Did Stellan Skarsgard Have a Twin Brother Who Was in Momma Mia Here We Go Again

A sequel to the 2008 Jukebox Musical movie Mamma Mia! (which in turn, was based on the ABBA phase musical of the aforementioned name), Mamma Mia! Here We Become Once again was written and directed past Ol Parker with the help of Richard Curtis (Love Actually) and Catherine Johnson (who created the Mamma Mia! stage musical).

Information technology's been v years later the events of the first film and Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) is preparing a grand reopening of her mother Donna's hotel, with the help of her mother'south friends Tanya and Rosie (Christine Baranski and Julie Walters), the staff, as well as hotel manager Mr. Cienfuegos (Andy García), but she is worried that Sky (Dominic Cooper) volition not make it in time, and everything seems to be going incorrect. A yr before, her mother died and the hotel was being redecorated in her honour with a big guest list, reminding Rosie and Tanya nearly the struggles Donna had when she first got to the island. What follows is a series of flashbacks throughout following younger Donna (Lily James) subsequently she graduated with her friends, when she travelled around Europe, and when she met Sophie's three fathers: Sam (Jeremy Irvine), Bill (Josh Dylan) and Harry (Hugh Skinner).

Nigh every member of the original cast reprises their function from the first; alongside the ones mentioned above, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgård reprise their roles every bit Sam, Harry and Pecker respectively, while Cher appears every bit Sophie'southward estranged grandmother, Blood-red.

Despite considerably better reviews than its predecessor, Here We Go Again, while still successful, grossed most $200 1000000 less at the worldwide box office.

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Mamma Mia! Here Nosotros Go Again contains examples of:

• Actually Pretty Funny: Even Donna laughs at Rosie's annotate about her many romances:

  Tanya: She'due south missing her man.
  [Crush.]
  Rosie: Which one?
  [Tanya, Rosie, and Donna all crack up.]

