Mamma Mia Here We Go Again Sucked
Even better than the first one!
Let's get the obvious out of the way: Meryl Streep is in this pic for five minutes. She may be front and center 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 motion-picture show. The premise of this prequel/sequel is that her character has died, and her girl is struggling to run the hotel by herself. I know; no one told me that, either. This 1'southward a drama, folks.
I idea this pic was going to be terrible, a giddy excuse to prance around and sing more ABBA songs, alongside a thin plot that was described in five minutes during the original and didn't need more detail. Merely information technology'southward so much better than the kickoff one! Not constrained by the ill-fitting 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 matter. There are a few overlaps of songs that were used in the first movie, but the vast majority of the songs are new (to the picture, non to ABBA fans); and many of them take a more somber tone that fit the story. "One of U.s." is sung by Amanda Seyfried and Dominic Cooper when they break upwardly at the first of the motion-picture show. "I Wonder" (a great number that yous'll simply discover in the deleted scenes) is sung past Lily James every bit she heads off to have a European adventure after graduation.
The all-time part of the pic, and the reason information technology'southward infinitely improve than the first one, is the respect the "younger cast" gives to the "older bandage". While part of the plot is a sequel, five years after the first film concluded, 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 female parent's journey to Greece and her encounter with three immature men. In this extensive flashback, everyone was given a younger counterpart, and everyone did all-encompassing enquiry. Lily James projects all of Meryl Streep'south mannerisms from the first flick, Jeremy Irvine perfects Pierce Brosnan'south emphasis, Hugh Skinner matches Colin Firth's hesitation and voice communication patterns, Josh Dylan is just as 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 fourth dimension machine. It's wonderful to encounter 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's rude to pick out one member among the bandage equally the highlight, Lily James is such an adorable, likable sweetheart, she deserves an extra mention. It's no pocket-size chore to make everyone in the audience forget they came to the theaters to see Meryl Streep, and yet to continually remind everyone that you're playing her younger counterpart. No offense to Miss Streep, but 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 menses that passed before she was born, it's just not possible to think annihilation's missing from the leading lady of the movie. She's delightful, beautiful, sunny, frisky, and total of life. Y'all might even puzzle every bit to where y'all've seen her before, since she'south so transformed from the famed cinder girl, Churchill'southward secretarial assistant, and, most notably, the flapper cousin to the Granthams.
There's then much attention to detail in this movie, and as someone who knows the start Mamma Mia like the back of my hand, I was able to appreciate all of information technology. Writer-director Ol Parker obviously loved the original and studied it, including references to every clue dropped in the script, from adding in a twin to making sure Hugh Skinner wore a Johnny Rocket t-shirt. Just don't pay attention to the order of the relationships written in the diary from the beginning picture show. This one makes so much more sense, and then just become with it. With fun, flashy colors, costumes, and on-location filming, every song and scene is enchanting.
Keep in heed information technology's a drama. I may be an easy target, since I bark my way through the beginning Mamma Mia every time Meryl Streep sings "Slipping Through My Fingers," just I cried twice as difficult during this movie. There are a couple of songs that connect female parent and daughter, and, depending on your level of sappiness, you'll need between one and fifty Kleenexes to get through them. In my opinion, information technology's a groovy compliment to the movie if the audience cries. I wouldn't have cried and so much if Lily James was unlikable or if the story wasn't interesting.
Trust me, even if you think it's going to be empty-headed, you've love it far more than you thought possible. From songs that declare children the dear of a parent's life, to large '70s hair, to finding dwelling house where you lot least await information technology, to seeing everyone reunited 10 years subsequently with jokes and winks to go effectually, this is a movie you lot'll want to watch over and again. If you idea the end credits of the first movie were fun, you'll love the credits in these, as 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 giddy spells, like my mom does, this movie might not be your friend. When Amanda Seyfried lies down on her bed during "I of Usa" the camera spins around in a circle, and it will brand you ill. There'south another circle during "Waterloo" right after it shows the chorus adult female in a wheelchair. A third spin is in the endmost credits during a group shot. In other words, "Don't Look, Mom!"
