Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again brings dorsum the cast, the ABBA and the stunning Greek locales of the original - but does information technology get i improve and include a post-credits scene? Long-rumored but rarely-expected, Mamma Mia 2 goes The Godfather Part Ii route by both continuing the story of the Swedish-singing, multi-father family unit and showing how it all came to be; we follow Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) dealing with her pregnancy, and the younger years of her mother Donna (Lily James, taking the mic from Meryl Streep) teased in the first film.

Of course, it's all really about the ABBA and providing intermittently stunning and incredibly campy covers of the bands most famous works. It'south those covers that would make you'd stick behind the credits of any pop jukebox movie, hoping for more. Indeed, during the credits of the first Mamma Mia, at that place were 2 musical numbers from Donna and the Dynamos ("Dancing Queen" and "Waterloo"), and then "Cheers For The Music" over the credits themselves. What does the sequel offer?

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Direct up, over the outset stretch of the credits there's a massive encore where all the bandage from both timelines sing "Super Trouper". But, if you leave the movie the moment that finishes, you're going to have to go again: Mammia Mia 2 does have a mail-credits scene. What'due south so interesting is that, in a sea of Curiosity finish-credits teases, this is decidedly old-school (alarm: the rest of the commodity contains balmy spoilers for Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again).

The post-credits scene of Mamma Mia 2 is less an extra sequence than it is an outtake. It takes us dorsum to the pier on the Greek mainland when Harry (Hugh Skinner, played a younger version of Colin Firth'southward "spontaneous" banker) comes upon Omid Djalili's way-obsessed passport officer. Later on Harry's been condemned for his shorter haircut, Djalili says that if Donna doesn't have him back, then he's always there and starts singing "Have A Chance On Me" earlier swell upwards (along with the off-screen crew) and telling the managing director to call cut.

This sort of actress outtake afterward the motion-picture show is a throwback to decades past, when after-credits scenes were (as well as beingness more infrequent) much lesser seen; typically subconscious gags and little more. That said, in the context of the Mamma Mia catechism, it does have a natural language-in-cheek element, given that Harry came out as gay shortly after his run-in with Donna.

Of grade, because nosotros're at present 10 years into the tradition of Curiosity setting upward the next movie when half the audience has gone, this volition inevitably pb to questions about Mamma Mia 3. In that location is a mention of Sophie wanting x years of repose, a wink to the decade gap between the outset Mamma Mia sequel and the original, but little direct setup. As long as there are more ABBA hits to embrace, though, there's always a risk.

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  • Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)Release appointment: Jul 20, 2018

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