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Journey to the past
'Mamma Mia!' is a very marmite motion-picture show, with people either loving it or hating information technology. To me, it was something of a mixed bag with me neither loving or antisocial it. It does a lot right (the product values, the music, some production numbers and most of the performances), only had some serious reservations (the script, the story, variable singing).
When hearing and seeing that 'Mamma Mia!' was getting the sequel treatment, part of me was quite intrigued and the trailer looked inviting in terms of the music and production values. Also questioned the necessity of it, and did worry about how the script and story (although the concept had potential to work) would fare, a lot of the script didn't sound very promising. Seeing it, 'Mamma Mia! Here Nosotros Go Again' has a number of strengths and did entertain me (the singing is likewise an improvement), but again serious reservations (a few of them the aforementioned as 'Mamma Mia!' only done worse).
Starting with what 'Mamma Mia! Hither We Go Once again' does right, it is stunning visually. It is beautifully shot and the locations are exquisite and makes ane want to book a holiday at that place. The songs, while non fitting into the story line too every bit 'Mamma Mia', are just great, with a mix of the former favourites and the lesser known songs. Very infectious and with clever stiff lyrics. The standout renditions are "Andante Andante" (gorgeous and moving), "Fernando" (raises the roof and it feels like nosotros're watching Cher performing at a concert rather than here featuring in a film) and "My Love, My Life" (will admit that the tears rolled, have tissues at the ready).
Choreography has glitz, professionalism and energy, not feeling overblown. "Dancing Queen" is epic, while "Waterloo" hasn't lost the energy that was brought into the vocal in 'Mamma Mia!'. "Fernando" and "My Love, My Life" were unforgettably staged likewise. At that place is a lot of free energy in the musical numbers, some charm and there are fun moments with Christine Baranski, Julie Walters and peculiarly Omid Djalili.
Lily James shines like a true star in a truly energetic, mannerly and sometimes moving performance. Amanda Seyfried sings beautifully and is suitably bubbly, while Jessica Keenan Wynn is suitably spiky and Meryl Streep moved me to tears despite her screen fourth dimension being short. Christine Baranski and Julie Walters have nice moments, and Omid Djalili is a scene stealer. Didn't heed Pierce Brosnan having non much to do, being one of many people who disliked him and his infamous rendition of "S.O.S" in 'Mamma Mia!'.
He did seem tired hither and Colin Firth and Stellen Skarsgaard are criminally underused. Alexa Davis overdoes information technology, with her emotions bordering on overwrought. While Cher brought the house down and raised the roof in "Fernando" elsewhere she didn't seem that engaged with a real lack of enthusiasm in her line commitment, as well institute her presence generally unnecessary and not adding much. The younger male cast are competent but somewhat bland.
The story is even thinner than in 'Mamma Mia!' and in the non-musical number scenes the energy flags desperately and come over as flat, Ol Parker's workmanlike at all-time and sometimes lethargic direction in these scenes don't help. The older/adult cast have far also little to do, they're basically cameos.
Writing is also weak, with a lot of the jokes falling flat and much of the script is formulaic and undercooked, sometimes vulgar too and going well overboard on the froth. In that location are inconsistencies galore and the dual timeline, which a nice thought, gets confusing in places.
Overall, a very mixed purse. Far from terrible, a long way from neat. v.v-6/x Bethany Cox
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More Mamma Mia
Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) is reopening the Greek island villa resort in award of her belatedly female parent Donna (Meryl Streep). She invites her three fathers (Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Pierce Brosnan), her female parent'southward best friends Tanya (Christine Baranski) and Rosie (Julie Walters), forth with many others for the reopening. She decides not to invite her grandma (Cher). The flick also follows young Donna (Lily James) as she travels through Europe meeting her three boys and falling in love with a rundown villa on a Greek island.
If you love the first movie, there is nothing not to love in this sequel. In fact, this 1 eliminates the bad solo guy singing and replaces them with Lily James who is an energetic eager performer with a better vox. I don't heed the Cher sections although it wants to exist more epic than I can take. I don't similar the artificial daylight background at the villa which accentuates a bad fake look compared to the real Greek isle. In that location is one moment when villa falls autonomously during storms in both timelines. At that moment, I tin see a more compelling plot device where both stories are mirror images of each other told at the same pacing with both cast doing the aforementioned songs. It doesn't mitigate the greatness of the climatic meeting in the church. I think it would actually heighten the emotional touch if Lily James meets Amanda Seyfried and and then turns into Meryl Streep. The swain isn't much and would be more than dramatic if he goes away. As a musical, in that location are yet a few famous ABBA songs to mine although there are others that I don't recognize. Information technology's vivid. It's chipper. Information technology is a fitting sequel to the start movie.
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joy
It is the bones purpose of this nostalgic one-act. All is known. Simply the sense of humour and the science of entertainment works in nifty style. Its importance - to be the expected sequel. The bones trait - it is just funny. Scene by scene, dialogue by dialogue. Not equally lesson of life. Maybe, as recipe of freedom. Then, run into it !
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Argh!
This is the first movie I have seen, whose title not simply tells you exactly what you will see, but serves equally my opinion of it.
This review offers about 50 characters more than this picture show deserves.
