Oh, My God! When The Divinity That Is MERYL STREEP Comes Down From Heaven, And Sings At The Chrisrening Of Her Granddaughter, I Cried REAL Tears!!!!!!!!!!

                                The first thing I have to say about "Mama Mia! Here We Go Again, " is that I cannot believe it has been ten years since the first film.  And everyone from it,  looks so good.

                                  The second is that, attack me if you want, it is better than "La La Land."  This movie keeps moving at a breakneck pace, in time to the musical numbers.  Yet it covers so much story.

                                   Cast with younger actors, strongly resembling the elders, in a sort of "Merrily We Roll Along" homage, the story of how young Donna came to the island, with her young friends, stayed, gave birth to Sophie, and evolved into MERYL is told.

                                     Juxtaposed against this is the present day.  MERYL has left the world, for the purposes of this film, though Christine Baransksi, Julie Walters, and the guys--Pierce Brosnan, Stellan  Skarsgard, and Christopher Firth are back, and as fun as ever.  And Amanda Seyfried looks marvelous.  Darlings, what make-up and a camera can do.

                                     The locales are gorgeous as always, and I loved the bicycle number, a homage to "The Sound Of Music," and don't tell me it was not intended that way.

Now, about Cher, playing MERYL'S mom.  She gets away with it, because both do not appear on the screen, at the same time.  She does not show up till almost the end of the movie, but she has three  scene stealing moments--her arrival to the island by helicopter,  facing Granddaughter Sophie, who says she was not invited, and answering, "That's the BEST kind of party, little girl!"  And, finally, when she spies former boy friend Andy Garcia, and launches into the song I missed so much being in the first one--"Fernando!"  One of my favorites,  and it gets full justice here!

Like the first film, this is a feel good movie!   Don't bother trying to analyze it, just check your brain at the door, and enjoy it.

Will there be another one, in ten years?  I don't think so, because, between these two films the complete ABBA oeuvre has been exhausted!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But, if you need an afternoon, when it's sizzling hot, or raining hard, and you need to check your brain at the door, this is just perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!!