Mama Mia, Here We Go Again - with spoilers!

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Liked it! Good tunes, story stood up, and sad/moving at times.

Loved the setting.

@thisonehasalittlecar Memo to Andy Garcia: pull yourself together man! Do some pilates, get a decent haircut, you could still be hot

Go see The Bookclub (story also a bit thin but fun).

Hugh Skinner (Harry) has a Matt Smith thing going tardis explains the timey-wimey
When he was in W1A I said to my DH that he'd nicked Matt Smith's face Lily James is his girlfriend irl too!
I haven't seen this yet but I might have to see it with my friends then with miI. Saw the first film with my then 3 mo DS1 at a mother and baby showing so will be nice seeing this one in the cinema with my top on

Seeing as this is a thread where spoilers are ok, please can any one tell me what happens right at the end, after all the credits? I've just read on another thread that you should stay right to then, but we didn't when we saw it yesterday.
What did we miss?

So where were her friends that she was telling about diary with ... (dot dot dot)? etc

What is name of baby?

I left before the end of the credits! Was a long film!

There is a small outtake at the end of the credits. People we were sitting next to told us to stay, so we did. It isn't very long and only involves Omid Jalili. You didn't miss much (and the credits are very long!)

I hated it; never felt so emotionally manipulated to such little effect. Why kill off Donna only to resurrect her at the end? Why bring in Cher at the end when there is barely a mention of her character in the preceding 100 mins? And why have two practically identical, characterless actors play the young Colin Firth and Pierce Brosnan? Mark Kermode's glowing review only made me even crosser about this. The first film was joyful, this was a mess.

Thanks ineedaholidaynow. Glad we didn't stay. It wasn't the greatest film ever, but dd enjoyed it.

I stayed with DD and one other woman so got to be smug at seeing the end snippet. But you didn't miss much.
Actually...hold the phone, it does clear up a plot point!!!

Pasport guy (Omid) says to Young Harry...if she (Donna) ends up rejecting you, then go out with me instead (alluding to him being gay again):
He then bursts into Take a Chance on me.
Sings for quite a while then says something like you can cut any time you want you know/is that enough or am i singing the whole thing before cracking up laughing.

So confirms that Harry does get Donna to show him the island eventually and gives her his guitar and that he is gay/bi.

Different folks, different strokes - I really liked the film. As is usually the case when I have the lowest expectations, my marks/10 go up if I end up pleasantly surprised rather than disappointed a movie did not live up to its hype (3 billboards did live up to the hype but I knew next to nothing about the plot so say it cold deliberately): whereas Mamma mia trailer gave away most plot points.

Anyone who likes Pierce Brosnan I do recommend All you need is love, a great movie.

"Really didn't see the point of chers character, don't think she added anything to the film at all"

I have just seen it tonight. I didn't think Cher added anything to the film either. I enjoyed it. There were some sad parts, but I thought the casting, except for Cher was very good.

The young Tanya looke exactly like the older one, and I was impressed by Lily James. I only know her from Downton Abbey.

The cinema was packed, and at the end everyone cheered and clapped. I don't think I have seen this happen at a film before.

People clapped at the cinema when I saw it too

Enjoyed it over the first. Was good fun

blasphemy! Cher is...CHER!!!
Seriously, I think they cast her as a big name, to supplement the pink pound demographic and also to attract hardcore Cher fans (have read some non-Abba fans are going for her alone).
Cher was asked originally to play Tanya but turned it down. This time round, the producer-friend-ex agent basically said you're doing it and they wrote Ruby around her...hence the estranged diva as opposed to dead strict catholic who would have disapproved of the bedhopping.

I loved it. I don't care what any of you say even though it was terribly emosh....

I was embarrassingly in floods when Sophie sang with the Dynamos. I lost my DM a couple of years ago and she was only 60. This brought everything to the surface and not in any lighthearted way It took me by complete surprise. I've been fine recently, just tired from overwork and feeling a bit under the weather. It was a floodgate moment (I don't even love the films that much!)

To make the timings (sort-of) work you have to date the original from the time of the stage show, not the first film. The stage show started in the late 90s (I went to see it and I think it was around then) - which makes Donna's summer of love the late 70s, and Donna herself born in the late 50s. Other things then make better sense, like Donna not really knowing what a website is in the first film, which is plausible if she was living in a remote Greek village in the late 90s but not in 2008.

I cried in several places, and I was a complete sobbing wreck in My Love My Life. It may have been manipulative, but I defy any 50-somethings, for whom Abba was the soundtrack of our childhood and early adolescence to remain dry-eyed, especially if our mothers are dead or frail.

I absolutely loved the dance routine to Waterloo.

People clapped at the cinema where I was too. The guy who played young Harry, I just kept thinking of him in the Windsors and expected his line about a "constitutional crisis!"

I almost got teary at the teary bits but stuffed my mouth with popcorn (which I then had to hold in my mouth because it was so quiet and I didn't want to be the annoying noisy eater at the cinema) and that held back those tears! I got teary at the last film during the slipping through my fingers song, and I hadn't even had DD then, but had recently lost my dad so that might explain it.

But how did they have wireless microphones in the 70s??

And how did Sophie manage to climb up those steps with the baby about 1 month post partum?! In wedges!

Stage 4 cancer here, with 3 DDs in very early 20s. Was hard pushed not to sob....

BareBellied Don't spoil the magic

Just don't over think it and it's great fun. Although no way would all those bikes have not been stolen in the middle of Oxford!

Am I the only one that thought young Bill looked like a vampiric Kiefer Sutherland (or are you all too young to remember that one :) )

i loved it - i cried a lot in the chapel scene - I agree it was a bit manipulative but aren't a lot of films meant to make you feel or imagine feeling something? Leaving our children behind too soon most of our worst fears. As a feelgood film I thought it was ace - love that Brosnan is possibly the worst singer ever to make it onto screen and they really made total tits of themselves.

billy I agree re the young firth/vampire he did have the look of the undead about him although he was well cast.

Haha @hotcrossapple I was thinking the resemblance between a young Kiefer and the chap playing young Bill, but yes young Harry does have the look of the the undead about him.