Euro Visions.('Mamma Mia!', 'Journey to the Center of the Earth')(Movie review)

Like many people, I was under the impression that the new Meryl Streep film was called "Mamma Mia." The correct title is, in fact, "Mamma Mia!," and, in one keystroke, the exclamation mark tells you all you need to know about the movie. Billy Wilder tried the same trick with "Avanti!," in 1972, but that felt like late Chekhov compared with this ferocious onslaught of obligatory good cheer. From the opening minutes, in which Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), a young pleasure seeker on the eve of her wedding, greets her two bridesmaids as they arrive on a jetty, yelping with delight like unweaned puppies, you can tell that everyone in this story is just going to have the best time. ...