ABBA

Former ABBA member Bjorn Ulvaes is resisting efforts to mount a movie sequel to the hit musical Mamma Mia!, the London Telegraph reported on Saturday. "It wouldn't work," Ulvaes, who co-wrote the ABBA songs that were used in the musical, told the newspaper. Nevertheless, virtually everyone else who was involved in the film is pushing for a sequel, the Telegraph observed, including Universal execs, screenwriter Catherine Johnson, and Meryl Streep, who starred in the film. "Oh, I'm up for it," she told the newspaper, "as long as you can get those fabulous boys back," referring to her male co-stars in the original.

Mamma Mia! the Movie

The success of the musical Mamma Mia!, which is a global phenomenon, was at last taken to the big screen. Over 40 million people all over the globe have seen the musical and the movie rivaled the success.

The plot of the movie is centered on a young girl of 20 who is about to get married and can’t seem to make that commitment until she learns who her father is. Sophie Sheridan (Amanda Seyfried), lives with her mother Donna (Meryl Streep) on the small Greek island Kalokairi, the island is fictional.

Donna runs a hotel called Villa Donna. Sophie wants to find her father so that he can “give her away” at her wedding to her fiancé Sky (Dominic Cooper). Sophie knows for certain that her father is one of three men, because she reads her mother’s diary from 20 years ago, detailing the summer she fell pregnant with Sophie. Her father is one of the following men: Sam Carmichael (Pierce Brosnan), Harry Bright (Colin Firth), or Bill Anderson (Stellan Skarsgård).

Sophie plots to invite all three men to the island without telling her mother and fiancé, she tracks them down and sends invitations to all three.

("I Have a Dream").
Sophie does however, confide in her two best friends, Ali (Ashley Lilley) and Lisa (Rachel McDowall) about how she plotted to find them by inviting them back to the island.

("Honey, Honey")
At the same time, all three men come to the island, thinking that Donna invited them. Sophie expects them at a certain time to fetch them upon arrival, and after she hides them in the old goat house. While all three are cornered and trapped by Sophie, she gets them to agree that under no circumstances can they announce to her mother, Donna, that she was the one who actually wrote to them.

This is about the same time that the other guests have arrived as well for the wedding from the harbor. Then Donna's longtime friends arrive to the island, from the days they spent when they were young women on the island, Rosie is single and gregarious writer (Julie Walters) and Tanya is a wealthy three-time divorcée (Christine Baranski).

At one point Donna hears noises in her got house and goes upstairs, and there she peeks in and recognizing the men she had dated years prior.

Donna is overwhelmed with memories and emotion that she asks the three men to leave the island, instead of leaving they end up camping out on Bill’s boat docked in the harbor.

Donna is not handling seeing the men well and leans on her friends, Tanya and Rosie. (Chiquitita) They all laugh like it’s a Greek Comedy. Tanya and Rosie chat about how they were all so free-spirited past (Dancing Queen).

Donna and her friends all sing together and dance through the streets and the former ABBA member Benny Andersson appears playing the piano in this scene. Sophie visits the three men on Bill's boat and convinces them to stay for her wedding after hearing all three men's memories of Donna (Our Last Summer). When she hears Sky, she jumps into the sea and swims to him on the beach. There, they discuss their meeting and their love for each other (Lay All Your Love On Me), but Sky is ambushed by his buddies for the bachelor party.

Later that evening Sophie talks to all three men at the disco where a party was taking place. Separately, each of the men tell Sophie that he will be the one to give her away at the wedding, because they all have a feeling that their father. She is overwhelmed at this point, because each has stories that add up to the possibility of being her father. At the disco Sophie faints because of the stress and the situation.

Sophie decides to avoid choosing between the three men, that it’s best that her mother give her away. All three men are lovely to Donna, one offers payment for Sophie’s wedding the professes his love for her that he’s held close to his heart for over 20 years.

Sophie finally confesses that she invited all three men who are her potential fathers. Sky is actually upset unsure of what he wants to do about the wedding. The wedding will take place though and Donna helps her daughter prepare.

During the wedding ceremony, Donna finally confesses that she is unsure who Sophie’s father is. She begins talking about everything and all three potential fathers publicly claim be Sophie's father.

I won’t tell you the end in the event you have not seen it….

I will say though that Donna feels that, Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, was responsible with how everything unfolded in everyone’s life.