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

Information technology's been five years afterward the events of the starting time picture and Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) is preparing a yard reopening of her female parent Donna's hotel, with the assistance of her mother's friends Tanya and Rosie (Christine Baranski and Julie Walters), the staff, too as hotel director Mr. Cienfuegos (Andy García), just she is worried that Sky (Dominic Cooper) will not arrive in time, and everything seems to be going wrong. A year before, her mother died and the hotel was being redecorated in her honour with a large guest list, reminding Rosie and Tanya about the struggles Donna had when she first got to the island. What follows is a series of flashbacks throughout post-obit younger Donna (Lily James) after she graduated with her friends, when she travelled around Europe, and when she met Sophie's three fathers: Sam (Jeremy Irvine), Beak (Josh Dylan) and Harry (Hugh Skinner).

Almost every member of the original bandage reprises their function from the kickoff; alongside the ones mentioned to a higher place, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgård reprise their roles every bit Sam, Harry and Beak respectively, while Cher appears as Sophie's estranged grandmother, Ruby.

Despite considerably better reviews than its predecessor, Here We Go Again, while still successful, grossed nigh $200 million less at the worldwide box office.

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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Once more contains examples of:

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

  Tanya: She's missing her homo.
  [Beat.]
  Rosie: Which 1?
  [Tanya, Rosie, and Donna all crevice up.]

