Mammia Mia! Here We Go Again reviewed by Mark Kermode 

Mamma Mia breaks Kermode: Here We Go Again

Invoking The Texas Chain Saw Massacre while talking about Mamma Mia! sequel... this is why I love Kermode's reviews.

"I had to jam my fist into my mouth and I could hear myself crying. Properly weeping. I was in pieces ...beautiful pieces!" - This quote should be on the film poster although I also suspect Mark might be experiencing a midlife crisis.

I never thought seeing a professional critic gushing over Mamma Mia of all movies could be so endearing to watch, but here we are!

What I love is that this is the man who states that Jaws is a stronger film than Schindler’s List, yet hysterically breaks down when he hears “GIMME GIMME GIMME A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT!” That’s why we love you Mark, never change😂

Abba has broken Kermode again!

I didn't have a strong reaction to the first movie when I saw it but I did with the second. If you just go with the film and it's absurdity and fortuitousness, it's an incredibly fun and moving experience. I'm not kidding when I sat its one of my favorite cinema experiences of the year so far.

What a great review! Mark had me laughing and smiling, and even getting a little choked up for him! haha Best line in the clip: Simon saying "It's pathetic!" had me laughing! Now I want to see this movie!

So, it's like the Exorcist?

I love the way he describes himself sobbing and weeping in pieces, wtf is this film lol

So glad Mark had this reaction for two reasons: 1, I love seeing Mark this honest and this genuine. 2, my wife's cousin is the assistant art director on the film.

Ha, Mark's adorable

most anticipated review of the last decade

Did anyone else start crying just watching Mark's review?

This movie is so damn good. The first one is not that good but it’s a fun enough watch but the second one is legitimately great. This movie is basically the structure of Godfather 2 but set inside of an ABBA musical

Best review I have seen of this movie. Thank you!

If only it had been made by Adam Curtis

This is not what I was expecting. I tend to think of Kermode as a more stuffy, intellectual critic. Seeing him just give in to the charms of such a cool breeze of a movie is a charming moment. And tears! Awwww.

We all need cheering up in this nightmarish Trump era. ABBA is the perfect antidote.

Oh buggar! I'm off to see it now but have just finished applying eyeliner. It's going to be smeared all over my face by the end, isn't it?

The utterly bonkers version of Waterloo in the French restaurant was an experience I have to say. The guy playing a younger Firth was utter elastic. Lilly James had me smiling, laughing and at times crying, like Kermode says she charms the birds out the trees 😁😃. Alexa Davies who I really liked in Raised by Wolves had me chuckling as the younger Julie Walters character.

After watching this film, I sought out the review by Mark (as I pretty much always share the same opinion on his film reviews), and I expected that, if he has reviewed it, he'll tear it apart, which would mark the first time I really disagreed with him. I was genuinely shaken for the rest of the evening after watching the film and feeling fragile, and thought that there's no way Mark would see the film the same way. Then to learn he was just as emotionally devastated by the film made me respect him all the more. It's an incredible experience.

Fist in mouth good.

I'm glad I didn't see/hear this review until I had been to see the fim. As the slightly less willing partner whose been unable to avoid the original on TV/DVD and been to see the stage show and quite enjoyed it, I'm not sure what I expected. But I had a similar reaction to Mark at that point in the film - not openly sobbing - that's happened only once at the Cinema before during Les Miserables, but I was unable to stop my face from leaking, and it was a moment of similar power. I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would and get what it must have been like to see the original in the cinema.

He's gone soft, he'll never be the same!!

Didn't see the first one because the trailer made it look like a kind of Hell on Earth. This looks even worse.

"Emotional Dynamite" - love that! Ha :)

Did everyone else see a different film to me? I found it excruciatingly fake and derivative

Oh no - I’m welling up watching this review. I could be in trouble watching the actual movie.... #emotiinalmeninmovies

Just let the sobs out Mark

That's the best review I have ever watched! Thank you Mark!

I totally agree with Mark, one of the best films I have ever seen. The young cast bring so much to the film and they all perfectly depict their older counterparts. Definitely worth watching even if you’re in two minds.

I've just come back from seeing this with my partner. Thank God Kermode cried at the same scene, I was holding back the tears even though I'm not a fan of Abba or musicals!

Beautiful Pieces is Kermode's new moniker.

Watching Mark rhapsodise like that is balm for the soul.

"Pathetic" ... very funny, good timing, first time Simon has made me laugh!

I'm so glad someone else said that. I blubbed all the way through

Love seeing Mark fanboy out like this.

