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DVD: Mamma Mia (PG), new on DVD through Blockbuster.
Should a grown-man be quite so bowled over by this film? Well, I'll worry about that one later.
Best just to bask in the sun-drenched glories of this joyously-uplifting couple of hours of fun and laughter.
Of course, nothing will quite beat seeing Mamma Mia on the big screen, but even on the small screen, you just can't help but be swept along by its tidal wave of upbeat song and colour - absolutely the perfect film for the grim, grim times we're going through.
The story is completely nutty. A girl on an outrageously-beautiful Greek island invites to her wedding the three men most likely to have fathered her - a move which sends her mum into a fairly-understandable flap.
All of which is the pretext for a succession of Abba songs all heading towards the inevitably happy ending.
Delivering those songs are some serious thesps who throw caution to the wind in a way which can't fail to delight.
Meryl Streep is totally enchanting as the rock-chick mum living through hard times; and Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgard are equally terrific as the middle-aged men just waking up to the daughter that might just be theirs.
Dominic Cooper is just a touch too cardboardy as the bridegroom-to-be; and Julie Walters grates just a little; but these are minor quibbles. It's the must-have film this Christmas - a tonic for all of us.
Phil Hewitt.
DVD rental supplied by Blockbuster. For details of other new DVD releases see www.blockbuster.co.uk.
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