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Doesn't have the same amuse as the original
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Mamma Mia was my favorite moving picture growing upwardly. Information technology came out when I was 10 and my friends and I learned all of all the songs. Going into this movie, I was expecting to absolutely love it. However, minutes within the first scene of the movie it was revealed that Donna had died. This actually upset me because Donna made the entire first movie. And they didn't fifty-fifty bother to mention how she died. Side by side, nosotros get to the flashback scenes of young Donna. This I dearest because the fashion is beautiful and Lily James is wonderful and has a proficient singing vox. I actually like how she sang the original songs simply the newer songs were just meh (I don't come across people getting into them). At kickoff it doesn't really make sense how she meets the three dads because during the flashback in the previous movie they look fashion dissimilar. The electric current time scenes were pretty boring and but revolves effectually everyone being depressed about Donna. They could take washed so much more if they had kept her alive. The movie overall lacked much of a plot or direction and y'all knew exactly what was going to happen (other than maybe Cher arriving on a helicopter?). Ultimately, Mamma MIA, Here We Go Once more cannot match the charm and actuality that fabricated me and everyone else admire the first movie merely I however recall it's worth a watch.
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Waste product of time and money
Mamma Mia! Here We Get Again fails to bring anything new to the table. It is fabricated purely based on the success of the get-go film. Hollywood tend to exercise that a lot. When a film becomes successful, they make a second film out of it, which lacks pretty much everything. First of all, if yous desire to get to see this film because Meryl Streep is in, don't bother, because she has a scene of 5 minutes in the end. She just sings two songs and that's pretty much information technology. She is in the front row of the film poster, she is the main image of the terminal trailer, considering production company uses her image to attract audition. These kinds of tricks can exist seen a lot, while advert substandard quality films. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Over again has one purpose, and that is to make more money past using the fame of the first film. I failed to empathise why they even bothered making a sequel when everything was wrapped beautifully in the first motion picture. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Once again is written and directed by Ol Parker. I said written, but I really don't know what he has exactly written, considering in the means of story in that location is zero.
The people in this film are similar from a different planet. They live in a parallel universe or something. There is no i ugly in the film. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is all about beautiful people, their artificially created bug, fake tears, sadness and meaningless joy. They are all very successful, their secret bonds don't have a resource. Nosotros don't know why those characters dearest each other so much, merely they exercise. The flick takes place five years after the previous events. Donna is dead. Sophie (Amada Seyfried) takes over the hotel and builds it from nada. While they gear up for the yard opening, we go dorsum to 1979, where everything starts for Donna. She is claimed to exist a free soul and an independent woman, but someone must tell the writer of this character that having 1 night stands with handsome men on your way to Greek Isle is not independence. Young Donna (Lily James) is presented to be a very dissimilar daughter, but when you watch her behaviors, she is pretty much superficial. She falls in love with a man, gets depressed afterward he leaves, and in the very same day, she has sexual practice with a different guy because she is very sad. Sophie and her problems regarding the hotel in the present twenty-four hour period are told in parallel with Donna's youth and her story, how she met Sam (Pierce Brosnan), Harry (Colin Firth) and Beak, (Stellan Skargard) how she moved to the island of Kalokairi and how she built the hotel.
Young Donna's friends Tanya and Rosie, as well every bit her lovers, Harry, Bill and Sam, are played by actors and actresses who have nothing to exercise with the bodily characters. They all await very different. The story takes place in a Greek island but the movie was shot in Croatia and Shepperton Studios in Surrey England. Set up of the sequel is pretty much similar with the offset picture show. There is a song for every situation. The story was created based on the situations in those songs, and there is a song for every grapheme, problem and situation. That's the reason why I said there is no story. Information technology is time for a sad song, a distressing situation is created. It is fourth dimension for a joyful song, and something happy happens. There are very few scenes that can be compared with real life situations. Mamma Mia! Hither Nosotros Go Again is a complete waste material of money and time. I had a good taste in my oral fissure after the first film, only now that is all gone thank you to this useless film that was made just because of fiscal matters.