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Succeeds with everything that the beginning did not
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"Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again" is as the championship already gives away the sequel to the 2008 Abba tribute pic "Mamma Mia". This new one here runs for slightly under 2 hours and it brings back most of the cast members from said original film. And equally for the latter, I must say that I am non a nifty fan at all to be honest. Still I read this new one got better reception and reviews and so I thought why not give it a go. After all, I actually like some of ABBA'southward stuff. And I was very positively surprised. Like I wrote in the title, this ane here does everything right in these areas where the original picture show comes relatively curt, gently-speaking, regardless if we are talking well-nigh the one-act, the music, the story or the acting. Or the performances to be more precise. I retrieve at that place were some really good ones hither and the worst were perhaps on the level of the all-time performances 10 years ago. Y'all could encounter that they were really casting with focus on music too, especially when information technology came to picking those who play the characters when they were young. And there I am speaking already about a major component from this movie, which is that the film in good old Godfather 2 way is a sequel that also takes united states back several decades into the past. Meryl Streep's version of Donna may be gone (really bold choice by writer and director Ol Parker), but don't think there is no Donna in here. She is inevitably linked to the franchise of course. Even so, I thought overall that the "now" convinced me more the past. Just that is of form subjective. Lily James and the other actors from the former sequences do a fine job equally well. But the biggest thumbs-upward goes to Amanda Seyfried for sure. I am never too sure how much I like her, only she did really great, especially in the music sequences. Her very first song, which is also the first song of the film, was a delight already and it stayed that way every time she was about to sing. This includes the film'due south number one highlight, a duet named "One of Us" where ABBA is for one time at their saddest, not at their fastest or most delightful similar with songs such as "Mamma Mia" who may have a serious undertone, merely nevertheless turn out full of drive and power.
1 thing I did not like that much, but it's really just a small criticism, is how Dominic Cooper was left out almost entirely autonomously from the early phone chat and while Firth and Skarsgård got their return story, he did not. Pity his proper name was not considered large enough for that. Also his sudden comeback story with all his dearest being at that place once again was kinda meh given what he said during the phone call. It is what it is I estimate. And and so there is Cher of class, heavily featured in the trailer, but yes, she does non practice besides much apart from being herself basically towards the end. Only I read she has plans to release a full album with ABBA songs now afterward this motion-picture show and I'd dear to hear that. The scene with Streep at the very finish was sweetness yet and I thought information technology was a dainty treat for everybody who enjoyed the original movie more than I did. Shame I did non because otherwise this could have moved me to tears, that'south how proficient it was. What else can you lot say. Well maybe absolutely everybody was getting their man somehow and information technology was a bit too much of a forced happy ending perhaps, only information technology's okay, somehow it fit the film's tone so information technology'due south fine. And aye I mentioned the comedy earlier already and in that location were some really funny moments like Skarsgård'south twin brother in fat makeup telling everybody the embarrassing caprine animal story. All in all, that'southward it I guess. I could write a lot more about the movie, only I just repeat myself that this was a actually positive surprise and one of the best 2018 movies I've seen. We'll see if information technology gets some awards attention at the Aureate Globes for example. It definitely should if the first did. Likewise it gives a actually good overview of some of ABBA's very finest, and so it'due south not too surprising to see some of the band members every bit producers here. I am non too certain how of import information technology is to have seen the first to appreciate this one, maybe helps, but it's not essential you lot could say. And so watch this 1 here in whatever instance, perhaps after skipping the showtime. Just if y'all have seen the showtime and sat through that one, then really don't miss out on this i hither, especially for as long as information technology is still in theaters because I think it is a much better spotter on the big screen. Huge thumbs-up. Highly recommended.
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Money, Money, Coin
Mamma Mia! Hither Nosotros Go Again is a musical sequel that has a stretched story focusing on the young Donna and how she encountered her three men. Even though nosotros did meet those scenes in the first motion picture.
The moving-picture show starts with Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) refurbishing her Greek island Hotel. Donna has passed abroad. Heaven is in New York learning the hotel business and things do non seem to be going well between them.
For the k opening of the hotel in honor of her mother, Sophie has invited her three dads and her female parent's best friends.
The chief office of the story is seeing the young Donna (Lily James) travelling through Europe later graduating at university. Some of the scenes switch with that of Sophie.
It required iii writers to come up with the story concept. The story is absolutely thin. The new songs are ok. Cher just looks odd when she makes her belated advent as Sophie's grandmother. She looks like someone who has merely turned up for the pay bank check and decided to practice an album of Abba covers out of information technology.
The Abba songs keep it entertaining but this movie stinks of a cash grab.
