Swooning over Pierce Brosnan in Mamma Mia! (read Owen Gleiberman’s C+ review here), my sister said, "When you look that good in linen, you don’t need to be able to sing.”
True or false?
Jul 21
2008
06:59 PM ET
True or False: 'Mamma Mia!' edition
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Critic David Edelstein made me laugh with this line from his review.
“…and Pierce Brosnan, whose voice in song is the closest a human has come to a water buffalo.”
False. I enjoyed his acting, but he has quite a few numbers and his voice was painful to listen to.
False! People who can’t sing shouldn’t. EVER.
the only thing worse than PB singing is Colin Firth dancing.
TRUE
In normal occasions I would agree, but this is a musical for pete’s sake! Hire singers! (that and his acting wasn’t that good either.
False, but luckily it didn’t ruin the entire movie for me. So alls well that ends well.
I have no doubt your sister said that.
So, so true! Despite the lackluster vocals he completely charmed me.
don’t sign on for an effing musical if you can’t sing. I don’t care if you’re the big G; just DON’T.
Shame on that casting director!
Most definitely true.
The whole movie was really oddly cast, the ages didn’t really match up. But I love all of the actors so I enjoyed it.
I shall reserve official judgment until I actually see the movie – but until then, I offer option C: True, but only if he keeps his shirt on, because I really do not need to ever again see that much chest hair.
This movie was bad. I enjoyed it very much but it was still bad. PB was one of the biggest contributing to the badness, for 2 reasons: 1) He did not seem to realize it was bad, as the other actors did and 2) the aforementioned singing. People were definitely laughing at him rather than with him. All the other older actors were winking at us.
yes he looked hot but when he started singing i felt like running towards the fire exit
I really want to see the movie, because I love the soundtrack; I’ve been listening to and singing the songs for years now. Two of my sisters have seen it on stage and loved it. However, I was disappointed with the casting when they announced it, because the older characters seemed…well, too old. If the movie being cast is a musical, then it should be determined that the actors can actually carry a tune before they’re hired. I’m going for the songs, not the actors, so I don’t care so much who’s playing a role as I do how well they can sing. I’m still going, but I’m hoping that my fondness for the music doesn’t suffer.