around the country. Now you and your friends can participate in some unholy amalgamation of cinema and karaoke. Check your local theater listings or the film&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150426052604\/http:\/\/www.universalstudiosentertainment.com\/mamma-mia-the-movie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a> for a screening near you.<\/p>\n<p>And if you go, please sing loud enough to drown out Pierce Brosnan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Critics might not have liked Mamma Mia all that much. (It has a 54% on Rotten Tomatoes.) I know that I wasn&#8217;t really taken with the film&#8217;s flat choreography and\u00a0poor direction. However, enough people seem <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/25\/sing-along-with-mamma-mia-this-weekend\/\" title=\"Sing Along With MAMMA MIA This Weekend\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[430,433,432,431],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-mamma-mia","8":"tag-meryl-streep","9":"tag-pierce-brosnan","10":"tag-sing-along"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}