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Mamma Mia! Here Nosotros Become Once again
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I debated whether I wanted to come across the sequel at the cinema, but then I watched the original again and I had much more fun, and I saw pic critic Mark Kermode enjoyed it, so I just went along with and hoped to accept fun. Basically Sophie Sheridan (Amanda Seyfried) is preparing for the 1000 reopening of the hotel formerly owned by her female parent Donna (Meryl Streep), who passed abroad a twelvemonth agone (in unknown circumstances). She is distressing that two of her fathers, Harry Bright (Colin Firth) and Neb Anderson (Stellan Skarsgård), are unable to go far, and she is trouble in her marriage to Sky (Dominic Cooper), who is in New York. It flashes back to 1979, to meet immature Donna (Lily James) graduating from Oxford, along with her friends and Dynamos bandmates Tanya (Jessica Keenan Wynn) and Rosie (Alexa Davies). Donna gets gear up to travel the globe, while in Paris, France, she meets and has a relationship with Harry (Hugh Skinner). She later misses her gunkhole to Kalokairi, but sailor Bill (Josh Dylan) offers her a ride, and forth the manner they help a stranded fisherman make information technology to finish the dearest of his life marrying another man. Unbeknownst to Donna, Harry has followed her to Greece, merely he is too late and watches as she sails off into the distance. In the present, (Tanya Christine Baranski) and Rosie (Julie Walters) arrive to back up Sophie with the reopening, information technology is revealed that Rosie and Bill accept divide up. Sophie visits Sam (Pierce Brosnan), who is still grieving over the passing of Donna. Dorsum in the by, Donna arrives on the island and explores a farmhouse, during a sudden tempest, a young Sam (Jeremy Irvine) riding his motorcycle helps her to rescue a spooked horse from the house basement. Back to the present, a sudden tempest has caused serious disruption to Sophie's plans for the k reopening and prevented media coverage of the event. Back in the past, Donna and Sam are enjoying a whirlwind romance, but and then Donna discovers a photograph of Sam's fiancée, she tells him to leave the isle. In the nowadays, Sam reassures Sophie the reopening volition go ahead, meanwhile Harry walks out of business deal in Tokyo to back up Sophie, and Bill gets his twin brother Kurt to take his identify for an award acceptance. Bill and Harry meet at the docks, but there are no boats, but Bill meets Alexio (Gerard Monaco), the fisherman he helped those years ago, he secures them a boat, likewise as for newly arrived Sky. In the by, a depressed Donna is heartbroken almost Sam, she meets Bill again and they spend time together on his boat. While they are gone, Sam returns, after ending his date for Donna, he is saddened to hear that is with another man and leaves the island. Donna discovers she is significant, she has no idea which of her recent lovers is the father, local bar owner Sophia (Maria Vacratsis) overhears that she wishes to stay on the island, she offers to let her live in the farmhouse, Donna happily accepts, and information technology is there that she gives birth to Sophie. Dorsum in the present, boats filled with guests arrive for the party, Sophie is reunited with her other two fathers and Sky, she reveals to him that she is pregnant, and feels closer to her mother, understanding what she went through. While Nib and Rosie reunite over their grief for Donna, Sophie's estranged grandmother and Donna's mother Ruby (Cher), despite having no invitation, arrives, she reveals that Sky tracked her downwardly in New York and wants to build a relationship with Sophie. Sophie then performs a song with Tanya and Rosie in honour of her mother, after which Ruby tearfully tells her how proud she is of her. Information technology is revealed that the manager of the hotel, Fernando Cienfuegos (Andy Garcia), is Reddish'southward ex-lover from years ago, the two are joyously reunited. Nine months later, Sophie has given birth to a babe boy, anybody is gathered in the chapel for the christening, the ceremony takes identify with Donna's spirit watching over her girl with pride. Finally, all the characters, in their old and young guises, gather together to sing at the Hotel Bella Donna party. Also starring Celia Imrie as Vice-Chancellor, Omid Djalili as a Greek community officer, ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus as an Oxford professor and ABBA's Benny Andersson as "Waterloo" piano role player. Featuring all the ABBA hits "When I Kissed the Teacher", "1 of U.s.a.", "Waterloo", "Why Did It Take to Exist Me?", "I Accept a Dream", "Kisses of Fire", "Andante, Andante", "The Name of the Game", "Knowing Me, Knowing You", "Mamma Mia", "Angel Eyes", "Dancing Queen", "I've Been Waiting for You", "Fernando", "My Love, My Life" and "Super Trouper". Every bit before, all the actors practise their best to sing, with mixed results, Cher belting "Fernando" is a highlight, all the songs (with some words tweaked) fit well into the story, the choreography is okay, if the starting time movie was ABBA Gold, and then this More than ABBA Gold, featuring bottom known songs. The story construction is merely like The Godfather Part II, mixing the by with the present, as before you can ignore any imperfections and get along with it, singing along with your favourites, and the "My Love, My Life" sequence cannot neglect simply take you in floods of tears, but about as enjoyable as the first motion picture, a fun jukebox musical romantic comedy. It was nominated the Golden Globe for Best Move Picture - Comedy or Musical. Good!
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A solid sequel to a surprise hit
This sequel takes place a year after the death of Donna. Her daughter Sophie plans to reopen her mother'southward hotel, on a Greek island, unfortunately it looks as if neither her three fathers nor her hubby will be able to attend the opening party. Intertwined with scenes of her preparing for the reopening we encounter how her mother came to the island all those years agone... and how she encountered the 3 men who are Sophie's fathers. Of grade at every possible opportunity the cast sing an appropriate ABBA song.
If you didn't savour 'Mamma Mia' you certainly won't enjoy this every bit it is more of the same; this of course means if you did enjoy the first you are likely to enjoy this too. The story is adequately uncomplicated only it is fun; particularly the flashback scenes of Donna making her manner to the island and meeting the younger versions of the 'three fathers' for the kickoff time. The songs are fun fifty-fifty if things are stretched a bit to justify the inclusion of some well-known songs... especially 'Fernando'. Of grade the songs are a lot of fun, even the less well-known ones. The cast does a fine chore and are clearly having fun; Lily James stands out as the young Donna. The setting, with its beautiful settings and mostly fine atmospheric condition, only add to the pleasure provided past the film. Overall I'd say this won't be for everybody simply it is good cheesy fun if you enjoy that sort of thing... and I did, more I expected.
