Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again (Musical Hell Review #91)
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I'm still upset that they retconned "Headbanger" Harry's past. I'm okay with him being awkward, but he should have been a British punk rocker :(
I wish the dads had been played by Colin/Pierce/Stellan in their Party City wigs and costumes like in the first movie lmao
@@p0lyxena OH MY GOD YES
No way did the writers even watch the first one
he was wearing a sex pistoles shirt in paris I guess.
Oh my god you’re right 😂
Honestly, that title is probably one of the most fitting sequel titles.
Dunes8 and you know the lyrics 😅
Oh yes, this film. Or as The Simpsons called it: "Pappa Pia! The story continues because ABBA has more songs."
I remember thinking its like they were bragging about how inevitably derivative this sequel would be
I get the feeling the title was a warning for all of us.
yeah you're right
Personally, I refused to watch the movie when the trailer itself revealed Donna's mother to be alive in the first place. I did not mind the fact that Cher makes it look as if Donna was born when her mother was 3 years old (I can suspend disbelief to an extremely large extent and would be more than happy to pretend that her mother just looks as young as Donna due to plastic surgery). But one line that stayed with me when I watched the show onstage and when I watched the first movie was Donna telling her friends that "Somebody up there has got it in for me. I bet it's my mother" which clearly suggests that her mother was dead and she couldn't have possibly made an appearance as a living human being in the second movie. Discontinuity at its finest. They should have presented Cher as a sister or a cousin of Donna's.
NorthStar8211 Turns our her mom was just hiding upstairs
Legit the SAME issue I had. The entire movie I was sitting there thinking "they said she was dead in the first movie!!!"
Fun fact, I mixed up Amanda Seyfried and Lily James so much that I would judge whether this was a flashback or present day by whether Rosie's hair had gone white
Indeed, I often got confused by the constant jumping back and forth between timelines, that I too relied on Rosie's hair as a clue! 😅
It's as if they put effort into finding a contrivance that would be really confusing - then the spot-on casting takes it to another level!
You gotta admit naming him Fernando was better than Strawberry Fields from Sgt. Pepper’s since it’s at least a real name
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Hey now, I went to college with a girl named Strawberry. It was her middle name, but she used it in preference to Mary. Her sister's middle name was Holly, and their brother had some plant-themed middle name as well.
Rich McGee But it doesn’t sound like a double entendre fit for James Bond does it?
@@douglasfreer Valid point. Bond did bring us Pussy Galore, in conjunction with what might be the series' most problematic scene ever.
Or the disaster that is We Will Rock You's Galileo and Scaramouche which, while names, are some pretty glaring setups.
I really like the last song where Sophie sings with Donna. The mother daughter relationship really is the best thing in these movies
Yes, I adore Meryl and Amanda's mother/daughter chemistry. I honestly got emotional watching them duet "My Love, My Life". 😢❤️
I can't help bawling my eyes out every time I watch it
Definitely not my thing, but I’ll give the sequel this: it has an interesting idea for a plot. A main character from the previous straight up died in between movies, and the movie alternates between her past and her daughter also becoming a mom in the present. I think that’s actually a neat setup. A setup that happened because of not wanting to pay for the mother’s actress again, but a neat setup nonetheless.
Scriptwriting from adversity!
Cher's character ruined this movie for me.
The Mamma Mia movies are all about Donna and Sophie and exploring their lives and experiences. Donna's Catholic mother who disowned her for getting pregnant out of wedlock was the reason Donna ended up staying on the island in the first place. Sophie is so devoted to Donna *because* she knows Donna struggled to raise her and run a business alone. Donna is so fiercely independent and refuses to rely on others for help *because* she had no one to turn to when she was younger.
Yet in the sequel, she turns up nonchalantly with no real remorse for missing the first 25 years of Sophie's life, or for *missing her own child's funeral.* Not because of Sophie, or because of Donna's death, but because SKY finally convinced her (offscreen!!). She even tells Sophie "being a grudge holder makes you fat." She is the WORST character and her presence in the movie completely ruined it for me. I don't really care about all the continuity errors, but having the woman who caused so much difficulty and pain for the main characters get to come back and have her own sympathetic subplot and happy ending without working for it FLOORED me. That's not a grandmother/great-grandmother, that's an egg donor. They couldn't have written Cher ANY other character????
