'Mamma Mia!' That's bad singing!

Poor Pierce Brosnan. The former James Bond gamely tackles Abba in “Mamma Mia!” and critics find more entertainment in trying to describe his singing than in the movie itself. “[His] singing is the best imitation I’ve heard of a water buffalo.”— David Edelstein, New York magazine “[A]nyone watching Brosnan in mid-delivery will conclude that he has recently suffered from a series of complex digestive problems, and that the camera has, with unfortunate timing, caught him at the exact moment when he is finally working them out.”—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker “Is that Brosnan or a donkey braying the lyrics of ‘S.O.S.’?”—Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer Well, Brosnan is far from the only actor to get slammed for his singing voice. Anyone remember Clint Eastwood in “Paint Your Wagon”? Burt Reynolds in “At Long Last Love”? Alicia... [read full story]