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Ten years later on, this fills in the back story.
My wife and I watched this at home on DVD from our public library. Can you believe it has been x years since "Mamma Mia" came out?
In the 2008 movie we learn that developed Donna, who runs the small hotel on the Greek island, had romantic encounters with 3 different men 21 years earlier and wasn't certain which was the actual father of her daughter. So they all showed up in that story, sharing the fatherly roles.
In this picture we see a young Donna just finishing college then going off to run across the world a bit, eventually landing on the Greek island. And then the moving picture has a series of actors, young and onetime, playing each key character as the younger and older counterparts.
Lily James is sufficient as Young Donna, her acting is good and her singing is only passable, as are nigh of the cast. This is a musical, all the characters sing. Meryl Streep just barely shows up at the cease, as a vision her daughter is having, and does a beautiful vocal. Streep is conspicuously the best vocalist in this cast, although Cher equally the grandmother performs well. Interestingly Cher who plays Donna's mother is only 3 years older than Streep.
Anyway we enjoyed information technology. The story and the movie are pretty quickly forgettable but for those in the mood it is an entertaining nigh 2 hours.
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I actually liked Mamma Mia! Here Nosotros Go Once more a little better than its predecessor
It's now been 10 years later on the movie version of the original Mamma Mia! stage musical of ABBA songs came out. I reviewed that one on this site back in January 2009 and mentioned enjoying it very much despite the shallow plot and characterizations. For some reason, when watching this sequel with my movie theatre-working friend, I felt a niggling differently and now feel the characterizations and the plot-which goes back and forth between the daughter Sophie reopening her mom'south hotel after said parent's passing and Donna when she was simply going out on her own subsequently higher graduation-was better defined and believable. Me and my friend were just enjoying not only the characters and the plot simply as well the ABBA songs picked for this one of which not many of the tunes were hit singles this fourth dimension effectually. At that place were also a couple of nice surprises at the cease, and oh, this time Pierce Brosnan only sang once solo and he's a little low-primal here to a better outcome! Really, I had a much wonderful time with my friend watching this in a theatre so close to the screen then on that note, I highly recommend Mamma Mia! Hither We Get Again.
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Hither we go again!
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Is it a sequel, is information technology a prequel? In all honesty it's a bit of both, and just as much fun equally the kickoff motion-picture show.
With an entertaining cast (the younger versions of whom are well cast too) and of course the legendary ABBA music, this is an entertaining film indeed.
I would urge them to stop at 2 films now though.
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A light hearted and fun moving-picture show
This film is fun and light hearted. It has a lot of music, but doesn't feel like an extended music video. Three scenery is beautiful, and information technology's smashing to see so many famous faces. Information technology's obvious from the lighting that many outdoor scenes weren't filmed outdoors, merely I'1000 not complaining.
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Meat ball
Funny picture. I like the bit with all the singing and stuff
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VERY disappointing
Lousy sequel to the wonderful 2008 moving picture. It has Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) renovating and reopening the inn her mom Donna ran. Then information technology flashes back to Donna as a young girl (Lily James) meeting the three men who become Sophie's father. As with the first there's enough of great ABBA songs on the soundtrack.
This movie has a lot going for it. Great songs, big beautiful product numbers, a proficient bandage...but it doesn't work. The death of a main character (Donna) hangs over the movie. It's dark and downright depressing. Dull-moving as well and the script is total of plot holes and inconsistencies. . The wonderful singing and dancing helps to a point. Also Cher'due south much publicized role is fiddling more than an extended cameo. Also Andy Garcia is on manus looking terrible. The new young cast is certainly bonny but given no fourth dimension to develop their characters. Dreary, nighttime and depressing. Skip it.
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Different and the aforementioned
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Sophie is masterminding a revamp of the hotel on Kalikairi, only the 1000 re-opening may not become as well equally she hoped - she wonders how her mother coped, and and so Donna'due south backstory unfolds for the states.
10 years ago I took my 81-year old mother to come across the cheesy just improbably joyous Mamma Mia at the cinema - she and my male parent cruel in love with it, and nonetheless lookout man it often. She is at present pushing 92 but, with the help of a borrowed wheelchair, made the trip to the movie house to see the follow-up - part sequel and part prequel - and loved it.
I remember information technology'due south a better pic than the original - it's certainly a more solid story - albeit that unexpected sheer joyfulness coupled with Meryl Streep'southward deeply emotional functioning doesn't - tin can't - burst upon the audience with all the surprise of the offset picture.
And the selections from the Abba catalogue are, of necessity, the lesser hits and the deeper cuts. This doesn't matter. They are all well tailored to the story (or, perhaps, vice versa), and I curiosity once more at what a deft lyricist Bjorn Ulvaeus was in his second linguistic communication.
Speaking of Ulvaeus, the Abba guys both cameo over again, and early on. Then y'all don't sit there waiting for them.
The backstory is intercut with the present day. The "And then" bandage are saddled with the horrible task of playing parts which have already been established in a film which features the original actors playing those parts once more than. The lads are OK, but the two girls exercise well. Lily James as Donna doesn't play Meryl Streep, but her amuse and verve mean that she commands the screen in her own correct.
We came out of the cinema quite pleased that the filmmakers had managed to recapture a sense of joy while doing something rather different to what we might have expected.
