SummaryTen years later on the Greek island of Kalokairi, Sophie is pregnant and runs her mother’s villa. Concerned that she can't do it all by herself, with Tanya and Rosie’s guidance, Sophie will find out more about Donna’s past and how she ran the hotel, met each one of Sophie’s dads and raised a baby, all on her own – with an unexpected visi...
SummaryTen years later on the Greek island of Kalokairi, Sophie is pregnant and runs her mother’s villa. Concerned that she can't do it all by herself, with Tanya and Rosie’s guidance, Sophie will find out more about Donna’s past and how she ran the hotel, met each one of Sophie’s dads and raised a baby, all on her own – with an unexpected visi...
The pleasures of Ol Parker’s film are simple and sensual, its riot of color and sweet, nostalgic songs proving wholly agreeable even without much of a plot to hold it all together.
Much like its predecessor, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is escapist fluff of the highest order — joyful, filled with beloved pop songs and incredibly bizarre. Go ahead and treat yourself to this raucous seaside summer confection, you deserve it.
Better than the first one. The plot is wonderful, AMAZING SOUNDTRACK. I laughed, I cried and enjoyed every moment. Perfect sequel to this amazing musical movie. the director does an incredible job telling the story of the present and past. Lily James deserves an Oscar after her performance, she has a lot of talent and a great voice.
EXCELENT MOVIE 10/10 -
“Here We Go Again” is another kitsch patchwork; it’s as if you were watching the CliffsNotes to an old studio weeper that happened to be carried along by some of the most luscious pop songs ever recorded. Yet the feeling comes through, especially at the end — a love poem to the primal bond of mothers and daughters.
Parker, a more competent and imaginative director than Mamma Mia!’s stage-show holdover Phyllida Lloyd, likes to assemble the musical numbers in such a way as to recall the very earliest days of pop videos, with snappy editing or Busby Berkeley-style overhead shots of choreography veering on abstraction.
Call this embarrassing dog’s dinner Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again or just call 911. Either way, it is nearly two hours of relentless, plotless, artless junk.
A rare sequel that supercedes its original in all aspects: more colorful, emotionally packed with joys and sadness, and better screenplay with more heavy weight stars added into the cast. The trailer intendedly feature songs already presented in the first movie, but when you immerse yourself into the movie, you will find that ABBA still has much more hits that you could remember. The only disappointment is that Meryl Streep has minimal screen time, but this is how the plot means to be when you finished the whole movie; her debut in the movie is precisely nice and placed at the best part of the movie. My top movie for 2018.
When you don't put Meryl Streep in the film it is notorious the absence, but the adding of Cher is so strangely perfect. Lily James transforms into a young Donna, she is a great actress. The boys still don't sing. I think it's on purpose.
The choices of the younger versions of the O.G. cast is perfect, but the fact they changed the story of how Donna met the dads really confused me.
The sequel to the hit ABBA Musical/Movie Mamma Mia has a lot of really great things going for it. The musical numbers have been polished up from the original. The cast really has improved their vocals. The casting is stellar, and there are some heartfelt moments scattered throughout. The pacing is a little shoddy, and there are some scenes that can be skipped over entirely. The story is unnecessary, particularly when viewed in the context of the first film. Its a light, fluffy, fun musical you can turn your brain off to.
I wanted to like this, I really did. I love ABBA music and I'm a dude. But seriously, I could not stomach 20-mins of this female fantasy musical. It gets a "3" rating from me because the production values and casting (well, sort of) were top notch, it's gorgeous to behold but ugh, the plot, the painful singing, the unrealistic situations, just tortuous, sorry, but I did try.
'Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again' reminds us many times why the first movie didn't work. Despite the fact that the songs (from ABBA) are better incorporated to the film's story, ironically, the best parts of the film is where the character's don't sing. We see that Sophie (a plucky Amanda Seyfried) is trying to open up a hotel in honor of her mother's memory. Slight spoiler alert (even though it is very early in the film), but yes, Donna (Meryl Streep) has passed away. We're never given an explanation as to how she died, just that, she is no longer with our main characters, and that's a way to kick-start the movie's plot. We do get constant flashbacks to Donna's younger days (where she is played by a likeable Lily James), and how she traveled across different islands and met many handsome men who she spends some romantic times with. The singing done by James, as well as her on-screen male love interests, is done well, and as I said above, the songs are better incorporated to the film's story... but I found myself more invested when they would just sit an talk. I know that might be a bore for some, but I felt that the characters were really progressing just through dialogue alone. The movie constantly cuts back and forth between past and present, developing Donna's character even more, and how she met her three exes. Unfortunately, this made me feel that the overall storytelling of the film was very uneven. Time and time again, we're being forced to get emotionally invested in these two different timelines, when they're cutting back and forth to different situations, so there is no time to care. I found myself getting utterly frustrated with the bland archetype character that Andy Garcia was playing. What's the purpose of his role? Just to be utterly handsome and flirt with Donna's two best friends, that's it. All in all, this maybe a "feel-good" film, but I found myself feeling the exact opposite. A waste of emotional investment despite some strong work from a talented cast.
Production Company
Universal Pictures,
Legendary Entertainment,
Perfect World Pictures,
Littlestar,
Playtone,
Dentsu,
Fuji Television Network,
Hrvatski Audiovizualni Centar (HAVC)