Proposal: Cher in the role as Donna’s estranged sister who stuck with their mother when Donna was disowned, but she came to regret it after she gets out from under her mother’s thumb and leans about life outside of her strict Catholic upbringing. In the intervening years, a combination of guilt, thinking Donna will be too angry to see her, and not knowing how to even find Donna has kept her away, but she finally finds some promotional material for the hotel and at last steels herself to visit and try to make amends. When she arrives, she is of course heart-broken to find out that Donna died, but she vows to fix the family rift by being there for her niece and new great-niece and shares tender stories of her and Donna growing up. Fernando can even be the guy she once rejected out of fear of her mother’s judgement, but she no longer feels shame for her feelings towards him and wants to reconcile.
@@Cheezbuckets thank you so much for commenting this because your idea is perfect, and i got to rage over this one specific thing all over again. what a wasted opportunity!
Getting publicly shamed for unironically liking "Mamma Mia: Here we go again" is my kink
Honestly, this movie should have just been a prequel.
I could've gotten behind that. I was way more interested in Donnas story than Sophies anyway.
The film makers couldn't choose which one. So they went with This is Us route
And it would give a more solid explenation to why Meryl isn't in the movie other than Meryl doesn't do sequels or Donna died
Harry gets a side plot where the dude at the dock flirts with him. There’s a post credits scene where they complete it. Though I would understand someone forgetting that since it is only like two scenes
Seriously what I need in my life is Mamma Mia 3 “Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again. My My”
Drew Stutz ok that’s hilarious
eventually there have been so many sequels it's just all the lyrics
How could we resist it?
4th entry: Mamma Mia Now I Really Know My My I Should Not Have Let You Go
Cut to 2096 when the title’s the whole song
...can I just say that it is RIDICULOUSLY appropriate for this show to be sponsored by a Black Butler parody?
Yes! Yes you can! 😀
TheHeroOfTomorrow How so?
@@johnvinals7423 ...demons?
TheHeroOfTomorrow I haven’t seen “Black Butler”.
I'm kind of glad they did, I'm something of a fan of abridging projects and had missed that one till now.
I am just dissapointed Bill's younger self wasn't played by one of Stellan's many sons (seriously, four of them are actors!), of which one is literally named Bill.
IKR???
Bill Skarsgård is like 30 years old??
@@morcellemorcelle618 Well, he can pass for much younger. After all, actors don't have to be the exact same age as their characters, especially when they are in they 20s-early 30s, since people usually don't change that much during this period.
@@tereziamarkova2822 yeah, that was my point..
You know you listen to too many musicals when you recognize the woo sound affect as a clip from Catherine Howard's song in Six
I feel the acting in general makes this movie. Yes, Lily James is the standout, but I feel everyone in the cast managed to make even the more ridiculous parts of the movie feel at least somewhat genuine. I was particularly impressed with Amanda Seyfried (who nails this more grounded and mature Sophie who feels the weight of her mother's legacy on her shoulders, so much so that I found myself rooting for her, which I never was in the original film) and Pierce Brosnan (his grieving Sam was very moving and even that little bit that he sings, he does it a way in which it's clear he's singing to himself rather than an audience, which works quite well for the emotions of the moment). I also feel the comedy works better here and I think that was mostly Richard Curtis' contributions (this is the writer of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Love Actually after all).
Isaac Richter This felt way more genuine and accomplished as a fun romp way more than the first which felt both bland and annoying.
Pierce's own experiences (losing both his wife and his stepdaughter to ovarian cancer) probably contributed to the authenticity of his performance.
Jennifer Schillig Did that seriously happen around the time of filming or was it confirmed by him personally that those events helped to inspire his performance for that scene?
@@DieHardAlien I don't think he's ever confirmed it, but I'd imagine it was on his mind. His first wife passed in 1992 and her daughter in 2013. :-(
@@jenniferschillig3768 I wouldn't be surprised by either answer.
Am I the only one who thinks it is odd that Donna and her friends have the exact same hair cuts for over 30 years?
That to me is more unrealistic than Grandfather Fernando reuniting with Grandma Cher. I don't know anyone who's had the same haircut their entire life.
It's probably more to help the audience connect who's who across the time gap instead of be realistic. Otherwise they would have to stop and establish who's who. It's easier for the brain to go "oh, young young brunette with the sharp bob and the old brunette with the bob are the same person!" when the rest of the plot is happening.