And I shan't exist spoilering the movie's big secret. You lot didn't hear it from me.
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a look back
Greetings again from the darkness. It'due south been 10 years since manager Phyllida Lloyd presented the crowd-pleasing MAMMA MIA! movie. Information technology was a box office striking (over $600 meg worldwide) and was, for a few years, the highest grossing musical of all-time. Near chiefly, it was extremely entertaining and a joyous cinematic romp for viewers. This year's sequel is directed by Ol Parker (THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL and married man to extra Thandie Newton), and though the melancholy is slathered on a scrap too thick, information technology likewise fulfills its number i priority - entertaining the fans.
The story begins with Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) putting the final touches on the house-turned-hotel in preparation for the upcoming Chiliad Opening. It'south named Hotel Bella Donna in honor of Sophie's female parent (Meryl Streep). What looks to be a straight-forward story surprises us with a flashback to Donna's 1979 graduation, which features non merely the starting time song-and-trip the light fantastic toe number "When I Kissed the Teacher", simply also the beginning of two ABBA cameos ... Bjorn Ulvaeus as a professor. The young Donna is played brilliantly by Lily James, and she effortlessly captures the gratuitous-spiritedness that led to the conundrum of the beginning movie - 3 possible dads for Sophie.
Those iii dads render not merely as Pierce Brosnan (Sam), Stellan Skarsgard (Bill), and Colin Firth (Harry), but also equally Jeremy Irvine (young Sam), Josh Dylan (young Neb), and Hugh Skinner (young Harry). In fact, about of the run fourth dimension is defended to the backstory of these characters and how they first met as youngsters. Each has a segment (and song) with young Harry featured in "Waterloo" accompanied by Benny Andersson (ABBA cameo #two) on piano. Young Neb is the mannerly sailor who saves the day for Donna, while immature Sam assists her with saving a storm-shaken horse (kind of humorous since Mr. Irvine starred in War HORSE).
Also back are Dominic Cooper as Sky, Sophie's true love, who tin't decide between romance and career, and Donna'southward life-long friends Tanya (Christine Baranski) and Rosie (Julie Walters), who are too office of the flashback as Jessica Keenan Wynn (splendid equally young Tanya) and Alexa Davies (as young Rosie). New to the cast are Celia Imrie in the graduation number, Andy Garcia as the hotel director, and cartoon the biggest applause of all ... Cher as Sophie'southward grandmother (and equally my viewing partner commented, an early peek at what Lady Gaga volition wait like as a grandma)! It's best if you lot experience Cher for yourself, and it should be noted that this is her first big screen appearance since Burlesque in 2010.
Of course, the songs are central and many of the ABBA numbers from the starting time movie are featured again this fourth dimension. In detail, "Dancing Queen" is a nautical standout, and "Fernando" is a show-stopper. While it may non exist quite as raucous as the first, it'south a treat watching Lily James, and at that place is a wonderful blending of "onetime" and "new" in the finale. The only existent question remaining is, did the casting managing director do the math before casting Cher (age 72) every bit Meryl Streep'south (age 69) mother?
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Even amend than the first one!
Allow's get the obvious out of the way: Meryl Streep is in this movie for five minutes. She may be front end and center in the promotional affiche, and she may get the "and" in the credits, only she makes her entrance during the very final scene of the picture. The premise of this prequel/sequel is that her graphic symbol has died, and her girl is struggling to run the hotel by herself. I know; no one told me that, either. This 1's a drama, folks.
I thought this film was going to be terrible, a silly alibi to prance around and sing more ABBA songs, alongside a thin plot that was described in five minutes during the original and didn't need more than detail. Only it's so much better than the first one! Non constrained by the ill-fitting songs of the original Broadway musical that stuck numbers into scenes with no connection to furthering the story, this movie actually puts songs in when they matter. There are a few overlaps of songs that were used in the first movie, but the vast majority of the songs are new (to the movie, not to ABBA fans); and many of them have a more somber tone that fit the story. "1 of Us" is sung by Amanda Seyfried and Dominic Cooper when they break upward at the start of the moving-picture show. "I Wonder" (a slap-up number that y'all'll only notice in the deleted scenes) is sung past Lily James as she heads off to have a European adventure after graduation.
The all-time part of the picture, and the reason information technology'due south infinitely amend than the first one, is the respect the "younger cast" gives to the "older cast". While part of the plot is a sequel, five years after the outset movie ended, with Amanda Seyfried planning a thou re-opening of the hotel with one of her dads, Pierce Brosnan, past her side, the primary plot is a prequel, chronicling her mother's journey to Greece and her encounter with three young men. In this extensive flashback, everyone was given a younger analogue, and everyone did extensive research. Lily James projects all of Meryl Streep's mannerisms from the offset movie, Jeremy Irvine perfects Pierce Brosnan's accent, Hugh Skinner matches Colin Firth'southward hesitation and spoken communication patterns, Josh Dylan is just as carefree and fun as Stellan Skarsgard, Alexa Davies puts in shoulder rolls and wacky movements to channel Julie Walters, and Jessica Keenan Wynn seems like someone put Christine Baranski in a time automobile. It's wonderful to run across the younger cast and the older cast in alternating scenes, and, only like the original, you can feel how much fun everyone had while filming.
