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Journey to the past
'Mamma Mia!' is a very marmite film, with people either loving it or hating information technology. To me, it was something of a mixed bag with me neither loving or hating it. It does a lot right (the production values, the music, some production numbers and about 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 product values. Also questioned the necessity of it, and did worry virtually 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! Hither Nosotros Go Again' has a number of strengths and did entertain me (the singing is also an improvement), but again serious reservations (a few of them the same as 'Mamma Mia!' just done worse).
Starting with what 'Mamma Mia! Here We Go Once more' does right, it is stunning visually. It is beautifully shot and the locations are exquisite and makes 1 want to book a holiday there. The songs, while not fitting into the story line as well as 'Mamma Mia', are merely great, with a mix of the onetime 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 we're watching Cher performing at a concert rather than here featuring in a motion picture) and "My Love, My Life" (will admit that the tears rolled, accept 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 Dearest, My Life" were unforgettably staged likewise. There is a lot of free energy in the musical numbers, some charm and there are fun moments with Christine Baranski, Julie Walters and especially Omid Djalili.
Lily James shines like a true star in a truly energetic, charming 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 practise, being one of many people who disliked him and his infamous rendition of "S.O.South" 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 adjoining 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 delivery, likewise found her presence mostly unnecessary and not adding much. The younger male person cast are competent only somewhat bland.
The story is even thinner than in 'Mamma Mia!' and in the not-musical number scenes the energy flags badly and come over as flat, Ol Parker's workmanlike at best and sometimes lethargic management in these scenes don't assistance. The older/developed cast have far too footling to exercise, they're basically cameos.
Writing is likewise weak, with a lot of the jokes falling apartment and much of the script is formulaic and undercooked, sometimes vulgar as well and going well overboard on the barm. 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 way from great. v.five-6/10 Bethany Cox
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More Mamma Mia
Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) is reopening the Greek island villa resort in honor of her late female parent Donna (Meryl Streep). She invites her 3 fathers (Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Pierce Brosnan), her mother's 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 movie besides 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 isle.
If yous dear the first movie, at that place is nothing not to love in this sequel. In fact, this one eliminates the bad solo guy singing and replaces them with Lily James who is an energetic eager performer with a ameliorate vocalism. I don't mind the Cher sections although information technology wants to be more epic than I tin can have. I don't like the artificial daylight background at the villa which accentuates a bad faux wait compared to the real Greek island. There is 1 moment when villa falls autonomously during storms in both timelines. At that moment, I tin run across a more compelling plot device where both stories are mirror images of each other told at the same pacing with both cast doing the same songs. It doesn't mitigate the greatness of the climatic meeting in the church. I think information technology would actually heighten the emotional impact if Lily James meets Amanda Seyfried and and so turns into Meryl Streep. The boyfriend isn't much and would be more dramatic if he goes away. Equally a musical, in that location are still a few famous ABBA songs to mine although there are others that I don't recognize. It's bright. It's chipper. It is a plumbing fixtures sequel to the first movie.
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joy
Information technology is the basic purpose of this nostalgic one-act. All is known. But the humor and the science of entertainment works in great fashion. Its importance - to be the expected sequel. The basic trait - it is simply funny. Scene by scene, dialogue by dialogue. Not as lesson of life. Maybe, as recipe of freedom. So, come across information technology !
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Argh!
This is the start movie I have seen, whose title not but tells you exactly what yous volition run across, but serves as my opinion of it.
This review offers about l characters more than than this picture deserves.
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Succeeds with everything that the first did not
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"Mamma Mia! Here We Become Again" is equally the title already gives away the sequel to the 2008 Abba tribute moving picture "Mamma Mia". This new one here runs for slightly under 2 hours and information technology brings back nearly of the bandage members from said original movie. And every bit for the latter, I must say that I am not a great fan at all to exist honest. All the same I read this new 1 got better reception and reviews and then I idea why non give it a go. After all, I actually like some of ABBA's stuff. And I was very positively surprised. Like I wrote in the championship, this i here does everything right in these areas where the original film comes relatively short, gently-speaking, regardless if we are talking about the comedy, the music, the story or the acting. Or the performances to be more precise. I call up there were some actually practiced ones here and the worst were maybe on the level of the best performances 10 years agone. You lot 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 young. And in that location I am speaking already nigh a major component from this movie, which is that the film in skilful old Godfather 2 manner is a sequel that also takes us back several decades into the past. Meryl Streep'south version of Donna may be gone (really assuming selection by writer and director Ol Parker), only don't think there is no Donna in hither. She is inevitably linked to the franchise of course. Even so, I thought overall that the "now" convinced me more the by. But that is of class subjective. Lily James and the other actors from the old sequences do a fine task as well. Only the biggest thumbs-up goes to Amanda Seyfried for sure. I am never too certain how much I like her, simply she did really great, especially in the music sequences. Her very first song, which is too the showtime song of the film, was a please already and it stayed that way every time she was about to sing. This includes the picture's number 1 highlight, a duet named "One of Us" where ABBA is for one time at their saddest, not at their fastest or almost delightful similar with songs such as "Mamma Mia" who may take a serious undertone, but still turn out full of drive and power.