The strongest point of the moving-picture show is its songs. It is satisfying in the means of music. Y'all get to hear songs mostly from ABBA, equally usual, and Inflow. Later all, Mamma Mia! Here Nosotros Go Again is also a musical, but even so, some songs are really bad for my taste. When I Kissed the Teacher from Arrival is one, for an case. Just to exist able to sing this vocal, they created a graduation scene. This is what I meant when I said, circumstances are created based on the songs in the motion-picture show. I have never seen such a affair in my life. I haven't seen an interim operation worth mentioning. This film was released on July 16, 2018 in Hammersmith Apollo and on July 20, 2018 in the Britain and United states. It has 114 minutes of runtime and made with a budget of $75 Meg. With a forced story and meaningless characters, Mamma Mia! Here Nosotros Go Again is a moving picture that I will never scout again. Having actors and actresses in the film just considering they look beautiful shouldn't be a criteria while choosing your characters. This sequel is so hopeless that fifty-fifty the presence of Andy Garcia and Cher couldn't relieve it.
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Here nosotros become again
In a world that has gone crazy, information technology was so overnice simply to sit down back for 114 minutes and forget most real life. Send yourself dorsum to a simpler fourth dimension and of grade to the wonderful music of ABBA. Throughout the movie you go through all the emotions yet one time information technology had finished you just want to sit at that place and wish you could do it all once more The whole cast looked like they had as much fun making it as we did watching it. Everyone did their flake although Lily James was outstanding as the young Donna. It'southward 1 of those rare films as you leave your seat and enter the existent world you practice so with the biggest smiles of your confront.
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Not fifty-fifty close to the original story
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First off, the reason the offset movie was so bang-up was because of the smashing story and actors. So killing off the Donna was in poor taste. Also, going back in time to young Donna didn't look at all right. They went back in time while in modern clothes and hairstyles. Stories didn't match even a fiddling with what was told in the first moving-picture show. Basically, generally aforementioned actors, aforementioned songs, different movie with different story unrelated to the offset. If it had been portrayed every bit existence many years after it would've made more than sense. Perchance. But it was portrayed every bit being only five years or then afterward. Not very long. Everyone was/looked as well old to be only few years later. Just wasn't as good equally beginning one. The energy was improve the first time
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Money, Money, Money
Mamma Mia! Here We Get Again is a musical sequel that has a stretched story focusing on the immature Donna and how she encountered her three men. Fifty-fifty though nosotros did encounter those scenes in the first flick.
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 not seem to exist going well between them.
For the thou opening of the hotel in award of her mother, Sophie has invited her three dads and her mother's best friends.
The main part of the story is seeing the young Donna (Lily James) travelling through Europe subsequently graduating at university. Some of the scenes switch with that of Sophie.
It required three writers to come up with the story concept. The story is admittedly thin. 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 just turned up for the pay cheque and decided to do an anthology of Abba covers out of it.
The Abba songs keep it entertaining only this movie stinks of a cash take hold of.
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I was definitely cheated by y'all, Mamma Mia 2
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So... I went into this movie LOVING the first one and happy they were making a second. I left the movie ... um... empty? Okay, I love the idea of them going dorsum to when Donna was first pregnant with Sophie and her journey, however... like none of the events actually added up to the story of how it all happened in Mamma Mia when Sophie plant her diary. Literally none of information technology.. at all. Besides WHY WAS CHER Fifty-fifty IN THIS Pic?!?!! Her graphic symbol did Null to the plot and it merely was kind of stupid the movie would take been better without her since, again IN THE FIRST FILM (did you guys just not go back to the first script before planning this?) her mom was presumably Dead (cut to the scene subsequently Donna and them sing Super Trooper and are in her room and Donna says "somebody up at that place has it in for me, I bet its my female parent" ... POINTING TO THE CEILING Similar HER MOM WAS DEAD). I but am disappointed. I feel like Cher was just in there to sing Fernando crusade that's...all she did. I loved who played young Donna, Lily James, though she was sweet. I don't know, this moving picture but didn't have the same experience as the get-go i. Although, I did cry in the end and I know I wasn't the simply ane that did cause I heard the sniffles in the theater xD that concluding scene was very touching. But um .... that's nigh all I got. Loved the original cast and the young bandage (although it would've been HILARIOUS if the guys dressed similar in the first motion picture when Donna had flashbacks of them hahaha). The songs are decent, also the replays of the archetype hits were nifty. It was just ... kinda there. Probably won't see it again, I'll stick with the first picture.
