Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

thomas blabla ABBA the movie tells us the story of Ashley Wallace, a country radio DJ. He is sent by his boss on a mission around Australia to get an interview of the famous pop band. This plot is a pretext to see ABBA perform on stage all along the movie. The live footage is brilliant, you can really see them playing and singing like if you were at their sides. These moments are by far the bests of the movie. The DJ plot on the contrary is either boring or even stressful. Most of the time you can see the improvised interviewer running around chasing the group but only getting a few words from fans or informations and merchandising on that band he doesn't really like to begin with. This makes you enjoy even more the on-stage performances that represent a dreamy break from the hustle and bustle of the big cities, crowds of fans and traffic. Some of the sequences though are original and even funny sometimes with a kitsch touch to it. Definitely a must see if you're a fan but if not, I'd suggest you just watch video clips and live performances. In any case, there's not much to learn from this movie : no voice-over whatsoever and no text providing informations. As the radio boss puts it at the beginning of the movie : «it's not a documentary, it's an event !»

jubilee77 While there may have been the 1977 issue of Abba The Album, one would speculate on what's Abba The Movie all about? The fabulous Swedish four may have had acclaimed success with a cluster of hits to their names but at what cost did it have on their personal lives? The Movie is actually based on the accounts of Abba's Australian tour and even so the concert scenes are excellent for its quite rare to see them performing live and it should be noted that they barely travelled well. The rest of the movie film contains the actual movie footages and interestingly enough, features a then unknown Tom Oliver of Neighbours fame. In the whole, the film is quite good and acceptable for its time and I like the typical seventies scenes of Australia but as times change, what impact does it have more than thirty years later is that it has become terribly dated and sometimes made me cringe a bit and as the saying goes could have been a current affairs programme. 9/10 for the concerts - 6/10 for the movie.

boyan-denizov Forget the plot of the movie-it is banal and uninteresting,the jokes are shallow.Concentrate about the concerts footage of the film and the brilliant music which has already become a pop classic.I have been an ABBA fan since childhood and surprisingly I still think it to be one of the best musical groups in the second half of the 20th century.This film allows you to listen to one of their less-known songs not included in any of their 8 albums-"Get on the caroussel".It was one of the four songs from the musical"The girl with the golden hair".However it was later dropped and only the three others remained in "The Album"-1977.It is very similar to another song from the same album-"Hole in your soul".This film was planned as a documentary about their supersuccessful Australian tour in March 1977 and should have been made that way.Still ,watching ABBA on stage and (more rarely ) offstage is enough to justify watching the film.Long live Agnetha,Bjorn,Benny and Annifrid!!!

uniqueabba Pure brilliance This group were genius This film shows them at their most professionalI am a fan and I have to say this is one of the most realistic movies about a pop group everI recommend it totally, no bad language, no sex, pure entertainment.All the hits are here from their early to mid career.Agnetha Benny Bjorn and Frida certainly knew how to put on a show.Many rare insights into the working of a pop tour.Take your children to see, get it on DVD and be rest assures the children and your grandparents will all love this movie.