One thing I did not like that much, only it's actually just a pocket-sized 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. Compassion his name was non considered big plenty for that. Also his sudden improvement story with all his love existence in that location once more was kinda meh given what he said during the telephone call. Information technology is what it is I gauge. So there is Cher of course, heavily featured in the trailer, simply yeah, she does not do too much apart from existence herself basically towards the end. But I read she has plans to release a total anthology with ABBA songs at present later this picture and I'd honey to hear that. The scene with Streep at the very terminate was sweetness however and I thought it was a nice care for for everybody who enjoyed the original flick more than than I did. Shame I did not because otherwise this could take moved me to tears, that's how good it was. What else can y'all say. Well peradventure absolutely everybody was getting their man somehow and it was a scrap too much of a forced happy ending perhaps, just it's okay, somehow it fit the moving-picture show's tone so it's fine. And yes I mentioned the comedy before already and there were some really funny moments like Skarsgård's twin brother in fat makeup telling everybody the embarrassing caprine animal story. All in all, that's it I guess. I could write a lot more almost the film, but I just repeat myself that this was a actually positive surprise and 1 of the all-time 2018 movies I've seen. We'll run into if it gets some awards attention at the Golden Globes for example. Information technology definitely should if the kickoff did. Besides information technology gives a really good overview of some of ABBA's very finest, then it's non too surprising to come across some of the band members equally producers here. I am not too certain how important it is to have seen the first to appreciate this i, maybe helps, but it's not essential you could say. And so watch this one hither in whatever example, maybe later on skipping the commencement. But if you have seen the showtime and sat through that one, and so really don't miss out on this ane here, especially for as long equally it is still in theaters because I recollect it is a much better spotter on the large screen. Huge thumbs-up. Highly recommended.
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Money, Coin, Coin
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Once again 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 motion picture.
The picture starts with Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) refurbishing her Greek island Hotel. Donna has passed away. Heaven is in New York learning the hotel concern and things do not seem to be going well betwixt them.
For the k opening of the hotel in honour of her mother, Sophie has invited her three dads and her mother's best friends.
The main office of the story is seeing the young Donna (Lily James) travelling through Europe afterward graduating at university. Some of the scenes switch with that of Sophie.
It required 3 writers to come upwardly with the story concept. The story is admittedly thin. The new songs are ok. Cher merely looks odd when she makes her belated appearance equally Sophie's grandmother. She looks like someone who has just turned up for the pay bank check and decided to practice an album of Abba covers out of it.
The Abba songs keep it entertaining but this movie stinks of a cash grab.
