10 Movies That Changed Your Mind About Actors You Loved

7. Meryl Streep - Mamma Mia!

Embarrassing. That's all there is to say about this role. Whereas mums and their daughters and their daughter's friends all around the world collectively cheered as Meryl Streep pranced around to the music of ABBA in the filmic adaptation of Mamma Mia!, everyone else - read as: those people who respected and admired Meryl Streep - looked on in horror. Watching this three-time Oscar winner in Mamma Mia! is like watching your parents getting up to dance at a wedding; you don't want to look, but the unfolding horror is so darn terrible that you just can't help it. Critic Mark Kermode was right when he described the film as "the closest you get to seeing A-List actors doing drunken karaoke," and Streep is without a doubt the worst offender. So what's the problem here, you say? She's just having a bit of fun, right? Lighten up! The issue stems from the fact that Streep is arguably the greatest actress of her generation, and has built her reputation on masterful roles, one after the other. Listening to her speaking such terrible lines here is like seeing a teacher you respect out on the street one night, vomiting in the gutter. Sort of.