MOVIE - Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again

PG-13 (1:54)

7/20/18 Wide Release

Viewed 7/23/18 at Carlisle with Laura and Ella
IMBd: 7.3/10

RT Critic: 79   Audience:  76
Critic's Consensus:  Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again doubles down on just about everything fans loved about the original -- and my my, how can fans resist it?

Cag:  4/Liked it a lot - the music is awesome

Directed by Ol Parker

Universal Pictures

Based on the music of ABBA  (a 1970s rock group from Sweden)

Amanda Seyfried, Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgard, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters, Andy Garcia, Cher, Meryl Streep

My comments:  Dancin' Queen....You can dance....you can jive....having the time of your life.....
I just returned from seeing this movie.  With some of it was disappointed, but with some of it I felt giddy.  Yup, giddy.  And the grand finale was GRAND!  Best part of the movie!!!  The scenes with the younger versions of the couples seemed over-acted to me, and a teeny, tiny bit off.  Loved it when the three females were performing together, young OR old.  The modern-time numbers were really wonderful.  As is the scenery...how would ANYONE want to leave that place?  Fantastic costumes, too.  And including Cher was a blast.  So. Much. Fun.  Ella really loved it, and immediately wondered if they'd make a number three!
      Perfect movie for three generations to watch together.

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Cag:  6Awesome 5 Loved it 4 Liked it a lot 3 liked it 2 it was okay 1 nope

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My thoughts:  Well.....I loved some of the dialogue, for sure.  I guess this is a good thing, since the movie is all dialogue.  Celine and ............ driving and talking, walking and talking, sitting at a meal and talking, siting in a hotel room and talking.  Celine is extremely self-centered and .............. loves her completely despite this.  He is adorable. She is, mostly, a pain-in-the-ass.  A smart, funny pain-in-the ass, but a pain-in-the-ass nontheless.

MOVIE - My Life in Ruins

A waste of time
PG-13
Released Jne, 2009 (Last week -it won't be in the big theaters long)
RT: !3% (Guess I should have paid better attention to this rating)
cag: 25%
Richard Dreyfuss
Director; Donald Petrie

I needed to be "taken away" for an hour or two, but I almost walked out of this one after the first 20 minutes. The woman who wrote and starred in My Big Fat Greek Wedding starred in this. She cannot act, or overacts, or does something that really did NOT connect with me. Her lipstick was too red and she was always too well put together. She was snotty, uptight, and above everyone, and then Richard Dreyfuss helped her make a total turnaround in about two hours. "Georgia" became hip and "with it" and fun and even funny in the snap of the fingers. Give me a break! Every single character was a stereotype - and not a good one. Bad acting, bad writing, Blech! It's not even entertaining, it's just boring. Okay, during the last half when some of the quirkly (of course) people on her tour started endearing themselves to me I wasn't complete loathing it, but.....