Too, these are JUST MY OPINIONS, if you see it differently awesome I'thou then happy for you, I only feel like... they had a chance and they missed the shot. Information technology wasn't a consummate miss in my stance, the story of how Donna met the guys and how it all happened just didn't really add up to how information technology was told originally and that kind of bugged me. I get they were going completely back and creating a whole new story, nonetheless, they made an "outline" of how she met them all when Amanda sung Dear, Beloved ... and so ... and I just again don't go why Cher was fifty-fifty in this. Information technology only fabricated zero sense. If she wasn't in the picture show it'd be 5 minutes shorter, that's it. Maybe I'll see it again once it comes out to video and scout them dorsum to back and accept a different reaction, but until so ... I'm empty.
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VERY disappointing
Lousy sequel to the wonderful 2008 movie. Information technology has Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) renovating and reopening the inn her mom Donna ran. Then it flashes back to Donna equally a young daughter (Lily James) meeting the three men who go Sophie's begetter. Every bit with the first at that place's plenty of great ABBA songs on the soundtrack.
This pic has a lot going for it. Great songs, big cute production numbers, a good cast...but information technology doesn't work. The death of a main grapheme (Donna) hangs over the movie. It'south dark and downright depressing. Slow-moving too and the script is full of plot holes and inconsistencies. . The wonderful singing and dancing helps to a point. Also Cher'southward much publicized role is little more than an extended cameo. Also Andy Garcia is on hand looking terrible. The new young bandage is certainly attractive but given no time to develop their characters. Dreary, dark and depressing. Skip it.
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Oh god, what have they wrought?!
I wanted to similar this, I really did. I beloved ABBA music and I'g a dude. But seriously, I could non stomach xx-mins of this female person fantasy musical. Information technology gets a "3" rating from me because the product values and casting were top notch, information technology's gorgeous to behold but ugh, the plot, the painful singing, the unrealistic situations, only tortuous, sorry, just I did effort.
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Utterly dreadful
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Meryl Streep reportedly didn't want to do a full role, then she only appears for a few minutes near the end of the pic. They basically explain that Donna has died...without Streep, this film never should accept been made. It fifty-fifty has a very downbeat, lackluster opening instead of the dynamics the start moving-picture show had in its opening...and that was a bad sign to first off with. Technically, it's very well photographed (admitting much darker-looking than the showtime motion-picture show) and technically achieved, just that'south not plenty. Musically...they used all the good and well-known songs in the first movie, and then this one uses much bottom ABBA tunes, and unfortunately reuses several songs from the first movie...that gets very slow very quickly because the viewer (at to the lowest degree I did) wants to hear songs not used the first fourth dimension effectually. The but two standouts were "Knowing Me, Knowing You" and the vocal "Waterloo" (simply heard and performed during the first film's end credits) only redone here equally a big production number. One-half the movie is spent on flashback scenes to Donna's past using younger actors as the characters. There was also absolutely no need for Cher to be in the film, equally she adds nothing...nothing...null...to the story...only reason is and so her character can sing the song "Fernando" (not used the commencement time around). She's accompanied past Andy Garcia, whose only reason for existence there is he plays Fernando, giving a very weak reason for Cher's character to sing to (and with) him, and there's no reason for his character to be at that place either. There'southward also really weak reasoning for Rosie and Beak's breakup to be part of the story, rather odd considering they got together near the end of Mamma Mia. Nearly annoying was how there was no mention at all of Harry Bright's (Colin) sexuality...in Mamma Mia, it turns out he'southward gay and ends up with a handsome boyfriend, merely that gets thrown right out the window with no mention of his being gay or what happened to his partner from the kickoff motion picture (except for some brief hinting at in the flashbacks with the younger Harry). Personally, I would not recommend this movie to anyone. Stick to the offset moving-picture show considering it's a continual feel-good time and is much more than fun. Mamma Mia 2 is almost depressing to scout.
