Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Young Donna Finds Out Sam Is Cheating on Her

A sequel to the 2008 Jukebox Musical flick Mamma Mia! (which in turn, was based on the ABBA phase musical of the same name), Mamma Mia! Hither We Go Once more was written and directed by Ol Parker with the help of Richard Curtis (Love Actually) and Catherine Johnson (who created the Mamma Mia! stage musical).

Information technology'southward been v years after the events of the beginning film and Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) is preparing a grand reopening of her mother Donna's hotel, with the help of her female parent's friends Tanya and Rosie (Christine Baranski and Julie Walters), the staff, as well equally hotel manager Mr. Cienfuegos (Andy García), but she is worried that Sky (Dominic Cooper) will not brand it in time, and everything seems to be going wrong. A year earlier, her mother died and the hotel was being redecorated in her award with a large guest listing, reminding Rosie and Tanya about the struggles Donna had when she offset got to the island. What follows is a series of flashbacks throughout following younger Donna (Lily James) after she graduated with her friends, when she travelled around Europe, and when she met Sophie's 3 fathers: Sam (Jeremy Irvine), Pecker (Josh Dylan) and Harry (Hugh Skinner).

Nearly every member of the original cast reprises their function from the first; alongside the ones mentioned higher up, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgård reprise their roles equally Sam, Harry and Neb respectively, while Cher appears equally Sophie'southward estranged grandmother, Cherry-red.

Despite considerably better reviews than its predecessor, Here We Become Again, while still successful, grossed about $200 one thousand thousand less at the worldwide box office.

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Mamma Mia! Hither We Go Again contains examples of:

• Actually Pretty Funny: Even Donna laughs at Rosie'due south comment about her many romances:

  Tanya: She'southward missing her man.
  [Beat out.]
  Rosie: Which i?
  [Tanya, Rosie, and Donna all cleft upwardly.]

