It’s Wednesday morning and I still have those catchy Abba tunes playing in my head from seeing the new
Mamma Mia movie on Saturday, along with visions of breezy sunny romances on gorgeous Greek islands. If you liked the first Mamma Mia, you’ll like this new installment even better. This prequel/sequel interleaves story lines of Sophie sometime after the first film leaves off and a young Donna showing us the events that lead to her landing on a remote island and getting pregnant with uncertain paternity. Not only do the writers work in excuses for a whole party of Abba tunes, but they also flesh out Donna’s back story fitting in every hint that we’d heard about it before. Lily James gives a great performance as young Donna, and we meet a charming trio of young actors playing the three possible fathers. Amanda Seyfried equally shines in her return as Sophie, and a bunch of familiar actors from the first film are fun to see again. Meryl Streep, when she turns up, is wonderful and made me cry. The only disappointment was Cher, whom you’d think would be a natural playing a big diva, but came across unexpectedly flat and frail (though in fairness the script gave her only a cardboard character to work with). But that small off note didn’t spoil the party. We laughed, we cried, and we walked out smiling and humming.
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