• Adam Westing: Cher plays an exaggerated Rich Bitch and Colin Firth gets to chew the scenery.
• Accommodation Expansion: A larger-scale instance. Not simply is this an entirely new story that takes place afterwards the original musical, information technology greatly expands upon Donna's relationships, detailing major events that were only mentioned in the show and first film. Notably, it's shown that she had already met Harry (who she had already slept with) and Bill before meeting Sam, and even in Sam'due south case, she got to know him for a calendar week before finally sleeping with him; it's non until after Sam'due south departure that Donna gets to sleep with Bill. This explains why she wrote nearly 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, only arrives at the stop of the second act.
• Ambiguously Bi: Donna, whose first musical number is a gender-swapped performance of "When I Kissed the Teacher" nigh her kissing a female instructor total on the lips (which occurs on-screen) and getting a sexual thrill from information technology. She still sleeps with Harry, Sam and Pecker, of course.
• 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 top billing in the first picture, is credited this manner in the sequel.
• Babies Brand Everything Meliorate: You accept never seen anyone then happy to be a single mother, without so much as attempting to contact one of the three potential fathers to ask for child support.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Rosie and Tanya were around when Donna's mother told her to not come up dwelling house later on she got significant. Both of them are glaring daggers at her when she actually turns upward.
• Large Damn Reunion: Following "Dancing Queen", Sophie is reunited with Bill and Harry, and then gives Sky a running reunion hug and osculation.
• Bittersweet Ending:
  • Past storyline: A misunderstanding results in Donna pushing Sam away and another results in him not going back to her when he tries to leave his fiancé for Donna. As a result, Donna and Sam don't make up for over a decade. Even more heartbreaking as Sam is the simply i she truly fell in honey with as while she cared for Harry and Neb, information technology didn't go across simple trysts. That all said, Donna has Sophie though and resolves to requite her all she can past devoting her life to her.
  • Present storyline: Donna has been gone a few years and it's uncertain as to whether or non the hotel will be as successful equally she would have wanted, simply years before that, she and Sam reconciled and got married. Sophie as well reconciles with her grandmother Ruby, who in plough reunites with her long lost lover Fernando, Mr. Cienfuegos. Sophie likewise gives birth to a baby male child who she and Heaven will raise together.
• Blade-of-Grass Cut: During "I've Been Waiting for You lot", when Donna is shown about to give nativity to Sophie, in that location'south a cursory shot of an Eiffel Tower miniature on the nearby cabinet.
• Brick Joke: Whenever Donna is mentioned, Rosie starts crying uncontrollably. Virtually the finish when Rosie mentions Donna, Bill starts to weep with her comforting him.
• Bus Crash: Information technology's been a yr since Donna's death. Interestingly, nosotros never detect out how she died; this puzzled some viewers because she seemed to be in perfect health during the offset picture.
• Merely Not Too Gay: Fifty-fifty more than so than in the first. Harry'south homosexuality does not come up at all, he is not seen with any male honey involvement and his backstory focuses on his romance with Donna without giving whatsoever hint that the reason information technology was doomed to neglect was considering he was gay. Instead, it looks as though he was simply edged out by Donna's romances with Sam and Bill.
• Butt-Monkey: Harry takes a lot of abuse, both in the past and in the present.
• Canon Foreigner: Donna'south female parent/Sophie'southward grandmother Ruby (Cher) is a new grapheme who doesn't appear in the original Broadway musical. The offset film even unsaid that she was dead. ^annotation (Although given her history with her girl, this may have simply been a "dead to me" situation.)
• The Cavalry: A non-armed forces example, naturally; just equally it looks like the opening of the hotel will be a disaster, Bill and Harry arrive with an entire flotilla of guests to make it a success.
• Chekhov's Gunman: That guy Neb and Donna helped out in the flashbacks? Present day, he remembers Bill and nonetheless really appreciates what he did, so he gives Nib and Harry a ride to the island... and brings all his friends, as well, and so the hotel'south opening is a success.
• Comfort Food: Past Rosie suggests to give Donna some cakes to help her get over Sam, when she really wants to be with Bill. And so wanting to eat said cakes when Donna goes off with Bill instead. Present Rosie ponders whether carbs take always been her soulmate.
• Continued All Along: Mr. Cienfuegos, Sophie'south hotel manager, is her grandmother Crimson'southward long lost beloved, and thus unsaid to be her grandfather. She'southward flabbergasted to discover this out.
• Continuity Snarl: Has its own folio.
• The Cover Changes the Gender: The field of study of "When I Kissed the Teacher" is changed from male to female.
• The Cover 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 Truthful Love, having a revelation over their relationship or if they were a delighted stalker that had finally got their way), but the movie changed the lyrics nearly completely to be about how Sophie is looking forward to beingness a female parent.
  • Averted with "Andante, Andante", which was originally about playing the pianoforte, only the lyrics unsaid otherwise anyway. The motion picture exploits this equally Donna sings information technology flirtily to Sam a few days into their relationship.
  • Non only is the same "When I Kissed the Teacher" repurposed to be a vocal about youths finding freedom instead of a Instructor/Student Romance, we also accept "Waterloo", which was originally about a woman accepting the fact that she'll never escape a terrible relationship, and is repurposed to be nigh Harry "surrendering" to his newfound trounce on Donna and confessing his feelings to her to get her to accept his virginity.
  • "My Love, My Life" is originally nearly realizing you're about to break upwards for good, only here, it's virtually how much your mother yet loves you, fifty-fifty in death.
  • Played With with "The Day Earlier You Came". It has always been an unconfirmed fan theory that the "you" in the song might not be a love interest, only Expiry. Streep, whose character died unexpectedly betwixt films, sings it on the soundtrack.
• Creator Cameo: Two cameos from members of the original group:
  • Björn every bit i of the teachers onstage when Donna gives her valedictorian speech.
  • Benny plays piano in the Paris restaurant during the "Waterloo" number.
• Dark Reprise: Sam quietly sings "SOS", the song he and Donna sang a duet to in the first film, while looking at pictures of her subsequently her expiry.
• Deadpan Snarker: Sofia, the older Greek woman Donna bonds with. On the topic of the bar her son owns.

  He had to purchase a bar, considering no other bar would let his band play.

• Disappeared Dad: It turns out that Donna as well had 1. It is heavily implied this was Fernando.
• Distant Duet: Heaven and Sophie sing "Ane of Us" while she'southward notwithstanding in Greece and he's in New York.
• Double-Pregnant Championship: Triple-Meaning, in this case. "Hither We Become Once again!" is 1) an obvious reference to the lyric from the titular vocal, ii) a nod to the fact that the picture show is a direct sequel, and 3) a reference to Sophie's pregnancy predicament playing out similarly to her mother'southward.
• Downtime Downgrade: Beak and Rosie bankrupt upwardly in between films, but they rekindle their human relationship while grieving over Donna.
• Easily Forgiven: Despite never being there for Donna, allow alone Sophie, Sophie does allow Ruby-red into her life. Non earlier calling her out on it though.
• Anxiety-First Introduction: Doubles equally an Establishing Graphic symbol Moment. In the by, the first shot of Donna we run across is of her walking quickly in her sparkly platform boots, tardily for her ain graduation.
• Flashback B-Plot: The story virtually Sophie is interspersed with flashbacks following younger Donna (as played past Lily James) after she graduated with her friends, when she traveled effectually Europe, and when she met Sophie'south 3 fathers.
• Gay Romantic Stage: Implied betwixt the fact that Donna sings "When I Kissed the Instructor" to a female professor during her fourth dimension at college, and the fact that she never exhibits whatever romantic interest in women later graduation.
• Generation Xerox: Sophie gets significant at a young age only like her female parent, and thanks to the magic of flashbacks, we get to see simply how closely their stories mirror each other.
• Envy Monster: Turns out Rosie liked Bill even dorsum then and was incredibly jealous of Donna.