While it's rude to choice out one member among the cast as the highlight, Lily James is such an ambrosial, likable sweetheart, she deserves an actress mention. It's no modest task to make anybody in the audience forget they came to the theaters to see Meryl Streep, and all the same to continually remind everyone that you're playing her younger counterpart. No offense to Miss Streep, only no i volition miss her in this movie. With a vivid, fresh, new actress on the screen who embodies the free spirit of a fourth dimension catamenia that passed before she was born, it'southward simply not possible to retrieve annihilation's missing from the leading lady of the flick. She's delightful, beautiful, sunny, frisky, and total of life. You might fifty-fifty puzzle as to where you've seen her earlier, since she'southward so transformed from the famed cinder girl, Churchill's secretarial assistant, and, near notably, the flapper cousin to the Granthams.
There's so much attention to detail in this movie, and every bit someone who knows the first Mamma Mia like the back of my hand, I was able to appreciate all of it. Author-director Ol Parker plainly loved the original and studied it, including references to every clue dropped in the script, from adding in a twin to making sure Hugh Skinner wore a Johnny Rocket t-shirt. Just don't pay attention to the social club of the relationships written in the diary from the first motion picture. This one makes so much more than sense, then just get with it. With fun, flashy colors, costumes, and on-location filming, every song and scene is enchanting.
Go on in mind it's a drama. I may exist an easy target, since I bawl my mode through the offset Mamma Mia every time Meryl Streep sings "Slipping Through My Fingers," simply I cried twice as hard during this movie. There are a couple of songs that connect mother and daughter, and, depending on your level of sappiness, yous'll demand between one and 50 Kleenexes to get through them. In my opinion, it's a keen compliment to the flick if the audition cries. I wouldn't have cried and so much if Lily James was unlikable or if the story wasn't interesting.
Trust me, fifty-fifty if you think it'due south going to exist silly, y'all've honey it far more y'all idea possible. From songs that declare children the love of a parent's life, to big '70s pilus, to finding domicile where y'all least await it, to seeing everyone reunited ten years later with jokes and winks to go around, this is a pic you'll want to watch over and once again. If you idea the cease credits of the commencement movie were fun, yous'll love the credits in these, as the older and younger people dance together and savor adorable curtain calls. I know what I'm getting for Christmas-that, and a box of Kleenex.
DLM Warning: If you endure from vertigo or empty-headed spells, similar my mom does, this movie might non exist your friend. When Amanda Seyfried lies down on her bed during "One of Us" the camera spins around in a circle, and information technology will make you lot sick. There's some other circumvolve during "Waterloo" correct after information technology shows the chorus woman in a wheelchair. A 3rd spin is in the closing credits during a group shot. In other words, "Don't Look, Mom!"
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If not for Lily James this wouldn't be worth watching
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LiIy James has so march charm and free energy and she dances and sings well. She makes some of the other actors look insipid and amateurish. That was casting genius. But the younger versions of the men were badly bandage except for Jeremy Irvine of War Horse who is okay. The young Nib and Harry are and then creepy looking. Musically the familiar songs like Mama Mia and Dancing Queen are welcome rehashes. Some of the new songs are unmemorable and draggy and don't advance the plot.
The filming was in Croatia and the lush vegetation and sandstone buildings look like Republic of croatia not Hellenic republic.
One of the few proficient points was that the story quite satisfyingly explained how she slept with the 3 men in pretty quick succession without existence sleazy.
One of the almost plus points was that Meryl wasn't in most of this movie. When she finally reappears she drags things down to a substandard level. She ruined the first film. Cher is and then much meliorate than her.
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Infectious summertime fluff. The music will have y'all dancing.
If you know the basic plot covering both Mamma Mia!s, namely that young Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) is the daughter of deceased Donna (Meryl Streep), then you'll wade through happily the many strands of flashbacks that are cut so swiftly you'll wait for ABBA'southward songs for relief. Mamma Mia! Hither We Go Once more gives back story aplenty with songs that even from the seventy's are still vibrant.
Consider "When I Kissed the Teacher" and "Andante, Andante" for just 2 melodic popular tunes fitting into another screen version of what started as a Broadway musical. Attempt to forget Pierce Brosnan singing "When all is said and done" in the showtime Momma Mia! In this 1 he's mercifully given only a few lines to sing. Almost everyone else tin behave a tune and dance nicely, thank you.
More astonishing is shoehorning "Waterloo" into a plot that wouldn't seem uniform. But it is, and the number is visually splendid. Consider also their inserting over-the-top Cher as grandma from her arrival past copter, her platinum wig, and waxen face to her rendition of "Fernando" with a game Andy Garcia. Worth the price.
Of course with this mash upwardly of Abba romantic songs and the brunt of figuring out which histrion is which version of an original character, you eventually done the 2 hours and are free to call up of your own family tree, without the lather opera flourishes. Refurbishing Donna's quondam house gives daughter and movie a reason to be excited.
The musical has an infectious spirit that percolates when the older characters are center stage. Something almost Colin Firth and Meryl Streep, for just two examples, reminds me of the charisma a mature star can bring that younger, handsomer, hipper actors can't achieve. No carping, still, can erase the beautiful Greek isle background, ridiculously sloppy, romantic plot, and actors built-in to be showcased for their looks and for most, except Brosnan, their musical talent.
Summer'due south compensation, no more than or less.