• Adam Westing: Cher plays an exaggerated Rich Bitch and Colin Firth gets to chew the scenery.
• Adaptation Expansion: A larger-scale example. Not merely is this an entirely new story that takes place subsequently the original musical, it greatly expands upon Donna's relationships, detailing major events that were simply mentioned in the prove and beginning picture. Notably, it'southward shown that she had already met Harry (who she had already slept with) and Bill before coming together Sam, and fifty-fifty in Sam's case, she got to know him for a week before finally sleeping with him; information technology's non until subsequently Sam'south departure that Donna gets to sleep with Nib. This explains why she wrote most them in each of the diary entries from the first film as if she was already familiar with them.
• Advertised Extra: Cher, who was prominent throughout the trailers, simply arrives at the end of the second act.
• Ambiguously Bi: Donna, whose showtime musical number is a gender-swapped performance of "When I Kissed the Instructor" about her kissing a female teacher total on the lips (which occurs on-screen) and getting a sexual thrill from it. She notwithstanding sleeps with Harry, Sam and Bill, of grade.
• Ambiguously Gay: The ferry employee working at the ticket booth. He's taken quite an interest in Harry's appearance.
• And Starring: Meryl Streep, who got superlative billing in the get-go film, is credited this way in the sequel.
• Babies Make Everything Better: Yous have never seen anyone so happy to be a single mother, without and then much as attempting to contact one of the three potential fathers to enquire for kid support.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Rosie and Tanya were around when Donna's mother told her to not come habitation after she got meaning. Both of them are glaring daggers at her when she actually turns up.
• Big Damn Reunion: Following "Dancing Queen", Sophie is reunited with Bill and Harry, and then gives Sky a running reunion hug and buss.
• Bittersweet Ending:
  • Past storyline: A misunderstanding results in Donna pushing Sam away and another results in him non going dorsum to her when he tries to exit his fiancé for Donna. Every bit a outcome, Donna and Sam don't brand up for over a decade. Even more heartbreaking as Sam is the only one she truly savage in love with equally while she cared for Harry and Bill, it didn't go across simple trysts. That all said, Donna has Sophie though and resolves to give her all she can by devoting her life to her.
  • Present storyline: Donna has been gone a few years and it's uncertain equally to whether or non the hotel will be as successful equally she would have wanted, but years before that, she and Sam reconciled and got married. Sophie also reconciles with her grandmother Red, who in turn reunites with her long lost lover Fernando, Mr. Cienfuegos. Sophie as well gives birth to a babe boy who she and Sky will enhance together.
• Blade-of-Grass Cutting: During "I've Been Waiting for You", when Donna is shown about to give birth to Sophie, there's a brief shot of an Eiffel Tower miniature on the nearby chiffonier.
• Brick Joke: Whenever Donna is mentioned, Rosie starts crying uncontrollably. Near the end when Rosie mentions Donna, Nib starts to weep with her comforting him.
• Bus Crash: It'due south been a yr since Donna'due south death. Interestingly, we never observe out how she died; this puzzled some viewers considering she seemed to exist in perfect health during the first film.
• But Not Too Gay: Even more so than in the first. Harry'southward homosexuality does non come upwards at all, he is non seen with any male love interest and his backstory focuses on his romance with Donna without giving any hint that the reason it was doomed to neglect was because he was gay. Instead, information technology looks as though he was simply edged out by Donna's romances with Sam and Bill.
• Barrel-Monkey: Harry takes a lot of abuse, both in the past and in the present.
• Canon Foreigner: Donna's mother/Sophie's grandmother Ruby (Cher) is a new character who doesn't announced in the original Broadway musical. The first movie even implied that she was dead. ^note (Although given her history with her daughter, this may have simply been a "dead to me" situation.)
• The Cavalry: A not-armed forces example, naturally; just every bit it looks similar the opening of the hotel will exist a disaster, Beak and Harry arrive with an entire flotilla of guests to brand information technology a success.
• Chekhov's Gunman: That guy Pecker and Donna helped out in the flashbacks? Present day, he remembers Neb and still actually appreciates what he did, so he gives Bill and Harry a ride to the island... and brings all his friends, too, and so the hotel's opening is a success.
• Comfort Food: Past Rosie suggests to give Donna some cakes to assist her go over Sam, when she actually wants to be with Nib. Then wanting to swallow said cakes when Donna goes off with Bill instead. Present Rosie ponders whether carbs have always been her soulmate.
• Connected All Forth: Mr. Cienfuegos, Sophie'due south hotel manager, is her grandmother Cherry-red's long lost love, and thus unsaid to be her grandfather. She's flabbergasted to find this out.
• Continuity Snarl: Has its own folio.
• The Cover Changes the Gender: The discipline of "When I Kissed the Instructor" is changed from male to female.
• The Comprehend Changes the Meaning:
  • "I've Been Waiting for You" originally had an ambiguous tone amongst listeners (it was unclear whether it was about someone meeting their True Love, having a revelation over their relationship or if they were a delighted stalker that had finally got their way), but the moving picture changed the lyrics almost completely to be most how Sophie is looking forward to being a mother.
  • Averted with "Andante, Andante", which was originally well-nigh playing the piano, but the lyrics implied otherwise anyway. The moving picture exploits this equally Donna sings it flirtily to Sam a few days into their relationship.
  • Not merely is the aforementioned "When I Kissed the Instructor" repurposed to be a vocal about youths finding freedom instead of a Instructor/Student Romance, we also take "Waterloo", which was originally about a adult female accepting the fact that she'll never escape a terrible relationship, and is repurposed to be most Harry "surrendering" to his newfound vanquish on Donna and confessing his feelings to her to get her to take his virginity.
  • "My Love, My Life" is originally about realizing you're about to intermission upwardly for adept, but here, information technology's near how much your mother nevertheless loves you, fifty-fifty in decease.
  • Played With with "The Day Before Y'all Came". It has e'er been an unconfirmed fan theory that the "you lot" in the vocal might not exist a love involvement, but Decease. Streep, whose character died unexpectedly between films, sings it on the soundtrack.
• Creator Cameo: 2 cameos from members of the original grouping:
  • Björn as one of the teachers onstage when Donna gives her valedictorian speech.
  • Benny plays pianoforte in the Paris restaurant during the "Waterloo" number.
• Night Reprise: Sam quietly sings "SOS", the song he and Donna sang a duet to in the first film, while looking at pictures of her after her expiry.
• Deadpan Snarker: Sofia, the older Greek adult female Donna bonds with. On the topic of the bar her son owns.

  He had to buy a bar, considering no other bar would let his ring play.

• Disappeared Dad: It turns out that Donna too had one. It is heavily implied this was Fernando.
• Afar Duet: Sky and Sophie sing "One of United states" while she's still in Hellenic republic and he's in New York.
• Double-Significant Title: Triple-Pregnant, in this case. "Here We Go Again!" is i) an obvious reference to the lyric from the titular vocal, ii) a nod to the fact that the movie is a directly sequel, and iii) a reference to Sophie'south pregnancy predicament playing out similarly to her mother'south.
• Downtime Downgrade: Neb and Rosie broke upwards in between films, but they rekindle their relationship while grieving over Donna.
• Easily Forgiven: Despite never being there for Donna, let alone Sophie, Sophie does permit Scarlet into her life. Non before calling her out on it though.
• Anxiety-Start Introduction: Doubles as an Establishing Character Moment. In the past, the start shot of Donna we see is of her walking quickly in her sparkly platform boots, tardily for her own graduation.
• Flashback B-Plot: The story about Sophie is interspersed with flashbacks following younger Donna (as played past Lily James) after she graduated with her friends, when she traveled around Europe, and when she met Sophie'south 3 fathers.
• Gay Romantic Phase: Implied between the fact that Donna sings "When I Kissed the Teacher" to a female professor during her time at college, and the fact that she never exhibits whatsoever romantic interest in women after graduation.
• Generation Xerox: Sophie gets pregnant at a young historic period simply like her female parent, and cheers to the magic of flashbacks, we go to see merely how closely their stories mirror each other.
• Envy Monster: Turns out Rosie liked Bill even back then and was incredibly jealous of Donna.

