Mama Mia, Here We Go Again - with spoilers!

[Loopytiles]

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

Loved the setting.

Hmm you actually see them post coital in this one. Depends on how naive! Or would she just be embarrassed? My 10 year old is a bit naive but he's done sre at school. He'd be momentarily embarrassed though!

I read your first line and user name together and somehow thought it had post coital guinea pigs in it !!! She's very very naive. I expect she would think they had just had a nap !

i took my 8 year old - it went over her head, she liked the clothes and the dancing, she's never asked any questions about the first one either. In fact she asked more questions about phantom of the opera as there is snogging in that!

I LOVED it! Seen it 3 times so far, cried every time! But I haven't seen the first one so plot holes, dodgy dates etc went over my head!

Loved Lily James, her singing, dancing, clothes, hair, smile!

Going again on Sunday!

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Didn't really like the second film. A). Because it was written and directed by the mysogenistic Richard Curtis/Ol Parker combo B) Donna went to Oxford??? What a waste! So she is brilliantly talented woman who shags around, gets caught and is then exiled to the Greek back if beyond as a Thomas Hardy-esque punishment (see point A).

3. She has 4 years with Sam and then dies (see points B and A)

Cher is added for comic relief.

The Oxford thing might have made sense if she'd had the original mother who was repressed and didn't tell her about sex. She could have then been let off the leash and gone nuts with the shagging and been exiled. The Cher mother just makes no sense. She'd have had a completely different and far more liberal life as the daughter of a famous singer!

Yes... who was also a single mother and an unknown father...

I loved how much Colin Firth seemed to be laughing out loud at just how ridiculous the entire thing was.

The scene where they all arrived at the island and Colin Firth was doing that taking the piss dad dancing was awesome!

The bit where they were singing My Love My Life, and Sophie leaned back in Donna's arms had me 😢

Cher can barely move her mouth now can she? Didn't even occur to me that Fernando could be Donna's dad!

I also loved Tanya's line to Sam: 'I'm going to be upfront and tell you that I find you visually very pleasing'. Gonna save that one!

I loved the titanic bit with Colin and Bill (forgotten his name) on the boat coming to the island. Just bet they did it impulsively

I loved it, went with DD and we both wept at the end. Still not sure why they killed off Donna. If MS could only appear in a couple of scenes, why not have her arrive unexpectedly at the end, in time for the christening, and then she could have done the last two songs alive and well!

I think it's because Richard Curtis got hold of the script and he's going through a stage of mawkish sentimentality.

I think mawkish sentimentality nails it

Richard Curtis's mawkish sentimentality phase has been going on for an awful long time! That pretty much describes all his films, doesn't it?

I enjoyed it and also found it sad. But for me the saddest thing was the idea that there was this woman who enjoyed life, but finished university, went travelling and met some men for a couple of weeks, then spent the rest of her life living alone (then with a baby) in a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere.

And not even a very long life, and probably quite isolated as her child grew up in Greece with an American accent!
You lot have made me analyse this far too much! I'm going to watch it again next week and it'll have a completely new slant

Yes, because if Donna loved Sam so much that she could never love another man, then.... what was Bill all about?

I saw it last night and loved it plot holes the lot. I did the laughing and the crying I just let it wash all over me then you get cher playing an old fabulous lady finds her Fernando I want to go again

And Andy Garcia is a handsome bugger

And totally wasted in the role,poor sod.

I think that was the point of his role though just hanging about in the background and I am sure he had fun and was paid well. Christina Baranski and Julie Walters were on Graham norton and they said everybody had a blast making it.

I loved it (as did the teen dds, although they were aghast at Cher's face). I thought it was accepted by the end of the first film that Sam was the actual father?

Young Bill was delicious and I'm not normally attracted to blond men. Fabulous chemistry with Lily James (more than the other two had).

Yes young Lilly and Bill had more chemistry than Sam. Chers face mesmeriser me songs came out with no movement at all.

i dont think Sam was accepted as the father but he simply married Meryl/Donna.

I want to see it again