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A solid sequel to a surprise striking
This sequel takes place a twelvemonth after the death of Donna. Her daughter Sophie plans to reopen her mother's hotel, on a Greek isle, unfortunately information technology looks as if neither her three fathers nor her husband volition exist able to attend the opening party. Intertwined with scenes of her preparing for the reopening we meet how her mother came to the island all those years ago... and how she encountered the iii men who are Sophie's fathers. Of form at every possible opportunity the cast sing an appropriate ABBA song.
If yous didn't enjoy 'Mamma Mia' y'all certainly won't enjoy this as it is more of the same; this of course means if you did enjoy the offset yous are likely to bask this too. The story is fairly unproblematic merely information technology is fun; especially the flashback scenes of Donna making her way to the island and meeting the younger versions of the 'three fathers' for the first time. 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, fifty-fifty the less well-known ones. The cast does a fine job and are clearly having fun; Lily James stands out every bit the young Donna. The setting, with its beautiful settings and generally fine weather, only add to the pleasure provided by the film. Overall I'd say this won't be for everybody but information technology is good cheesy fun if yous enjoy that sort of thing... and I did, more than than I expected.
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Over-the-top, melodramatic, cliched and fantastic.
Feel-good film of the twelvemonth. I cannot become over how good this movie was. It was the almost entertaining sequel I've seen. Point. At that place was a portion in the middle of the film where I laughed after every line said.
This is a humorous, calorie-free-hearted motion-picture show that gets yous addicted to the feeling of beingness immature; having no plans and being okay with the incertitude of it all.
A aesthetically beautiful film that captures the heart of the disco eva of the 70's. Costumes are beautiful - especially that scene in the orchard when the girl wears that orange skirt. Gorgeous.
A film to watch with your mum, ganny and best friend. Go into the picture with a smile and leave laughing. Don't await to larn life lessons - just savour the silliness of the Mamma Mia universe.
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Why?
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I felt really let downward by the creators of this film. Why would they make a movie without the main character because they had killed her off already. The film was depressing. I may exist the only one that has this view...
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will non sentinel it again
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I went to the movie theater really happy to see this pic and left feeling drained emotional and tearful and not happy. I didn't meet whatever trailers about it other than the ane shown in cinemas before. Didn't realise that Meryl Streep wasn't in information technology as a major character simply for ii minutes at the cease in a dream sequence with daughter at the church building for the infant's baptism. I liked the extra playing young Donna and she had a good vocalisation. The dancing and singing was good and enjoyable. New songs similar "I kissed a teacher" was not advisable. Pierce Brosnan also sang well this time although poignantly as he was singing about missing Donna. I cried all throughout this movie. laughed at the Titantic Spoof moment on the boat. On the whole the people in the cinema were all ages from 19 to fourscore yrs old and information technology was repose except for those two moments of brevity. A lot of the people agreed with my evaulation of the movie and were disappointed. I looked up in Google and saw reports that Meryl doesn't do sequels and was thrilled that she was handing over the baton to the younger unknown actors.She said she didn't want to dance and sing once more as she did it earlier. So I wont't be ownership this on DVD or streaming it on Amazon even if it was free to picket I definitely would non watch this again.I volition stick to the first film every bit that left me feeling uplifted and happy. This is the reason I rated it one star which I rarely do.
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Pure Escapism
I'k at a loss why there are so many poor reviews of this moving picture. Only anybody is entitled to their ain opinion. I loved it from the start. Lily James was outstanding as young Donna. Yes it was a shame Meryl Streep didn't play a bigger part but such is life. Accept it for what it is. At that place were a couple of songs i didn't know so information technology may have been better keeping to the well known songs, still they did fit in with the script. Information technology was a rollercoaster or emotions. Laughing and crying in equal measure. Julie Walters was as fabled as e'er too. I loved it and will be watching it once more as before long as i tin.