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Mamma Mia! Here Nosotros Go Again
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I debated whether I wanted to see the sequel at the movie house, merely and so I watched the original over again and I had much more fun, and I saw film critic Marking Kermode enjoyed it, so I just went along with and hoped to have fun. Basically Sophie Sheridan (Amanda Seyfried) is preparing for the k reopening of the hotel formerly owned by her mother Donna (Meryl Streep), who passed abroad a year ago (in unknown circumstances). She is sad 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 spousal relationship to Sky (Dominic Cooper), who is in New York. It flashes back to 1979, to come across young 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 earth, while in Paris, France, she meets and has a relationship with Harry (Hugh Skinner). She later misses her boat to Kalokairi, only crewman Nib (Josh Dylan) offers her a ride, and forth the way they assistance a stranded fisherman make it to cease the dear of his life marrying another man. Unbeknownst to Donna, Harry has followed her to Hellenic republic, just he is besides tardily and watches as she sails off into the distance. In the present, (Tanya Christine Baranski) and Rosie (Julie Walters) go far to support Sophie with the reopening, it is revealed that Rosie and Bill accept dissever. Sophie visits Sam (Pierce Brosnan), who is still grieving over the passing of Donna. Back in the past, Donna arrives on the island and explores a farmhouse, during a sudden storm, a young Sam (Jeremy Irvine) riding his motorcycle helps her to rescue a spooked horse from the house basement. Back to the nowadays, a sudden storm has acquired serious disruption to Sophie's plans for the 1000 reopening and prevented media coverage of the event. Back in the by, 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 get ahead, meanwhile Harry walks out of business organisation deal in Tokyo to back up Sophie, and Bill gets his twin brother Kurt to accept his place for an award acceptance. Beak and Harry meet at the docks, simply there are no boats, but Pecker meets Alexio (Gerard Monaco), the fisherman he helped those years agone, he secures them a boat, as well every bit for newly arrived Sky. In the past, a depressed Donna is heartbroken about Sam, she meets Nib again and they spend time together on his boat. While they are gone, Sam returns, later on ending his engagement for Donna, he is saddened to hear that is with another human and leaves the island. Donna discovers she is significant, she has no idea which of her recent lovers is the father, local bar possessor Sophia (Maria Vacratsis) overhears that she wishes to stay on the island, she offers to allow her live in the farmhouse, Donna happily accepts, and it is there that she gives birth to Sophie. Back in the present, boats filled with guests go far 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, agreement what she went through. While Bill and Rosie reunite over their grief for Donna, Sophie's estranged grandmother and Donna's mother Cerise (Cher), despite having no invitation, arrives, she reveals that Sky tracked her downward in New York and wants to build a relationship with Sophie. Sophie then performs a song with Tanya and Rosie in honour of her female parent, subsequently which Ruby tearfully tells her how proud she is of her. It is revealed that the director of the hotel, Fernando Cienfuegos (Andy Garcia), is Cherry-red's ex-lover from years ago, the 2 are joyously reunited. Ix months later, Sophie has given nativity 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 immature guises, gather together to sing at the Hotel Bella Donna party. As well starring Celia Imrie every bit Vice-Chancellor, Omid Djalili as a Greek community officer, ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus as an Oxford professor and ABBA'south Benny Andersson as "Waterloo" piano role player. Featuring all the ABBA hits "When I Kissed the Instructor", "One of U.s.a.", "Waterloo", "Why Did It Have to Be Me?", "I Take a Dream", "Kisses of Burn down", "Andante, Andante", "The Name of the Game", "Knowing Me, Knowing You lot", "Mamma Mia", "Angel Eyes", "Dancing Queen", "I've Been Waiting for You", "Fernando", "My Dearest, 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 offset film was ABBA Golden, and so this More ABBA Gold, featuring bottom known songs. The story structure is just similar The Godfather Office Ii, mixing the past with the present, as before you tin ignore whatever imperfections and proceed with it, singing along with your favourites, and the "My Love, My Life" sequence cannot fail but have y'all in floods of tears, just about as enjoyable as the first movie, a fun jukebox musical romantic one-act. It was nominated the Gold World for Best Motility Picture - Comedy or Musical. Good!
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A solid sequel to a surprise hit
This sequel takes place a yr after the death of Donna. Her daughter Sophie plans to reopen her mother's hotel, on a Greek island, unfortunately it looks as if neither her three fathers nor her husband will exist able to attend the opening party. Intertwined with scenes of her preparing for the reopening we meet how her female parent came to the isle all those years ago... and how she encountered the 3 men who are Sophie's fathers. Of course at every possible opportunity the cast sing an appropriate ABBA song.
If you didn't enjoy 'Mamma Mia' you certainly won't enjoy this equally information technology is more than of the same; this of grade means if you did enjoy the start you lot are likely to savour this too. The story is fairly simple but it is fun; especially the flashback scenes of Donna making her way to the island and meeting the younger versions of the '3 fathers' for the first fourth dimension. The songs are fun even if things are stretched a bit 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 condition, just add to the pleasure provided by the film. Overall I'd say this won't be for everybody but it is skilful cheesy fun if you enjoy that sort of thing... and I did, more than I expected.
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Ten years afterwards, this fills in the back story.
My wife and I watched this at dwelling house on DVD from our public library. Can you believe it has been 10 years since "Mamma Mia" came out?
