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Review: Does 'Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again' improve on the original? ABBA-solutely!

Everything old is shockingly, stirringly new again in "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again," the rare sequel so unexpectedly enchanting that it plays less like a rehash than a reclamation. It may take you a moment to understand why, or how, this could be the case. The title alone feels like a winking admission that, as with nearly every Hollywood cash cow that suddenly fancies itself a franchise, we're basically in store for more of the same.

We are and we aren't. Make no mistake, the deep blue waters of the Aegean shimmer as beautifully as ever, and the fictional Greek island of Kalokairi has never looked more inviting. The whisper-thin story revisits old characters and familiar

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