Mamma Mia Here We Go Again Singing Scene

Mamma Mia 2: every player'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), nosotros've ranked all the famous actors in 'Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again' from worst to best, according to their singing abilities.

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

Warning: Article contains spoilers

Stellan Skarsgård – Bill

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

Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård and Pierce Brosnan in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Once more. Picture: King
Pierce Brosnan – Sam

Critics were non kind to Pierce Brosnan after his attempts to sing in the first flick. The actor has since told the Radio Times he was "very relieved" to take his singing time radically reduced in Here Nosotros Become Again. As were we all, Pierce (kidding-not-kidding).

But what Pierce lacks in singing fourth dimension, he more than than makes upward for in sentimentality. His toned-down, solo version of 'SOS' is – although still a niggling barky – quite poignant, as the widowed Sam Carmichael.
Andy Garcia – Fernando

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

Only understandably, Garcia sadly gets a flake lost adjacent to the '90s diva and voice of such popular hits equally 'Believe' and 'I Got You Babe'.
Colin Firth – Harry

"They didn't audience me, and I thought, 'They're existence reckless here. What practice they retrieve they're doing?'," Firth said at the time of the first picture show. "They bandage me, Pierce Brosnan and Stellan Skarsgård without request any of us if we could sing. So I figured they didn't care if we couldn't."

Nosotros saw less singing and more of Firth's (admittedly first-rate) dance moves in the sequel – so for now, allow's reminisce over his sugariness, vulnerable vocals in 'One Last Summer', featuring some questionable French pronunciation.
Dominic Cooper – Heaven

In Here We Go Again, Cooper makes a valiant attempt at a catchy ABBA song – only his function in '1 of United states of america' is a bit disengaged, with talk-singing reminiscent of Brosnan'south attempts in the showtime film.

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

The one-act geeks among you will recognise Skinner from Fleabag – but Skinner was also effectually on the musicals scene not besides long agone, 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 immature 'Colin Firth' dancing in a tiny, kid-sized leather jacket in a French restaurant is incorrect, we don't want to be right.
Alexa Davies – Young Rosie

Previously seen in Television comedies Detectorists and Raised by Wolves, Davies wasn't known for her singing before Hither Nosotros Go Once again. It might, therefore, seem like a daunting prospect to sing the title vocal, 'Mamma Mia!', as the immature Julie Walters (aka Rosie). But alongside James and Jessica Keenan Wynn in their ring Donna and the Dynamos, she more holds her ain.
Jeremy Irvine – Young Sam

Irvine gives a sweet performance of 'Knowing Me, Knowing You'. His background is largely in screen drama, merely he proves his worth past singing through the part of young Sam with an endearing youthfulness. Unfortunately, he seems to lose it in his onetime age (sorry, Pierce, nosotros actually do mean you this time).

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

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

Equally one of the virtually loved and qualified actors in the bandage, Dame Julie Walters was always going to do a sensational job equally Rosie, the original 3rd Dynamo. Her hilarious performance of 'Have a Chance on Me' in Mamma Mia! was, admittedly, a tough act to follow. But this fourth dimension, she still performs on a number of songs, including 'Angel Eyes'. Every bit you'd expect, she nails information technology like the Dame she is.
Josh Dylan – Young Pecker

Every bit 1 of the youngest in the cast, 24-year-onetime Dylan was up confronting some stiff contest, from the likes of Firth and Brosnan. But he needn't have worried: his functioning of 'Why Did It Accept to be Me?' is up in that location with the original, and proves Dylan every bit one of the about competent male singers in the picture.
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 Real Thing. She almost stole the show in the first Mamma Mia! film with her risqué operation of 'Does Your Mother Know' – and she more than lives upwards to it with 'Angel Eyes' and 'I've Been Waiting For Yous' in Here We Go Again.
Meryl Streep – Donna

We might not get to see as much of Donna as nosotros'd similar in Mamma Mia 2, after Streep said that when all is said and done, she couldn't hack doing a whole film'south worth of training again. But her fleeting appearances, including singing on 'My Dearest, My Life' and 'Super Trouper', are poignant and shiver-worthy. Accept a mind to her harmonies with Amanda Seyfried on 'My Love, My Life'. Our hearts.
Cher – Ruby Sheridan

Cher appears pretty about the cease of the moving picture as Sophie's grandmother, sings 'Fernando', and is majestic as hell. She might be 72 years old, but this '90s powerhouse still has ane heck of a belt on her. Y'all might not get as much Cher as you lot would like for your money, but you lot can't put a cost on musical joy.

Plus, listen out for some archetype Cher-fashion autotuning in the final thirty seconds of 'Super Trouper'. It's top of the range.
Lily James – Young Donna

Lily James is the breakout star of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, playing the young Donna Sheridan – only she's no newcomer. Trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, James starred as the title role in Cinderella (2015), as well as playing Debora in Baby Driver (2017) last year.

Information technology's her coy rendition of 'Andante Andante', sung to the young Sam Carmichael, that steals the show in Mamma Mia 2. Her voice is sweetness 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 sweetness vocals of the Seyfried. One time again, Amanda takes on the role of Sophie in the sequel to Mamma Mia! – and somehow, she's even more impressive than the last time. Seyfried, who trained equally a singer before turning to acting, most became an opera singer instead of an actress. In 2015, she told Celebs Now magazine: "[My biggest regret is] quitting opera-singing training when I was 17. That had been my passion before acting took over and I wish I had stuck with information technology."

So practice we, Amanda, so practise we. Her trembling phonation cuts through beautifully in the penultimate chorus of 'My Dear, My Life', and her harmonies with Meryl Streep on the line 'like reflections of your heed' are truly shiver-inducing. Attempt not to cry… we take already failed.

Amanda Seyfried and Meryl Streep. Picture: Male monarch