In the 2008 movie we acquire that adult Donna, who runs the pocket-sized hotel on the Greek island, had romantic encounters with 3 different men 21 years earlier and wasn't sure which was the actual male parent of her daughter. And then they all showed upwards in that story, sharing the fatherly roles.
In this flick we see a young Donna only finishing college so going off to see the world a bit, somewhen landing on the Greek island. So the movie has a serial of actors, young and one-time, playing each key character equally the younger and older counterparts.
Lily James is sufficient every bit Young Donna, her acting is good and her singing is just passable, as are most of the cast. This is a musical, all the characters sing. Meryl Streep simply barely shows upwardly at the end, equally a vision her girl is having, and does a beautiful song. Streep is clearly the best vocalist in this bandage, although Cher as the grandmother performs well. Interestingly Cher who plays Donna's female parent is only three years older than Streep.
Anyway nosotros enjoyed it. The story and the motion picture are pretty quickly forgettable but for those in the mood it is an entertaining nearly 2 hours.
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I actually liked Mamma Mia! Here Nosotros Get Again a fiddling ameliorate than its predecessor
It'southward at present been 10 years after the film version of the original Mamma Mia! stage musical of ABBA songs came out. I reviewed that i on this site dorsum in Jan 2009 and mentioned enjoying it very much despite the shallow plot and characterizations. For some reason, when watching this sequel with my movie theater-working friend, I felt a niggling differently and now experience the characterizations and the plot-which goes back and forth between the daughter Sophie reopening her mom'southward hotel after said parent's passing and Donna when she was just going out on her own afterwards college graduation-was better divers and believable. Me and my friend were merely enjoying not only the characters and the plot but also the ABBA songs picked for this one of which non many of the tunes were hitting singles this fourth dimension around. There were besides a couple of prissy surprises at the end, and oh, this time Pierce Brosnan only sang once solo and he's a little low-key here to a better effect! 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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Here we go once again!
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Is it a sequel, is it a prequel? In all honesty it'due south a bit of both, and just as much fun as the first film.
With an entertaining bandage (the younger versions of whom are well bandage besides) and of course the legendary ABBA music, this is an entertaining motion-picture show indeed.
I would urge them to end at ii films at present though.
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A low-cal hearted and fun motion picture
This film is fun and light hearted. It has a lot of music, only doesn't feel like an extended music video. Three scenery is cute, and information technology'due south not bad to see so many famous faces. It's obvious from the lighting that many outdoor scenes weren't filmed outdoors, only I'm non complaining.
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Meat ball
Funny moving picture. I like the bit 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 information technology flashes back to Donna as a young girl (Lily James) coming together the three men who become Sophie's father. As with the get-go there's plenty of great ABBA songs on the soundtrack.
This movie has a lot going for it. Great songs, large beautiful product numbers, a good cast...but it doesn't work. The expiry of a primary character (Donna) hangs over the flick. Information technology'southward dark and downright depressing. Slow-moving too and the script is total of plot holes and inconsistencies. . The wonderful singing and dancing helps to a point. Also Cher's much publicized role is little more than than an extended cameo. Also Andy Garcia is on manus looking terrible. The new young cast is certainly attractive but given no fourth dimension to develop their characters. Dreary, dark and depressing. Skip it.
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Dissimilar and the same
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Sophie is masterminding a revamp of the hotel on Kalikairi, but the thou re-opening may not go as well as she hoped - she wonders how her mother coped, and so Donna's backstory unfolds for united states.
x years ago I took my 81-yr old mother to see the cheesy but improbably joyous Mamma Mia at the movie theater - she and my father roughshod in honey with it, and still watch it often. She is at present pushing 92 merely, with the help of a borrowed wheelchair, fabricated the trip to the cinema to see the follow-up - function sequel and function prequel - and loved it.
I think it's a ameliorate film than the original - it'southward certainly a more solid story - albeit that unexpected sheer joyfulness coupled with Meryl Streep'due south deeply emotional functioning 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 matter. They are all well tailored to the story (or, possibly, vice versa), and I marvel again at what a deft lyricist Bjorn Ulvaeus was in his 2d linguistic communication.
Speaking of Ulvaeus, the Abba guys both cameo again, and early on. So you don't sit there waiting for them.
The backstory is intercut with the present day. The "So" cast are saddled with the horrible task of playing parts which have already been established in a moving-picture show which features the original actors playing those parts one time more than. The lads are OK, but the two girls do well. Lily James as Donna doesn't play Meryl Streep, merely her charm and verve mean that she commands the screen in her own right.