Mamma Mia 1: 54% on Rotten Tomatoes, 51/100 on Metacritic
Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again: 80% on Rotten Tomatoes, 61/100 on Metacritic
Did the removal of Ear-Piercing Bronsan's singing have anything to do with this?
Probably 😂
Couldn't hurt.
There's some other stuff that was improved an a technical level, but minimizing the time Brosnan tries to sing probably helped.
@@timothymclean Also Lily James being really charming.
It didn't hurt and honestly I felt the one time they did have him sing was surprisingly effective. I'd probably give most of the credit to Lily James and the director and honestly I thought it was for the best that they limited the focus to the present day stuff
So...this is basically “The Godfather Part II” with the whole parallel past/present plots? Actually, wouldn’t it be hilarious to remake “The Godfather” with ABBA songs?
Godfather 2, this movie is not.
I can't believe this movie only came out two years ago. It looks twenty years old.
Maybe it could look twenty years old if it weren't in ludicrously high definition
Me neither, it looks like it would be more at home in the early 2000's. Interestingly enough, the first movie WAS set in 2000, while the sequel takes place in 2005.😊
@@grahamhaggerty2132 Fair point. I was watching this in 360p so I didn't really notice that.
I would be on-board with a third movie where the Addams Family shows up at the hotel.
YES, that would greatly entertaining, and would be all the more improved, in some ways! 😁🕸️🕷️
Tanya and Morticia would be immediate friends, I can feel it. They have such similar aesthetics.
Don’t let Wednesday or Pugsley near the baby...
Or better, Tanya's Identical Cousin, power lawyer Diane Lockhart.
It'd be nice to see them but I wish Raul Julia was still alive... He was a great Gomez. :(
In theory, the half sequel/half prequel _MAMMA MIA!_ PART 2: HERE WE GO AGAIN shouldn't work. The scenes in the past show us things we were already told by the characters in the previous movie, with a couple of continuity errors (for example, the younger versions of the 3 boyfriends aren't dressed as hippies nor rock & roll fans). The scenes in present day have a couple of conflicts that, from the beginning of the movie, you can tell will be solved in the easiest way possible. As it happens with many sequels made 10 or more years later, we're shown a new chapter in the characters' lives, even if there's not a new arc, which should be the real reason to continue the story. But you know what? Thanks to the performances (mainly Lily James'), the songs and the humor, the sense of fun is more contagious than ever! The musical numbers are more visually creative this time around. It's disappointing that they use some songs that were already sung in the 1st installment, but the new cover of the title song is the best I've heard since the A*Teens version (shut up, I'm a 90s kid). Most people agreed that Pierce Brosnan was the worst singer so, this time, he only sings alone once and it's while his character is on the edge of crying. It works because he's not asked to go beyond his vocal range and because (again) he focuses on the emotion. It's heart-wrenching. You'd think that Cher (the only cast member with a music career) would be the best singer of the franchise. Especially since she's the voice behind IF I COULD TURN BACK TIME and THE SHOOP SHOOP SONG (not that I don't like BELIEVE, but the excessive autotune doesn't help me prove my point). However, she's among the weakest. She's not terrible or anything, but I didn't expect her to sound like her mouth was filled with walnuts. There's a plot twist in the last part where 2 characters are revealed to have met before. Have you seen BUBBLE BOY? I don't think it's a good movie overall (and I know most people agree with me), but there's one element in it that I think it's great, which is why the movie can easily come to mind when talking about plot twists. Yes, that movie does this type of twist too, but it's not meant to be just a surprise. The revelation shows that one of the characters has hidden layers, so it's a form of development. You'd expect the movie to have a scene of the protagonist discovering this information, so the character development can be spoon-fed to the audience... but no. It's surprisingly subtle. Back to this movie. This twist doesn't work because it happens like 2 minutes after 1 of the characters is introduced, so we don't know them. We also didn't get to really know the other character by this point, despite appearing a few times before. We don't know how this reencounter affects their lives. Actually, both installments have this "We have to give as many main characters as possible a love interest by the end" attitude, even if that doesn't contribute anything.
