What rating do most reviews give the new movie Mama Mia?
Metacritic.com gives Mamma Mia a 51 rating, which is the average review of its assembled reviews on a 0-100 scale. (High Metacritic grades are hard to come by: the three highest rated recent movies in wide release are WALL-E with 93; Milk with 84; and The Dark Knight with 82. Films in the 41-59 range are described on the site as having “mixed or average reviews” so it is perhaps best to see the 0-100 as an expanded 0-to-10 scale and not as a school grade.) Some critics, like Ray Bennett of the Hollywood Reporter, really liked the movie: “It’s a delightful piece of filmmaking with a marvelous cast topped by Meryl Streep in one of her smartest and most entertaining performances ever.” Others, like Peter Rainer of the Christian Science Monitor, focused more on Pierce Brosnan and his unsuitability for his role: “Poor Pierce Brosnan. Sport that he is, he does his level best to be a song-and-dance man but it’s just not in him. He’s touchingl
