Mamma Mia Here We Go Again Rating
Journeying to the by
'Mamma Mia!' is a very marmite film, with people either loving it or antisocial it. To me, it was something of a mixed bag with me neither loving or antisocial it. It does a lot correct (the product values, the music, some production numbers and about of the performances), but 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 information technology, 'Mamma Mia! Here We Become Again' has a number of strengths and did entertain me (the singing is too an improvement), simply once again serious reservations (a few of them the same every bit 'Mamma Mia!' simply done worse).
Starting with what 'Mamma Mia! Here We Go Once again' does correct, it is stunning visually. Information technology is beautifully shot and the locations are exquisite and makes i want to book a vacation there. The songs, while not fitting into the story line as well as 'Mamma Mia', are just great, with a mix of the quondam favourites and the bottom known songs. Very infectious and with clever potent lyrics. The standout renditions are "Andante Andante" (gorgeous and moving), "Fernando" (raises the roof and it feels like we're watching Cher performing at a concert rather than hither featuring in a film) and "My Dearest, 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 song in 'Mamma Mia!'. "Fernando" and "My Love, My Life" were unforgettably staged too. There is a lot of energy in the musical numbers, some charm and there are fun moments with Christine Baranski, Julie Walters and particularly Omid Djalili.
Lily James shines like a truthful 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 time being short. Christine Baranski and Julie Walters have overnice moments, and Omid Djalili is a scene stealer. Didn't mind Pierce Brosnan having not much to practice, being one of many people who disliked him and his infamous rendition of "Due south.O.South" in 'Mamma Mia!'.
He did seem tired hither and Colin Firth and Stellen Skarsgaard are criminally underused. Alexa Davis overdoes it, with her emotions adjoining on overwrought. While Cher brought the business firm down and raised the roof in "Fernando" elsewhere she didn't seem that engaged with a existent lack of enthusiasm in her line delivery, also found her presence more often than not 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 bandage have far as well trivial to do, they're basically cameos.
Writing is too weak, with a lot of the jokes falling flat and much of the script is formulaic and undercooked, sometimes vulgar as well and going well overboard on the froth. There are inconsistencies galore and the dual timeline, which a nice idea, gets confusing in places.
Overall, a very mixed bag. Far from terrible, a long mode from great. v.5-half dozen/ten Bethany Cox
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More Mamma Mia
Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) is reopening the Greek island villa resort in award of her late mother Donna (Meryl Streep). She invites her three fathers (Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Pierce Brosnan), her mother's best friends Tanya (Christine Baranski) and Rosie (Julie Walters), along with many others for the reopening. She decides not to invite her grandma (Cher). The film 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 yous love the first motion-picture show, there is zip not to beloved in this sequel. In fact, this ane eliminates the bad solo guy singing and replaces them with Lily James who is an energetic eager performer with a better voice. I don't mind the Cher sections although information technology wants to be more epic than I can accept. I don't like the bogus daylight background at the villa which accentuates a bad fake look compared to the existent Greek island. There is i moment when villa falls apart during storms in both timelines. At that moment, I tin see a more than compelling plot device where both stories are mirror images of each other told at the same pacing with both bandage doing the same songs. It doesn't mitigate the greatness of the climatic meeting in the church. I think it would actually enhance the emotional touch if Lily James meets Amanda Seyfried so turns into Meryl Streep. The fellow isn't much and would be more dramatic if he goes away. As a musical, there are still a few famous ABBA songs to mine although there are others that I don't recognize. It's bright. Information technology'south chipper. It is a fitting sequel to the outset movie.
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joy
It is the basic purpose of this nostalgic comedy. All is known. Simply the humor and the science of amusement works in great style. Its importance - to exist the expected sequel. The basic trait - it is merely funny. Scene by scene, dialogue by dialogue. Not as lesson of life. Maybe, as recipe of freedom. So, see it !
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Argh!
This is the first movie I have seen, whose championship not but tells you exactly what you lot will see, simply serves equally my opinion of it.
This review offers most fifty characters more than than this pic deserves.
