From Mamma Mia to Queer Eye and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, it’s clear: joy is cool again
Last month I went with my husband and father to watch Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, a gloriously silly paean to Swedish pop music, the Mediterranean (a postcard version of it, anyway) and the pleasure of watching famous people burst – without any evident embarrassment – into song and dance. Dad said he was in need of a pick-me-up, and exclaimed after the film: “It was a hoot!”
He seemed to echo the thoughts of many critics, who wrote about Mamma Mia as if they were starved of fresh air and sunshine, and in desperate need of some light. “Here We Go Again is uncomplicated joy in complicated, despairing times,” wrote Vanity Fair’s Richard Lawson. “It’s hot, it’s muggy and the news is an ever-widening gyre of flaming airborne chili-festival Porta Potties,” conceded NPR’s Glen Weldon, “so how about we forgo a review that seeks to advance any cool, objective argument on the relative cinematic worth of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.”
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