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Mamma Mia 2: every thespian's singing, ranked from worst to best

24 July 2018, 17:43 | Updated: 25 July 2018, 09:32

From those who've mastered vocal acrobatics to barking animals (oh Pierce, we could never mean you), we've ranked all the famous actors in 'Mamma Mia! Here We Go Once again' from worst to best, according to their singing abilities.

Following the much discussed release of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, nosotros've analysed every major grapheme's singing, and ranked them in order of greatness.

WARNING: Article contains spoilers

Stellan Skarsgård – Neb

Stellan Skarsgård described his singing in the first picture every bit "horrible" and "really painful". His singing time has been drastically cut down in the second movie, and so nosotros merely get to hear the odd croak from older Bill.

Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård and Pierce Brosnan in Mamma Mia! Here We Get Once again. Picture: Rex
Pierce Brosnan – Sam

Critics were not kind to Pierce Brosnan after his attempts to sing in the first pic. The role player has since told the Radio Times he was "very relieved" to have his singing time radically reduced in Here We Go Again. Equally were we all, Pierce (kidding-not-kidding).

But what Pierce lacks in singing time, he more than than makes up for in sentimentality. His toned-down, solo version of 'SOS' is – although nevertheless a little barky – quite poignant, equally the widowed Sam Carmichael.
Andy Garcia – Fernando

"Andy Garcia's character was invented so that Cher could sing 'Fernando'," said screenwriter/director Ol Parker. "I started from the Fernando joke and worked astern trying to figure out what Andy was doing in that location."

But understandably, Garcia sadly gets a bit lost adjacent to the '90s diva and voice of such pop hits every bit 'Believe' and 'I Got Y'all Baby'.
Colin Firth – Harry

"They didn't audition me, and I thought, 'They're existence reckless here. What do they call up they're doing?'," Firth said at the time of the first film. "They cast me, Pierce Brosnan and Stellan Skarsgård without request any of us if we could sing. So I figured they didn't intendance if we couldn't."

We saw less singing and more of Firth's (admittedly first-rate) trip the light fantastic moves in the sequel – and so for now, permit's reminisce over his sweet, vulnerable vocals in '1 Last Summer', featuring some questionable French pronunciation.
Dominic Cooper – Sky

In Here We Go Once more, Cooper makes a valiant try at a catchy ABBA song – but his role in 'One of The states' is a bit disengaged, with talk-singing reminiscent of Brosnan's attempts in the first film.

Afterward existence asked to sing in the first film, LAMDA-trained Dominic Cooper told Vanity Fair that singing was "part of my training; I'd done it. I just didn't have confidence in information technology."
Hugh Skinner – Young Harry

The comedy geeks among you volition recognise Skinner from Fleabag – only Skinner was too around on the musicals scene not as well long ago, playing Joly in Les Misérables (2015) alongside Amanda Seyfried.

Some other LAMDA-trained actor, Skinner gives a very entertaining performance of 'Waterloo', in which he attempts to sweep Lily James (the young Donna) off her feet. If loving the sight of a young 'Colin Firth' dancing in a tiny, child-sized leather jacket in a French eating place is incorrect, nosotros don't want to be right.
Alexa Davies – Young Rosie

Previously seen in Tv set comedies Detectorists and Raised by Wolves, Davies wasn't known for her singing before Hither We Become Once again. Information technology might, therefore, seem like a daunting prospect to sing the title song, 'Mamma Mia!', equally the young Julie Walters (aka Rosie). But alongside James and Jessica Keenan Wynn in their band Donna and the Dynamos, she more than holds her own.
Jeremy Irvine – Young Sam

Irvine gives a sweet operation of 'Knowing Me, Knowing You'. His background is largely in screen drama, but he proves his worth by singing through the office of young Sam with an endearing youthfulness. Unfortunately, he seems to lose it in his former age (lamentable, Pierce, we actually do mean y'all this fourth dimension).

Lily James and Jeremy Irvine in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. Picture: Rex
Jessica Keenan Wynn – Young Tanya

Having previously starred in stage stone musical Heathers, Keenan Wynn is no newbie to musical theatre. She has enough of singing time with Davies and James in Hither We Go Again, as role of the band Donna and the Dynamos, and she sounds just great.
Julie Walters – Rosie

As ane of the most loved and qualified actors in the cast, Dame Julie Walters was ever going to do a sensational job equally Rosie, the original third Dynamo. Her hilarious performance of 'Have a Take chances on Me' in Mamma Mia! was, absolutely, a tough deed to follow. But this fourth dimension, she still performs on a number of songs, including 'Angel Eyes'. Every bit you lot'd wait, she nails information technology like the Matriarch she is.
Josh Dylan – Young Bill

As one of the youngest in the bandage, 24-year-old Dylan was upward confronting some stiff contest, from the likes of Firth and Brosnan. Just he needn't have worried: his performance of 'Why Did It Have to exist Me?' is up at that place with the original, and proves Dylan as i of the most competent male singers in the moving-picture show.
Christine Baranski – Tanya

Juilliard-trained Baranski is no stranger to musicals, having won 2 Tony Awards for her Broadway appearances in Rumors and Tom Stoppard's The Existent Thing. She well-nigh stole the prove in the kickoff Mamma Mia! picture show with her risqué performance of 'Does Your Mother Know' – and she more than lives upward to it with 'Angel Optics' and 'I've Been Waiting For You' in Here We Go Again.
Meryl Streep – Donna

Nosotros might non get to see as much of Donna as we'd like in Mamma Mia 2, later on Streep said that when all is said and done, she couldn't hack doing a whole moving picture's worth of training again. But her fleeting appearances, including singing on 'My Love, My Life' and 'Super Trouper', are poignant and shiver-worthy. Have a mind to her harmonies with Amanda Seyfried on 'My Dear, My Life'. Our hearts.
Cher – Blood-red Sheridan

Cher appears pretty about the end of the motion-picture show as Sophie's grandmother, sings 'Fernando', and is majestic every bit hell. She might be 72 years quondam, but this '90s powerhouse still has one heck of a belt on her. Yous might not go as much Cher as you would like for your money, but you can't put a toll on musical joy.

Plus, mind out for some classic Cher-style autotuning in the final 30 seconds of 'Super Trouper'. Information technology's top of the range.
Lily James – Young Donna

Lily James is the breakout star of Mamma Mia! Hither We Go Once again, playing the young Donna Sheridan – but she's no newcomer. Trained at Guildhall Schoolhouse of Music and Drama, James starred equally the title role in Cinderella (2015), too as playing Debora in Baby Driver (2017) last twelvemonth.

It'south her coy rendition of 'Andante Andante', sung to the young Sam Carmichael, that steals the evidence in Mamma Mia ii. Her vocalisation is sweet and husky in the verses, with the higher notes of the chorus bringing out a lovely musical theatre twang in her vocals. We like, a lot.
Amanda Seyfried – Sophie

Ah, the sweet vocals of the Seyfried. Once over again, Amanda takes on the function of Sophie in the sequel to Mamma Mia! – and somehow, she's even more impressive than the last time. Seyfried, who trained as a vocalist earlier turning to acting, almost became an opera singer instead of an actress. In 2015, she told Celebs Now magazine: "[My biggest regret is] quitting opera-singing preparation when I was 17. That had been my passion earlier acting took over and I wish I had stuck with it."

And so do we, Amanda, then do we. Her trembling voice cuts through beautifully in the penultimate chorus of 'My Love, My Life', and her harmonies with Meryl Streep on the line 'like reflections of your mind' are truly shiver-inducing. Try not to cry… we have already failed.

Amanda Seyfried and Meryl Streep. Picture: Rex