Pierce Brosnan in Mama Mia Movie

I would just like to say a word in defense of Pierce Brosnan's work in the Mama Mia movie. He's received a lot of negative criticism for his raspy singing voice. Critics have been mentioning that moviegoers are laughing when he starts to sing. First of all, he's not a singer...He's an actor who sings. He is on pitch. His voice is no worse than Eric Clapton's, who is one of music's biggest stars. I think he does a great job in that movie. I also wonder whether moviegoers are actually laughing at him or laughing at the awkward transitions from a talking scene to suddenly bursting into song in the most awkward way, as we know Mama Mia is famous for. Believe it or not, I'm not even the world's biggest Pierce Brosnan fan. I just think the panning of his performance is unfair and mean-spirited.

He was awful. Totally, totally awful. Realllllly bad. I'm sorry. He was AWFUL.

He was honest and raw. Better than having some dope dub over for him. It made it/him more believeable and real.

You don't have to sing to be in MAMMA MIA!

I have been in love with him my whole life and this made me love him even more... if that was possible

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Updated On: 7/22/08 at 03:23 PM

Oh, I "get it" PalJoey. I get he was awful. But then again ,the whole movie was awful. I'm tired of saying awful.

SOS was painful but When All Is Said and Done was kind of sweet.

I thought he sounded like Peter Frampton.

I thought he 'acted' the role fine, which he can do in his sleep, but honestly he can't sing and shouldn't have tried. I normally don't read reviews, but this one made me laugh since I did 'get it.'

"All right, just one more quibble: Pierce Brosnan can't sing. I don't want to overemphasize this. Just bang your head against the wall and repeat the sentence, "Pierce Brosnan can't sing" 10 times. You'll understand how I mean this."



From San Francisco Chronicle

I'm tired of saying awful.

Then why don't you stop?

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Updated On: 7/22/08 at 04:07 PM

His singing sucked. On pitch it may be, but it sucked. Really sucked. Bad bad bad. And the look on his face, like he was passing a stone, how on earth did any director get a look at that and not do something?

Pathetic. The worst singing since Gerard Butler's wounded moose bellowing in PHANTOM.

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I thought Pierce was fine.

the actors are NOT the biggest problem here.... it's the direction

Roscoe. What did you expect? There is absolutely no artistic integrity and, for this movie, it doesn't really matter...

it closed at $27 mill for the weekend. The movie is insanely popular.

Well, I didn't think it was so crappy.

To each his own.

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The biggest comment coming out of opening night at the sokld out house in the theater I was at was that they were suprised Pierce could sing... They laughed cause it was like... OH MY GOD... JAMES BOND SINGS! Sure he isn't a big named broadway star but there are a lot of people who cannot sing and have made it in broadway musicals (and done well too!)

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LOVED his singing!