Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)
Directed by Ol Parker
Five years after meeting her three fathers, Sophie Sheridan prepares to open her mother’s hotel. In 1979, young Donna Sheridan meets the men who each could be Sophie’s biological father.
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Parker is credited with the script, but shares story credit with Catherine Johnson, who did the original play and movie, and – more significantly – Richard Curtis, whose credits include “Four Weddings and a Funeral” and “Love, Actually.”
For Round Two, she collaborates with two of the wittiest, most blissfully benign scripters in Britain, if not the world—Richard Curtis ( Four Weddings and a Funeral and Love, Actually ) and Ol Parker ( The Best and Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel ).
Interestingly enough, Richard Curtis ( Love, Actually , Four Weddings and a Funeral , About Time ) rounds out the trio, and it’s very likely that most of the best moments in the movie are his.
His dialogue, on the other hand, is painfully contrived in a screenplay he wrote using a largely nonsensical story concocted with veteran Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral) and Mamma Mia’s original writer Catherine Johnson.
He co-wrote this one with Richard Curtis, whose combination of the upbeat and the self-deprecating has powered most of Britain's comedy hits of the past 24 years, starting with Four Weddings and a Funeral .
Here, young Harry’s tortuous use of French and charmingly gauche attempts at talking Donna into bed can’t help but evoke memories of Notting Hill and Four Weddings And A Funeral .
As Sophie's other two dads Harry and Bill, Colin Firth (2017's " Kingsman: The Golden Circle ") and Stellan Skarsgård (2015's " Avengers: Age of Ultron ") are good sports in smaller roles, giving their all during the large-scale, exquisitely mounted "Dancing Queen" number, which effectively bridges the second and third acts.In extended flashbacks, Lily James (2017's " Baby Driver ") is radiant and a terrific singer, to boot, as young Donna.
As Sophie's other two dads Harry and Bill, Colin Firth (2017's " Kingsman: The Golden Circle ") and Stellan Skarsgård (2015's " Avengers: Age of Ultron ") are good sports in smaller roles, giving their all during the large-scale, exquisitely mounted "Dancing Queen" number, which effectively bridges the second and third acts.In extended flashbacks, Lily James (2017's " Baby Driver ") is radiant and a terrific singer, to boot, as young Donna.