Movie Review
'Mamma Mia!' sequel: 'Here We Go Again', but do we really want to?
The second ABBA movie is guaranteed to find enough of an audience to rake in some serious box-office cash despite the fact it's just more of the same
It's been 10 years since Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan and friends brought the ABBA jukebox musical smash to screen and so here we are again. Now there are those for whom such a pop-hit vehicle reminder of the eternal power of Sweden's greatest export (after perhaps Volvo and IKEA) will come as a welcome, joyfully overstuffed escapist reminder of all the good things in life.
For me, once was more than enough and so it's less Mamma Mia! than Oy Vey: are we really going to have to endure this again?
It's a rhetorical question obviously, because there's no stopping ABBA founders and chief songwriters Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson as they've sifted through what back catalogue is left after the first outing to provide music for this version, which stands on its own as a film outside the universe of the multibillion-dollar grossing musical show.
Fear not ABBA fans - all those toe-tapping, heart-warming earworms you missed hearing Brosnan butcher in the first film are ready to whet your easy-to-appease aural appetites this time.
WATCH | The Trailer for Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again..
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