This is strange considering that the actor won a Tony for the Broadway role, but he didn't sound or look right on film! He doesn't sound at all like Valli. And he looked twenty years old. Sometimes stage and screen presence don't match I suppose! I did like the overall movie though, but I did cringe every time the actor sang!
shareThank you! I thought he was AWFUL!
shareI think John was fantastic. Even Frankie Valli himself said that he plays him better than he does.
shareAbsurd. He played him like a bad parody/caricature. If Valli did say that (which I highly doubt) he's obviously taken leave of his senses. Valli's voice is far superior to the hack that presumed to play him. The man that starred here in Las Vegas (at the Venetian) was FAR superior. I don't know why he wasn't cast in the film but, I assure you, if he had been cast this film wouldn't have flopped. Which, BTW, it did.
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shareThe man that starred here in Las Vegas (at the Venetian) was FAR superior.
Theatre and film are very different mediums and the actor who played Frankie didn't translate well to the screen. His awkward faces and blank presence and lack of joy overall left a major void.
shareIve watched the film a few times now and it really bugs me that he doesn't sound like Valli. Maybe he did better on Broadway but I don't see it.
I caught one of the Jersey Boys shows in Vegas and they should've taken that crew. It would've been a much better movie.
Watching again for maybe the 5th time, and it's fairly distracting how off-the-mark the Frankie guy's voice is. It's almost reminiscent of Jerry Lewis in The Nutty Professor and more nerdy/squeaky than Frankie Valli's champagne falsetto. Understandably it would be hard to find anyone who could really nail it, so it's more of an observation than a criticism. As others have noted he/it seemed to work better on the Broadway stage but somehow didn't translate well to the big screen.
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