• Adam Westing: Cher plays an exaggerated Rich Bitch and Colin Firth gets to chew the scenery.
• Adaptation Expansion: A larger-scale example. Not simply is this an entirely new story that takes place subsequently the original musical, information technology greatly expands upon Donna'south relationships, detailing major events that were only mentioned in the show and first moving-picture show. Notably, it'southward shown that she had already met Harry (who she had already slept with) and Bill before meeting Sam, and even in Sam's instance, she got to know him for a calendar week before finally sleeping with him; information technology'southward not until after Sam's departure that Donna gets to slumber with Bill. This explains why she wrote most them in each of the diary entries from the first motion picture equally if she was already familiar with them.
• Advertised Extra: Cher, who was prominent throughout the trailers, only arrives at the terminate of the 2nd act.
• Ambiguously Bi: Donna, whose first musical number is a gender-swapped performance of "When I Kissed the Teacher" about her kissing a female teacher full on the lips (which occurs on-screen) and getting a sexual thrill from it. She still sleeps with Harry, Sam and Bill, of course.
• Ambiguously Gay: The ferry employee working at the ticket booth. He'south taken quite an involvement in Harry'southward appearance.
• And Starring: Meryl Streep, who got top billing in the first film, is credited this way in the sequel.
• Babies Brand Everything Better: Yous have never seen anyone and then happy to exist a single mother, without so much as attempting to contact ane of the three potential fathers to ask for child support.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Rosie and Tanya were around when Donna'southward mother told her to non come abode later she got significant. Both of them are glaring daggers at her when she actually turns up.
• Big Damn Reunion: Following "Dancing Queen", Sophie is reunited with Bill and Harry, and and so gives Heaven a running reunion hug and kiss.
• 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. Equally a upshot, Donna and Sam don't make upwards for over a decade. Even more heartbreaking every bit Sam is the only 1 she truly fell in love with equally while she cared for Harry and Nib, it didn't become beyond elementary trysts. That all said, Donna has Sophie though and resolves to requite her all she tin can past devoting her life to her.
  • Nowadays storyline: Donna has been gone a few years and information technology'southward uncertain as to whether or non the hotel will exist every bit successful every bit she would accept wanted, simply years before that, she and Sam reconciled and got married. Sophie besides reconciles with her grandmother Ruby, who in turn reunites with her long lost lover Fernando, Mr. Cienfuegos. Sophie too gives birth to a infant boy who she and Sky will raise together.
• Blade-of-Grass Cut: During "I've Been Waiting for You", when Donna is shown about to requite birth to Sophie, there'due south a brief shot of an Eiffel Tower miniature on the nearby cabinet.
• Brick Joke: Whenever Donna is mentioned, Rosie starts crying uncontrollably. Near the end when Rosie mentions Donna, Bill starts to cry with her comforting him.
• Bus Crash: It's been a yr since Donna's death. Interestingly, we never find out how she died; this puzzled some viewers because she seemed to be in perfect health during the first film.
• But Not Also Gay: Even more so than in the start. Harry's homosexuality does not come at all, he is not seen with whatsoever male dearest interest and his backstory focuses on his romance with Donna without giving any hint that the reason it was doomed to fail was because he was gay. Instead, it looks as though he was simply edged out by Donna's romances with Sam and Nib.
• Barrel-Monkey: Harry takes a lot of abuse, both in the past and in the present.
• Catechism Foreigner: Donna'southward mother/Sophie's grandmother Ruby (Cher) is a new character who doesn't appear in the original Broadway musical. The first film fifty-fifty implied that she was expressionless. ^note (Although given her history with her girl, this may have simply been a "dead to me" state of affairs.)
• The Cavalry: A non-military instance, naturally; merely as it looks similar the opening of the hotel will be a disaster, Bill and Harry get in with an entire flotilla of guests to brand information technology a success.
• Chekhov'southward Gunman: That guy Bill and Donna helped out in the flashbacks? Present 24-hour interval, he remembers Bill and still really appreciates what he did, and then he gives Bill and Harry a ride to the island... and brings all his friends, as well, and then the hotel'due south opening is a success.
• Comfort Food: By Rosie suggests to requite Donna some cakes to assist her get over Sam, when she really wants to exist with Nib. And then wanting to swallow said cakes when Donna goes off with Bill instead. Nowadays Rosie ponders whether carbs have always been her soulmate.
• Continued All Along: Mr. Cienfuegos, Sophie's hotel manager, is her grandmother Reddish's long lost love, and thus implied to exist her granddaddy. She's flabbergasted to detect this out.
• Continuity Snarl: Has its ain page.
• The Encompass Changes the Gender: The subject of "When I Kissed the Teacher" is inverse from male to female.
• The Encompass Changes the Meaning:
  • "I've Been Waiting for Yous" originally had an ambiguous tone amongst listeners (information technology was unclear whether information technology was almost someone coming together their True Love, having a revelation over their human relationship or if they were a delighted stalker that had finally got their mode), but the movie changed the lyrics almost completely to be near how Sophie is looking forward to existence a female parent.
  • Averted with "Andante, Andante", which was originally most playing the pianoforte, but the lyrics implied otherwise anyway. The film exploits this every bit Donna sings it flirtily to Sam a few days into their relationship.
  • Non only is the aforementioned "When I Kissed the Teacher" repurposed to be a vocal about youths finding freedom instead of a Teacher/Educatee Romance, we also have "Waterloo", which was originally about a adult female accepting the fact that she'll never escape a terrible relationship, and is repurposed to be about Harry "surrendering" to his newfound beat on Donna and confessing his feelings to her to get her to take his virginity.
  • "My Love, My Life" is originally near realizing you're about to break up for skillful, but here, it's about how much your mother still loves you, even in death.
  • Played With with "The Day Before You lot Came". It has always been an unconfirmed fan theory that the "you" in the song might not be a dearest involvement, only Death. Streep, whose character died unexpectedly between films, sings it on the soundtrack.
• Creator Cameo: Two cameos from members of the original group:
  • Björn as 1 of the teachers onstage when Donna gives her valedictorian speech.
  • Benny plays piano in the Paris restaurant during the "Waterloo" number.
• Nighttime Reprise: Sam quietly sings "SOS", the song he and Donna sang a duet to in the first moving picture, while looking at pictures of her later on her death.
• Deadpan Snarker: Sofia, the older Greek adult female Donna bonds with. On the topic of the bar her son owns.