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The worst sequel ever
No words can practise justice to the sheer deep thwarting of this so-called sequel. Information technology's blasphemy to the original.
For the of $$$ will any producer cartel to make a sequel of SINGIN' IN THE RAIN????
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Beautiful Setting, Hilarious Storyline, Great Music
This movie has many beautiful settings and hilarious scenes that had the audience laughing. I love the unique story line that is unpredictable and interesting. Although I enjoyed it, younger children might not understand some of the jokes. This motion-picture show is for more mature audiences.
Nosotros learn more than about Donna's (Meryl Streep, Lily James). We learn about Sophie'due south (Amanda Seyfried) three possible dads and what risks Donna took for Sophie. Sophie now is significant and finishing up her female parent's dream of fixing upwardly the holding to become a beautiful hotel.
Lily James has to do a lot of difficult interim in this motion-picture show and she pulls through. She fits the personality of the younger Donna perfectly, which is great considering it makes it easier to see the connection between younger and present mean solar day Donna. All the actors have astonishing singing voices, whether they are singing solos or blending their voices with the others. They break out in vocal often and I wasn't bothered about that at all. They are all keen dancers and seem to really just accept fun.
The sets are so pleasing to the eye. The setting on a Greek island with gorgeous views are astonishing. All of the cities wait authentic and colorful, which makes everything even more pleasing to lookout. The costumes are colorful and flashy too.
My favorite part of the moving-picture show is when two of Sophie'south 3 possible fathers attend her party and they bring many guests. Sophie is so happy to come across her fathers in that scene and to take everyone see how much hard piece of work had been done to renovate the property. I also like this scene because, on the boats people, are climbing everywhere, dancing and singing together. This scene is really hyped up and has and then much energy.
One message of this film is that family should e'er love you and be in that location for one another, no matter what. In this film, Sophie'due south iii dads all stick with her and support her, even though they are very decorated. They never abandon her or her mother.
This is definitely an unpredictable and interesting film. To better understand it, information technology would be best to watch the previous one, Mamma Mia. I give this motion picture v out of 5 stars and recommend it for ages xiii to xviii, every bit well as adults.
Reviewed by Jolleen Grand., KIDS Commencement! Movie Critic. For more reviews by youth, visit kidsfirst dot org.
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Musical broadcast from Utopia
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A motion picture serial based around having an exclamation point in the name. Therefore, you are giving the bases that it will ever exist fun, exciting, and uplifting. Mamma Mia 2 shall I say is just that. A franchise built around the perfect, and utopia of worlds on the shores of Greece. The sequel starts just about where you would wait, with the unexpected passing away of you guessed it! Meryl Streep! Because when I recall sequel I call back get rid of Meryl Streep, maybe one of the most prolific actresses of all time. Besides this, the plot of the movie revolves around the plot of the original. From the outset to the terminate, this pic is actually not about much, plot isn't actually a thing they were worried about. Considering who needs a plot when y'all can have three unlike young lads in search for the heart of a pretty girl. Because aye they killed Meryl, but the whole movie is about, you guessed information technology! Meryl Streep! Immature Meryl yes, but she was plainly the reason for the initial moving-picture show. What the movie does offering is some fun songs, more than flashbacks to the first movie, and the add-on of Cher, with an nigh last minute addition that changes nearly nada, simply probably got a few more fans to the theatres. A summer flick for sure, a happy series definitely, and an end could however be not in sight, because they already accept two movies with very fiddling plot. It won't be hard to make some other.
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a look dorsum
Greetings again from the darkness. It'due south been 10 years since manager Phyllida Lloyd presented the oversupply-pleasing MAMMA MIA! movie. It was a box office hit (over $600 meg worldwide) and was, for a few years, the highest grossing musical of best. Almost importantly, it was extremely entertaining and a joyous cinematic romp for viewers. This year'southward sequel is directed by Ol Parker (THE All-time EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL and husband to actress Thandie Newton), and though the melancholy is slathered on a bit too thick, it as well fulfills its number 1 priority - entertaining the fans.
