Mamma Mia! The Movie Soundtrack

Product Details

• Published on: 2008-07-08
• Released on: 2008-07-08
• Running time: 0 seconds

Customer Reviews

Mamma Mia
Saw this movie afew days ago and haven't been able to get the music out of my head. I'll be buying the DVD when come out and the music as well.
Great Movie.

Megan

Not the best.
When I saw the stage musical I bought the Special Edition Original Cast recording. That CD had 27 tracks. This one has 17. The overture/entrance for both act 1 & 2 was dropped from the movie. The 3 finale/encore songs was in the movie but not on this CD. In addition Chiquita and I Do was not on the CD. Our Last Summer replaced Thank You For The Music in the movie. Thank You For The Music was used during the credits in the film and is the bonus song. If you wait 15-20 seconds after the last song I Have A Dream this will magically appear. So patience grasshopper and leave your CD player alone.

What I missed most from this CD was the spoken parts within the songs was missing. Especially when Sophie was asking her prospective dads questions during Gimmie and the dads realizing why they were there and offering to walk her down the aisle during Voulez-Vous. The presence of select lines in the musical play CD make me relive the play again; the lack of them makes this CD feel like just another version of ABBA.

With one exception the singing of the cast was at least adequate. Better than the singing in the Original Cast recording.
Meryl Streep was a standout. As effective as Celine Dion during The Winner Takes It All. Yet during Slipping Through My Fingers was very soft as she reminisce about her daughter. Very nice changing her singing style to match the mood of the song.
With one exception Amanda Seyfried also did a good job.
Julie Walters & Christine Baransky are rather brassy but does a good job.
One of the problems I had with the musical Original Cast recording was the similar almost monotonous sound. The different styles on this CD makes things much more interesting.
Now the problem songs.
During Our Last Summer Pierce Brosnan only has 2 lines and was not bad enough to ruin the song. The rest of the time he was singing chorus where Coiln Firth shines. Unfortunately while the song was a soft reminiscing pierce Amanda Seyfried sang full out and broke the mood.
SOS needed saving from Bond, James Bond. Pierce sang the 1st stanza. Not particularly good but I can grin and bear it. Until Meryl Streep sang the 2nd part. It was night and day. Ouch!
Knowing Me Knowing You was replaced by the (easier to sing?) When All Is Said And And Done. The producers should have just cut both and let it be. I hate fumbling for the Next Song Button.

Lost in Translation?
The positive reviews for this soundtrack and movie are stunning to me. Did we all watch and hear the same movie/soundtrack? Never having seen the broadway musical, could something have been lost in translation from the stage to the big screen? I am a huge ABBA fan and I found the movie adaptation and the singing frightfully painful. It was horrendous actually. The cast butchered just about every ABBA song they sang. The only song that was done well was Thank You for the Music sung by Amanda Seyfried which was part of the end credits. Just about every cast member in the screen version of Mama Mia I liked, but how these people thought they could sing is totally beyond me! All the cast did was jump up and down and yell. ABBA never did that. I left the theatre with a headache and I'm not a musical novice, either.


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