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

• Disappeared Dad: It turns out that Donna also had 1. It is heavily implied this was Fernando.
• Distant Duet: Sky and Sophie sing "Ane of U.s." while she'southward yet in Greece and he's in New York.
• Double-Pregnant Title: Triple-Meaning, in this case. "Here We Go Again!" 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'due south.
• Downtime Downgrade: Bill and Rosie broke upwardly in between films, but they rekindle their human relationship while grieving over Donna.
• Easily Forgiven: Despite never existence there for Donna, let alone Sophie, Sophie does let Ruby into her life. Not before calling her out on it though.
• Feet-Commencement Introduction: Doubles as an Establishing Character Moment. In the past, the offset shot of Donna nosotros see is of her walking rapidly in her sparkly platform boots, tardily for her own graduation.
• Flashback B-Plot: The story about Sophie is interspersed with flashbacks following younger Donna (equally played by Lily James) afterward she graduated with her friends, when she traveled around Europe, and when she met Sophie'due south three fathers.
• Gay Romantic Phase: Unsaid between the fact that Donna sings "When I Kissed the Instructor" to a female professor during her time at college, and the fact that she never exhibits whatever romantic interest in women after graduation.
• Generation Xerox: Sophie gets pregnant at a young historic period just similar her mother, and thanks to the magic of flashbacks, nosotros get to see just how closely their stories mirror each other.
• Envy Monster: Turns out Rosie liked Bill fifty-fifty back then and was incredibly jealous of Donna.

  Tanya: He can help her experience better.
  Rosie: Do you know what makes me experience better when my heart's broken? Cake. Why doesn't she just practise that instead. Just eat humongous amounts of block and exit hot Scandi guy to me.

• Hairstyle Inertia: Applies to Tanya and Rosie, who keep their bob and pixie cut (respectively) in the flashbacks and the present solar day.
• Happy Ending Override: After Donna and Sam finally reunited, cleared upward their misunderstandings and got married at the cease of the first movie, they merely had a few short years together earlier her expiry. Ditto to an extent for Sophie, who gained her three dads, merely just a few years later lost her female parent.
• 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 wine and cheese.
• Iconic Outfit: Donna'due south blue overalls, every bit usual. We even get to run into where she got them in a flashback.
• Ivy League for Everyone: It's revealed that Donna was valedictorian of her class at Oxford. Nevermind that universities in the UK don't take valedictorians...
• Jukebox Musical: Truthful to the Broadway musical and the 2008 film, Here We Go Again features more of ABBA's greatest hits equally its musical numbers, including songs like "Affections Optics" and "When I Kissed the Teacher", "Knowing Me, Knowing You", "Fernando", besides equally a few that weren't really hits, like "Kisses of Burn", "My Love, My Life" and a fleck of "Arrival".
• Karma Houdini: Ruby. She was a terrible female parent, refused to let Donna return abode after she got pregnant with Sophie, and generally didn't keep in contact with either of them over the years. Sophie tells her off simply ultimately forgives her and she even reunites with her long-lost love. Some viewers thought she got off as well easy.
• Kitschy-Themed Restaurant: Harry and Donna went to a French restaurant with a Napoleonic theme. Fittingly they sing "Waterloo" with the staff and patrons.
• Last Guy Wins: Sam was the last man Donna met in the flashbacks and the one she ultimately concluded up with.
• Love Theme: In the restaurant before "Waterloo", the pianoforte is softly playing "Our Last Summer".
• Perhaps Magic, Perhaps Mundane: Is Sophie simply imagining Donna at her son's christening, or is her spirit really at that place? The film seems to lean towards the latter, but it could be taken either manner.
• Mood Whiplash: The utterly heartwrenching scene in which Sophie and Donna sing "My Love, 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".
• Morning Sickness: How Donna and Sophie realize she'southward pregnant.
• The Mountains of Illinois: The first 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 easily distinguishable from Paris. Needless to say that intermission of disbelief would not have worked on a French viewer.
• My Secret Pregnancy: Downplayed. Sophie does tell Tanya, Rosie and Sam that she's significant, only she wants to keep it a surreptitious from everyone else. Too bad the word got out once it got to Harry.

