Mama Mia Here We Go Again- What Is the Gender of Her Baby?

A sequel to the 2008 Jukebox Musical film Mamma Mia! (which in turn, was based on the ABBA stage musical of the same name), Mamma Mia! Hither We Go Again was written and directed by Ol Parker with the assist of Richard Curtis (Beloved Actually) and Catherine Johnson (who created the Mamma Mia! stage musical).

Information technology'due south been five years afterwards the events of the first film and Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) is preparing a grand reopening of her mother Donna'due south hotel, with the help of her mother'southward friends Tanya and Rosie (Christine Baranski and Julie Walters), the staff, besides as hotel manager Mr. Cienfuegos (Andy García), just she is worried that Sky (Dominic Cooper) will non brand information technology in time, and everything seems to be going wrong. A year before, her mother died and the hotel was being redecorated in her honor with a large guest listing, reminding Rosie and Tanya about the struggles Donna had when she first got to the island. What follows is a series of flashbacks throughout following younger Donna (Lily James) after she graduated with her friends, when she travelled around Europe, and when she met Sophie's 3 fathers: Sam (Jeremy Irvine), Bill (Josh Dylan) and Harry (Hugh Skinner).

Near every fellow member of the original bandage reprises their role from the offset; alongside the ones mentioned above, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgård reprise their roles as Sam, Harry and Bill respectively, while Cher appears as Sophie's estranged grandmother, Cherry-red.

Despite considerably ameliorate reviews than its predecessor, Hither Nosotros Go Once more, while still successful, grossed about $200 one thousand thousand less at the worldwide box office.

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Mamma Mia! Here We Get Again contains examples of:

• Really Pretty Funny: Fifty-fifty Donna laughs at Rosie's comment near her many romances:

  Tanya: She'south missing her human being.
  [Beat.]
  Rosie: Which one?
  [Tanya, Rosie, and Donna all scissure upwards.]