  Tanya: He can help her experience meliorate.
  Rosie: Do y'all know what makes me feel ameliorate when my centre'due south broken? Block. Why doesn't she merely practice that instead. Just swallow humongous amounts of cake and get out hot Scandi guy to me.

• Hairstyle Inertia: Applies to Tanya and Rosie, who proceed their bob and pixie cut (respectively) in the flashbacks and the present twenty-four hour period.
• Happy Ending Override: Later Donna and Sam finally reunited, cleared up their misunderstandings and got married at the stop of the first film, they merely had a few curt years together before her expiry. Ditto to an extent for Sophie, who gained her three dads, but just a few years later lost her mother.
• I Was Quite the Looker: The ferry worker saying Bill has not anile well since the last fourth dimension he saw him. In contrast, he said Harry has aged similar wine and cheese.
• Iconic Outfit: Donna's blue overalls, as usual. Nosotros fifty-fifty get to see where she got them in a flashback.
• Ivy League for Everyone: It's revealed that Donna was valedictorian of her class at Oxford. Nevermind that universities in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland don't accept valedictorians...
• Jukebox Musical: True to the Broadway musical and the 2008 film, Here We Go Again features more of ABBA'due south greatest hits every bit its musical numbers, including songs like "Angel Eyes" and "When I Kissed the Teacher", "Knowing Me, Knowing Y'all", "Fernando", besides equally a few that weren't really hits, like "Kisses of Fire", "My Love, My Life" and a bit of "Arrival".
• Karma Houdini: Carmine. She was a terrible female parent, refused to let Donna return home after she got significant with Sophie, and by and large didn't keep in contact with either of them over the years. Sophie tells her off but ultimately forgives her and she even reunites with her long-lost love. Some viewers thought she got off too easy.
• Kitschy-Themed Eating house: Harry and Donna went to a French restaurant with a Napoleonic theme. Fittingly they sing "Waterloo" with the staff and patrons.
• Last Guy Wins: Sam was the final human Donna met in the flashbacks and the one she ultimately ended upwardly with.
• Love Theme: In the restaurant before "Waterloo", the piano is softly playing "Our Last Summer".
• Perhaps Magic, Maybe Mundane: Is Sophie merely imagining Donna at her son'due south christening, or is her spirit actually there? The movie seems to lean towards the latter, simply it could be taken either way.
• Mood Whiplash: The utterly heartwrenching scene in which Sophie and Donna sing "My Love, My Life" to i another is immediately followed past the unabridged bandage singing and dancing happily along to the very upbeat and fun "Super Trouper".
• Morning Sickness: How Donna and Sophie realize she'due south pregnant.
• The Mountains of Illinois: The first shot of Donna arriving in Paris afterwards her graduation has her instead arriving... on the Place de la Bourse in Bordeaux, which is much, much further down Southward and as such very easily distinguishable from Paris. Needless to say that suspension of atheism would not have worked on a French viewer.
• My Secret Pregnancy: Downplayed. Sophie does tell Tanya, Rosie and Sam that she's meaning, but she wants to continue it a secret from everyone else. Too bad the discussion got out in one case it got to Harry.

  Sophie: We tin't tell everyone else most the baby, okay?
  Sam: I simply told Bill.
  Bill: Yeah, and I told Harry.
  Harry: And I told many, many people…