  Tanya: He can help her feel ameliorate.
  Rosie: Do you know what makes me feel amend when my heart's cleaved? Cake. Why doesn't she just practise that instead. But eat humongous amounts of cake and leave hot Scandi guy to me.

• Hairstyle Inertia: Applies to Tanya and Rosie, who go along their bob and pixie cut (respectively) in the flashbacks and the present day.
• Happy Catastrophe Override: After Donna and Sam finally reunited, cleared up their misunderstandings and got married at the cease of the first film, they merely had a few short years together earlier her death. Ditto to an extent for Sophie, who gained her three dads, but merely a few years after lost her mother.
• I Was Quite the Looker: The ferry worker saying Bill has not aged well since the concluding time he saw him. In contrast, he said Harry has aged like vino and cheese.
• Iconic Outfit: Donna'southward blue overalls, as usual. We even get to see where she got them in a flashback.
• Ivy League for Anybody: It's revealed that Donna was valedictorian of her form at Oxford. Nevermind that universities in the UK don't have valedictorians...
• Jukebox Musical: True to the Broadway musical and the 2008 film, Here We Become Again features more of ABBA's greatest hits as its musical numbers, including songs like "Angel Eyes" and "When I Kissed the Instructor", "Knowing Me, Knowing Y'all", "Fernando", too as a few that weren't really hits, like "Kisses of Fire", "My Love, My Life" and a bit of "Arrival".
• Karma Houdini: Ruby. She was a terrible female parent, refused to let Donna return home afterwards she got pregnant with Sophie, and generally didn't continue in contact with either of them over the years. Sophie tells her off just ultimately forgives her and she even reunites with her long-lost beloved. 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.
• Concluding Guy Wins: Sam was the last man Donna met in the flashbacks and the one she ultimately ended upward with.
• Love Theme: In the restaurant before "Waterloo", the piano is softly playing "Our Last Summer".
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Is Sophie only imagining Donna at her son's christening, or is her spirit really there? The pic seems to lean towards the latter, only it could exist taken either way.
• Mood Whiplash: The utterly heartwrenching scene in which Sophie and Donna sing "My Dearest, My Life" to one another is immediately followed by the entire cast singing and dancing happily along to the very upbeat and fun "Super Trouper".
• Forenoon Sickness: How Donna and Sophie realize she'due south significant.
• The Mountains of Illinois: The starting time shot of Donna arriving in Paris after her graduation has her instead arriving... on the Place de la Bourse in Bordeaux, which is much, much farther downward Due south and as such very easily distinguishable from Paris. Needless to say that interruption of disbelief would not have worked on a French viewer.
• My Surreptitious Pregnancy: Downplayed. Sophie does tell Tanya, Rosie and Sam that she's pregnant, but she wants to keep information technology a secret from everyone else. Too bad the give-and-take got out once information technology got to Harry.

  Sophie: Nosotros can't tell anybody else about the baby, okay?
  Sam: I just told Bill.
  Bill: Yep, and I told Harry.
  Harry: And I told many, many people…