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 accept expected.
And I shan't be spoilering the movie'southward big secret. You didn't hear it from me.
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a wait back
Greetings again from the darkness. It's been 10 years since managing director Phyllida Lloyd presented the crowd-pleasing MAMMA MIA! motion picture. Information technology was a box function hit (over $600 million worldwide) and was, for a few years, the highest grossing musical of all-time. About importantly, it was extremely entertaining and a joyous cinematic romp for viewers. This yr'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 fleck too thick, it also fulfills its number one 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 Grand Opening. It's named Hotel Bella Donna in honour of Sophie's female parent (Meryl Streep). What looks to exist a straight-forward story surprises us with a flashback to Donna's 1979 graduation, which features non only the showtime song-and-dance number "When I Kissed the Teacher", but as well the starting time of ii ABBA cameos ... Bjorn Ulvaeus equally a professor. The young Donna is played brilliantly by Lily James, and she effortlessly captures the free-spiritedness that led to the conundrum of the showtime movie - 3 possible dads for Sophie.
Those iii dads return non just as Pierce Brosnan (Sam), Stellan Skarsgard (Bill), and Colin Firth (Harry), but likewise equally Jeremy Irvine (young Sam), Josh Dylan (immature Neb), and Hugh Skinner (immature Harry). In fact, most of the run time is dedicated to the backstory of these characters and how they start met as youngsters. Each has a segment (and song) with immature Harry featured in "Waterloo" accompanied by Benny Andersson (ABBA cameo #2) on piano. Young Bill is the charming crewman who saves the day for Donna, while young Sam assists her with saving a storm-shaken horse (kind of humorous since Mr. Irvine starred in State of war Horse).
Also dorsum are Dominic Cooper as Sky, Sophie'south true love, who tin can't decide between romance and career, and Donna's life-long friends Tanya (Christine Baranski) and Rosie (Julie Walters), who are also part of the flashback as Jessica Keenan Wynn (splendid equally young Tanya) and Alexa Davies (as immature 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'southward grandmother (and as my viewing partner commented, an early peek at what Lady Gaga will look like as a grandma)! It'south best if you lot experience Cher for yourself, and it should exist noted that this is her first large screen appearance since Caricatural in 2010.
Of course, the songs are primal and many of the ABBA numbers from the showtime movie are featured again this time. In item, "Dancing Queen" is a nautical standout, and "Fernando" is a show-stopper. While it may not be quite as raucous equally 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 real question remaining is, did the casting director do the math before casting Cher (historic period 72) equally Meryl Streep'due south (age 69) mother?
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Even amend than the first one!
Let's get the obvious out of the way: Meryl Streep is in this film for five minutes. She may exist forepart and heart in the promotional poster, and she may get the "and" in the credits, but she makes her entrance during the very last scene of the picture. The premise of this prequel/sequel is that her grapheme has died, and her daughter is struggling to run the hotel by herself. I know; no one told me that, either. This one's a drama, folks.
I idea this movie was going to be terrible, a silly excuse to prance around and sing more than ABBA songs, aslope a thin plot that was described in 5 minutes during the original and didn't need more than particular. Only it'southward so much better than the first one! Non constrained by the ill-plumbing equipment songs of the original Broadway musical that stuck numbers into scenes with no connectedness to furthering the story, this movie actually puts songs in when they thing. There are a few overlaps of songs that were used in the showtime motion-picture show, but the vast bulk of the songs are new (to the film, non to ABBA fans); and many of them accept a more than somber tone that fit the story. "Ane of Us" is sung by Amanda Seyfried and Dominic Cooper when they break upwards at the start of the movie. "I Wonder" (a great number that you'll only detect in the deleted scenes) is sung by Lily James every bit she heads off to take a European adventure after graduation.
The best part of the movie, and the reason information technology'south infinitely better than the first 1, is the respect the "younger cast" gives to the "older cast". While function of the plot is a sequel, 5 years after the offset movie ended, with Amanda Seyfried planning a grand re-opening of the hotel with one of her dads, Pierce Brosnan, by her side, the main plot is a prequel, chronicling her mother'south journey to Greece and her encounter with 3 young men. In this all-encompassing flashback, everyone was given a younger analogue, and everyone did extensive research. Lily James projects all of Meryl Streep's mannerisms from the starting time motion picture, Jeremy Irvine perfects Pierce Brosnan's accent, Hugh Skinner matches Colin Firth'south hesitation and speech communication patterns, Josh Dylan is just every bit 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 fourth dimension machine. It's wonderful to see the younger bandage and the older cast in alternate scenes, and, just like the original, yous can feel how much fun everyone had while filming.
