'Mama Mia! Here We Go Again' is the sequel to 2008's box office smash 'Mama Mia!' and follows the same template of setting a plot to as many ABBA songs as the makers can squeeze in. With most, if not all, the most popular tunes having already been used in the original film this sequel has to make do with a number of lesser known numbers interspersed occasionally with the big hits like the title number, Dancing Queen and Waterloo. As it turns out even the lesser known ABBA tunes are...well...very tuneful.
The credits list no fewer than six writers including Richard Curtis who is the inspiration behind some of the most successful British comedies of recent times so it is puzzling that they have produced such a bland plot and more puzzling still that much of the script is lame.
However the sunny scenery and ABBA's infectious melodies eventually carry the day and the film ends on a high with its final scene and end credits.
✮✮½
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