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Succeeds with everything that the kickoff did not
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"Mamma Mia! Here We Go Over again" is as the championship already gives away the sequel to the 2008 Abba tribute movie "Mamma Mia". This new one here runs for slightly under two hours and it brings back nigh of the cast members from said original picture. And as for the latter, I must say that I am not a bully fan at all to exist honest. Still I read this new one got better reception and reviews so I thought why not give information technology a get. After all, I really like some of ABBA'due south stuff. And I was very positively surprised. Like I wrote in the title, this one here does everything correct in these areas where the original motion-picture show comes relatively brusk, gently-speaking, regardless if we are talking near the comedy, the music, the story or the acting. Or the performances to be more precise. I retrieve at that place were some actually adept ones here and the worst were possibly on the level of the best performances 10 years agone. You could see that they were really casting with focus on music too, especially when it came to picking those who play the characters when they were immature. And there I am speaking already near a major component from this movie, which is that the movie in good old Godfather 2 mode is a sequel that also takes us back several decades into the past. Meryl Streep'due south version of Donna may be gone (really bold choice past author and director Ol Parker), simply don't call back there is no Donna in here. She is inevitably linked to the franchise of grade. All the same, I idea overall that the "now" convinced me more than the past. Merely that is of course subjective. Lily James and the other actors from the old sequences practice a fine chore as well. But the biggest thumbs-upwards goes to Amanda Seyfried for sure. I am never besides sure how much I similar her, but she did really great, especially in the music sequences. Her very first song, which is also the first vocal of the film, was a please already and it stayed that way every time she was nearly to sing. This includes the flick's number 1 highlight, a duet named "One of U.s." where ABBA is for in one case at their saddest, not at their fastest or most delightful similar with songs such as "Mamma Mia" who may have a serious undertone, but even so plough out full of drive and power.
One thing I did not like that much, but it's actually just a small criticism, is how Dominic Cooper was left out almost entirely apart from the early phone conversation and while Firth and Skarsgård got their return story, he did non. Pity his name was not considered big plenty for that. Likewise his sudden comeback story with all his honey being in that location once more was kinda meh given what he said during the phone call. It is what it is I guess. And then there is Cher of course, heavily featured in the trailer, but yes, she does non do likewise much apart from existence herself basically towards the end. But I read she has plans to release a total album with ABBA songs now after this flick and I'd beloved to hear that. The scene with Streep at the very end was sweet notwithstanding and I thought information technology was a nice treat for everybody who enjoyed the original movie more than I did. Shame I did not because otherwise this could accept moved me to tears, that's how good it was. What else can you say. Well maybe admittedly everybody was getting their man somehow and it was a bit too much of a forced happy ending perhaps, but it'southward okay, somehow it fit the film's tone so information technology'southward fine. And yes I mentioned the comedy earlier already and in that location were some really funny moments like Skarsgård's twin brother in fat makeup telling everybody the embarrassing goat story. All in all, that'southward information technology I gauge. I could write a lot more about the film, only I just repeat myself that this was a really positive surprise and one of the all-time 2018 movies I've seen. We'll see if it gets some awards attending at the Golden Globes for example. It definitely should if the first did. Besides it gives a really practiced overview of some of ABBA's very finest, so it'due south non likewise surprising to encounter some of the band members as producers here. I am not likewise sure how important it is to accept seen the commencement to appreciate this 1, maybe helps, but it'southward not essential y'all could say. So lookout man this one hither in whatever case, perhaps after skipping the starting time. But if you have seen the outset and sat through that 1, then actually don't miss out on this one here, peculiarly for as long as it is still in theaters because I think it is a much better watch on the large screen. Huge thumbs-up. Highly recommended.
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Money, Money, Money
Mamma Mia! Hither We Become Once more is a musical sequel that has a stretched story focusing on the young Donna and how she encountered her three men. Even though we did see those scenes in the first moving-picture show.
The film starts with Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) refurbishing her Greek isle Hotel. Donna has passed abroad. Sky is in New York learning the hotel business and things do non seem to exist going well betwixt them.
For the grand opening of the hotel in laurels of her female parent, Sophie has invited her three dads and her mother's best friends.
The main part of the story is seeing the immature Donna (Lily James) travelling through Europe after graduating at academy. Some of the scenes switch with that of Sophie.
It required 3 writers to come up with the story concept. The story is admittedly sparse. The new songs are ok. Cher just looks odd when she makes her belated appearance as Sophie's grandmother. She looks like someone who has but turned up for the pay cheque and decided to do an album of Abba covers out of information technology.
The Abba songs keep it entertaining but this pic stinks of a cash catch.
