MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN (2018)

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Five years after the events of Mamma Mia!, on the Greek island of Kalokairi, Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) is running her mother Donna's (Meryl Streep) villa following Donna's death a year prior. Sophie's relationship with her husband, Sky (Dominic Cooper), has been turbulent for some time, causing her to doubt that she can survive without her mother. With Tanya (Christine Baranski) and Rosie's (Julie Walters) guidance, Sophie learns about Donna's past, including how she fronted The Dynamos, started her villa on the island, met each one of Sophie's dads, Sam, Bill, and Harry (Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgård, and Colin Firth), and raised a daughter without a mother's guidance. She also has an unexpected visit from someone she has never met: her estranged grandmother, Ruby Sheridan (Cher).-WIKIPEDIA

Directed by Ol Parker

Screenplay by Ol Parker
Story by
Catherine Johnson
Richard Curtis
Ol Parker
Based on Mamma Mia!
by Catherine Johnson
Starring
Christine Baranski
Pierce Brosnan
Dominic Cooper
Colin Firth
Andy García
Lily James
Amanda Seyfried
Stellan Skarsgård
Julie Walters
Cher
Meryl Streep

Music by Anne Dudley

Ten years ago I watched this Musical about three times, then I've seen this on TV about five times, so I was pretty psyched to see this sequel.  When I was watching the movie, there were many questions that boggled my mind.

This site sort of answered them so if you haven't seen the movie and you're the type who hates spoilers, don't click it.

 In the original, Sophie wanted to know who her father is, but just decided to have three dads.

In this sequel, we are sure to learn who she has always loved, and if you're thinking it's____, then you're probably right.  It's actually a no brainer.  She did end up with someone in the first movie(this is for those who haven't seen the first), so he's probably the one she has loved ever since, right? :-)

Donna, during her stay in Kalokairi lived a simple life, so she was able to be a good example to Sophie, and Sophie's childhood was filled with so much love.

Not everyone was psyched like me.  Of course, Meryl Streep has this stigma of being a Harvey Weinstein coddler of some sort, but even if it's true, she's only one person.  What about Amanda Seyfried?  What about Lily James?  What about Dominic Cooper?  What about Pierce Brosnan?  What about Stellan Skargård?  What about Colin Firth?  What about Cher?  What about Andy Garcia? What about the rest of the troop?

The music from ABBA still touches the soul.  The choreography is great, et cetera, et cetera.  

As long as the story doesn't spin off to the Ruby-Fernando love story anymore, this story would leave a mark in a lot of people's hearts, especially with that scene during the Christening(well, there were two Christenings...Sophie's and her child, mashed up).

THE SOUNDTRACK:

The following ABBA songs are in the film and its soundtrack.

1. "Thank You for the Music" from ABBA: The Album (1977) - Sophie
2. "When I Kissed the Teacher" from Arrival (1976) - Young Donna and the Dynamos
3. "One of Us" from The Visitors (1981) - Sophie, Sky
4. "Waterloo" from Waterloo (1974) - Young Harry, Young Donna
5. "SOS" from ABBA (1975) - Sam
6. "Why Did It Have to Be Me?" from Arrival (1976) - Young Bill, Young Donna, Young Harry
7. "I Have a Dream" from Voulez-Vous (1979) - Young Donna
8. "Kisses of Fire" from Voulez-Vous (1979) - Lazaros
9. "Andante, Andante" from Super Trouper (1980) - Young Donna
10. "The Name of the Game" from ABBA: The Album (1977) - Young Donna
11. "Knowing Me, Knowing You" from Arrival (1976) - Young Donna, Young Sam
12. "Mamma Mia" from ABBA (1975) - Young Donna and the Dynamos
13. "Angeleyes" from Voulez-Vous (1979) - Rosie, Tanya, Sophie
14. "Dancing Queen" from Arrival (1976) - Sophie, Rosie, Tanya, Sam, Bill and Harry
15. "I’ve Been Waiting for You" from ABBA (1975) - Sophie, Rosie, Tanya
16. "Fernando" from Arrival (1976) - Ruby, Fernando
17. "My Love, My Life" from Arrival (1976) - Donna, Sophie (with original intro from Young Donna)
18. "Super Trouper" from Super Trouper (1980) - Ruby, Donna, Rosie, Tanya, Sophie, Sky, Sam, Bill, Harry, Fernando, Young Donna, Young Rosie, Young Tanya, Young Bill, Young Sam, Young Harry
19. "Take a Chance on Me" from ABBA: The Album (1977) (post-credits scene/outtake) - Greek customs officer