8/10
The younger castings were the best I’ve ever seen. Jessica Keenan Wynn (Ed Wynn’s great-granddaughter and the original Heather Chandler in Heathers: The Musical) was *perfect* as a young Christine Baranski, and Lily James worked so well as a young Meryl Streep. And as a fan of Hugh Skinner and Jeremy Irvine, I loved them being young Harry and young Sam. This movie is Not Good, but every so often these actors made acting choices that made me really enjoy watching them. It’s a fun movie, even if it threw out details already established in the first one. I enjoy watching it with friends and laughing about it.
During hard times, even the circles of Hell are adamant about providing entertainment to keep the mortals at home.
“My love, my life” deserved more recognition
I think the most egregious thing to me is how the wardrobes are still dripping in horrible early 2000's fashion trends and this movie didn't even come out long enough ago to justify itself for that
crowheads I heard that the movie takes place in the 90’s.
Wait, didn't the first movie explicitly say the order was Sam, Bill, Harry? With Sam coming back to the island to try and get together but going back to his fiancee once he heard Donna was with someone else? This seems like an especially bad thing to just forget about.
Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again is one of the most fun movies I've ever seen
totally agree
Wasn’t expecting this today but I am happy for it. Diva really knows how to provide excellent quarantine entertainment. Stay safe and healthy, everyone.
Ah just what I need during this quarantine: A bad movie being torn to shreds.
Well in my case, I am fine with this movie and this being torn to shred...
Then again "Bella Donna" does mean "Beautiful Woman"
"In songform" and its, very appropriate use, had shades "I'm losing to a bird!" for me, dunno why :)
What can I say? Abusable Disney quotes make decent running jokes. The studio knows how to construct a memorable moment. (And also other stuff.)
The "woooo" from All You Wanna Do took me so off guard lmao
I literally stopped dead in my tracks when you played that SIX clip, it was too good!
@Ugfea 14:32
Rule number one of the Mamma Mia Cinematic Universe: Do NOT try and make sense of the timeline/reported sequence of events
I feel this sequel came and went so fast that barley anybody even noticed it came out .
And yet domestically it made only slightly less than the first movie.
Ah, yes, the movie musical sequel every Musical Hell fan has been eagerly waiting for.
_opens metaphorical window_
_"Descendants 3 when?"_
_closes metaphorical window_
Well, _I've_ wanted to see her review this ever since I heard it existed. Mama Mia was Diva's first solid review, after all; this isn't just a chance to mock the next entry in a series of bland movie musicals, it's a chance to see how far she's come as a reviewer.
I think she might be putting D3 off at the moment, particularly with what happened with Cameron Boyce.
(For those who don't know, he died of an epileptic seizure in his sleep, aged 20)
@@bellatrixlestrange3212 Oof. I wasn't advocating her to rush it so much as trying to parody people who were, but...that's a very good reason to delay. Yikes.
@@timothymclean Yeah. If she does still do it, I think she should put a link to the Cameron Boyce Foundation in the description of the video, it's a charity in his honour and don't condemn any of the actors at the end, and maybe put a tribute at the end too like an RIP Cameron Boyce sorta thing.
@@bellatrixlestrange3212 I always prefer the punishments that get levied against characters. They usually deserve it; with a few exceptions, the creators are just trying to create stuff under capitalism.
@@timothymclean Yeah, I appreciate her normally punishing the writers cause 9 times out of 10, its not their fault (best example of this being Riverdale- Good actors, horrendous writing) I watch these as someone who writes plays, as things not to do when writing!
Also whilst I agree on the Descendants critiques, is it bad that it's a HUGE guilty pleasure for me? I loved the first one when I was 10 and it's just nostalgic for me, no matter how bad I know they are.
(Please don't Damn me to hell Diva)
As someone who has been in 'Joseph' and has seen it multiple times due to my family's habit of ending up in productions of it, I'm already so excited to see your review of it.
I can't argue with the men falling madly in love with young Donna because I too am in love with Lily James.
I've been having a massive crush on Lily James as well
The "Parisian accordion" is an instrumental of ABBA's I Let the Music Speak, which is a FANTASTIC song. There are a lot of underrated ABBA songs overall, but sure, let's have another Dancing Queen.
The one thing that REALLY irritated me is the background music. It’s like they threw ABBA’s catalogue into a blender.
The first film I swear was like Moulin Rouge all over again.
