Watch Out For:
- In the first scene between Ashley and the radio station manager, the blue
(Australian) "Ring Ring" LP cover keeps disappearing from the desk ( this is
not as clearly visible in the widescreen version) -
now you see it, now
you don't!
- The
guy in a black
and white striped T-shirt holding out a microphone as ABBA arrived at the
airport is the same guy
who tells Ashley "they've gone" at the press conference.
- Waiting to go on stage for "Tiger",
someone (is it Lasse
Hallström?) walks in front of ABBA
- "He Is Your Brother" - Finn Sjöberg has a
little toy koala bear
attached to his guitar strap.
- Backstage you can see one of the golden wigs
for "The Girl With The Golden Hair" on one of the cupboards behind Agnetha as
Ashley is playing back some of his sound-bites.
It's in the top
right-hand corner of the screen as kids are screaming, "Give us a B!"
on top of what looks like a fridge.
- During "Get On The Carousel" and the scene
where a photographer is organising a large group of people (including ABBA
kneeling on the floor) watch out for American rock star Alice Cooper to the
right of the screen doing a "bunny ears" to someone and British Comedy Actor
Robin Nedwell to the left in a striped t-shirt.
- When Ashley boards the plane en route to
Perth at the end of "Intermezzo No.1", he's actually boarding ABBA's plane as
their name and logo is clear to see on the fuselage of the Ansett airline jet.
- Backstage after "Mamma Mia" when Frida holds
her long note, Benny's son Peter Grönvall is sitting behind her to the left of
the screen (more noticeable in the widescreen version). Benny's reflection can
be seen in the mirror whilst having his hair done.
- When Ashley determinedly rushes through
ABBA's hotel, the Old Melbourne Motor Inn, to find them
it's night-time. Yet
when he emerges with Stig and the bodyguard moments later it is
broad
daylight!
- Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and his family meeting ABBA
backstage during "I'm a Marionette".
-
Stig can be seen
smoking behind one of the photographers during "I'm a Marionette."
- When you see Ashley running through the
streets of "Sydney" and dropping his cushion, the street signs are in Swedish.
- During "The Name of the Game" and the saloon
doors open to reveal Ashley in a cowboy outfit at the bar, someone walks in
front of the camera which looks suspiciously like Lasse Hallström wearing a
fake beard just as Agnetha sings the line "your smile and the sound of your
voice."
- Frida exercising by the pool with her bodyguard counting in Japanese
- there are two people watching her from the swimming pool -
Benny's son Peter and her son Hans. However, Hans is only noticeable on
the big cinema screen.
- At the start of "Dancing Queen",
Frida looks around
for Agnetha to check she's ready to start singing and in the last bars of
"Dancing Queen", she quickly throws
something off-stage to enable her to 'punch' the air for the final five
notes of the song (she's unlikely to have thrown the sparkler she was holding
into the audience though!).
-
Agnetha's grin in the lift when Ashley
starts fumbling for his equipment.
- During "Eagle",
Frida fluffs the line "and I
dream I'm an Eagle" by miming "is it true I'm an Eagle?" which Agnetha mimes
correctly.
- When Ashley gets into the lift where ABBA are
standing, it is Benny who is facing the lift doors when they close. Yet when
they open, it is Frida and Agnetha who are facing the doors and everyone
appears to have "scooched" along by two places!
- The scene walking past the fans at the
airport where Benny shakes hands with a screaming fan - walking behind him is
Hans although this is more noticeable on the widescreen version. Benny's son
Peter had just walked in front of him (behind Björn).
-
Paul Dainty himself
(Australian organiser and promoter) shows up in the film checking flight
arrangements on the phone.
- Before Benny shakes hands with the screaming
fan over the security fencing,
he picks something up
from the floor but you have to be quick to catch it.
- In the final scene including ABBA where they
are boarding the plane and saying their goodbyes,
Frida's very last wave
and smile seems to be directly to the camera.
- In Thank you For The Music",
Agnetha has her
back to Björn and Benny at the beginning, yet later we see a shot from the
mixing desk and Frida turns around to see them and it is she who has her back
to them.