Reader's Digest

132 | July• 2018

Movies

I

t’s been ten years

since Donna (Meryl

Streep) and Sam

(Pierce Brosnan) were

left to live happily ever

after on the Greek

island of Kalokairi but

with Sophie (Amanda

Seyfried) now

expecting a baby

audiences are invited

back to see what’s

happened since and to

find out what brought

them to the island in

the first place. Lily

James (Cinderella)

joins the cast as a

young Donna and

through flashbacks

the story of her youth

is told. Sophie hears of

the fun times her

mother had with her

best friends Rosie and

Tanya when they were

part of a girl band

named ‘Donna and the

Dynamos’ and

discovers how her

mother met each of

her three ‘dads’. 

Original cast

members Christine

Baranski Julie Walters

Colin Firth and Stellan

Skarsgård reprise their

roles as Tanya Rosie

Harry and Bill

respectively. Dominic

Cooper returns as Sky

and Cher joins the cast

as Grandma Ruby

Sheridan. Set against

more of Abba’s familiar

hits director Ol Parker

delivers a musical well

worth the wait.

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (Musical)