@@thecinematicmind Moulin Rouge is a masterpiece compared to Mamma Mia (and in general)
@@limalepakko6074 At least Mamma doesn't take itself too seriously I think. Moulin Rouge in my onion takes it self WAY too seriously, while still having weak writing.
I went with my grandmother and my aunt to see the first Mama Mia when it came to theatres and then after my grandmother's death in 2012 I went to see Here We Go Again with my aunt, younger cousin, and my mother who fell asleep halfway into the movie. My grandmother raised me after winning legal guardianship in court when I was a baby due and had raised me all the way from 1997 to 2012 and was more of a mom to me than the woman that gave birth to me, and I have to say Sophie seeing Donna's ghost at the end actually made me cry so I honestly cannot find it in me to hate these movies.
Donna passing away from "we-didn't-wanna-pay-Merryl-Streep-for-more-than-a-cameo disease" gave me the best laugh I've had all week.
My wife is a big fan of the stage musical Mamma Mia and she HATED that movie. I asked her if she was going to see this with her girlfriends who were planning on seeing it. She said she'd rather listen to my Judas Priest albums on high volume for 90 minutes as it would be just as annoying and she would save the cost of admission.
Honestly I really liked Mamma Mia 2, if only because the Meryl Steepe made me cry like a baby
Yeah, the promos totally lied to me - I thought the main plot was going to be hilarious generation gap rows between Sophie and her grandma!
In 2028 I'm confident we'll see 'Mamma Mia 3: My My'.
Interesting to see this sequel, despite not being that different from the first, was much more warmly received.
What a difference a non-singing Pierce Brosnan and a plot without idiocy make.
They would've hired Meryl, but Meryl Streep is very open about not doing sequels.
Mama Mia: Aw Sh*t, Here We Go Again
Hahahahahaha, good one!
Say, didn’t I come up with that pun before you?
Ah well, Mamma Mia is a duology that needs a satire.
"I mean, sure, we got Cher to sing Fernando, but at what cost"
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Colin Firth bondage is the saving grace in both these movies
"Skye's and Sophie's relationship is saved..."
Katherine Howard:.....woo.
Love it
Thanks for the quarantine content Diva.
Also you're doing Joseph next. For me, that was the first musical I listened to and got obsessed with. I'll be very excited and interested to hear your thoughts on it.
This must be another request from Patreon, because I'm a JOSEPH fan, myself. Word on the street is Andrew Lloyd Webber is going to do an animated version, with Elton John's production company backing it.
Andy Leclerc Really? That’d be cool!
@@jacobbelow4136 Saw it first on Playbill.com, of course, with the current situation, it may be pushed back, especially since Playbill's story mentioned a new song...recording vocals right now is a virtual impossibility
I would rather watch this sequel anyday over the first film. This sequel while flawed at least was shot and written as an actual film musical.
That and just it’s honestly absurdly hilarious how haphazardly incorporated the songs in this one are. Some of them were so abrupt, it felt like getting punched in the face (in a good way). All of Cher’s scene in particular were a special blend of “where in the hell did that come from!?” crazy.
Am I the only one noticing that by this film's timeline, Cher and Andy Garcia would have to be *at least* 20 years older than Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard, Pierce Brosnan, Christine Baranski and Julie Walters? Not even a slight attempt at make-up department?
That annoyed me too! They should've just made Cher Meryl's sister, it wouldn't have changed things much "plot" wise and would've been way less confusing. (Although they did give Cher a cane and white hair and seemed to put white hair in Garcia's beard but that was pretty much the only attempt they made at making them look old).
I have Danse macabre in my car's sound collection and nowadays I can't start hearing it without expecting the "Greetings Mortals, welcome to another section of the infernal court in Musical hell, I'm Diva, your judge, jury executioner..."
8:50 “A saving grace should really be something that enriches a movie by its presence rather than by its absence.”
That’s a saying that could be shared around in more areas of life. Like whenever kids try to claim that they’re deserving of getting presents from Santa just because they didn’t do any misdeeds.
Wait wait. Is this film saying that the main trio of the dynamos went and graduated top of their class....FROM OXFORD.!?!.?!
You basically summarized it perfectly. I was expecting what was supposed to be a prequel, and instead we got a botched up sequel that seems to forget it was a sequel in the first place. Sure it’s better than the first one, but it was still robbery on the audience’s part.
