History Film / MammaMiaHereWeGoAgain

* ButNotTooGay: Even more so than in the first. Harry's homosexuality does not come up at all, he is not seen with any male love 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 just edged out by Donna's romances with Sam and Bill.

* MythologyGag: During Harry and Donna's date, a pianist (ABBA's Benny Andersson) plays "Our Last Summer" on the piano. This is the song that the two sing together in the stage musical.

* IvyLeagueForEveryone: It's revealed that Donna was valedictorian of her class at Oxford. [[WeAllLiveInAmerica Nevermind that universities in the UK don't have valedictorians...]]

* PlayingGertrude:
** Cher plays Donna's mother. The older Donna was played by Meryl Streep, who's only three years younger.[[note]]However, at the time of production, Cher was at a perfectly plausible age to have a 25-year-old granddaughter born from a TeenPregnancy; it's only an example because Streep was older than her character.[[/note]] 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 five years younger than Creator/StellanSkarsgard.
** Working from the timeline, Donna is forty in the first film. Streep was ''fifty-nine'' during production on the first film, and sixty-nine on the second where her character was forty-four [[spoiler:as that's the age at which she died]].

A {{sequel}} to the 2008 JukeboxMusical film ''Film/MammaMia'' (which in turn, was based on the Music/{{ABBA}} [[Theatre/MammaMia stage musical of the same name]]), ''Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again'' was written and directed by Ol Parker with the help of Richard Curtis (''Film/LoveActually'') and Catherine Johnson (who created the ''Mamma Mia!'' stage musical).

* TheMountainsOfIllinois: 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 suspension of disbelief would not have worked on a French viewer.

* AdamWesting: Music/{{Cher}} plays an exaggerated RichBitch and Creator/ColinFirth gets to [[ChewingTheScenery chew the scenery]].

* NoodleIncident: Bill hoped that his brother won't tell the goat story while he sneaks to Sophie's grand opening. [[TemptingFate Guess what story he was about to tell at the award ceremony.]]

** {{Music/Cher}} play's Donna's mother. The older Donna was played by Creator/MerylStreep, who's only three years younger.[[note]]However, at the time of production, Cher was at a perfectly plausible age to have a 25-year-old granddaughter born from a TeenPregnancy; it's only an example because Streep was older than her character.[[/note]] Her father, meanwhile, is implied to be Señor Cienfuegos (Creator/AndyGarcia). Streep is seven years ''older'' than Garcia is.

* ShoutOut: A poster of [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Jotaro Kujo and Star Platinum]] can be seen in Tokyo.

It's been five years after the events of the first film and Sophie (Creator/AmandaSeyfried) is preparing a grand reopening of her mother Donna's hotel, with the help of her mother's friends Tanya and Rosie (Creator/ChristineBaranski and Creator/JulieWalters), the staff, as well as hotel manager Mr. Cienfuegos (Creator/AndyGarcia), but she is worried that Sky (Creator/DominicCooper) will not make it in time, and everything seems to be going wrong. A year before, her mother died and the hotel was being redecorated in her honour with a large guest list, reminding Rosie and Tanya about the struggles Donna had when she first got to the island. What follows is a series of flashbacks throughout the movie following younger Donna (Creator/LilyJames) after she graduated with her friends, when she travelled around Europe, and when she met Sophie's three fathers: Sam (Creator/JeremyIrvine), Bill (Josh Dylan), and Harry (Creator/HughSkinner).

** PlayedWith with "The Day Before You Came". It has always been an unconfirmed fan theory that the "you" in the song might not be a love interest, but Death. Meryl Streep, whose character died unexpectedly between films, sings it at the end of the soundtrack.

** Björn plays one of the teachers on the stage when Donna is giving her valedictorian speech.

-->''He had to buy a bar, because no other bar would let his terrible band play.''

* EasilyForgiven: Despite never being there for Donna, let alone Sophie, Sophie does allow Grandma Ruby into her life. Not before calling her out on it though.

* GenerationXerox: Sophie gets pregnant at a young age just like her mother, and thanks to the magic of {{Flashback}}s, we get to see just how closely their stories mirror each other.
* GreenEyedMonster: Turns out Rosie liked Bill even back then and was exceedingly jealous of Donna.

