All y'all complaining about Chris Rat in the new Mario movie like it isn't a opportunity. Call it the Mario Challenge. When this movie is released take it as personal challenge to memorise Mario's line and voice over the film. Vo Chris's Va.
Seriously, anything's gotta be better than Crispy Shits voice.
Chris Pratt using his normal voice as Garfield meanwhile Robert Pattinson over here using his most fucked up gremlin voice to play a bird that you wouldn't even know it was him until you saw the credits
As much as everybody's justifiably railing on Chris Pratt for his acting, after watching the new trailer I honestly don't think Anya Taylor-Joy is a very good fit for Peach either. The problem isn't that they're bad actors, it's that they are not voice actors. When I hear Anya's or Chris's voice I don't picture Peach and Mario, I picture two regular adult people who wouldn't stand out in a coffee shop. Which isn't the point of animated movies and voice acting! ESPECIALLY with Mario! This is supposed to be a movie about cartoonish characters in a video game fantasy world saving the day, and their voices should fit with that theme. That's why Charles Martinet's Mario voice works so well, because it makes sense for what Mario is supposed to be. This trend of giving voice acting specific jobs to non-voice actors who have no experience with this kind of work is detrimental to animation and film! It is removing job opportunities from people who have spent their lives learning this craft and handing it over to a celebrity with no experience just because they're famous. The beauty of voice acting and animation in general is how you are completely creating a character. The whole point of voice acting is that you don't point to a character in a film and say, "hey, that's Chris Pratt" the point is that people will point to the charcater and go "oh, new character!" This movie is more and more frustrating to me the more I realize how much it feels like a money grab exclusively because of the casting. The animation, the music, and the effects are all completely perfect for a Mario movie, but so many of the acting choices feel like someone just rifled through a list of "100 most popular celebrities" and chose whoever was vaguely similar to "average white man voice" or "average white woman voice". No matter how popular these people are or how good they are at acting in front of a camera or on stage, they can not voice act.
i forgot they cast chris pratt as garfield so you can imagine my utter dismay watching the trailer when they cut from an adorable baby garfield with the cutest little meow to adult garfield opening his mouth to deliver some of the most bland and unimaginative voice acting i've ever heard
the animation genuinely looks really cute and then every time garfield speaks it's just chris pratt's normal voice yet again
The thing for me is that Jack Black really is an artist. The man puts in work to become his character when he voices his lines, makes music, and just acts in general. There’s depth and actual creativity in his roles. Meanwhile Chris Pratt seems to just walk into any project he lands to play the exact same Generic Guy every time
The worst part about the Super Mario Bros movie trailer is how GOOD it looks
Because at least if it was bad, I wouldn't have been as upset about Chris Pratt being cast as Mario and not even trying with the voice.
Because the movie would have been bad anyway
BUT NO
IT LOOKS AMAZING
AND ALL THE OTHER VOICES SOUND SO GOOD
And the fact that the whole movie is going to be ruined by the fact that Hollywood made such a stupid choice for what should have been an easy decision
Because Charles Martinet has not only voiced Mario for 30 years, he's also done professional non-video-game acting for longer than that. He could have absolutely fit the Mario voice into a speaking role.
But no. He wasn't even asked.
And now we have to live with the thoughts of what might have been.