Katie P. came over last night.  She wanted to watch Mama Mia!, which she didn't get for Christmas because she didn't put it on her list.  She said she considered it implied.  Guess not.  I've decided that not giving it to her was a good move because she needs to come over here to see it and then I get to see her. 

Cindy McCain bought a house to keep her daughter near, I bought a movie.  Whatever works.

Apparently Mama Mia! is the biggest selling dvd of all time in the UK. 

I remember back when Titanic was raking in a billion dollars world wide, someone wrote that girls had found their Star Wars.  As though girls didn't love Star Wars, but I knew what they meant; boys made Star Wars a phenomenon by going to see it dozens of times and girls did that with Titanic.

Well, Mama Mia! is grown up ladies' Star Wars; I don't know any girl who didn't see it multiple times in a theater, despite the fact that we all know we could (and would) own it by Christmas.

Watching it last night (my sixth viewing) Katie and I discussed what makes it the perfect grown up chick movie. We came up with this;

1.  It's a musical.

2. It's set in a fabulously beautiful and romantic setting.

3. Pierce Brosnan AND Colin Firth.  Seriously, until Johnny Depp and Ewan MacGregor make a movie together, this is as good as it gets.

4. It's a romance starring people over 40.  Most of us are over 40.  Check the demographics.

5. There's even a young stud chasing after a dried up old Gramma. 

6. She rejects him.

7.  The man who is happy to take on the responsibilities of fatherhood is to women what the hot girl who wants anonymous sex is to boys.  This movie has three of them.

8. The wardrobe.

9. No less than three of what look like the funnest parties of all time.

10.  The females in the movie look like real people, while all the men are gorgeous.

Once again, I stayed up much later than I meant to.

 

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