While it's rude to pick out 1 member amidst the cast as the highlight, Lily James is such an ambrosial, likable sweetheart, she deserves an actress mention. It'south no small task to make everyone in the audience forget they came to the theaters to come across Meryl Streep, and yet to continually remind everyone that you're playing her younger analogue. No criminal offense to Miss Streep, but no one volition miss her in this motion picture. With a bright, fresh, new extra on the screen who embodies the free spirit of a time period that passed before she was born, it's merely not possible to think annihilation's missing from the leading lady of the motion picture. She'due south delightful, beautiful, sunny, frisky, and full of life. You lot might even puzzle as to where you've seen her before, since she's so transformed from the famed cinder girl, Churchill's secretary, and, most notably, the flapper cousin to the Granthams.
There's and then much attention to particular in this movie, and every bit someone who knows the first Mamma Mia similar the back of my mitt, 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 calculation in a twin to making sure Hugh Skinner wore a Johnny Rocket t-shirt. Just don't pay attention to the lodge of the relationships written in the diary from the showtime movie. This 1 makes then much more sense, so but go with it. With fun, flashy colors, costumes, and on-location filming, every vocal and scene is enchanting.
Go on in mind information technology'south a drama. I may be an like shooting fish in a barrel target, since I bawl my way through the beginning Mamma Mia every time Meryl Streep sings "Slipping Through My Fingers," but I cried twice equally hard during this movie. At that place are a couple of songs that connect mother and daughter, and, depending on your level of sappiness, yous'll need betwixt one and l Kleenexes to go through them. In my opinion, it's a bang-up compliment to the film if the audience cries. I wouldn't have cried so much if Lily James was unlikable or if the story wasn't interesting.
Trust me, even if you think it'southward going to be silly, you've beloved it far more than yous thought possible. From songs that declare children the love of a parent's life, to large '70s hair, to finding home where you lot least expect it, to seeing anybody reunited ten years later with jokes and winks to go effectually, this is a movie y'all'll want to spotter over and over again. If you idea the end credits of the showtime pic were fun, you'll honey the credits in these, every bit the older and younger people dance together and savor ambrosial curtain calls. I know what I'm getting for Christmas-that, and a box of Kleenex.
DLM Warning: If yous suffer from vertigo or silly spells, like my mom does, this movie might not be your friend. When Amanda Seyfried lies down on her bed during "1 of Us" the photographic camera spins effectually in a circle, and information technology will brand you ill. There's another circle during "Waterloo" right after information technology shows the chorus woman in a wheelchair. A third spin is in the endmost 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 then march charm and 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 desperately cast except for Jeremy Irvine of War Horse who is okay. The young Nib and Harry are and 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 non Greece.
Ane of the few good points was that the story quite satisfyingly explained how she slept with the iii men in pretty quick succession without beingness sleazy.
I of the almost plus points was that Meryl wasn't in nigh of this movie. When she finally reappears she drags things down to a substandard level. She ruined the beginning movie. Cher is so much amend than her.
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Infectious summer fluff. The music will have you 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), and then you'll wade through happily the many strands of flashbacks that are cut and then swiftly you lot'll wait for ABBA's songs for relief. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again gives dorsum story ample with songs that even from the lxx's are nonetheless vibrant.
Consider "When I Kissed the Instructor" and "Andante, Andante" for just 2 melodic pop tunes plumbing equipment into another screen version of what started as a Broadway musical. Try to forget Pierce Brosnan singing "When all is said and washed" in the first Momma Mia! In this one he's mercifully given merely a few lines to sing. Almost everyone else tin can carry a tune and trip the light fantastic nicely, give thanks y'all.
More than astonishing is shoehorning "Waterloo" into a plot that wouldn't seem uniform. But it is, and the number is visually splendid. Consider besides their inserting over-the-top Cher every bit 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 price.