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A Haunted House Sequel of The Original
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There are skilful things most this musical one-act. The locations used in Republic of croatia look fabulous. The Graduation seen at Oxford, UK reminds me much of Professor Wagstaff's college decorum at Huxley Academy in HorseFeathers (for those who have never seens i of the Marx Brothers top grossing films from Paramont, information technology throughly lampoons higher education. That is the but reason why it doesn't get as much aclaim every bit Duck Soup. )
Another good thing is the crossing of 3 generations or so in the cast. The idea here is to continue the story and endeavor to get all ages interested it it. A fair part of the cast is really quite old. 72 Yr Old Cher looks very heavy both in girth and in the brand up department. It is as well unclear why she is even there other than to do the 1 vocal. I besides wonder if CGI is used along with make-upwardly on Cher every bit her neck has no wrinkles which is truly astonishing.
Meryl Streep at age 69 does not accept as much brand up and actually looks good for that age. I am glad to see the Grandparents, Parents, Kids and Grand kids all mixed together.
The bad parts are the mix ups in script and the story. I came out of the film that I saw with someone and they had a different idea of what everything meant than I did. I would classify this more as a Musical than a comedy. Of form, the mode they present it I retrieve an episode of 79 yr old Maury Povich needs to exist done to have a DNA test sort out the fantasy from the reality (if there is any reality in this plot line). Oh well, nosotros got 3 daddies, a plastic great Grandma, a mom who appears to be risen from the dead, and more women throwing themselves at men than the average motion-picture show. Women can throw themselves at METOO, I don't mind.
I think with a few lines and zingers, we could make this a sequel to Halloween and bring in Jason every bit Cher's Ex-Gramps. It is entertaining and well staged. It's just a flake out of the realm of beingness a musical that would bring back musicals and another summer of 2018 movie that falls curt. (annotation- the Comedy in Ant Human being and The Wasp is much more than on target than the humor in this musical, fifty-fifty though it gets shrunk).
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MAMMA MIA! Hither WE Get AGAIN promises pure joy and Euro-popular feel-goodism to its core audience
Precisely 10 years after its massively pop antecedent, this ABBA-jukebox musical sequel/prequel returns with a somber premise, our dear protagonist Donna Sheridan (Streep) has kicked the bucket (does the film even reveal the crusade of death?), and passes the billy to her daughter Sophie (Seyfried, thankfully bestowed with an ethereal voice), who is still processing her grief and the sequel-story kick-starts in the same Greek island of Kalokairi, where Sophie has a forthcoming reopening of Hotel Bella Donna to commemorate her mother with the help of the hotel managing director Fernando (García).
Meantime, the moving picture'due south prequel-narrative is rewound to 1979, recounting a young Donna (James, spirited and ebulliently fleshes out the Streep-less narrative arc with her stentorian singing bent), freshly out of college, how she winds upward on the isle and gets knocked up simply cannot tell whose fortuitous sperm strikes gold, and decides to raise her kid all on her own. So apart from the old gang, even Streep has a glorified cameo about the end as a ghost reunited with Sophie during her babe granddaughter's christening ceremony, the bandage is redoubled not only past the initiation of the younger-cocky cohort, Jessica Keenan Wynn and Alexa Davies evoke uncanny resemblances and share extraordinary exuberance with Christine Baranski and Julie Walters as Donna's bestie Tanya and Rosie, then and now, respectively, but also by the much-hyped advent of Cher, Streep's SILKWOOD (1983) co-star, who perversely plays Donna's mother Ruddy in another glorified cameo, and struts her pristine skin condition and minimal movement when belts out FERNANDO, contrary to a seemingly unnerved Garciá.
Never trying to overreach it from its self-cognition of a escapist potboiler, basks in photogenic landscape or seascape and its catchy tunage, MAMMA MIA! Hither WE Become AGAIN promises pure joy and Euro-popular experience-goodism to its cadre audience and writer-director Ol Parker attests to be an able hand in coordinating and segueing betwixt two story-lines, together with a faculty for choreographic deployment.
As much equally the bandage enjoys a helluva shindig and disseminates an infectious jag of joviality to ascertain audition are having a proficient time either, a takeaway afterthought pops up unexpectedly past positing a morbid if entirely irrelevant presumption, how can nosotros suit ourselves when one day we volition truly lose our national treasure like Meryl Streep and her ilks? Such a dreadful thought, perhaps, seeing things through blue-colored glasses is this reviewer's kryptonite.
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I could care less most any of the characters in either film, or whatever of their drama, but I love ABBA though!
'MAMA MIA! HERE We GO AGAIN': Two and a One-half Stars (Out of Five)
A sequel/prequel to the hitting 2008 jukebox musical comedy (based on the 1999 musical of the aforementioned name). The motion-picture show is once once again filled with music by the ring ABBA, and information technology was written and directed (this time) by Ol Parker. It tells the story of how Sophie'south mother became meaning with her, while Sophie is now dealing with pregnancy herself. The movie stars Lily James, Amanda Seyfried, Jeremy Irvine, Hugh Skinner, Josh Dylan, Jessica Keenan Wynn, Alexa Davies, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters, Dominic Cooper, Andy Garcia, Cher and Merly Streep (in a brief cameo). It's received mostly positive reviews from critics (unlike it'south predecessor), and it's some other large hit at the Box Office as well (much like the original). I liked it just virtually as much as I did the first flick, which isn't much.
