Mamma Mia! Here We Go Againis far from a perfect film. It defies all laws of time and Moviesspace and traditional moviemaking by extension, in this ridiculous snow globe of a movie, anything goes.
That said, here are 10 of the wildest things about Mamma Mia: Here We Go Againthat we're going to be thinking about for a long time.
Spoiler alert? Knowing any of these things in advance will not diminish your enjoyment of the film.
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Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Not only is she a convincing young Meryl, but she's a character all of her own – carefree and hungry for adventure.
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You may not pick up on this if, like some unnamed members of the Mashable Entertainment team, you spent the entirety of "Fernando" screaming into your popcorn [Editor's note: rude], but Ruby and Fernando fell in love in '50s Cuba. Is Fernando Sophie's grandfather – heck, are there two more contenders so we can set up Mamma Mia 3?
72-year-old Cher plays 69-year-old Meryl Streep's mother. 67-year-old Stellan Skarsgard refers to himself as "a man in his 50s." Nothing about Sophie's age makes sense. Meanwhile, the man working the docks doesn't age a day.
And getting the other dads a free pass by extension. They just sort of jive casually and honestly, it works!
Whoever decided a Mamma Miasequel meant digging up ABBA deep cuts like this...touché. Donna sings this at her graduation, and it's super weird!
Donna sleeps with three dudes on a tight enough timeline that any of them could have fathered her child. Bill and Harry somehow don't sleep together. Pierce Brosnan continues to sing. There's a woman on Kalokairi who is definitelya witch. AND YET:
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In lengthy and labyrinthine attempts to stall their inevitable hookup, Bill and Donna pick up a fisherman named Alexio (Gerard Monaco) who's desperately sailing fast to break up the wedding of the woman he loves to another man. Not only does this happen, but Alexio comes backlater in the movie. Unreal!
Her character Tanya isn't as present in this one as in Mamma Mia!(which gave her a solo song), but she does get in this show-stopping one-liner:
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Poor Rosie's (Julie Walters/Alexa Davies) flashbacks aren't the sunniest as she grapples with Donna's inability to relinquish the spotlight, but Rosie is nothing if not a champ and a loyal friend who knows that men come and go, but cake is forever.
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Againis now in theaters.
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