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Mamma Mia! Hither We Go Again
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I debated whether I wanted to see the sequel at the cinema, simply and so I watched the original once more and I had much more fun, and I saw film critic Mark Kermode enjoyed it, so I just went along with and hoped to have fun. Basically Sophie Sheridan (Amanda Seyfried) is preparing for the thou reopening of the hotel formerly owned by her mother Donna (Meryl Streep), who passed abroad a year ago (in unknown circumstances). She is sorry that two of her fathers, Harry Bright (Colin Firth) and Pecker Anderson (Stellan Skarsgård), are unable to make it, and she is trouble in her marriage to Sky (Dominic Cooper), who is in New York. It flashes back to 1979, to see young Donna (Lily James) graduating from Oxford, along with her friends and Dynamos bandmates Tanya (Jessica Keenan Wynn) and Rosie (Alexa Davies). Donna gets ready to travel the globe, while in Paris, French republic, she meets and has a relationship with Harry (Hugh Skinner). She afterward misses her boat to Kalokairi, just sailor Nib (Josh Dylan) offers her a ride, and along the way they assistance a stranded fisherman make it to finish the love of his life marrying some other man. Unbeknownst to Donna, Harry has followed her to Hellenic republic, just he is too late and watches equally she sails off into the distance. In the nowadays, (Tanya Christine Baranski) and Rosie (Julie Walters) arrive to back up Sophie with the reopening, it is revealed that Rosie and Beak have split up up. Sophie visits Sam (Pierce Brosnan), who is notwithstanding grieving over the passing of Donna. Back in the past, Donna arrives on the isle 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. Dorsum to the present, a sudden tempest has caused serious disruption to Sophie's plans for the thousand reopening and prevented media coverage of the event. Back in the past, Donna and Sam are enjoying a whirlwind romance, but then Donna discovers a photograph of Sam'due south fiancée, she tells him to leave the island. In the present, Sam reassures Sophie the reopening will go ahead, meanwhile Harry walks out of business deal in Tokyo to support Sophie, and Bill gets his twin blood brother Kurt to take his place for an award credence. Neb 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, also as for newly arrived Heaven. In the past, a depressed Donna is heartbroken nigh Sam, she meets Nib again and they spend time together on his boat. While they are gone, Sam returns, after catastrophe his date for Donna, he is saddened to hear that is with another man and leaves the isle. Donna discovers she is pregnant, she has no thought 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 it is at that place that she gives birth to Sophie. Back in the present, boats filled with guests arrive for the political party, Sophie is reunited with her other two fathers and Sky, she reveals to him that she is meaning, and feels closer to her mother, understanding what she went through. While Bill and Rosie reunite over their grief for Donna, Sophie's estranged grandmother and Donna'due south mother Ruby (Cher), despite having no invitation, arrives, she reveals that Sky tracked her down in New York and wants to build a relationship with Sophie. Sophie so performs a song with Tanya and Rosie in laurels of her mother, after which Blood-red tearfully tells her how proud she is of her. Information technology is revealed that the manager of the hotel, Fernando Cienfuegos (Andy Garcia), is Ruby's ex-lover from years agone, the 2 are joyously reunited. 9 months later, Sophie has given birth to a baby boy, anybody is gathered in the chapel for the christening, the ceremony takes place with Donna's spirit watching over her daughter with pride. Finally, all the characters, in their old and young guises, gather together to sing at the Hotel Bella Donna political party. Also starring Celia Imrie every bit Vice-Chancellor, Omid Djalili as a Greek customs officer, ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus equally an Oxford professor and ABBA'southward Benny Andersson every bit "Waterloo" piano histrion. Featuring all the ABBA hits "When I Kissed the Teacher", "One of Us", "Waterloo", "Why Did It Have to Be Me?", "I Have a Dream", "Kisses of Burn down", "Andante, Andante", "The Name of the Game", "Knowing Me, Knowing You", "Mamma Mia", "Affections Eyes", "Dancing Queen", "I've Been Waiting for You", "Fernando", "My Beloved, My Life" and "Super Trouper". As before, all the actors do 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 Gilt, then this More than ABBA Gilt, featuring lesser known songs. The story structure is just like The Godfather Function II, mixing the past with the present, as before you can ignore whatever imperfections and proceed with it, singing along with your favourites, and the "My Love, My Life" sequence cannot fail merely have you in floods of tears, just most equally enjoyable as the showtime picture, a fun jukebox musical romantic comedy. Information technology 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 identify a year after the death of Donna. Her girl Sophie plans to reopen her mother's hotel, on a Greek island, unfortunately information technology looks as if neither her three fathers nor her married man will be able to attend the opening party. Intertwined with scenes of her preparing for the reopening nosotros run into how her mother came to the island all those years ago... and how she encountered the three men who are Sophie's fathers. Of course at every possible opportunity the cast sing an advisable ABBA song.
If you didn't enjoy 'Mamma Mia' you certainly won't relish this every bit it is more of the same; this of course means if you lot did enjoy the first you lot are likely to relish this too. The story is fairly simple but it is fun; especially the flashback scenes of Donna making her manner to the island and coming together the younger versions of the 'iii fathers' for the beginning fourth dimension. The songs are fun even if things are stretched a scrap to justify the inclusion of some well-known songs... particularly 'Fernando'. Of course the songs are a lot of fun, even the less well-known ones. The cast does a fine task and are clearly having fun; Lily James stands out as the young Donna. The setting, with its beautiful settings and mostly fine weather, simply add to the pleasure provided past the film. Overall I'd say this won't exist for everybody but information technology is expert cheesy fun if you enjoy that sort of thing... and I did, more than 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 yous believe it has been ten years since "Mamma Mia" came out?
