Starring: Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid Lyngstad

The Deuce may be dummies – as witnessed in the rampant witless spellings and its proliferation of precarious punctuations and cavalier capitalizations – HOWEVER, one thing The Deuce does know is how to spell “fun”… See?? Just spelt it!! You may, HOWEVER, be surprised to learn that The Deuce can not only spell “fun” but can spell it in Swedish, as well!! Yes: what, in good ol’ ‘mercian English is familiarly spelled F-U-N is, in the fancifully albeit pigeon-esque pronunciations of the Swedish tongue, in fact, spelled: A-B-B-A! As you will witness in the wittily witless ABBA: THE MOVIE!! And – TBH – there’s no “ish” about it – just all Swede and all… FUN!!

Yes: first there was ABBA, the band… who, in 1977, begot ABBA: THE ALBUM… which., in turn and in due time, begot the bewildering befuddlement: ABBA: THE MOVIE!! Yes: before similarly Swedish Lasse Hallström had hit it big on US shores with his MY LIFE AS A DOG, he’d helmed this meta-ish “documentary” mish-mash of homeland hit-makers, the aforementioned ABBA – on their down-under tour of Australia – to be shown semi-simultaneously in the cities they’d hit during their subsequent touring of the USA!??! Yes (again!): in “theory” one could theoretically see ABBA, the band, live in concert one night… and then concertedly, near-immediately theoretically see ABBA: THE MOVIE – possibly in the same venue as the aforementioned ABBA had just played?!!? Or some-such hokum!!

So yes: in theory, should the theoretics of a certain Swedish pop supergroup be believed, one could have – on Oct 7, 1979 – should one have – shall we say “en Sveedishen” – been “Björn” and concert-going by then, could have seen the band ABBA bounce and boogie across the stage of Radio City Music Hall… and then possibly,  theoretically – and depending how the ‘ludes were holding up – after such returned to said venue to further the “fun” with the aforementioned ABBA: THE MOVIE bouncing and boogie-ing across its Radio City Music Hall movie screen!!??!! That is if one is a believer in theoretical theatrics… as The Deuce is a bedeviled believer in the tenuous theorizing that freely floats around ABBA: THE MOVIE! Fancy or fact: the fact is these fanciful theories were in fact at their very least the fantasy of – if not the forced reality through sheer myth-building mechanisms – of the second “B” in the acronymonical ABBA, as in: Benny Andersson, and his dream for seeing this film’s release realized… And that’s what The Deuce was Björn to do… to make dreams come true… If not only for the second “B” of ABBA – but for us all…