• Adam Westing: Cher plays an exaggerated Rich Bowwow and Colin Firth gets to chew the scenery.
• Adaptation Expansion: A larger-scale instance. Not just is this an entirely new story that takes place after the original musical, it greatly expands upon Donna's relationships, detailing major events that were merely mentioned in the show and first movie. 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 week before finally sleeping with him; it's not until after Sam'due south departure that Donna gets to sleep with Bill. This explains why she wrote about them in each of the diary entries from the first flick as if she was already familiar with them.
• Advertised Actress: Cher, who was prominent throughout the trailers, only arrives at the terminate of the second act.
• Ambiguously Bi: Donna, whose first musical number is a gender-swapped performance of "When I Kissed the Teacher" about her kissing a female instructor full on the lips (which occurs on-screen) and getting a sexual thrill from it. She yet sleeps with Harry, Sam and Bill, of form.
• Ambiguously Gay: The ferry employee working at the ticket booth. He'due south taken quite an interest in Harry's appearance.
• And Starring: Meryl Streep, who got height billing in the commencement flick, is credited this way in the sequel.
• Babies Brand Everything Better: You take never seen anyone so happy to exist a unmarried mother, without then much as attempting to contact ane of the three potential fathers to enquire for child support.
• Beware the Dainty Ones: Rosie and Tanya were around when Donna's mother told her to not come abode after she got pregnant. Both of them are glaring daggers at her when she actually turns up.
• Large Damn Reunion: Post-obit "Dancing Queen", Sophie is reunited with Nib and Harry, and then gives Sky a running reunion hug and buss.
• Bloodshot Catastrophe:
  • Past storyline: A misunderstanding results in Donna pushing Sam abroad and some other results in him not going back to her when he tries to go out his fiancé for Donna. Equally a issue, Donna and Sam don't brand upward for over a decade. Even more than heartbreaking as Sam is the only 1 she truly vicious in dear with every bit while she cared for Harry and Neb, it didn't go beyond unproblematic trysts. That all said, Donna has Sophie though and resolves to requite her all she tin by 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 every bit successful as she would have wanted, but years before that, she and Sam reconciled and got married. Sophie also reconciles with her grandmother Ruby, who in turn reunites with her long lost lover Fernando, Mr. Cienfuegos. Sophie also gives nascence to a baby boy who she and Sky will enhance together.
• Blade-of-Grass Cutting: During "I've Been Waiting for You", when Donna is shown about to give birth to Sophie, there'south a brief shot of an Eiffel Belfry miniature on the nearby cabinet.
• Brick Joke: Whenever Donna is mentioned, Rosie starts crying uncontrollably. About the stop when Rosie mentions Donna, Bill starts to cry with her comforting him.
• Bus Crash: It's been a yr since Donna'due south decease. Interestingly, nosotros never detect out how she died; this puzzled some viewers because she seemed to exist in perfect wellness during the offset flick.
• But Not Too Gay: Even more so than in the first. Harry'due south homosexuality does non come up at all, he is not seen with whatever male love interest and his backstory focuses on his romance with Donna without giving whatever hint that the reason information technology was doomed to neglect was considering he was gay. Instead, it looks as though he was just edged out by Donna'due south romances with Sam and Bill.
• Butt-Monkey: Harry takes a lot of abuse, both in the by and in the present.
• Canon Foreigner: Donna'southward mother/Sophie's grandmother Ruby (Cher) is a new character who doesn't appear in the original Broadway musical. The first moving picture even implied that she was dead. ^note (Although given her history with her girl, this may have but been a "expressionless to me" state of affairs.)
• The Cavalry: A non-military example, naturally; only equally it looks similar the opening of the hotel will be a disaster, Bill and Harry arrive with an unabridged flotilla of guests to make it a success.
• Chekhov'due south Gunman: That guy Bill and Donna helped out in the flashbacks? Present day, he remembers Bill and still really appreciates what he did, so he gives Bill and Harry a ride to the island... and brings all his friends, as well, then the hotel's opening is a success.
• Comfort Food: By Rosie suggests to give Donna some cakes to help her get over Sam, when she really wants to be with Neb. So wanting to consume said cakes when Donna goes off with Bill instead. Nowadays Rosie ponders whether carbs have always been her soulmate.
• Connected All Forth: Mr. Cienfuegos, Sophie's hotel manager, is her grandmother Carmine'south long lost love, and thus unsaid to exist her grandfather. She's flabbergasted to find this out.
• Continuity Snarl: Has its own page.
• The Cover Changes the Gender: The subject field of "When I Kissed the Teacher" is changed from male to female.
• The Encompass Changes the Meaning:
  • "I've Been Waiting for Yous" originally had an ambiguous tone amongst listeners (it was unclear whether it was about someone coming together their True Love, having a revelation over their relationship or if they were a delighted stalker that had finally got their way), only the moving picture inverse the lyrics most completely to be about how Sophie is looking forwards to existence a female parent.
  • Averted with "Andante, Andante", which was originally nearly playing the piano, simply the lyrics implied otherwise anyway. The film exploits this as Donna sings it flirtily to Sam a few days into their human relationship.
  • Not but is the same "When I Kissed the Teacher" repurposed to be a vocal nearly youths finding freedom instead of a Teacher/Student Romance, we also have "Waterloo", which was originally about a woman accepting the fact that she'll never escape a terrible relationship, and is repurposed to be about Harry "surrendering" to his newfound crush on Donna and confessing his feelings to her to get her to take his virginity.
  • "My Love, My Life" is originally about realizing y'all're near to break upward for skillful, merely here, it's nigh how much your mother still loves you, fifty-fifty in decease.
  • Played With with "The Day Before Yous Came". It has always been an unconfirmed fan theory that the "yous" in the song might non be a honey interest, just Expiry. Streep, whose grapheme died unexpectedly between films, sings it on the soundtrack.
• Creator Cameo: Two cameos from members of the original grouping:
  • Björn as one of the teachers onstage when Donna gives her valedictorian spoken communication.
  • Benny plays piano in the Paris restaurant during the "Waterloo" number.
• Night Reprise: Sam quietly sings "SOS", the vocal he and Donna sang a duet to in the offset film, while looking at pictures of her later her death.
• Deadpan Snarker: Sofia, the older Greek woman Donna bonds with. On the topic of the bar her son owns.

  He had to buy a bar, considering no other bar would permit his band play.