In the 2008 moving picture we learn that developed Donna, who runs the minor hotel on the Greek isle, had romantic encounters with 3 unlike men 21 years earlier and wasn't sure which was the actual father of her girl. So they all showed up in that story, sharing the fatherly roles.
In this flick we see a young Donna just finishing higher then going off to see the world a bit, eventually landing on the Greek island. Then the movie has a series of actors, young and old, playing each key grapheme every bit the younger and older counterparts.
Lily James is sufficient as Young Donna, her acting is good and her singing is just passable, as are well-nigh of the cast. This is a musical, all the characters sing. Meryl Streep merely barely shows up at the terminate, as a vision her daughter is having, and does a cute vocal. Streep is clearly the best vocalizer in this cast, although Cher as the grandmother performs well. Interestingly Cher who plays Donna's mother is just 3 years older than Streep.
Anyway we enjoyed it. The story and the movie are pretty apace forgettable merely for those in the mood it is an entertaining well-nigh 2 hours.
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I actually liked Mamma Mia! Here Nosotros Go Again a lilliputian better than its predecessor
It's now been 10 years after the movie version of the original Mamma Mia! stage musical of ABBA songs came out. I reviewed that 1 on this site back in January 2009 and mentioned enjoying information technology very much despite the shallow plot and characterizations. For some reason, when watching this sequel with my movie house-working friend, I felt a little differently and now feel the characterizations and the plot-which goes back and along betwixt the daughter Sophie reopening her mom'south hotel after said parent'due south passing and Donna when she was just going out on her own afterward higher graduation-was better defined and believable. Me and my friend were just enjoying non only the characters and the plot merely also the ABBA songs picked for this one of which not many of the tunes were hit singles this time around. At that place were also a couple of dainty surprises at the end, and oh, this time Pierce Brosnan only sang once solo and he'southward a little low-cardinal here to a amend issue! Really, I had a much wonderful time with my friend watching this in a theatre so close to the screen so on that note, I highly recommend Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.
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Hither nosotros become over again!
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Is information technology a sequel, is information technology a prequel? In all honesty it'southward a bit of both, and merely equally much fun equally the commencement film.
With an entertaining cast (the younger versions of whom are well cast too) and of grade the legendary ABBA music, this is an entertaining flick indeed.
I would urge them to stop at ii films at present though.
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A light hearted and fun film
This film is fun and calorie-free hearted. It has a lot of music, but doesn't feel similar an extended music video. Three scenery is beautiful, and it's neat to run into so many famous faces. It's obvious from the lighting that many outdoor scenes weren't filmed outdoors, merely I'm not complaining.
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Meat ball
Funny movie. I like the scrap with all the singing and stuff
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VERY disappointing
Lousy sequel to the wonderful 2008 movie. It has Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) renovating and reopening the inn her mom Donna ran. Then it flashes dorsum to Donna as a young girl (Lily James) meeting the three men who become Sophie'southward father. Every bit with the showtime there's enough of cracking ABBA songs on the soundtrack.
This film has a lot going for it. Great songs, big cute production numbers, a skilful cast...but it doesn't work. The death of a main grapheme (Donna) hangs over the moving-picture show. It's dark and downright depressing. Tiresome-moving besides and the script is full of plot holes and inconsistencies. . The wonderful singing and dancing helps to a point. Besides Cher's much publicized function is petty more than than an extended cameo. Also Andy Garcia is on manus looking terrible. The new immature cast is certainly attractive just given no time to develop their characters. Dreary, dark and depressing. Skip information technology.
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Different and the same
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Sophie is masterminding a revamp of the hotel on Kalikairi, simply the g re-opening may not go as well as she hoped - she wonders how her mother coped, and so Donna's backstory unfolds for us.
x years ago I took my 81-year sometime mother to run into the cheesy merely improbably joyous Mamma Mia at the movie house - she and my father cruel in dearest with it, and notwithstanding watch it often. She is now pushing 92 merely, with the help of a borrowed wheelchair, fabricated the trip to the cinema to see the follow-up - part sequel and part prequel - and loved it.
I think it'south a better picture than the original - it's certainly a more than solid story - albeit that unexpected sheer joyfulness coupled with Meryl Streep'south deeply emotional performance doesn't - can't - burst upon the audience with all the surprise of the first film.
And the selections from the Abba catalogue are, of necessity, the lesser hits and the deeper cuts. This doesn't affair. They are all well tailored to the story (or, peradventure, vice versa), and I curiosity again at what a deft lyricist Bjorn Ulvaeus was in his 2nd language.
Speaking of Ulvaeus, the Abba guys both cameo again, and early on. And then you don't sit there waiting for them.
