I'm not sure this idea for a third episode of Mamma Mia is exactly what the fans were waiting for...
Using the music of Leonard Cohen rather than ABBA was a bold choice, but I think it works. Likewise the documentary format is an interesting way of telling the same story yet again, while not feeling like the same story.
But if you liked the first two, all your old favorites are here! Greek islands, that mythical time of "the sixties" when social conventions didn't exist, beautiful people (and their sidekicks) coupling ambiguously to a glorious soundtrack, the dream of eternal youth.
The second half veers, I have to admit, in a daring direction. We give up some of the 60s pretense of happiness and unicorns; and investigate the consequences of that lifestyle. Obviously the first Mamma Mia explored this lightly, with Sophie being a little unhappy at not knowing her father, but this time we go much deeper -- lives, minds, careers ruined, marriages destroyed, suicides and early deaths, a lot of broken and institutionalized children. Dark dark stuff, but it needed to be said to really ground the story in complete truth...
So what more could you hope for from yet another sequel?
But if you liked the first two, all your old favorites are here! Greek islands, that mythical time of "the sixties" when social conventions didn't exist, beautiful people (and their sidekicks) coupling ambiguously to a glorious soundtrack, the dream of eternal youth.
The second half veers, I have to admit, in a daring direction. We give up some of the 60s pretense of happiness and unicorns; and investigate the consequences of that lifestyle. Obviously the first Mamma Mia explored this lightly, with Sophie being a little unhappy at not knowing her father, but this time we go much deeper -- lives, minds, careers ruined, marriages destroyed, suicides and early deaths, a lot of broken and institutionalized children. Dark dark stuff, but it needed to be said to really ground the story in complete truth...
So what more could you hope for from yet another sequel?