• Disappeared Dad: It turns out that Donna as well had one. It is heavily implied this was Fernando.
• Afar Duet: Sky and Sophie sing "One of Us" while she's still in Greece and he's in New York.
• Double-Meaning Title: Triple-Meaning, in this case. "Here We Go Once more!" is 1) an obvious reference to the lyric from the titular song, 2) a nod to the fact that the film is a direct sequel, and 3) a reference to Sophie's pregnancy predicament playing out similarly to her female parent's.
• Reanimation Downgrade: Bill and Rosie bankrupt upwardly in betwixt films, just they rekindle their relationship while grieving over Donna.
• Hands Forgiven: Despite never existence there for Donna, let lonely Sophie, Sophie does permit Ruby into her life. Not before calling her out on it though.
• Feet-Outset Introduction: Doubles as an Establishing Graphic symbol Moment. In the past, the get-go shot of Donna we see is of her walking apace in her sparkly platform boots, late for her own graduation.
• Flashback B-Plot: The story about Sophie is interspersed with flashbacks following younger Donna (as played by Lily James) after she graduated with her friends, when she traveled around Europe, and when she met Sophie's three fathers.
• Gay Romantic Phase: Unsaid between the fact that Donna sings "When I Kissed the Teacher" to a female professor during her fourth dimension at higher, and the fact that she never exhibits whatsoever romantic interest in women later graduation.
• Generation Xerox: Sophie gets significant at a young historic period just like her female parent, and thanks to the magic of flashbacks, we become to run into just how closely their stories mirror each other.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Turns out Rosie liked Bill even back then and was incredibly jealous of Donna.

  Tanya: He can assistance her feel better.
  Rosie: Do you know what makes me feel improve when my heart'due south broken? Cake. Why doesn't she just do that instead. Just consume humongous amounts of block 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 24-hour interval.
• Happy Catastrophe Override: Afterward Donna and Sam finally reunited, cleared up their misunderstandings and got married at the finish of the commencement film, they only had a few brusk years together before her death. Ditto to an extent for Sophie, who gained her three dads, just simply a few years later lost her mother.
• I Was Quite the Looker: The ferry worker saying Neb has not aged well since the last time he saw him. In dissimilarity, he said Harry has aged like vino and cheese.
• Iconic Outfit: Donna'due south blue overalls, as usual. We even get to see where she got them in a flashback.
• Ivy League for Anybody: Information technology'due south revealed that Donna was valedictorian of her course at Oxford. Nevermind that universities in the UK don't have valedictorians...
• Jukebox Musical: Truthful to the Broadway musical and the 2008 moving picture, Here We Go Once again features more of ABBA's greatest hits every bit its musical numbers, including songs like "Angel Optics" and "When I Kissed the Teacher", "Knowing Me, Knowing You", "Fernando", as well equally a few that weren't really hits, like "Kisses of Fire", "My Love, My Life" and a bit of "Inflow".
• Karma Houdini: Cherry-red. She was a terrible female parent, refused to permit Donna return dwelling house afterwards she got significant with Sophie, and generally didn't continue in contact with either of them over the years. Sophie tells her off but ultimately forgives her and she even reunites with her long-lost dearest. Some viewers thought she got off as well piece of cake.
• Kitschy-Themed Restaurant: Harry and Donna went to a French eating place 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 up with.
• Beloved Theme: In the restaurant before "Waterloo", the pianoforte is softly playing "Our Last Summer".
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Is Sophie merely imagining Donna at her son's christening, or is her spirit really there? The moving-picture show seems to lean towards the latter, but it could be taken either way.
• Mood Whiplash: The utterly heartwrenching scene in which Sophie and Donna sing "My Love, My Life" to one some other is immediately followed by the unabridged bandage singing and dancing happily forth to the very upbeat and fun "Super Trouper".
• Morning time Sickness: How Donna and Sophie realize she's pregnant.
• The Mountains of Illinois: The beginning 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 further down South and as such very hands distinguishable from Paris. Needless to say that break of disbelief would not have worked on a French viewer.
• My Hugger-mugger Pregnancy: Downplayed. Sophie does tell Tanya, Rosie and Sam that she's meaning, but she wants to keep it a cloak-and-dagger from anybody else. Too bad the discussion got out once it got to Harry.