The backstory is intercut with the nowadays day. The "And so" bandage are saddled with the horrible task of playing parts which have already been established in a pic which features the original actors playing those parts once more. The lads are OK, but the two girls do well. Lily James equally Donna doesn't play Meryl Streep, but her charm and verve mean that she commands the screen in her ain right.
Nosotros 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 take expected.
And I shan't be spoilering the movie's big secret. You lot didn't hear information technology from me.
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a look back
Greetings again from the darkness. It'due south been 10 years since director Phyllida Lloyd presented the crowd-pleasing MAMMA MIA! movie. It was a box function striking (over $600 million worldwide) and was, for a few years, the highest grossing musical of all-fourth dimension. Almost chiefly, it was extremely entertaining and a joyous cinematic romp for viewers. This twelvemonth's sequel is directed by Ol Parker (THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL and husband to actress Thandie Newton), and though the melancholy is slathered on a bit too thick, it also fulfills its number one priority - entertaining the fans.
The story begins with Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) putting the last touches on the house-turned-hotel in training for the upcoming Grand Opening. It'south named Hotel Bella Donna in laurels of Sophie'southward mother (Meryl Streep). What looks to be a straight-forward story surprises usa with a flashback to Donna's 1979 graduation, which features not only the first song-and-dance number "When I Kissed the Teacher", just likewise the starting time of 2 ABBA cameos ... Bjorn Ulvaeus every bit a professor. The immature Donna is played brilliantly by Lily James, and she effortlessly captures the gratis-spiritedness that led to the puzzler of the showtime movie - three possible dads for Sophie.
Those three dads render non just as Pierce Brosnan (Sam), Stellan Skarsgard (Nib), and Colin Firth (Harry), just also as Jeremy Irvine (young Sam), Josh Dylan (young Bill), and Hugh Skinner (young Harry). In fact, virtually of the run fourth dimension is dedicated 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. Immature Bill is the charming sailor who saves the 24-hour interval for Donna, while immature Sam assists her with saving a storm-shaken horse (kind of humorous since Mr. Irvine starred in State of war HORSE).
Also back are Dominic Cooper as Heaven, Sophie's true love, who can't decide between romance and career, and Donna'south life-long friends Tanya (Christine Baranski) and Rosie (Julie Walters), who are also part of the flashback as Jessica Keenan Wynn (splendid as young Tanya) and Alexa Davies (equally young Rosie). New to the cast are Celia Imrie in the graduation number, Andy Garcia as the hotel manager, and drawing the biggest adulation of all ... Cher as Sophie's grandmother (and every bit my viewing partner commented, an early on peek at what Lady Gaga will look like as a grandma)! It'southward all-time if you 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 key and many of the ABBA numbers from the first picture show are featured again this time. In particular, "Dancing Queen" is a nautical standout, and "Fernando" is a show-stopper. While it may not be quite as raucous as the first, it's a treat watching Lily James, and there is a wonderful blending of "one-time" and "new" in the finale. The only existent question remaining is, did the casting director practise the math before casting Cher (age 72) equally Meryl Streep'due south (age 69) female parent?
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Even better than the first one!
Allow's become the obvious out of the fashion: Meryl Streep is in this movie for five minutes. She may be front end and center in the promotional poster, and she may get the "and" in the credits, but she makes her entrance during the very concluding scene of the movie. The premise of this prequel/sequel is that her graphic symbol has died, and her daughter is struggling to run the hotel past herself. I know; no one told me that, either. This one's a drama, folks.
I thought this picture was going to be terrible, a lightheaded alibi to prance around and sing more than ABBA songs, aslope a thin plot that was described in v minutes during the original and didn't need more detail. But it's so much improve than the first one! Not constrained past the ill-plumbing equipment songs of the original Broadway musical that stuck numbers into scenes with no connection to furthering the story, this movie really puts songs in when they affair. At that place are a few overlaps of songs that were used in the commencement moving-picture show, but the vast majority of the songs are new (to the picture, non to ABBA fans); and many of them take a more than 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 movie. "I Wonder" (a groovy number that you'll merely observe in the deleted scenes) is sung by Lily James as she heads off to take a European hazard after graduation.
The best part of the movie, and the reason it'southward infinitely better than the first one, is the respect the "younger cast" gives to the "older cast". While part of the plot is a sequel, 5 years after the offset movie ended, with Amanda Seyfried planning a thousand re-opening of the hotel with 1 of her dads, Pierce Brosnan, by her side, the main plot is a prequel, chronicling her female parent's journey to Hellenic republic and her encounter with iii immature men. In this extensive flashback, anybody was given a younger counterpart, and everyone did all-encompassing inquiry. Lily James projects all of Meryl Streep's mannerisms from the first picture, Jeremy Irvine perfects Pierce Brosnan's accent, Hugh Skinner matches Colin Firth's hesitation and speech patterns, Josh Dylan is just equally carefree and fun every bit Stellan Skarsgard, Alexa Davies puts in shoulder rolls and wacky movements to aqueduct Julie Walters, and Jessica Keenan Wynn seems like someone put Christine Baranski in a time auto. It'due south wonderful to see the younger cast and the older cast in alternate scenes, and, just like the original, you lot can feel how much fun everyone had while filming.