The story takes place five years after the events of the original, and Sophie (Seyfried) is at present pregnant herself. While dealing with this news, she reminisces well-nigh the life of her (now) deceased mother, Donna (Streep); when Donna was younger (James) and became significant with her. The film explains how Donna met Sophie's three possible dads (Irvine, Skinner and Dylan), and the romances that developed with each of them. The unabridged thing is of form played out (once again) while characters are singing and dancing to ABBA tunes.
I like the ring ABBA (I take their 'All-time Of'' CD), and I practice like the music in both films. I also similar musicals, sometimes a lot. These films are but so cheesy and cliched though. They're totally uninvolving besides; I could care less about whatever of the characters in either moving picture, or any of their drama. The music is of grade fun to hear though. Fans of ABBA, and musicals, will probably find it enjoyable enough (especially if yous like the first film).
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Abba 'nother ane
Okay so this 1 I took for the team, accompanying my wife to this 2d pic featuring the music of i of her favourite groups. My opinion of Abba'southward music is that when they're good they're very good but when they're bad they're dire. Apparently the beginning picture show, based on the stage testify, employed all the mostly very good "Abba Gilded" greatest hits while here there are quite a lot of second division tunes only their almost devoted fans will know. "Kisses Of Burn", "Andante Andante", "When I Kissed The Teacher" anyone?
The producers seem to acknowledge this weakness by repeating some of their biggest hits which had plain already been in the first movie such equally "Waterloo", "Knowing Me Knowing You", the inevitable "Dancing Queen" and snippets of many others too.
The storyline is as flimsy as earlier and actually simply a contrivance to get all the original characters reunited in front of the cameras in bright outdoor settings. A few new characters do show up almost notably Cher who delivers a surprisingly good version of both "Fernando" and "Super Trouper " to give the film a lift at the end.
There are some smashing and inventive photographic camera tricks which aid the period of the motion-picture show whilst the humour is as girlie and occasionally risque as you'd await - clearly the picture show makers know their audience.
Anyway it's all very brilliant , tuneful, happy and entertaining in a lightweight sentimental way, as you'd expect and my wife, well she absolutely loved information technology.
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Terrbile movie information technology may be but this is glorious fun.
Like the get-go one it is, of form, critic-proof, (Meryl knew that when she agreed to put in a cameo appearance and Cher knew information technology when she saw a chance to resurrect her career at the age of seventy-two). In that location are times when it resembles zip more than gay nighttime at the pantomime, (and if you lot thought the first one was gay look until y'all run across this one), but it would be churlish to attempt to resist it and, to be fair, this is by far the better movie. Nosotros are talking, of course, about "Mamma Mia; Here We Go Once again", the sequel/prequel to the film version of the phase testify that has been playing somewhere in the world for what seems an eternity.
The first motion-picture show worked because the Abba songs were/are basically indestructible and I did remember information technology quite clever how they were able to construct a story around them. It was a terrible moving picture simply it was also undeniably expert fun and at that place were even a couple of times when it didn't seem so terrible at all. I enjoyed it while recognizing every i of its faults just I dreaded this follow-up. Surely all the best songs had already been used upward, I thought. Isn't this only cashing in on the success of the original?
Well, yes and no. It was obvious to anyone with a brain that they were on to a good thing so why not come up with another 'story', however flimsy. The plot is simply how did Donna meet the men in her life and how come she couldn't be certain first time around who the male parent of her kid was. It isn't much of an thought to hang a whole movie on and so let'due south have her girl Sophia program a large reopening of Donna's hotel, (Donna/Meryl has been dead a yr when the movie opens), bringing together the cast of the original, (as I said Meryl'due south appearance is reduced to a good-natured cameo), while cantankerous-cut betwixt past and present.
In the flashbacks, Donna is Lily James while Stellan Skarsgard and Pierce Brosnan are now hunky Josh Dylan and Jeremy Irvine. Unfortunately, poor Colin Firth is reduced to a very nerdy and patently gay Hugh Skinner who seems to have mastered the art of playing fools. No matter, he's still the kickoff to bed Miss James, losing his virginity in the process. So far, so obvious but this time around the musical numbers are much amend served by the material and are actually very well staged while the performances are, in every way, stronger. As I said, by the time 'Dancing Queen' comes around resistance is futile and the picture becomes an elaborate party, the kind you always hoped you'd exist invited to. Of course, neither film will ever be on anyone'due south list of all-time great musicals but even if y'all hate yourself in the morning, this is one party worth having a hangover for.
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How can you not bask this?
Look, I'm not going to sit here and say that these Mamma Mia films are expert, merely I undeniably savour them. In that location's just something special most a group of actors, non commonly seen in these cheesy films, having the time of their life singing incredibly catchy pop songs and dancing their butts off. This pic is a sort of sequel and prequel combined (i'm not kidding when I say the producers were inspired by The Godfather Part 2) and it has a massive cast, but most notably Lily James equally a young Meryl Streep. Standing every bit one of the most likable young actresses working today, James doesn't endeavor to do a Meryl impression simply certainly possesses the charisma that a young Streep did, all the while filling out the gaps of this characters past. The songs are swell, the performances are mostly serviceable, the direction is ever engaging, and the script is the good kind of cheesy. Oh, and the Dancing Queen sequence? Yep, information technology's one of the best scenes of yr in film. Aye, I just said that.
8.2/10
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