Of course with this mash upwardly of Abba romantic songs and the brunt of figuring out which role player is which version of an original character, you eventually done the two hours and are costless to recall of your own family tree, without the soap opera flourishes. Refurbishing Donna's erstwhile firm gives girl and movie 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 merely 2 examples, reminds me of the charisma a mature star can bring that younger, handsomer, hipper actors can't accomplish. No carping, however, can erase the beautiful Greek isle background, ridiculously sloppy, romantic plot, and actors born to be showcased for their looks and for most, except Brosnan, their musical talent.
Summertime's bounty, no more than or less.
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A Haunted Business firm Sequel of The Original
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There are skilful things near this musical comedy. The locations used in Republic of croatia look fabulous. The Graduation seen at Oxford, United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland reminds me much of Professor Wagstaff'due south college decorum at Huxley University in HorseFeathers (for those who have never seens ane of the Marx Brothers top grossing films from Paramont, information technology throughly lampoons higher teaching. That is the only reason why information technology doesn't get as much aclaim as Duck Soup. )
Another good thing is the crossing of 3 generations or so in the cast. The idea here is to proceed the story and try to get all ages interested it it. A fair part of the cast is really quite former. 72 Yr Old Cher looks very heavy both in girth and in the make upward department. It is also unclear why she is even there other than to exercise the one song. I besides wonder if CGI is used along with make-up on Cher equally her neck has no wrinkles which is truly amazing.
Meryl Streep at historic period 69 does non take equally much brand upwards and actually looks proficient for that age. I am glad to see the Grandparents, Parents, Kids and Yard kids all mixed together.
The bad parts are the mix ups in script and the story. I came out of the 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 as a Musical than a comedy. Of course, the way they nowadays it I think an episode of 79 yr old Maury Povich needs to be done to have a Dna test sort out the fantasy from the reality (if there is any reality in this plot line). Oh well, we got iii daddies, a plastic cracking Grandma, a mom who appears to exist risen from the dead, and more women throwing themselves at men than the average movie. Women can throw themselves at METOO, I don't mind.
I retrieve with a few lines and zingers, we could brand this a sequel to Halloween and bring in Jason as Cher's Ex-Granddaddy. It is entertaining and well staged. Information technology'due south just a bit out of the realm of being a musical that would bring back musicals and another summer of 2018 movie that falls short. (note- the Comedy in Ant Human and The Wasp is much more than on target than the humor in this musical, fifty-fifty though information technology gets shrunk).
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MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO Once more promises pure joy and Euro-pop feel-goodism to its cadre 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 moving picture even reveal the cause of death?), and passes the baton to her daughter Sophie (Seyfried, thankfully bestowed with an ethereal voice), who is withal 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 manager Fernando (García).
Meantime, the film'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 up on the isle and gets knocked up but cannot tell whose fortuitous sperm strikes gold, and decides to raise her child all on her own. So apart from the old gang, fifty-fifty Streep has a glorified cameo near the end as a ghost reunited with Sophie during her babe granddaughter'due south christening ceremony, the bandage is redoubled not simply past the initiation of the younger-self cohort, Jessica Keenan Wynn and Alexa Davies evoke uncanny resemblances and share extraordinary exuberance with Christine Baranski and Julie Walters every bit Donna's bestie Tanya and Rosie, and 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 Reddish in another glorified cameo, and struts her pristine skin condition and minimal movement when belts out FERNANDO, reverse to a seemingly unnerved Garciá.
Never trying to overreach information technology from its self-knowledge of a escapist potboiler, basks in photogenic landscape or seascape and its catchy tunage, MAMMA MIA! Hither We Go Again promises pure joy and Euro-pop feel-goodism to its core audition and writer-manager Ol Parker attests to exist an able hand in coordinating and segueing between two story-lines, together with a faculty for choreographic deployment.
Equally much as the bandage enjoys a helluva shindig and disseminates an infectious jag of joviality to ascertain audience are having a good time either, a takeaway afterthought pops up unexpectedly by positing a morbid if entirely irrelevant presumption, how tin nosotros adjust ourselves when ane day nosotros will truly lose our national treasure like Meryl Streep and her ilks? Such a dreadful thought, perhaps, seeing things through blueish-colored glasses is this reviewer's kryptonite.
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I could intendance less about any of the characters in either film, or whatever of their drama, simply I honey ABBA though!
