In Which Film Adaptation Was the Singing More Horrendous?

Everyone is entitled to their opinions (but yours is correct!)

I found Mama Mia impossible to sit through and more painful the Phantom of the Opera.

I'll never understand the fuss with the singing in Mama Mia! I thought it was all very good - especially Streep. I have friends and family members who love the movie - so we must all be idiots.

The fuss is it has the nerve to call itself a musical when it seems like the whole point of the film seems to be to mock the music with the atrocious singing. Streep is a very mediocre singer and her voice simply did not work for this movie. Her over-the-top screeching worked for INTO THE WOODS, though.

Whatever. The point of the film is not to mock the music - it all sounds quite good to me - and it was a HUGE box-office winner and was even re-released in a "sing-along-version" - so clearly a lot of people thought the music was good - myself included. I'm through defending it on this board, though - how terrible it is pops up on here about every other post.

It's box office success means nothing! It was an adaptation of a very successful Broadway musical which was based around the popular music of ABBA. It wasn't until people actually saw what a disaster it was that the hate started rolling in.

I will admit that my opinion would be tainted with my disdain for the jukebox variety of music theatre....so there it is. Regardless if the singing was adequate or not. The storyline of these jukebox musicals are going to be contrived, strained, hokey as they are forced to fit in the constraints of songs that were not specifically written to fit one cohesive story, but rather haphazardly strung together in order to dupe non musical theatre fans into the theatre. What they come to see is a spectacle that includes a string of greatest hits from a rock band that they like or are familiar with. This is hardly imaginative and hardly music theatre. :/

I'm not arguing that, but the fact is that it is still a musical, which means the people in it should be able to sing.

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