* JukeboxMusical: True to the Broadway musical and the 2008 film, this movie features more of Music/{{ABBA}}'s greatest hits as its musical numbers, including songs like "Angel Eyes" and "When I Kissed the Teacher", "Knowing Me, Knowing You", "Fernando", as well as a few that weren't really hits, like "Kisses of Fire", "My Love, My Life" and a bit of "Arrival".
* KarmaHoudini: Ruby. She was a terrible mother, refused to let Donna return home after she got pregnant with Sophie, and generally didn't keep in contact with either of them over the years. Sophie tells her off but eventually forgives her and she even reunites with her long-lost love. Some viewers thought she got off too easy.
* KitschyThemedRestaurant: Harry and Donna went to a French restaurant with a Napoleonic theme. Fittingly they sing "Waterloo" with the wait staff.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Is Sophie [[spoiler:merely imagining Donna at her son's christening, or is her spirit really there?]] The movie seems to lean towards the latter, but it could be taken either way.
* MoodWhiplash: The utterly heart wrenching 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".

* MySecretPregnancy: {{Downplayed}}. Sophie does tell Tanya, Rosie, and Sam that she's pregnant, but she wants to keep it a secret from everyone else. Too bad the word got out once it got to Harry.

* OriginsEpisode: The movie gives us a closer look at the events in Donna's 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.

* PairTheSpares: Just like the first movie, in the Super Trouper finale, any time a dad is paired with a dynamo, Harry and Tanya are together. This applies to both their young and old selves, so it’s not likely a coincidence. However, this doesn't go anywhere, since Tanya actively pursues other men, and Harry in turn doesn't seem interested in her at all.

** {{Music/Cher}} play's Donna's mother. The older Donna was played by Creator/MerylStreep, who's only three years younger.[[note]]However, at the time of production Cher was at a perfectly plausible age to have a 25-year-old granddaughter born from a TeenPregnancy; it's only an example because Streep was older than her character.[[/note]] Her father, meanwhile, is implied to be Andy Garcia's character. Streep is seven years ''older'' than he is.

** Working from the timeline, Donna is forty in the first film. Meryl Streep was ''fifty-nine'' when filming the first film, and sixty-nine filming the second where her character was forty-four [[spoiler:as that's the age at which she died]].
* RaceForYourLove: Donna and Bill help a young man do this, taking him on Bill's boat so he can [[SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace stop his beloved from marrying another man]]. It works.

** Donna's mother Ruby wasn't seen in the original film but dialogue implied she was far more HolierThanThou ("it's Catholic guilt!") than the vain RichBitch she is revealed to be here. It was also implied she was ''dead'' ("Somebody up there has got it in for me. I bet it’s my mother.") although that might just be Donna being out of the loop...

--> '''Ruby:''' Let's get this party started.\\

** The ticket guy at the ferry booth critiquing the changes the various passengers make to their appearance. [[ShipTease Except Harry]].

* SettleForSibling: Early in the film, Tanya had the hots for Fernando. In the end, [[spoiler:she finds love with Fernando's recently widowed brother]].

* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Donna passed away between the first movie and this one. [[spoiler: Her spirit appears near the end though]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Sophie's best friends Ali and Lisa are nowhere to be found. The same can be said for Pepper and the Greek guy Harry danced away with at the end of the first film.

A sequel to the 2008 JukeboxMusical film ''Film/MammaMia'' (which in turn, was based on the Music/{{ABBA}} [[Theatre/MammaMia stage musical of the same name]]), ''Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again'' was written and directed by Ol Parker with the help of Richard Curtis and Catherine Johnson (who created the ''Mamma Mia!'' stage musical).

It's been five years after the events of the first movie and Sophie (Creator/AmandaSeyfried) is preparing a grand reopening of her mother Donna's hotel, with the help of her mother's friends Tanya and Rosie (Creator/ChristineBaranski and Creator/JulieWalters), the staff, as well as hotel manager Mr. Cienfuegos (Creator/AndyGarcia), but she is worried that Sky (Creator/DominicCooper) will not make it in time, and everything seems to be going wrong. A year before, her mother died and the hotel was being redecorated in her honour with a large guest list, reminding Rosie and Tanya about the struggles Donna had when she first got to the island. What follows is a series of flashbacks throughout the movie following younger Donna (Creator/LilyJames) after she graduated with her friends, when she travelled around Europe, and when she met Sophie's three fathers: Sam (Creator/JeremyIrvine), Bill (Josh Dylan), and Harry (Creator/HughSkinner).

