You should have seen the review that I did by
now of the sequel to this movie. But I need to see the original movie and do a
review of it. Maybe the sequel will make more sense when I do this. So enjoy
this review.
We begin with a person on a boat. She is
singing a song. That was early. The main character sends a letter to three
different men. Let’s hope that I can keep track of all the different names of
people this time around. There is a montage shown of all of these different men
in different countries and places. That’s where the title card of the movie is
and starts.
The protagonist meets with her core group with
two other friends. She doesn’t know who her dad is. She reads from her mother’s
diary of the story that I know about from the sequel that I’ve already seen. This
leads to the second song and first really long one of the movie. Apparently dot
dot dot is the same thing as yada yada yada. And I thought it was just a thing
Trump tweeted all the time. She invited all of the three men under the idea
that her mother sent it.
The three men wind up on a boat ride together.
We also see people on a ferry. It then goes back to her friends for a while. We
then get to more people arriving at the place. Donna meets up with her two main
friends. They drive somewhere. Sophie is the name of the person who is getting
married. Rosie and Tanya are the names of the friends of Donna.
The men realize on their way going together
that they haven’t heard from Donna in such a long time. There is some
awkwardness with people when they arrive. Donna then gets to the third song of
the movie talking about how overworked she has felt and she wants money in the
rich man’s world. There might have been an earthquake or some reason why the
dolphin cracked in some way.
Bill, Harry, and Sam arrive with Sophie
greeting them. She wants them to come in a certain way to avoid any sort of
weirdness. Donna is possibly drunk when she is with her friends, hanging out.
Sophie takes her possible fathers to a room where she talks about some of the
past. She then has to hide them when Donna shows up.
Once Donna notices the old flames from her past
there, she breaks out into the main song that the movie is named after and
fourth song of the movie. This leads to some weird people joining the song and
her falling into the place. She talks with them some as she wonders why they
are there.
Donna is crying for some reason while her two
friends sing badly until they start to sing better about whatever the issue is.
I do not understand this. She tells them that all three of them showed up. Her
two friends learn about the three potential fathers. The town people laugh at
her as extras often don’t mind their own business in musicals. Where did the
men go?
Back at Donna’s place wherever it is she is
staying at, her friends sing Dancing Queen, the sixth song of the movie. There
seems to be a lot of strange costumes in this scene. But at least the extras
know to join in with this.
Sophie wants to make sure that her dads don’t
just leave on their boat. One of them took a guitar for some odd reason. One of
them starts singing. It seems like she is getting details from them to figure
out who might be her father. But this might not be the case as we get way less
flashbacks then in the sequel. I still don’t know why she is being so secretive
about things.
She talks to her fiancée and he sings the
eighth song of the movie. She joins in the song as well which seems to be very
sexual in nature. Who were those random men on the dock who joined in the song?
We then get to the bachelorette party. That’s
when Donna and her friends come out and do yet another song for this movie.
They went kind of overboard with all of these songs in it. At least there’s a
little plot in this movie. The dads show up during this song. What could happen
next?
How many of these songs were recycled in the
sequel to this? There is then another
song since the men showed up and the women are horny and tie these men up
because that’s normal. Sam talks to Sophie alone while this song happens in the
background, off-screen. Sophie tries to figure who her father is and talks to
the rest of her potential fathers one on one. Bill thinks that he’s the father.
What song number are we at next? Masked men
show up at the bachelorette party and they aren’t worried as it is all part of
the elaborate song sequence. Sam thinks that he is the father and talks to
Sophie about it. Harry also thinks that he’s the father and I don’t think that
anyone thinks of doing a last minute DNA test. Surely those were around when
this movie is set.
The next day, both Donna and Sophie worry about
what is going on. Did someone just say donkey testicles? Why? Harry and Bill
talk to each other and the whole sort of general awkwardness continues. Some
random woman is listening to this. She sees some of what is going on. Sophie
and Donna are talking to each other. Donna is confused about what’s going. But
she doesn’t want to wedding called off.
Sam talks to Donna. They try to figure out
things. Men don’t get menopause. This leads to another song. How are people
supposed to know when they are supposed to do this anyways? Sorry, I shouldn’t
be taking musicals too seriously.
I forget if Christine Baranski is playing Tanya
or Rosie. Whoever she is, there are some sort of moves that she is putting on a
black guy. She sings a song to him and may have hooked up with him last night,
even though it wasn’t seen in the movie, to my knowledge at least.
Harry reaches with Donna and he gives money for
the wedding. Sophie asks for help and then runs off. Her fiancée talks to her
and both of them get upset. Sam then talks to Sophie some about some of the
things. We then get to another song that starts with Donna singing. She
reminisces about her daughter’s life. Things are slipping through fingers all
the time. They talk more about what is going on. It turns out that Donna will
give Sophie away at the wedding.
We then get to the bride riding a donkey for
some odd reason. This movie is just so weird. But what, nowadays, isn’t weird?
Of course, this came out around ten years ago. Sam talks to Donna and yet
another song happens. I haven’t seen the video that I posted here to recap this
movie, but I have the feeling that Jeremy doesn’t like this movie at all. While
I do, it wouldn’t be hard to see why. I don’t get the meaning of all of these
songs.
We then get to wedding in question where her
mother walks her down the aisle. They then get to the dad sort of reveal where
the three fathers are here. This is kind of awkward, but that doesn’t seem to
last long. Actually, it does get more awkward when they all seem to speak up
and the beginning of the wedding is delayed. They want to put off the wedding
and the character says what everyone is thinking when Sophie wants to call off
the wedding for now. This is Adam Decker, whoops! Kind of got ahead of myself
there, didn’t I?
Sam then wants to marry Donna and they wind up together.
Now I have to watch the sequel again sometime. But when? We get to what might
end up being the last song of the movie. It is hard to tell for sure. But what
made Sam the right person? Or is this just a way of saying that he probably is
the dad, even if we don’t know for sure. He sings a song at this wedding. All
is said and done, I think.
I don’t know who this random woman is that
wants to be with Bill, but she sings at the wedding and that’s how we get to
him possibly taking a chance on her. But will this romance that came out of
nowhere mean anything? The crack from earlier then shows up with water bursting
out of it. I don’t get it! This sure is a silly movie.
After a quick reprise of Mamma Mia, the song,
we go back to Sophie singing to the audience some. We then see her with her
dads as people leave. She has a dream in the end, alright. Thus, there is a
reprise of Dancing Queen as the credits roll.
Well, this was quite a strange movie, but what
musicals aren’t? Do you know of any? Now I know details about the sequel that I
wouldn’t have known otherwise. But at least I know the whole story of the
fathers. Now I think that this was a good movie, even if a lot of it didn’t
make sense.
There is an encore for us of the Waterloo song,
I think. It is hard to tell for sure. But it seems like the curtain call of the
movie. Sorry if this wasn’t that great a recap. I do not know if anyone likes
these or are interested in them. I doubt that I could ever write these for a
living.
I think that’s it for this blog post. Sorry if
things were too weird about it. I wonder if any of you can guess where I took a
break while watching this to do other things before I came back to finish it.
There’s not much else to say so maybe now I will end this review for real. For
now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.
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