While it'due south rude to option out ane member amid the bandage as the highlight, Lily James is such an ambrosial, likable sweetheart, she deserves an actress mention. It'due south no pocket-sized task to make anybody in the audience forget they came to the theaters to run into Meryl Streep, and yet to continually remind everyone that you're playing her younger counterpart. No offense to Miss Streep, only no one will miss her in this movie. With a bright, fresh, new actress on the screen who embodies the free spirit of a time period that passed before she was built-in, it's just not possible to think anything's missing from the leading lady of the motion-picture show. She's delightful, beautiful, sunny, frisky, and full of life. You might even puzzle as to where you've seen her earlier, since she'due south and then transformed from the famed cinder girl, Churchill's secretary, and, well-nigh notably, the flapper cousin to the Granthams.
There's so much attention to particular in this movie, and every bit someone who knows the start Mamma Mia like the back of my hand, I was able to appreciate all of it. Author-managing director Ol Parker obviously loved the original and studied it, including references to every clue dropped in the script, from calculation in a twin to making sure Hugh Skinner wore a Johnny Rocket t-shirt. Just don't pay attending to the guild of the relationships written in the diary from the commencement moving picture. This one makes then much more than sense, then just go with it. With fun, flashy colors, costumes, and on-location filming, every vocal and scene is enchanting.
Keep in mind information technology'due south a drama. I may be an like shooting fish in a barrel target, since I bawl my fashion through the first Mamma Mia every fourth dimension Meryl Streep sings "Slipping Through My Fingers," but I cried twice as hard during this movie. There are a couple of songs that connect mother and girl, and, depending on your level of sappiness, you'll need between ane and 50 Kleenexes to go through them. In my opinion, it'south a dandy compliment to the film if the audition cries. I wouldn't have cried 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 be silly, you've beloved it far more you idea possible. From songs that declare children the love of a parent'south life, to big '70s hair, to finding home where you least expect information technology, to seeing anybody reunited x years after with jokes and winks to become effectually, this is a movie y'all'll desire to watch over and over again. If you lot thought the end credits of the kickoff movie were fun, you'll dear the credits in these, as the older and younger people trip the light fantastic toe together and enjoy adorable curtain calls. I know what I'g getting for Christmas-that, and a box of Kleenex.
DLM Warning: If you lot suffer from vertigo or silly spells, like my mom does, this flick might non be your friend. When Amanda Seyfried lies down on her bed during "I of Us" the camera spins around in a circle, and it will make you sick. There's some other circumvolve during "Waterloo" correct after it shows the chorus woman in a wheelchair. A third spin is in the closing credits during a group shot. In other words, "Don't Wait, Mom!"
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If not for Lily James this wouldn't be worth watching
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LiIy James has and so march charm and free energy and she dances and sings well. She makes some of the other actors wait 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 Bill and Harry are so 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 Croatia not Greece.
I of the few good points was that the story quite satisfyingly explained how she slept with the three men in pretty quick succession without existence sleazy.
One of the almost plus points was that Meryl wasn't in most of this motion-picture show. When she finally reappears she drags things downwards to a substandard level. She ruined the first flick. Cher is and then much improve than her.
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Infectious summertime fluff. The music will take you lot dancing.
If you know the basic plot covering both Mamma Mia!southward, namely that immature Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) is the girl of deceased Donna (Meryl Streep), then y'all'll wade through happily the many strands of flashbacks that are cut and then swiftly you'll expect for ABBA's songs for relief. Mamma Mia! Here Nosotros Become Again gives dorsum story ample with songs that fifty-fifty from the 70'due south are however vibrant.
Consider "When I Kissed the Teacher" and "Andante, Andante" for just two melodic popular tunes plumbing fixtures into another screen version of what started every bit a Broadway musical. Try to forget Pierce Brosnan singing "When all is said and done" in the outset Momma Mia! In this one he's mercifully given only a few lines to sing. Virtually everyone else can behave a tune and dance nicely, thank you.
More amazing is shoehorning "Waterloo" into a plot that wouldn't seem compatible. But it is, and the number is visually splendid. Consider also their inserting over-the-top Cher as grandma from her arrival by copter, her platinum wig, and waxen face up to her rendition of "Fernando" with a game Andy Garcia. Worth the cost.