• Mythology Gag: During Harry and Donna's date, a pianist (ABBA'south Benny Andersson) plays "Our Last Summer" on the piano. This is the song that the two sing together in the phase musical.
• No Antagonist: Except perhaps time itself.
• Noodle Incident: Bill hoped that his brother won't tell the goat story while he sneaks to Sophie's grand opening. Guess what story he's about to tell at the award ceremony.
• Origins Episode: The picture show gives us a closer wait at the events in Donna's life that were only alluded to in the original musical and film, most notably her relationships with Sam, Harry and Beak, also as 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 job and a place to live, and rips Sam a new 1 for non telling Donna he was engaged. She as well helped Donna give birth to Sophie.
• Pair the Spares: Just like the first 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 erstwhile selves, and then it's not likely a coincidence. However, this doesn't go anywhere, since Tanya actively pursues other men, and Harry in turn doesn't seem interested in her at all.
• Playing Gertrude:
  • Cher plays Donna's mother. The older Donna was played past Meryl Streep, who's only 3 years younger. ^note However, at the fourth dimension of production, Cher was at a perfectly plausible historic period to have a 25-yr-old granddaughter born from a Teen Pregnancy; it's only an example because Streep was older than her character. Her father, meanwhile, is implied to exist Señor Cienfuegos (Andy Garcia). Streep is seven years older than Garcia is.
  • Susanne Barkland, who played Bill's female parent, is 5 years younger than Stellan Skarsgård.
  • Working from the timeline, Donna is forty in the outset film. Streep was 50-nine during production on the first pic, and sixty-nine on the second where her character was forty-four as that'due south the historic period at which she died.
• Race for Your Dear: Donna and Bill aid a young fisherman practice this, taking him on Beak'southward gunkhole and then he tin finish his beloved from marrying a wealthier man. Information technology works.
• Really Gets Around: Bill, 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 have been saying that to spite Sam, it's also implied to exist the reason why Bill and Rosie broke up betwixt films - Beak can't proceed his penis in his pants...
• Retcon:
  • Donna's mother Ruby wasn't seen in the first film but dialogue implied she was far more Holier Than K ("it's Catholic guilt!") than the vain Rich Bitch she is revealed to be hither. It was too implied she was dead ("Somebody up there has got it in for me. I bet it's my female parent.") although that might just exist Donna being out of the loop...
    • And probably because Donna hadn't left the island for 12 years or so, and guessed that her mom was dead.
  • In the first pic, Harry is said to have been a heavy metal rocker in his younger days, which earned him the proper name "Harry Headbanger". This picture'due south young Harry doesn't match that item description.
• Rich Bitch: Donna'southward mom, Ruby. Not only did she throw Donna out when she got pregnant, only years later shows up in her now developed granddaughter'south life completely unwanted and uninvited.
• Running Gag:
  • Donna insisting she'southward non the sort of daughter 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 make to their appearance, as opposed to their passports and previous encounters. Except Harry.
• Serial Romeo: Donna guesses Bill is this sort, and sums up the stardom between this trope and The Casanova. "Ane who falls in love every night, but always falls out of information technology the next morn." Notwithstanding, in that location's no evidence that Nib is actually like this... just plenty of bear witness that Donna is. Takes one to know one, peradventure?
• Settle for Sibling: Early on, Tanya had the hots for Fernando. In the end, she finds honey with Fernando's recently widowed brother.
• Shout-Out: Posters of Boruto and JoJo's Bizarre Take a chance tin can be seen in Tokyo.
• So Bad, It'southward Good: In-Universe: Young Donna's stance of the band on the island. Everyone says they're terrible, and they are, but she loves them for it.
• Spit Take: When immature Rosie tells Tanya she loves Neb and wants to have his babies – and wants to push him effectually in a wheelchair and scatter his ashes, Tanya does the almost dignified version of this trope, spitting her drink dorsum into her glass.
• The Stinger: The ferry employee yells after Harry, "If she [Donna] rejects you, give me a call." The thespian then turns to the camera and sings a few bars of "Accept a Run a risk on Me" before breaking downward in giggles.

  Just shout "cut" whenever you want.

• Sudden Sequel Decease Syndrome: Donna passed abroad between the first film and this one. Her spirit appears nearly the finish though.
• Fourth dimension-Shifted Player: While the first motion-picture show'south cast all reprise their roles, this film adds Lily James as young Donna, Jeremy Irvine every bit immature Sam, Hugh Skinner as young Harry, Josh Dylan equally young Bill, Alexa Davies equally young Rosie, and Jessica Keenan Wynn as young Tanya.
• Titled After the Song: Like the stage musical and the first film, it is titled after the song "Mamma Mia" only with an additional line.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Sophie's best friends Ali and Lisa are nowhere to exist seen. The same can be said for Pepper and the Greek guy Harry danced abroad with at the finish of the showtime motion-picture show.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Sofia gives one hell of a "The Reason You Suck" Spoken language to Sam for adulterous on his fiancee, not telling Donna he was engaged, leaving her, then trying to come up back. Sam fully admits he deserved it.

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