Mamma Mia 3! How Can I Resist Ya?

Well, thank you.

The day we went to see it at the cinema was a lovely day out - although (sorry, Mum!) the comedy highlight for me was afterwards, in Wahaca, watching my mum try to eat nachos with a knife and fork.

You mean you don't eat nachos with a knife and fork?! Whoops!

I did the same last night. Absolutely dire. It actually offends me that it was so big at the box office, because it is such an amateur piece of cinema.

I had no problems following both the story and time line of the second film.

You know I’ve been thinking about this and how the second film pulled threads from the first and from that we saw the following;

• How and why Donna got to Greece.
• Touched upon her relationship with her mother.
• We got to see Donna performing with The Dynamos.
• How she met all three potential fathers of Sophie.
• We got to see Bill’s Aunt Sophia.

If there were to be a third film -assuming Meryl was in it (no matter how much or little screen time it just wouldn’t work without her) I reckon similarly this would also pull at threads from the second film.

Of course I don’t know and this is just speculation but I think it too could travel back and forth in time but the following could work in answering some questions and tie the who thing together;

• Firstly Donna’s death- how any why did she die? Show us the funeral and her loved ones grieving.
• We know Donna met the Dynamos at school, but lets actually see them meeting each other and forming the band.
• Show us Donna relationship with her mother and her telling Ruby that she’s pregnant and being told to never come back
• Show us Sky and Sophie having some marital problems and the job opportunity that lured him away to New York
• We could see Harry’s first homosexual experience
• Also show how Bill started to become a womaniser and travelling, with him and Rosie splitting up.
• Lets get a bit of a back story to Senor Fernando Cienfuegos. We know he was Ruby’s ex-boyfriend but how did he get to Greece and be working for Sophie?

I can already see some songs that as yet have not been used fitting into the above scenarios.

I feel at this point I should clarify, that I do think about other things and reassure you that whilst I freely admit to being an ABBA fan, I’m not obsessed! Lol!

Isn't the big issue here, that has buggered up the timelines, is that Meryl was really too old to play the role in the first place?!?

Isn't Donna in the show, at least, conceived as a woman around 40 (as played by many actors around that age) who had Sophie young - around the age of 20?

This would have sorted out a lot of the date retconning

Are there any other sources to back that up?

Are there enough songs left? I'd love them to use Intermezzo No 1 and I'll applaud in the cinema if they manage to write a scene around Dum Dum Diddle. Will Skye take up playing the fiddle as a major plot point?

I just hope they go back to filming in Greece, but they probably won't.

I saw somewhere it would follow Colin Firth's marriage. If that's true, I don't know if I care enough about him as a character to be the central story. That's the problem when you split the screentime between three of the same character! Perhaps if all the dad's had a major storyline it would work?

I'd like young Bill to appear again for... reasons that are mainly unrelated to the plot, I'll admit.

Just picking up on some of the points raise in some of the above posts. There are LOADS more songs.

Personally I've love to see Under Attack being performed or even Happy New Year. Or even The Day Before You Came.

The King Kong song? I think you're referring to I'm A Marionette.

Given that the last film time travelled, I think the third will do the same. This will enable the whole cast to return.

I think part of the storyline will be Donna's death. Why did and how did she die? At the wake they can play Like An Angel Passing Through My Room

We can also see go back in time and see Ruby breaking up with Fernando- Put On Your White Sombrero

Just do what they did with the last film, time travel and ad a new character or two. Throw in one or two lesser know songs, like they did with Andante Andante in the last film.

Sing a song about Sophie and Sky's baby.

Maybe explore where Tanya'a relationship with Fernando's brother is at?

The possibilities are endless!

Sophie only has to go and meet Sky in an exciting metropolis for the night to shoe horn it in to be fair. They could underscore a boring talky bit with ‘I Am The City’ or their little known cover of The Pogues ‘Dirty Old Town’ (may have made this last bit up...it’s early). 😬

Just out of curiosity, as both Benny and Bjorn made cameos in both of the previous films, does anyone know know why neither Agnetha or Anna Frid chose not to?