
If you recall, he shows up in the fillm’s opening sequence in a “fake” Austin Powers movie that also “stars’ Gwyneth Paltrow and Kevin Spacey. Tom Cruise’s biggest opening weekend is technically the $73 million launch of Austin Powers: Goldmember. There are plenty of examples of big stars for whom their biggest grossers (or one of their biggest grossers) is a movie in which they barely appear.

Anyway, Meryl Streep has very little screen time in Here We Go Again. Yes, it’s a Godfather Part II narrative, right down the emotional switcheroo (the first film had a happy young Sophie and a sad adult Donna, while the sequel reverses that). The film alternates between flashbacks of a young Donna (Lily James) meeting the three men who would all become the possible fathers for young Sophie and present-day drama of married-and-pregnant Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) trying to reopen her mom’s hotel while figuring out how best to move on.

This isn’t a spoiler, but you find out in the very first moments of Ol Parker’s sequel that Donna, the last film’s protagonist, has died a year prior to this film’s story.