Of form with this mash up of Abba romantic songs and the burden of figuring out which actor is which version of an original character, you eventually washed the two hours and are free to think of your own family unit tree, without the lather opera flourishes. Refurbishing Donna's old business firm gives daughter and motion-picture show a reason to be excited.
The musical has an infectious spirit that percolates when the older characters are center stage. Something about Colin Firth and Meryl Streep, for just two examples, reminds me of the charisma a mature star tin bring that younger, handsomer, hipper actors can't achieve. No carping, however, tin erase the beautiful Greek island groundwork, ridiculously sloppy, romantic plot, and actors born to exist showcased for their looks and for most, except Brosnan, their musical talent.
Summertime'south bounty, no more or less.
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A Haunted Business firm Sequel of The Original
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There are good things about this musical comedy. The locations used in Croatia wait fabled. The Graduation seen at Oxford, Uk reminds me much of Professor Wagstaff's college decorum at Huxley University in HorseFeathers (for those who have never seens one of the Marx Brothers top grossing films from Paramont, it throughly lampoons higher instruction. That is the only reason why it doesn't go every bit much aclaim as Duck Soup. )
Some other proficient affair is the crossing of three generations or so in the cast. The idea here is to go along the story and try to go all ages interested it it. A fair part of the cast is actually quite old. 72 Yr Old Cher looks very heavy both in girth and in the make up section. Information technology is too unclear why she is even there other than to do the one song. I also wonder if CGI is used along with make-up on Cher as her neck has no wrinkles which is truly amazing.
Meryl Streep at age 69 does not have as much make up and actually looks proficient for that age. I am glad to come across the Grandparents, Parents, Kids and 1000 kids all mixed together.
The bad parts are the mix ups in script and the story. I came out of the moving-picture show that I saw with someone and they had a different idea of what everything meant than I did. I would classify this more than every bit a Musical than a comedy. Of course, the style they present it I think an episode of 79 year old Maury Povich needs to be done to take a Dna test sort out the fantasy from the reality (if in that location is any reality in this plot line). Oh well, we 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 film. 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 as Cher's Ex-Granddad. It is entertaining and well staged. It'south just a scrap out of the realm of being a musical that would bring back musicals and another summertime of 2018 motion-picture show that falls curt. (annotation- the Comedy in Ant Man and The Wasp is much more on target than the sense of humour in this musical, even though it gets shrunk).
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MAMMA MIA! Here Nosotros GO Over again promises pure joy and Euro-pop experience-goodism to its core audience
Precisely 10 years after its massively popular 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 cause of decease?), and passes the baton to her daughter Sophie (Seyfried, thankfully bestowed with an ethereal vocalisation), 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 motion picture's 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 up on the island and gets knocked up merely cannot tell whose fortuitous sperm strikes gold, and decides to heighten her kid all on her ain. So apart from the sometime gang, fifty-fifty Streep has a glorified cameo near the end as a ghost reunited with Sophie during her baby granddaughter's christening anniversary, the cast is redoubled not just by the initiation of the younger-cocky accomplice, 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, simply also by the much-hyped advent of Cher, Streep's SILKWOOD (1983) co-star, who perversely plays Donna'due south mother Ruby-red in another glorified cameo, and struts her pristine skin condition and minimal motility when belts out FERNANDO, opposite to a seemingly unnerved Garciá.
Never trying to overreach it from its self-knowledge of a escapist potboiler, basks in photogenic landscape or seascape and its catchy tunage, MAMMA MIA! HERE Nosotros Become Over again promises pure joy and Euro-popular feel-goodism to its cadre audition and writer-director Ol Parker attests to be an able manus in coordinating and segueing between two story-lines, together with a faculty for choreographic deployment.
As much as the cast enjoys a helluva shindig and disseminates an infectious jag of joviality to ascertain audition are having a adept time either, a takeaway afterthought pops upwardly unexpectedly by positing a morbid if entirely irrelevant presumption, how can we adapt ourselves when 1 day nosotros will truly lose our national treasure like Meryl Streep and her ilks? Such a dreadful idea, perhaps, seeing things through blue-colored glasses is this reviewer'southward kryptonite.
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I could care less almost any of the characters in either film, or any of their drama, but I honey ABBA though!
'MAMA MIA! Here WE Get Over again': Two and a One-half Stars (Out of 5)
A sequel/prequel to the hit 2008 jukebox musical comedy (based on the 1999 musical of the same name). The film is over again filled with music past the band ABBA, and information technology was written and directed (this fourth dimension) past Ol Parker. It tells the story of how Sophie's 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 (dissimilar information technology's predecessor), and it'due south another large hit at the Box Office as well (much like the original). I liked it just nigh as much as I did the first film, which isn't much.