Also, I know it’s quite the stretch, but I hope you can review Jack & the Beanstalk sometime (the Japanese 1974 version). It’s not a bad movie, just a weird film with equally weird musical numbers, that I’m sure even you’d find it hard to negatively review lol.
I LOVE Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again. In fact, I prefer it over the first one.
Did you also love the fact that they sing the lyric, "Young and sweet, only seventeen..." and no one on screen is seventeen...
🤣
I'm excited for the Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat review
Your content's always entertaining! Hope you, your family, & friends all stay safe until this finally blows over!
WE WANT CATS!!!! WE WANT CATS!!!! I swear this channel was the first thing I thought of when the reviews started coming out.
Ooh, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is next. I was forced to watch a show for a class and I was incredibly bored. I was so disappointed by what they did with the Benjamin and the cup scene. Joseph's brothers offering themselves in place of their brother because they didn't want to lose another one, then Joseph revealing himself to them was always a really powerful emotional moment in other adaptations. But Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice decided "cheesy cod reggae is perfect for this moment!" Even the MANGA adaptation of the Bible got the tone right.
Diva may be a demon but every new musical hell episode is a straight up blessing from heaven
Your sheer burning hatred for Pierce Brosnan's singing is one of my favorite things right now.
I think we need a Bad Singing in Musicals Gauge, like a one-to-ten scale of "Patrick Wilson in Phantom of the Opera" to "Gerard Butler in Phantom of the Opera" with Pierce as the beyond the pale Up To Eleven Option.
I was in Mamma Mia and I’ve both of these movies. The first half of this movie would be the second act of a stage show, and all these flashbacks would be the first act.
Oh ok
Fun fact, Mamma MIa and Madagascar 2 released the same week and made it to the top 50 highest grossing movies of all time list, where they remained side-to-side until they eventually left the list thanks to the sleuth of superhero movies. I have no idea why I mentioned that, but now you know.
Next Case: Joseph and the Technicolor dream coat.
Uh oh. I am fond of this musical.
13:30 TFW you fly from New York to try to win back a (possibly half Latina?) British lady but get told she’s dating Scandinavian guy and a lecture in Indian philosophy from an old Greek lady.
You know what's interesting here? The sequel has two songs that were in the original Stage production of Mamma Mia but were cut from the movie version (One of Us and Knowing Me, Knowing You).
We’re all waiting for the Cats review
She announced that it’s coming, but she wants to save it for a special occasion.
Descendants 3 should come first!
Who knows, maybe she’s saving it for her 100th case.
@@annalinde816 that will be a huge SPECIAL ;)
@@darthtepes I think she might delay that for a while because of what happened with Cameron Boyce.
For me the weirdest part of this movie will always be that Cher plays Meryl Streep's mother even tough they are almost the same age
0:12 I never expect an abridged series to sponsor your review
Found this channel today and I have no idea why I've never seen it before. Love love love it!
Fact for those who'd like to know:
The actor playing Young Tanya is Jessica Keenan Wynn, also known as Heather Chandler in the 2014 Off-Broadway production and Cast recording of Heathers the Musical.
Oh hell yeah I’ve been waiting on this one.
Hey any chance you’d do the Pitch Perfect franchise? I’m a huge fan of it and would love to see you tackle it.
SIS USED AUDIO FROM ALL YOU WANNA DO AT 14:32 I'M SO HAPPY
1:49 Oddly enough, the inclusion of "The Addams Family" would have improved this movie considerably. XD
Why does this movie and the first one look like it came out after the Austin Powers movies?
Eat At Joe's Oh god...what if Sophie's father was Powers...O.O...??
Thank you for this! It brightened my social isolated day!
Slightly off topic but fuck yeah a black butler abridged series!!! I'm so glad abridged series are coming back! Also that you actually have relevant ads for me xD
When I saw the younger versions of Donna and her friends at the graduation flash mob what I immediately thought was: Amazing that they haven't changed their hairstyles at all in 20 years.
One very small thing I liked: The "let's remind the audience it's France" tune is "I Let the Music Speak," a track from "The Visitors" and a favorite of Frida, Benny and Björn. (That is to say, if Spotify's "ABBA's Favorite Songs" playlist has any validity to it. Which it very well may not.) It's alternately ethereal and bombastic, utterly theatrical, and a HUGE stylistic forerunner to the score of "Chess."
