Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Universal Pictures | Release Date: July 20, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 46 Critic Reviews
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24
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20
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2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
85
Vanity FairRichard LawsonJul 17, 2018
The pleasures of Ol Parker’s film are simple and sensual, its riot of color and sweet, nostalgic songs proving wholly agreeable even without much of a plot to hold it all together. Read full review
80
Film Journal InternationalHarry HaunJul 19, 2018
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is a minor miracle of a musical, something you never thought you would ever see. Read full review
80
Arizona RepublicRandy CordovaJul 19, 2018
This “Mamma Mia” takes a lot of the original’s qualities and then amplifies them to the nth degree. It’s bigger and crazier, and the emotions actually seem to run a bit deeper at times. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangJul 18, 2018
Everything old is shockingly, stirringly new again in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, the rare sequel so unexpectedly enchanting that it plays less like a rehash than a reclamation. Read full review
80
The TelegraphRobbie CollinJul 17, 2018
The first film’s very specific pleasures are comprehensively encored. Read full review
75
The Associated PressLindsey BahrJul 19, 2018
Perhaps the most surprising thing about this whole sequined bell-bottomed experience is you might even find yourself getting a little emotional. But not too much, this is vacation after all. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeTy BurrJul 18, 2018
I wish I could tell you that Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is ridiculous and I hated it, but the fact is that it’s ridiculous and I loved every minute. Read full review
75
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldJul 18, 2018
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again doesn’t pretend to be anything more than what it is: sweet, silly, sun-splashed absurdity, with a thumping disco beat. The world is a mess these days; some of us might just need this movie. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneKatie WalshJul 17, 2018
Much like its predecessor, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is escapist fluff of the highest order — joyful, filled with beloved pop songs and incredibly bizarre. Go ahead and treat yourself to this raucous seaside summer confection, you deserve it. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattJul 17, 2018
A shiny-bright jukebox musical with a heart of gold and a plot of pure polyester, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again works hard to be the feel-giddy movie experience of the summer. And it mostly succeeds in its own glittery, aggressively winsome way. Read full review
75
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiJul 17, 2018
In a nice change from Seyfried’s 2008 turn as the ingénue, we want to befriend James’ Donna, not mute her. She’s as gorgeous as she is committed, as funny as she is emotionally true. A big talent. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternJul 19, 2018
The glee is industrial-strength, and the ABBA-fueled production numbers are so far over the top that the film is at once topless and chaste. Yet there’s a wellspring of genuine feeling in this time-hopping sequel, framed as an origin story. Read full review
70
TimeStephanie ZacharekJul 19, 2018
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is terrible. And irresistible. How a movie that’s almost not even a movie can be both of those things at once is one of the mysteries of filmgoing, and one of its puckish pleasures. Read full review
70
IGNSimon ThompsonJul 17, 2018
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again knows exactly what it is, what its target audience wants, why and how. Changing things up, ticking boxes and tapping toes, it’s charming, entertaining and way better than many may be expecting it to be. Read full review
70
Screen DailyDemetrios MatheouJul 17, 2018
The template may remain essentially cheesy and the men still appear never to have experienced a dance floor. Yet it would be churlish to argue against a film of such smile-out-loud optimism. Read full review
70
VarietyOwen GleibermanJul 17, 2018
“Here We Go Again” is another kitsch patchwork; it’s as if you were watching the CliffsNotes to an old studio weeper that happened to be carried along by some of the most luscious pop songs ever recorded. Yet the feeling comes through, especially at the end — a love poem to the primal bond of mothers and daughters. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesJul 20, 2018
Parker has cast credible young versions of all the original players, although in most cases vintage outperforms new grape. Read full review
67
ConsequenceAllison ShoemakerJul 19, 2018
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is one of the most batshit crazy pieces of outright nonsense this writer has ever had the pleasure of encountering, and while calling it an excellent film would be going way too far, I enjoyed every single goddamn second of it. Read full review
67
IndieWireKate ErblandJul 17, 2018
Ultimately, throwing the same people in the same place with little to do and even less time to do it is emblematic of the sins of far worse, much less worthy sequels. Without Streep there to tie it altogether, well, it just doesn’t sing. Read full review
63
USA TodayBrian TruittJul 20, 2018
The superior yet still extraordinarily cheesy "Here We Go Again" suffers from many of the same fundamental problems, though the film exudes an infectious energy and hearty spirit that’ll put you in a powerful Swedish super-pop headlock until you submit. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Kate TaylorJul 19, 2018
The key to the franchise is that Mamma Mia! never takes itself seriously: This time out, the joy is giddy but the sentiments are cloying; the musical scenes are mainly delightful, but quieter moments often fall flat. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliJul 18, 2018
More of the same. One senses viewers wouldn’t want anything different. Read full review
63
Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonJul 18, 2018
Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral) has been brought in to class up the dialogue, and add some one-liners.... In addition, director Parker does some clever things visually. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineJake ColeJul 18, 2018
It boasts such confident performances and choreography that it feels as much like a final draft of the 2008 film as a continuation of it. Read full review
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