The story begins with Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) putting the terminal touches on the house-turned-hotel in preparation for the upcoming Yard Opening. It's named Hotel Bella Donna in honor of Sophie's mother (Meryl Streep). What looks to be a straight-forward story surprises u.s. with a flashback to Donna's 1979 graduation, which features non merely the first song-and-dance number "When I Kissed the Teacher", just also the start of ii ABBA cameos ... Bjorn Ulvaeus every bit a professor. The young Donna is played brilliantly by Lily James, and she effortlessly captures the gratuitous-spiritedness that led to the conundrum of the start motion-picture show - 3 possible dads for Sophie.
Those 3 dads render not only as Pierce Brosnan (Sam), Stellan Skarsgard (Bill), and Colin Firth (Harry), but also as Jeremy Irvine (young Sam), Josh Dylan (young Nib), and Hugh Skinner (young Harry). In fact, well-nigh of the run time is dedicated to the backstory of these characters and how they first 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 sailor who saves the solar day for Donna, while immature Sam assists her with saving a storm-shaken equus caballus (kind of humorous since Mr. Irvine starred in WAR HORSE).
Besides back are Dominic Cooper equally Sky, Sophie'southward true dearest, who can't make up one's mind between romance and career, and Donna'southward life-long friends Tanya (Christine Baranski) and Rosie (Julie Walters), who are also part of the flashback as Jessica Keenan Wynn (fantabulous as young Tanya) and Alexa Davies (every bit young Rosie). New to the cast are Celia Imrie in the graduation number, Andy Garcia as the hotel manager, and cartoon the biggest adulation of all ... Cher as Sophie's grandmother (and every bit my viewing partner commented, an early peek at what Lady Gaga will look like as a grandma)! It's best if you lot feel Cher for yourself, and it should be noted that this is her first large screen appearance since BURLESQUE in 2010.
Of course, the songs are key and many of the ABBA numbers from the get-go movie are featured again this time. In particular, "Dancing Queen" is a nautical standout, and "Fernando" is a bear witness-stopper. While it may not be quite every bit raucous as the beginning, information technology's a treat watching Lily James, and there is a wonderful blending of "erstwhile" and "new" in the finale. The only real question remaining is, did the casting director practice the math before casting Cher (historic period 72) every bit Meryl Streep'due south (historic period 69) mother?
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A really enjoyable feel good film
Loved information technology better than the first . Lily James was impressive . Colin Firth and Julie Walters were amusing . The songs of form were bully . Cher did a bright version of Fernando . Really very very good .We waited till all the credits were shown and saw the funniest clip at the terminate . The movie house had almost emptied by that fourth dimension and there were only vii of us who saw it .
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Loved everything but the script...
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I didn't like it and will explicate information technology in a chip. First I have to say I love the squad of actors which makes information technology even harder to admite my thoughts on this sequel. I am a huge ABBA fan. I loved Mamma Mia - saw information technology in Europe performed by the London team, saw it again in Broadway NY and later on the film. It was a really happy fun story, that made me want to sing and dance the whole time while really enjoying the story. Mamma Mia - Here We Get Again... It's a sorry story! I felt emotional about of the time, missing Donna, feeling for her, for her family unit and friends. And the film keeps pulling united states dorsum to the fact that she is gone and it is then distressing... The few moments of laughter felt pushed into there without much sense or context. As an ABBA and Mamma Mia 1 fan, I got out of the movie feeling lamentable and disappointed quite bluntly.
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Intolerable, miserable and downright brain-damaging
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Choreography is extremely lame (sometimes it'southward just some "waving" and that's for like 3 of the songs), especially during the Waterloo segment, where they all look like a high school theater musical gone wrong. Songs are just re-hashed from the original, with cipher dissimilar to go far watchable. Actors are flat-out incompetent, specially the younger ones and Cher (give her the Razzie already). Script is... well, there isn't one. It adds Goose egg new to the original story. We still take no idea who the male parent is and no new information that could make this go forward in whatsoever kind of manner. Streep is in this as a freakin' GHOST for the very last musical number.