  Sophie: We tin can't tell everyone else virtually the baby, okay?
  Sam: I just told Neb.
  Bill: Aye, 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 ii sing together in the stage musical.
• No Antagonist: Except perhaps time itself.
• Noodle Incident: Bill hoped that his brother won't tell the caprine animal story while he sneaks to Sophie's grand opening. Guess what story he's about to tell at the award ceremony.
• Origins Episode: The film gives united states a closer look at the events in Donna's life that were merely alluded to in the original musical and picture, near notably her relationships with Sam, Harry and Neb, every bit 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 identify to live, and rips Sam a new 1 for not telling Donna he was engaged. She also helped Donna give birth to Sophie.
• Pair the Spares: Just similar the first film, 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, so it's non likely a coincidence. Yet, 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 by Meryl Streep, who'south only 3 years younger. ^note However, at the fourth dimension of production, Cher was at a perfectly plausible age to take a 25-year-sometime granddaughter born from a Teen Pregnancy; information technology's simply an case because Streep was older than her character. Her begetter, meanwhile, is implied to be Señor Cienfuegos (Andy Garcia). Streep is seven years older than Garcia is.
  • Susanne Barkland, who played Bill'south female parent, is 5 years younger than Stellan Skarsgård.
  • Working from the timeline, Donna is forty in the first pic. Streep was fifty-ix during product on the first film, and lx-nine on the second where her grapheme was forty-iv as that's the historic period at which she died.
• Race for Your Honey: Donna and Pecker help a young fisherman practice this, taking him on Bill's boat so he can stop his beloved from marrying a wealthier man. It works.
• Really Gets Effectually: Bill, when he was younger. Sofia even says he has so many notches on his bedposts that the whole matter is in danger of collapsing. While she may accept been saying that to spite Sam, information technology'due south also implied to exist the reason why Bill and Rosie bankrupt up between films - Bill can't go along his penis in his pants...
• Retcon:
  • Donna's mother Carmine wasn't seen in the first film but dialogue implied she was far more Holier Than Thou ("it's Catholic guilt!") than the vain Rich Bitch she is revealed to be hither. It was besides implied she was dead ("Somebody upward there has got it in for me. I bet it'south my mother.") although that might simply 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 kickoff movie, Harry is said to have been a heavy metal rocker in his younger days, which earned him the proper noun "Harry Headbanger". This moving-picture show'south immature Harry doesn't friction match that detail description.
• Rich Bitch: Donna'south mom, Ruby. Non but did she throw Donna out when she got significant, only years later shows upwardly in her at present adult granddaughter'southward 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 booth critiquing the changes the diverse passengers make to their advent, as opposed to their passports and previous encounters. Except Harry.
• Serial Romeo: Donna guesses Beak is this sort, and sums up the stardom betwixt this trope and The Casanova. "One who falls in love every night, but always falls out of information technology the next morning." Notwithstanding, in that location'south no evidence that Bill is actually like this... just plenty of prove that Donna is. Takes i to know one, perhaps?
• Settle for Sibling: Early on, Tanya had the hots for Fernando. In the end, she finds love with Fernando's recently widowed brother.
• Shout-Out: Posters of Boruto and JoJo'south Bizarre Chance can be seen in Tokyo.
• Then Bad, It's Adept: In-Universe: Immature Donna'due south opinion of the band on the island. Everyone says they're terrible, and they are, merely she loves them for it.
• Spit Take: When young Rosie tells Tanya she loves Bill and wants to accept his babies – and wants to push him around in a wheelchair and besprinkle his ashes, Tanya does the most dignified version of this trope, spitting her drink back into her glass.
• The Stinger: The ferry employee yells after Harry, "If she [Donna] rejects you, give me a telephone call." The actor and then turns to the camera and sings a few bars of "Accept a Take a chance on Me" earlier breaking downwardly in giggles.

  Merely shout "cut" whenever you want.

• Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Donna passed away betwixt the first film and this i. Her spirit appears near the end though.
• Fourth dimension-Shifted Player: While the outset film's cast all reprise their roles, this pic adds Lily James as young Donna, Jeremy Irvine as young Sam, Hugh Skinner as immature Harry, Josh Dylan equally young Bill, Alexa Davies as young Rosie, and Jessica Keenan Wynn as young Tanya.
• Titled After the Song: Like the stage musical and the showtime film, information technology is titled after the vocal "Mamma Mia" but with an additional line.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Sophie's all-time friends Ali and Lisa are nowhere to be seen. The aforementioned can be said for Pepper and the Greek guy Harry danced away with at the end of the first picture show.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Sofia gives i hell of a "The Reason You lot Suck" Voice communication 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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