'MAMA MIA! HERE Nosotros Get Once more': Two and a Half Stars (Out of Five)
A sequel/prequel to the hit 2008 jukebox musical comedy (based on the 1999 musical of the same name). The picture is in one case again filled with music by the band ABBA, and it was written and directed (this time) by Ol Parker. It tells the story of how Sophie'south mother became significant with her, while Sophie is at present 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 cursory cameo). It'southward received mostly positive reviews from critics (unlike it's predecessor), and it's some other big hitting at the Box Office also (much like the original). I liked it just about as much as I did the get-go pic, which isn't much.
The story takes place v years after the events of the original, and Sophie (Seyfried) is now meaning herself. While dealing with this news, she reminisces almost the life of her (now) deceased mother, Donna (Streep); when Donna was younger (James) and became pregnant 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 entire thing is of course played out (once once more) while characters are singing and dancing to ABBA tunes.
I like the band ABBA (I accept their 'Best Of'' CD), and I do similar the music in both films. I also like musicals, sometimes a lot. These films are just so cheesy and cliched though. They're totally uninvolving too; I could care less about any 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 find it enjoyable enough (peculiarly if y'all like the first motion picture).
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Abba 'nother one
Okay so this ane I took for the team, accompanying my wife to this 2d motion-picture show featuring the music of i of her favourite groups. My stance of Abba'south music is that when they're good they're very good but when they're bad they're dire. Plainly the first movie, based on the phase evidence, employed all the more often than not very good "Abba Gold" greatest hits while here there are quite a lot of second partition tunes only their most devoted fans will know. "Kisses Of Fire", "Andante Andante", "When I Kissed The Teacher" anyone?
The producers seem to acknowledge this weakness past repeating some of their biggest hits which had apparently already been in the first picture such equally "Waterloo", "Knowing Me Knowing Yous", the inevitable "Dancing Queen" and snippets of many others besides.
The storyline is as flimsy every bit earlier and really only a dodge to become all the original characters reunited in forepart of the cameras in brilliant outdoor settings. A few new characters do show up most notably Cher who delivers a surprisingly expert version of both "Fernando" and "Super Trouper " to give the film a elevator at the end.
There are some neat and inventive camera tricks which help the menstruum of the film whilst the humour is as girlie and occasionally risque as you'd look - clearly the moving picture makers know their audience.
Anyhow 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 just this is glorious fun.
Like the kickoff ane it is, of course, 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 historic period of seventy-two). In that location are times when it resembles cypher more than gay night at the pantomime, (and if you lot idea the commencement one was gay wait until yous meet this one), but information technology would be churlish to endeavor to resist it and, to be fair, this is by far the better picture. We are talking, of class, virtually "Mamma Mia; Here We Go Over again", the sequel/prequel to the pic version of the stage show that has been playing somewhere in the world for what seems an eternity.
The get-go flick worked considering the Abba songs were/are basically indestructible and I did recollect it quite clever how they were able to construct a story effectually them. It was a terrible moving picture but it was also undeniably good fun and there were even a couple of times when it didn't seem so terrible at all. I enjoyed information technology while recognizing every one of its faults only I dreaded this follow-up. Surely all the best songs had already been used upwardly, I thought. Isn't this just cashing in on the success of the original?
Well, yep and no. Information technology was obvious to anyone with a brain that they were on to a good matter 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 father of her kid was. It isn't much of an idea to hang a whole movie on and then permit's have 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 cast of the original, (as I said Meryl'due south appearance is reduced to a skillful-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 accept mastered the art of playing fools. No affair, he's notwithstanding the first to bed Miss James, losing his virginity in the process. So far, so obvious but this time around the musical numbers are much better served by the fabric 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 flick becomes an elaborate party, the kind yous always hoped you'd be invited to. Of course, neither motion picture will e'er be on anyone'due south list of all-time great musicals but fifty-fifty if y'all hate yourself in the morning time, this is one party worth having a hangover for.
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How tin can you not enjoy this?
Look, I'm not going to sit down here and say that these Mamma Mia films are good, but I undeniably enjoy them. At that place's just something special about a group of actors, not normally 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 past The Godfather Office ii) and it has a massive cast, only most notably Lily James as a young Meryl Streep. Continuing equally i of the most likable young actresses working today, James doesn't try to do a Meryl impression but certainly possesses the charisma that a young Streep did, all the while filling out the gaps of this characters past. The songs are great, the performances are more often than not serviceable, the direction is ever engaging, and the script is the skilful kind of cheesy. Oh, and the Dancing Queen sequence? Yeah, information technology's one of the best scenes of yr in film. Yes, I just said that.
viii.2/10
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