At that place is NO reason for this to suck as much as it did. I expected average, at the very to the lowest degree boring. But this is an insult to ANYONE, fifty-fifty fans of the original will be pissed by how this brings NOTHING new and barely makes whatever sense.
Avoid this moving-picture show. Re-scout the original, but please do not requite this picture show any credit for doing anything.
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Why does anyone give a crap about Meryl Streep or Cher???
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These movies are terrible.
"Oh look, information technology is sexy art!"
Nope, just more than drivel about nothing.
If y'all watched ane of the 500 trailers and commercials for this(forced on us past Hulu or other platforms), you could already sum up what this movie is.
Streep only appears for a minor amount of screen time, and I must exist the only person in the earth who doesn't care. People worship at her chantry as if she saved humanity from an asteroid, merely I just don't see it. She isn't particularly bonny, and none of her movies are really that heady. Her interim is ok, only I accept seen countless others who match or surpass her. Who is she bravado in Hollywood? Anybody? What a bunch of equus caballus dookie hype.
Cher is erstwhile as dirt, still trying to be relevant, but nevertheless dumber than a box of rocks. She looks similar a mummy who was rolled into this picture with the aid of WD-40 for squeaking joints. I am not even certain if she is still alive.
I can't believe they got Amanda Seyfried for this, but you have to pay bills and such.
Pierce Brosnan? I like Pierce, but this kind of nonsense is simply not him.
Plot? There isn't one, aside from stupid women who take babies and don't know who the fathers are, and endeavour to pull off that Cher type of philosophy from impaired movies she made in the 70s. "Why do people ask you lot what you want to exist? Why exercise I accept to Exist anything?" Oh, Cher, your existential musical fine art is and then clever! What a waste of space and film...
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Terrbile movie information technology may be but this is glorious fun.
Like the first one information technology is, of grade, critic-proof, (Meryl knew that when she agreed to put in a cameo appearance and Cher knew it when she saw a run a risk to resurrect her career at the age of seventy-2). There are times when it resembles nada more than than gay night at the pantomime, (and if you thought the first i was gay wait until y'all see this 1), but information technology would be churlish to try to resist it and, to be off-white, this is by far the better film. Nosotros are talking, of class, near "Mamma Mia; Here We Become 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 retrieve it quite clever how they were able to construct a story effectually them. It was a terrible movie simply it was also undeniably good fun and in that location were even a couple of times when information technology didn't seem so terrible at all. I enjoyed it while recognizing every one of its faults but I dreaded this follow-upward. Surely all the best songs had already been used upward, I idea. Isn't this only cashing in on the success of the original?
Well, yes and no. It was obvious to anyone with a brain that they were on to a good thing and then why not come up with another 'story', all the same flimsy. The plot is simply how did Donna run into the men in her life and how come she couldn't be certain first time around who the father of her child was. It isn't much of an idea to hang a whole movie on then let's have her daughter Sophia programme a big reopening of Donna'south hotel, (Donna/Meryl has been dead a year when the film opens), bringing together the bandage of the original, (as I said Meryl's appearance is reduced to a good-natured cameo), while cross-cutting betwixt past and present.
In the flashbacks, Donna is Lily James while Stellan Skarsgard and Pierce Brosnan are now hunky Josh Dylan and Jeremy Irvine. Unfortunately, poor Colin Firth is reduced to a very nerdy and plain gay Hugh Skinner who seems to take mastered the fine art of playing fools. No matter, he's still the offset to bed Miss James, losing his virginity in the process. And then far, so obvious but this time around the musical numbers are much amend served by the material and are actually very well staged while the performances are, in every way, stronger. As I said, by the time 'Dancing Queen' comes around resistance is futile and the film becomes an elaborate party, the kind you e'er hoped you'd be invited to. Of course, neither pic volition ever be on anyone'south listing of all-time great musicals simply even if you hate yourself in the morning, this is one party worth having a hangover for.
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