So did they do Can you Hear the Drum Fernando? I’m just assuming.
Alright, everyone! Let’s give Diva a Patreon request to do “Moulin Rouge (Musical Hell Review #11?)”!
Whether she dislikes it a lot less than Nostalgia Critic (to the point of actually liking it, at least as a guilty pleasure, as most as a genuinely great film) or not, it would still be epic if she reviewed MR with A Dose of Buckley bobbing his head with an angry face to Lady Marmalade (updated version for this movie)!
Then again, Diva did review Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber, even though it is a film she genuinely liked (more than any other film she reviewed in the series, because it really is one of the best along with Xanadu and Shock Treatment), so with that said, she gave it only 6 Sins and 2 Saving Graces!
Personally, I find the first movie better than the second. It's just that the cast choices and singing are just SO unashamedly bad and the plot is SO utterly ridiculous that it's almost good. I also felt the portrayal of the mother-daughter relationship was kind of special. But the second one just felt way too lazy. A 'number 2 film' and nothing more.
Just my opinion.
19:46- Really? I didn;t even know that WAS a movie! I liked the Broadway show!
Oh boy, ANOTHER religious themed one? Gonna have a field day, Diva!
Well, to be fair, it's a lot better than hi-tops. I have seen Joseph on stage and it's a fun musical genre mix take on a biblical story from the Torah (refuse to say Old Testament because I am Jewish).
Donna's first steps in Paris aren't even in Paris, they're in Bordeaux...
I'm wondering if pixie manic dream girl is a problem in a lot of lily james' roles. Her character in yesterday was a bit like that, maybe even Cinderella. Not sure if I'd say the same about her character in baby driver, but I could see an argument that she is.
My first visit to this channel was "Mamma Mia". Thank you Diva for years of entertainment!
I've been waiting for you to tear into this movie since my Grandmother (I love her but not her taste) dragged me to it. That ending seemed to go on longer than Return of the King's.
This movie was so BASIC every line of the script was numbered.
A follow up to your review of the first "Mama Mia"?
You KNOW I'm clicking on that!
So our local Dinner Theater put on "Mama Mia" (original recipe) last year. The movie looks horrific, but somehow having people that can really sing and the suspension of disbelief you have in a live theater setting made it work. I don't think it's the best thing they ever put on (that would be "Cabaret") but I remember laughing a lot, and people around us were having trouble not signing along the whole time.
Fun fact: the costume designer for this movie is Michelle Clapton, the Game of Thrones lady.
I think they missed a chance for a good (if not slightly tropey) joke at the end, I reckon they could've had Ruby rant at Fernando as she storms toward him and then expectation subversion, he just breaks down apologising and begging for her forgiveness, and they slowly start to rekindle the long lost flame between them. it's been at least 40 years since they saw each other, you don't just suddenly go 'ah yes, I remember you exactly and you are exactly the same' with a 40 year gap
Not to mention the fact that he supposedly broke her heart. I mean, no demanding to know where the hell he was all this time? No what's been going on with you? Just seeing each other and suddenly all is forgiven?
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Soooon CATS!
Okay, here's the thing about this movie. I am literally getting two master's degrees in Shakespeare studies, and probably a PHD in Musical Theater studies. I'm specializing in dramaturgy.
If I wanted to analyze the flaws in this movie I could. BUT, when I come home after school, after literally spending all of my time doing anylisis of theater and movies, I fucking love this movie. I was excited when I heard it was coming out! When Cher shows up, I do not think, wow this is unnecessary and random. I think "Of FUCKING CORSE CHER IS IN THIS MOVIE! SHE GONNA COME OUT AND BE CHER AND DELIGHTFUL AND THIS IS FUCKING RAD!"
This is a movie that is fun to watch. Plain and Simple. This is not a deep movie, it is not trying to say anything, and one could argue that it is a waste of space for not being that. I could argue that! I could argue that by classical definition it's not even A Musical.
But it is full of joy. And the overwhelming amount of ridiculous joy that I get from Cher Showing up means that I will forever enjoy this movie and never be able to defend it academically.
I love this channel so much.
You're early. Thought this was gonna be next week.
Ah, so THAT'S what this is all about! The trailors were so damn confusing I could never figure out what was supposed to be going on!