Review of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) by Viniciusbrito — 05 Nov 2018

After the passing away of Donna, Sophie, her daughter, tries to leverage the local place where they lived their entire lives, so she could make her mom proud once again. At the same time that Sophie go struggling in present time, we see Donna's young adult life, how she met all of the Sophie's fathers and her relationship with them, we see a lot of Donna adventures with her friends and love, so as her disappointments. Directed and Written by OL Parker.

We accompany two stories in two different times in parallel, present and past, these transitions normally worked out well, but there were some few times that it didn't felt much naturally between those two times. The story of Donna is very nice told in here, since the moment that she graduated the movie made it clear what she thought about the world and how she wanted her life to be like, during her relationship with other characters we can get to know her a little bit more each time, how kind she is and what she sees around things, they did a good job in evolving the character that we already know, or better building up to that one that Meryl did 10 years ago. The story of Sophie also works, it just isn't so interesting as Donna, but like they are mixing with the time, the thing about her moments is also a lot about the parents, wich was definely fun, how they hold up with their lifes is a interesting moment, there are some drama moments that I don't think that it worked in the best way, but mostly it was good.

The story brings discussions about maternity, how big is the connection with a mother even after a death, it did got some emotional moments where it did speak a lot.

A lot of the movie could be taken out into clips of music, like more than 50 per cent of it, it could be cutted out and be watched just by itself, and I gotta say that must of these clips are great, like damn, really great, some of these are so fun that can easily put your spirit up, some of these clips are completely fun, a completely delight to watch, not necessary are the most creatives ever, but the happiness that you see in the face of every single one that are in those dancing and singing moments are contagious. Lily James singing is fantastic, she is a great singer, everybody that got the shot to do some singing moments did a good job, the songs aren't original for the movie, bu they are very good, the creativity aren't very big in most of the clips, but they still pumped my spirit up, so it was good. The dancing sequences was a lot of fun and much of it because how much it did contagious me and how much different people was there, there were all kind of people there together and having fun, that was fantastic.

Lily James singing is fantastic, i'm glad that they are keeping her in those movies that requires that her character to sing, she as a singer really heat's my heart, in the acting part she is also very good, she could pass me the suffering in some moments, or the strange parts that she didn't knew what was happening as well, physically she is great, wich was nice in the dancing moments wich happened a lot with her, where she did a great job not just in the singing part, but also working with her expressions while doing it so together with the dance, she was fantastic. Amanda Seyfried had some really good emotional moments. Christine Baranski and Julie Walters are still very fun and a very nice duo with chemistry, so as the actresses that portray the younger verse of them, wich are Jessica Keenan Wynn and Alexa Davies, they did a very nice job and I completely bought that they were the same person. The 3 fathers so as they younger selves was also very nice, all of them did a good job, they were all fun and all sang well.

This movie fixed one problem that it had in the 2008 one, wich is the filter, that yellow and ugly filter is gone, and now we have a beutiful cinematography to see the island and the colors in a much better way. There were some sequences where the green screen was easily noticiable.

This one is definely better than the first one, it is so fun that will bring your spirit up, playing the songs from ABBA with some good moves and a very nice singing, there are some moments that are boring, some unnecessary telling, but overall it is a lot of fun.