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STREEPS OF FIRE FINALE: MAMMA MERYL
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SEASON FINALE! MAMMA MIA & MAMMA MIA: HERE WE GO AGAIN!
We have watched Meryl Streep movies for nearly six months. Did we learn anything? Great question! Listen and find out with our season finale featuring ALL of your favorite ABBA songs X2 along with songs you probably weren't familiar with in the second Mamma Mia film.
MAMMA MIA (2008) is a jukebox musical adapted from the stage production of the same name. Phyllidia Lloyd directs, as she did on stage (and will direct Streep again to an Oscar a few years later in The Iron Lady, covered on our season premiere). It's a vacation movie, it's a movie meant to make people smile. It's pretty silly but it works for most of the hosts. One of our hosts hates musicals, however, and hated this movie. Which one? Grumple McSourpuss!
MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN (2018) took a decade to get made because they couldn't figure out a tenuous narrative on which they could hang a bunch of songs onto until screenwriter Richard Curtis' daughter told him they should do The Godfather II plot; a child and their parent at the same time in their lives. A prequel and a sequel all in one! It also means that Meryl Streep's character is dead when the sequel begins - cool or yuck?Amanda Seyfried as Streep's daughter takes over in the sequel portion and Lily James plays young Streep, whose eyes apparently change color like a puppy between the olden times and the 2008 original. Ol Parker directs and that is apparently his real name unless Ol is his middle name and Good is his first. Do we like it? Is it possibly better than the original?
STREEP WRAP-UP: Favorite lists, least favorite lists, a re-litigation on the lack of any merits whatsoever on She-Devil and much, much more. Ken, Jack and Thomas talk about Streep one last time with season-long guest Andi, the best, who bids farewell to ever talking movies with us again this episode.
Laughter. Tears. Fade Out. The End (until the next episode).
THEME SONG BY: WEIRD A.I.
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