"So let me get this straight. You want to make a sequel to a very popular movie (based on an even more popular musical) whose best asset was Meryl Streep ... And you're going to make that film - "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again" - with every other member of the movie's original cast, except for her but including poor Pierce Brosnan, whose singing, as a lovelorn widower, remains a dare to file a noise complaint. And you're going to keep the musical's Abba-centric conceit - only you used up all the great Abba songs the first time. So now you've got to lean on second- and third-tier stuff like "My Love, My Life," "I've Been Waiting for You" and "Kisses of Fire." And because you suspect some of us might, not unreasonably, prefer numbers set to "Dancing Queen" and "Waterloo," and because you're running embarrassingly low on credible options, you recycle those songs, but with as little movie-musical imagination as you can get away with ... But most of the movie's 18 numbers just kindofsit there. You don't feel much ... Passionate amateurism. But that's some of what made the first movie such a kick. Nobody was Barbra Streisand"