Here we go again is the perfect subname for a sequel

Mark is 100% right. If you buy into the movie than that ending church scene is really sad. Glad to see I wasn’t the only one tearing up.

So far he is the only person that I have seen that actually likes the movie. There are so many people who just think its a bad movie. If you just go along with all the cheesy stuff and the crazyniess you will enjoy yourself and its just such an amazing movie. I loved it

What have you done with the real Mark Kermode?! This chap must be an imposter,he’s crying at bloody Mamma Mia!! Nooooo!!!

So I guess the End Times are upon us. Oh well, we had a good run. Anyone seen any other signs?

A beautiful film and full of positivity and hope. As always an honest review and yes the end will make you cry.

Saw the 1st one on an aeroplane. There's little more claustrophobic than not being able to get up and leave while watching something so nauseating.

Guys, can I watch it without watching the first movie?

Couldn't have put it better Mark - it's great!

too right, too much cinema has no heart. Having said that, what I saw of the first Mamma Mia was dire

Movie was delightful

Just back from watching it and i smiled all the way through

dear god.

I actually went to see it and yes, yes, yes everything

"Beautiful pieces" sounds like an Alanis Morissette song

Play on half speed. Hilarious!

It's gonna be mega!!! That's all you can say really 🌞

Bless you Mark. I love a good sob in a film, hadn't realised these films even had that kind of thing going on. Assumed they were just silly cheese fest's. Might have to track the first one down.. I was bought up on ABBA but left them behind by the time I started buying records. Was fun to listen back to them a few months ago, could still sing all the songs I hadn't heard for three decades!

The film maybe too light hearted & long in parts, however the film’s better acted, funnier, stylish & better crafted. (77%) (4/5 stars) (positive)

for the people complaining about the film as if it's meant to be the godfather it's almost as if..... it wasn't made for you?

I always cry at the end of Home Alone, when the old shovel guy's family turn up for Christmas and the music's in full on emotional, Christmassy mode

I liked Here We go Again slightly more than I liked the first one. I thought Christine Baranski and Julie Walters were funnier, and I really really liked the performances of all the young actors. Both movies bring such joy.

The crying you try to describe is what women call "ugly crying" ...

I thought its better than the first Mamma Mia, which I thought was a 2/5 but, Here We Go Again 3/5 so an improvement.

I cannot recall if the first film made Mark's top ten for the year or indeed if this one will go on to do so? I assume he compiles such lists with his critics head on as opposed to us punters who do not necessarily appraise all films we see in terms of their technical qualities. If not already done it would be interesting for a future Kermode Uncut to feature a top ten of films that were technically all over the place but had the ability to win you over despite these flaws.

I sobbed too

This is hilarious.

i saw this the other day and loved it! watched it in German so I can't wait to see it undubbed because dubbing removes a bit of emotion

I want to see it this afternoon after watching half of this review. That scene in the church had me teary. I still feel emotional thinking about it.

Great review. Around 5:30 min - that's exactly how it is!!

Just saw it at Christmas. Wow, left this earth for 2 hours. Loved it

Loved this film wonderful wonderful

Absolutely the best film. Much better than the first

Wait is there like a post credits sequence to wait for?? Just need to know before I go and see it otherwise may leave early.

No suit on The Good Dr this week? 😋

The first one was incredible The second one was horrible it’s should not have been written or exist

Mamma Mia Oh no Again

Couldn't stand the first one, certainly not seeing this one urghhh.

Mark, come on... LOL

What an odd review. I haven't seen either but now I'll have to.

Burberry: I think we have another jacket to add to the burn pile. I don't care. We have a image to uphold. 25 or younger only.

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How come this is uploaded so early?

I am so startled by this! The first "Mamma Mia!" was just AWFUL. So I have no idea if I should go to this one or not. N.B. I like VERY few of ABBA's songs, though they were the soundtrack of my young life.

...huh

Wow

Clearly I saw a different film...dull. 3/10 - 1 for Omad Djalilli , 1 for Kristine and Julie, the third for Cher's plastic surgeon.

Why did they make a sequel ?

The first one was an absolute ear-ache of a movie. I have zero desire to repeat the experience.

Grumpy guy here. Hate ABBA and avoid this like the plague. Too cheesy.

Worst most self centred and cynical film of the year.

This was utterly atrocious, one of the worst films of the year. Nothing about this works, I have nothing positive to say about this dumpster fire

he`s not gonna like it.

I would rather go to an Ed Sheeran gig than watch this muck!!

My God, he didn't have the guts to say that it was a shitty film. Wow. Huge failure as a critic.