The story takes place five years after the events of the original, and Sophie (Seyfried) is at present meaning herself. While dealing with this news, she reminisces virtually the life of her (at present) deceased mother, Donna (Streep); when Donna was younger (James) and became pregnant with her. The film explains how Donna met Sophie'southward three possible dads (Irvine, Skinner and Dylan), and the romances that developed with each of them. The unabridged thing is of course played out (once more) while characters are singing and dancing to ABBA tunes.
I like the band ABBA (I have their 'All-time Of'' CD), and I exercise similar the music in both films. I besides like musicals, sometimes a lot. These films are just so cheesy and cliched though. They're totally uninvolving too; I could care less virtually whatsoever of the characters in either film, or any of their drama. The music is of course fun to hear though. Fans of ABBA, and musicals, will probably detect it enjoyable enough (especially if y'all similar the start movie).
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Abba 'nother one
Okay so this 1 I took for the team, accompanying my married woman to this second film featuring the music of i of her favourite groups. My opinion of Abba's music is that when they're good they're very good only when they're bad they're dire. Evidently the kickoff motion-picture show, based on the stage show, employed all the generally very adept "Abba Gold" greatest hits while here there are quite a lot of 2d division tunes only their nearly devoted fans will know. "Kisses Of Burn down", "Andante Andante", "When I Kissed The Instructor" anyone?
The producers seem to admit this weakness past repeating some of their biggest hits which had evidently already been in the first movie such as "Waterloo", "Knowing Me Knowing You", the inevitable "Dancing Queen" and snippets of many others as well.
The storyline is as flimsy as before and really merely a dodge to get all the original characters reunited in front of the cameras in bright outdoor settings. A few new characters exercise evidence up most notably Cher who delivers a surprisingly proficient version of both "Fernando" and "Super Trouper " to requite the film a elevator at the finish.
In that location are some groovy and inventive photographic camera tricks which help the flow of the picture show whilst the sense of humour is as girlie and occasionally risque every bit you lot'd look - clearly the film makers know their audience.
Anyhow it's all very bright , tuneful, happy and entertaining in a lightweight sentimental way, as you'd expect and my married woman, well she absolutely loved it.
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Terrbile film it may be just this is glorious fun.
Like the first ane it is, of class, 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 lxx-ii). In that location are times when information technology resembles nothing more than gay night at the pantomime, (and if you thought the first one was gay wait until you run into this i), simply it would be churlish to try to resist it and, to be fair, this is past far the ameliorate pic. We are talking, of course, about "Mamma Mia; Here We Go Again", the sequel/prequel to the film version of the phase show that has been playing somewhere in the world for what seems an eternity.
The first film worked because the Abba songs were/are basically indestructible and I did think it quite clever how they were able to construct a story around them. It was a terrible movie merely it was also undeniably good 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 ane of its faults but I dreaded this follow-up. Surely all the best songs had already been used up, I thought. Isn't this just 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 matter so why non come up up with some other 'story', however flimsy. The plot is simply how did Donna meet the men in her life and how come up she couldn't be sure start time around who the male parent of her kid was. It isn't much of an thought to hang a whole moving picture on so let's take her daughter Sophia plan a big reopening of Donna's hotel, (Donna/Meryl has been dead a year when the film opens), bringing together the bandage of the original, (as I said Meryl'south appearance is reduced to a good-natured cameo), while cross-cutting between 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 apparently gay Hugh Skinner who seems to have mastered the art of playing fools. No matter, he'due south nonetheless the beginning to bed Miss James, losing his virginity in the procedure. And so far, and then obvious merely this time effectually the musical numbers are much better served by the material and are actually very well staged while the performances are, in every style, stronger. As I said, past the time 'Dancing Queen' comes effectually resistance is futile and the moving picture becomes an elaborate political party, the kind you ever hoped you'd be invited to. Of course, neither film will e'er be on anyone's list of all-time great musicals but fifty-fifty if you hate yourself in the forenoon, this is one party worth having a hangover for.
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How can you not enjoy this?
Look, I'k not going to sit down here and say that these Mamma Mia films are expert, but I undeniably enjoy them. There'south just something special about 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 film is a sort of sequel and prequel combined (i'm not kidding when I say the producers were inspired by The Godfather Function ii) and it has a massive cast, but most notably Lily James as a immature Meryl Streep. Standing as one of the well-nigh likable immature actresses working today, James doesn't try to do a Meryl impression just certainly possesses the charisma that a immature Streep did, all the while filling out the gaps of this characters past. The songs are great, the performances are generally serviceable, the management is always engaging, and the script is the good kind of cheesy. Oh, and the Dancing Queen sequence? Yes, it's one of the best scenes of twelvemonth in picture show. Yeah, I but said that.
8.two/10
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