Excised songs

1. "I Wonder (Departure)" from ABBA: The Album (1977) - Young Donna and the Dynamos
2. "The Day Before You Came" from The Singles: The First Ten Years (1982) - Donna

THE CAST:

• Amanda Seyfried as Sophie Sheridan, Donna’s 25-year-old daughter, Sam’s stepdaughter/possible daughter, Sky’s wife, Ruby’s granddaughter and possible daughter of Bill and Harry.
• Meryl Streep as Donna Sheridan, Sophie’s mother, Sky’s mother-in-law, Ruby’s daughter, Owner of the Hotel Bella Donna, and wife to Sam.
  • Lily James as Young Donna
• Dominic Cooper as Sky, Sophie’s husband, Donna’s son-in-law, Sam’s stepson-in-law and possible son-in-law to Sam, Bill and Harry.
• Christine Baranski as Tanya Chesham-Leigh, one of Donna’s friends and former bandmates in Donna and the Dynamos; a rich three-time divorcee.
  • Jessica Keenan Wynn as Young Tanya
• Julie Walters as Rosie Mulligan, one of Donna’s friends and former bandmates in Donna and the Dynamos; an unmarried fun-loving author.
  • Alexa Davies as Young Rosie
• Pierce Brosnan as Sam Carmichael, Sophie’s stepfather and possible father, an Irish-American architect, Ruby’s son-in-law, and husband to Donna.
  • Jeremy Irvine as Young Sam
• Colin Firth as Harry Bright, Sophie’s possible father, and a British banker.
  • Hugh Skinner as Young Harry
• Stellan Skarsgård as Bill Anderson, Sophie's possible father, a Swedish sailor and travel writer.
  • Josh Dylan as Young Bill
• Cher as Ruby Sheridan, Donna’s mother, Sophie’s grandmother, and Sam’s mother-in-law.
• Andy García as Fernando Cienfuegos, the manager of the Hotel Bella Donna, old lover of Ruby’s.
• Omid Djalili as a Greek customs officer
• Celia Imrie as Vice-Chancellor
• Naoko Mori as Yumiko
• Togo Igawa as Tateyama
• Maria Vacratsis as Sofia
• Panos Mouzourakis as Lazaros
• Gerard Monaco as Alexio
• Jonathan Goldsmith as Brother Cienfuegos, Fernando Cienfuegos' brother
• Anna Antoniades as Apollonia

Cameo appearances

• Björn Ulvaeus as an Oxford professor
• Benny Andersson as "Waterloo" piano player

note: Mamma Mia! (2008) was set in 1999 where a twenty-year-old Sophie was about to get married to her fiancé, Sky.  Hmm...the flashbacks state that it was in 1979 when Donna and the Dynamos graduated. SOMETIMES degree ceremonies happen in January(Winter) in Oxford, so it is still possible for Sophie to be born in October, November or December in the year 1979, but it didn't seem like it was winter when Donna graduated.  She was cavorting in Paris in spring, I guess, where she, met Harry, one of the possible fathers of Sophie. Mamma Mia!  Here We Go Again(2018) is set in 2004(or 2005, whatever the case may be).  Sophie is now twenty-five-year-old married woman. Oh well...maybe they rounded off Sophie's age in 1999?  Does it matter?  

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