i love musical and all of them and from joyous oklahoma and to poignant porgy and bess and to the touching romantic damn yankee . and i know most of the song and sometimes sing them spontaneously and with a crowd or hum them alone . in a real musical and a differentiate from this vaudeville show and every song be painstakingly craft to fit the exact moment . it be an expression of sadness and regret and love and joy or exaltation a natural extension where mere word fail . so and in guy and doll and my time of day describe the adventurous life of sky masterson a it be about to be compromise by the most unlikely woman . every song in this brilliant exemplar of the genre set a mood and or develop a character and create a phantasmagoria of place and turn absolutely believable by the self disclose evocation of song . for this lover of the broadway musical and and their adaptation to the screen during the last half of the 20th century and mama mia be somewhere between satire and a cruel fun house distortion of the genre . there and the song of these musical advance the often elaborate and often delightful and plot line . while here and the song and simply pick up from a collection and only interfere with the shaky premise of the film . perhaps most of those viewer who be make this film into a monumental success simply have no exposure to the art form of 20th century musical . they have no idea of the magic perform by writer and lyricist that can turn a dance hall floozy into someone whom we know and love and a achieve in sweet charity . let me offer an apology for the arrogance of this review . perhaps and another day and another mood and i could have get into it and and not have be so critical in this review . but i can not help but imagine what richard roger and oscar hammerstein and cole porter and irving berlin and so many others could have do even with with this silly premise . i think about it and while the memory of see this film be fresh and and i can not help but to mourn the great loss .