Virtually every member of the original cast makes a return in this film; alongside the ones mentioned above, Creator/PierceBrosnan, Creator/ColinFirth, and Creator/StellanSkarsgard reprise their roles as Sam, Harry, and Bill respectively, while Music/{{Cher}} appears as Sophie's estranged grandmother, Ruby.

* AdvertisedExtra: Music/{{Cher}}, who was prominent throughout the trailers, only arrives at the end of the second act.
* AmbiguouslyBi: 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.

* BusCrash: It's been a year 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 movie.
* ButNotTooGay: Even more so than in the first movie. Harry's homosexuality does not come up at all, he is not seen with any male love 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 just edged out by Donna's romances with Sam and Bill.

* CanonForeigner: Donna's mother/Sophie's grandmother Ruby (played by Music/{{Cher}}) is a new character who doesn't appear in the original Broadway musical. The first film even implied that she was dead.
* TheCavalry: A non-military example, naturally; just as it looks like the opening of the hotel will be a disaster, [[spoiler:Bill and Harry arrive with an entire ''flotilla'' of guests to make it a success.]]

* ConnectedAllAlong: Mr. Cienfuegos, Sophie's hotel manager, is [[spoiler:her grandmother Ruby's longlost love, and thus implied to be her grandfather]]. She's flabbergasted to find this out.

** "I've Been Waiting For You" originally had an ambiguous tone amongst listeners (it was unclear whether it was about someone meeting their True Love, having a [[LoveRevelationEpiphany revelation over their relationship]] or if they were a delighted {{stalker|withacrush}} that had finally got their way), but the movie changed the lyrics almost completely to be about how Sophie is looking forward to being a mother.
** Averted with "Andante, Andante", which was originally about playing the piano, but the lyrics implied [[{{Double Entendre}} otherwise]] anyway. The movie exploits this as Donna sings it flirtily to Sam a few days into their relationship.

** "My Love, My Life" is originally about realizing you're about to break up for good, but in this movie, it's about how much your mother still loves you, even in death.
** PlayedWith with "The Day Before You Came". It has always been an unconfirmed fan theory that the "you" in the song might not be a love interest, but Death. Meryl Streep, whose character died unexpectedly between movies, sings it at the end of the OST.
* CreatorCameo: Two cameos from members of the original band:

--> '''Tanya:''' He can help her feel better.\\

* JukeboxMusical: True to the Broadway musical and the 2008 film, this movie features more of Music/{{ABBA}}'s greatest hits as its musical numbers, including songs like "Angel Eyes" and "When I Kissed the Teacher", "Knowing Me, Knowing You", "Fernando", and a few that weren't really hits, like "Kisses of Fire", "My Love, My Life", and a bit of "Arrival".

* LoveTheme: In the restaurant before ''Waterloo'', the piano is softly playing ''Our Last Summer''.

A sequel to the 2008 JukeboxMusical film ''Film/MammaMia'' (which in turn, was based on the Music/{{ABBA}} stage musical of the same name), ''Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again'' was written and directed by Ol Parker with the help of Richard Curtis and Catherine Johnson (who created the ''Mamma Mia!'' stage musical).

** Averted with "Andante, Andante", which was originally about playing the piano but the lyrics implied [[{{Double Entendre}} otherwise]] anyway. The movie exploits this as Donna sings it flirtily to Sam a few days into their relationship.

** PlayedWith with "The Day Before You Came". It has always been an unconfirmed fan theory that the "you" in the song might not be a love interest, but Death. Meryl Streep sings it at the end of the OST.

It's been five years after the events of the first movie and Sophie (Creator/AmandaSeyfried) is preparing a grand reopening of her mother Donna's hotel, with the help of her mother's friends Tanya and Rosie (Creator/ChristineBaranski and Creator/JulieWalters), the staff, as well as hotel manager Mr. Cienfuegos (Creator/AndyGarcia), but she is worried that Sky (Creator/DominicCooper) will not make it in time, and everything seems to be going wrong. A year before, her mother died and the hotel was being redecorated in her honour with a large guest list, reminding Rosie and Tanya about the struggles Donna had when she first got to the island. What follows is a series of flashbacks throughout the movie following younger Donna (Creator/LilyJames) after she graduated with her friends, when she travelled around Europe, and when she met Sophie's three fathers: Sam (Creator/JeremyIrvine), Bill (Josh Dylan), and Harry (Hugh Skinner).