• Mythology Gag: During Harry and Donna's date, a pianist (ABBA's Benny Andersson) plays "Our Last Summertime" on the piano. This is the song that the two sing together in the stage musical.
• No Antagonist: Except mayhap time itself.
• Noodle Incident: Neb hoped that his blood brother won't tell the goat story while he sneaks to Sophie'southward yard opening. Guess what story he'southward well-nigh to tell at the award ceremony.
• Origins Episode: The film gives us a closer look at the events in Donna's life that were only alluded to in the original musical and film, about notably her relationships with Sam, Harry and Neb, too equally the germination of Donna and the Dynamos.
• Parental Substitute: Sofia, the woman who works at the bar Donna sings at becomes this for Donna. She gives Donna a chore and a identify to live, and rips Sam a new i for not telling Donna he was engaged. She also helped Donna requite birth to Sophie.
• Pair the Spares: Simply like the first moving-picture show, in the "Super Trouper" finale, whatever time a dad is paired with a dynamo, Harry and Tanya are together. This applies to both their young and old selves, so information technology's not probable a coincidence. Yet, this doesn't become anywhere, since Tanya actively pursues other men, and Harry in turn doesn't seem interested in her at all.
• Playing Gertrude:
  • Cher plays Donna'due south mother. The older Donna was played by Meryl Streep, who'due south only iii years younger. ^note However, at the time of production, Cher was at a perfectly plausible historic period to take a 25-year-one-time granddaughter born from a Teen Pregnancy; information technology's only an case because Streep was older than her character. Her father, meanwhile, is implied to be Señor Cienfuegos (Andy Garcia). Streep is vii years older than Garcia is.
  • Susanne Barkland, who played Bill's mother, is v years younger than Stellan Skarsgård.
  • Working from the timeline, Donna is forty in the get-go film. Streep was fifty-nine during production on the start film, and sixty-nine on the second where her character was 40-four as that's the age at which she died.
• Race for Your Beloved: Donna and Nib help a young fisherman do this, taking him on Bill's boat then he can end his dear from marrying a wealthier human being. It works.
• Really Gets Around: Nib, when he was younger. Sofia even says he has so many notches on his bedposts that the whole thing is in danger of collapsing. While she may accept been saying that to spite Sam, information technology'due south too implied to be the reason why Nib and Rosie broke up betwixt films - Beak tin't keep his penis in his pants...
• Retcon:
  • Donna's female parent Ruby wasn't seen in the first film but dialogue implied she was far more Holier Than 1000 ("it'due south Catholic guilt!") than the vain Rich Bowwow she is revealed to exist here. Information technology was as well unsaid she was dead ("Somebody upwards there has got it in for me. I bet information technology's my mother.") although that might just be Donna being out of the loop...
    • And probably considering Donna hadn't left the island for 12 years or so, and guessed that her mom was dead.
  • In the first film, Harry is said to have been a heavy metallic rocker in his younger days, which earned him the proper noun "Harry Headbanger". This movie'due south young Harry doesn't friction match that particular clarification.
• Rich Bitch: Donna'due south mom, Ruby. Not only did she throw Donna out when she got significant, but years later on shows up in her now developed granddaughter'due south life completely unwanted and uninvited.
• Running Gag:
  • Donna insisting she's not the sort of girl to sleep with a man she just met. And immediately correcting herself.
  • The ticket guy at the ferry booth critiquing the changes the diverse passengers brand to their appearance, every bit opposed to their passports and previous encounters. Except Harry.
• Series Romeo: Donna guesses Bill is this sort, and sums up the stardom between this trope and The Casanova. "One who falls in love every dark, but always falls out of it the next morning." Nevertheless, in that location's no evidence that Bill is actually like this... but plenty of evidence that Donna is. Takes one to know one, perchance?
• Settle for Sibling: Early, Tanya had the hots for Fernando. In the cease, she finds love with Fernando's recently widowed brother.
• Shout-Out: Posters of Boruto and JoJo'southward Bizarre Take a chance can be seen in Tokyo.
• So Bad, Information technology's Good: In-Universe: Young Donna's opinion of the ring on the isle. Everyone says they're terrible, and they are, but she loves them for it.
• Spit Have: When young Rosie tells Tanya she loves Bill and wants to have his babies – and wants to push him around in a wheelchair and scatter his ashes, Tanya does the well-nigh dignified version of this trope, spitting her drink back into her glass.
• The Stinger: The ferry employee yells after Harry, "If she [Donna] rejects you, give me a phone call." The actor and so turns to the camera and sings a few bars of "Take a Gamble on Me" before breaking down in giggles.

  Just shout "cutting" whenever you lot want.

• Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Donna passed away between the kickoff film and this one. Her spirit appears near the terminate though.
• Time-Shifted Histrion: While the offset film's cast all reprise their roles, this film adds Lily James as young Donna, Jeremy Irvine as young Sam, Hugh Skinner every bit young Harry, Josh Dylan as immature Beak, Alexa Davies equally immature Rosie, and Jessica Keenan Wynn as immature Tanya.
• Titled After the Song: Like the phase musical and the first picture show, it is titled afterward the song "Mamma Mia" but with an additional line.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Sophie's all-time friends Ali and Lisa are nowhere to be seen. The same can be said for Pepper and the Greek guy Harry danced abroad with at the end of the first moving picture.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Sofia gives one hell of a "The Reason You Suck" Speech communication to Sam for cheating on his fiancee, not telling Donna he was engaged, leaving her, and and then trying to come dorsum. Sam fully admits he deserved it.

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