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

• Mythology Gag: During Harry and Donna's engagement, a pianist (ABBA'southward Benny Andersson) plays "Our Last Summertime" on the piano. This is the song that the two sing together in the stage musical.
• No Antagonist: Except perhaps time itself.
• Noodle Incident: Bill hoped that his blood brother won't tell the caprine animal story while he sneaks to Sophie'due south grand opening. Guess what story he'due south about to tell at the honor ceremony.
• Origins Episode: The film gives us a closer expect at the events in Donna'southward life that were only alluded to in the original musical and film, most notably her relationships with Sam, Harry and Bill, as well as the formation 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 one for non telling Donna he was engaged. She also helped Donna give birth to Sophie.
• Pair the Spares: Just like the beginning film, in the "Super Trouper" finale, whatsoever time a dad is paired with a dynamo, Harry and Tanya are together. This applies to both their young and old selves, and so it's not likely a coincidence. Nonetheless, 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 time of production, Cher was at a perfectly plausible age to have a 25-yr-old granddaughter born from a Teen Pregnancy; information technology's but an example because Streep was older than her graphic symbol. Her father, meanwhile, is implied to be Señor Cienfuegos (Andy Garcia). Streep is seven years older than Garcia is.
  • Susanne Barkland, who played Bill's mother, is v years younger than Stellan Skarsgård.
  • Working from the timeline, Donna is forty in the first moving-picture show. Streep was l-nine during production on the first film, and sixty-nine on the second where her graphic symbol was forty-four as that'southward the age at which she died.
• Race for Your Love: Donna and Nib help a young fisherman do this, taking him on Nib'south boat so he can finish his beloved from marrying a wealthier man. It works.
• Really Gets Around: Neb, when he was younger. Sofia even says he has and so many notches on his bedposts that the whole affair is in danger of collapsing. While she may have been maxim that to spite Sam, it's as well implied to be the reason why Bill and Rosie broke up between films - Bill can't keep his penis in his pants...
• Retcon:
  • Donna's mother Ruby wasn't seen in the beginning motion picture just dialogue implied she was far more than Holier Than Thou ("it'due south Catholic guilt!") than the vain Rich Bowwow she is revealed to exist here. It was as well implied she was expressionless ("Somebody upwardly in that location has got it in for me. I bet it's my mother.") although that might just be Donna existence 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 film, Harry is said to accept been a heavy metal rocker in his younger days, which earned him the proper noun "Harry Headbanger". This motion-picture show's young Harry doesn't lucifer that particular description.
• Rich Bowwow: Donna'south mom, Cherry-red. Non merely did she throw Donna out when she got pregnant, but years later shows up in her now adult granddaughter's life completely unwanted and uninvited.
• Running Gag:
  • Donna insisting she's not the sort of girl to sleep with a human she just met. And immediately correcting herself.
  • The ticket guy at the ferry berth critiquing the changes the various passengers make to their appearance, every bit opposed to their passports and previous encounters. Except Harry.
• Serial Romeo: Donna guesses Pecker is this sort, and sums up the distinction betwixt this trope and The Casanova. "One who falls in love every night, but always falls out of it the adjacent morn." Still, there'due south no testify that Bill is really like this... but enough of evidence that Donna is. Takes one to know i, maybe?
• Settle for Sibling: Early on, Tanya had the hots for Fernando. In the terminate, she finds love with Fernando'southward recently widowed brother.
• Shout-Out: Posters of Boruto and JoJo's Bizarre Gamble can be seen in Tokyo.
• So Bad, It'due south Good: In-Universe: Young Donna's opinion of the ring on the island. Everyone says they're terrible, and they are, but she loves them for it.
• Spit Accept: When young Rosie tells Tanya she loves Bill and wants to have his babies – and wants to push him effectually in a wheelchair and scatter his ashes, Tanya does the most dignified version of this trope, spitting her drinkable back into her glass.
• The Stinger: The ferry employee yells afterwards Harry, "If she [Donna] rejects yous, give me a call." The actor then turns to the photographic camera and sings a few bars of "Have a Chance on Me" before breaking downward in giggles.

  Just shout "cut" whenever you want.

• Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Donna passed abroad between the kickoff moving-picture show and this one. Her spirit appears near the end though.
• Time-Shifted Actor: While the first film'south bandage all reprise their roles, this film adds Lily James as young Donna, Jeremy Irvine every bit young Sam, Hugh Skinner every bit young Harry, Josh Dylan every bit young Bill, Alexa Davies as 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" but with an boosted 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 away with at the end of the first film.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Sofia gives 1 hell of a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Sam for cheating on his fiancee, not telling Donna he was engaged, leaving her, and then trying to come back. Sam fully admits he deserved it.

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