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Why is it every time Hollywood makes an animated film based on a long running game, they never get the original actors to play them; Sonic wasn't played by Roger Craig Smith, and while the I did enjoy the film, Ben Schwartz didn't exactly sound convincing sometimes. and the entire cast of Scoob! (Save Scooby) were replaced by big names who sound nothing like the originals.

Now for the Mario film, we get a casting that makes no sense; Jack Black as Bowser? Really? Seth Rogan as Donkey Kong? Can't see it. Keegan-Michael Key might be a good toad, though, I just hope he actually does the voice. But my biggest concern is Mario and Luigi; Charles Martinet has been voicing the two for nearly thirty years, perfecting the art, and while I do like Chris Pratt (and I'll be honest, I've never heard of Charlie Day), you can't just throw out the guys who have brought so much personality to our favorite characters.

I was seriously mistaken when I made this post. Jack Black Bowser is awesome. Keegan-Michael Key is a good toad. While I'm still on the fence about Chris Pratt, I haven't heard enough of Charlie day's Luigi.

But let us not forget that these guys played the brothers for a few years.

So why don't we hold off on the "Pratt is a horrible Mario" for a while since they were the definitive voices before Charles took over and made a few people mad.

Why is it every time Hollywood makes an animated film based on a long running game, they never get the original actors to play them; Sonic wasn't played by Roger Craig Smith, and while the I did enjoy the film, Ben Schwartz didn't exactly sound convincing sometimes. and the entire cast of Scoob! (Save Scooby) were replaced by big names who sound nothing like the originals.

Now for the Mario film, we get a casting that makes no sense; Jack Black as Bowser? Really? Seth Rogan as Donkey Kong? Can't see it. Keegan-Michael Key might be a good toad, though, I just hope he actually does the voice. But my biggest concern is Mario and Luigi; Charles Martinet has been voicing the two for nearly thirty years, perfecting the art, and while I do like Chris Pratt (and I'll be honest, I've never heard of Charlie Day), you can't just throw out the guys who have brought so much personality to our favorite characters.

Not to be a contrarian but I feel like I’m going to need more than two singular lines of dialogue from Crisp Rat Mario before I start lambasting it 100%. His first line was a really soft reaction, and the second seems to be a bit more into what we’ll actually see for the movie.

Of course this point is hampered slightly by both Bowser and Toad having around the same amount of trailer lines, and showing off that Jack Black and Keegan-Michael Key are most likely going to bring a super (haha) solid performance. Hearing Key pitched up threw me a little, but if there’s one thing he really knows, it’s good character work no matter what.

Still, I’m feeling like the worst Pratt can do is ‘boring’, but maybe he’ll push into that Brooklynite energy as the movie goes on that we got from his last line in the trailer. Maybe. He might need to reach down deep inside and pull out that Lou Albano energy. The inner Lou inside us all.

I dunno. I want to be optimistic because every other part of the trailer looked really good. Illumination’s animation team is steller (which I don’t think was ever a question), and the tone seems right for a Super Mario movie. So it mostly comes down to voices, and if the title character is bad to listen to, it drags the whole film down as a whole. The initial reaction seems a lot similar to Roger Craig-Smith’s Sonic when he first started in the role, and Roger managed to win everybody over and make the character his own, so I’m going to stay cautiously optimistic about Chris Pratt.

Exactly!

I’m always somewhat skeptical when I hear an animated movie having a celebrity cast since you’re never really going to know what you will get out of their performance, especially if they haven’t really been voice acting before. It could range from amazing to awful.

How characters are written and animated also have an effect on how the audience will like a character. There have been actors (not just voice actors) who turned out to be really good when they’re given a chance to work on a different show with different writers and such. There have also been actors who in their role you like their character but probably don’t care much for the performance of the actor and is mainly supported by what the writers and crew and do to help prop him up. I could go on some more with other different scenarios but I hope you understand what I mean.

Everything looks and sounds amazing so far! Also with what little we have heard from the actual dialogue from the main cast, I’m hoping that later on we will be shown how their performances are an amazing addition to the movie and not something we’d have to at the very least begrudgingly accept. I know there has been a lot of controversy around Chris Pratt’s casting as Mario, and given how long the movie has been in production and how long ago Pratt was announced as Mario, I think it’s too late to change the role of Mario to another actor, but you never know. I believe we have come to begrudgingly accept all this and hoped a little for at least a stellar first impression for the main lead.

Keeping in Chris Pratt’s performances in other animated roles which I enjoyed, I felt that the role of Mario, if he truly wishes to perform as him and the crew believes he is a suitable fit for him, demands more than what Pratt has done from he previous animated roles. The Mario voices I’ve heard in the dubbed trailers for different languages for the most have had a better impression on the audience on their takes for Mario in the movie (a lot of them do sound really good!)

While I’m judging based on the actors’ previous works I’m familiar with, we still haven’t really heard from Charlie Day on his take on Luigi, which whom I’m assuming will have the same accent as Mario in this movie.

And we still haven’t heard how Princess Peach with sound like. I’m afraid it’s going to be another “popular actress sounds very similar to herself while playing the girl character in the movie and doesn’t really get into character” role that I’ve seen in other movies. I know others are afraid for Mario in this movie turning out this way too with Chris Pratt.

For the other actors, I hope Toad and Bowser will continue sounding as amazing as they did in this trailer and I hope not to be disappointed, especially since we only heard a couple of lines from them.

From what I’ve heard from Mario in this movie, I’m really hoping that that is going to be the worst he will sound and that he will sound a whole lot better later on, because his first line wasn’t bad and I kind of liked it, and his second line in the trailer does sound like he’s going for a Brooklyn accent, so maybe he and Luigi will be the Italian American plumbers from Brooklyn (or as I’m guessing in this movie, New Donk City), following from what I’ve heard was their original origin story. While the little we hear of Mario unfortunately didn’t leave as grand of an impression as say the little of Bowser’s dialogue we heard in the trailer, initially hearing Mario speak in the trailer, I didn’t think it was bad! I actually kind of liked it but I am hoping for more, which hopefully will be delivered in the final version of the movie. While understanding Mario and Luigi’s characters, I need to hear more from all of the main cast before I form a more solid opinion on their voices.

I’m hoping the Mario Brothers’ voices and the other unheard character voices won’t be subpar or laughable or leaving us with yearning for more. I’m hoping the voices won’t turn out to be worst part of the movie, especially for Mario, he needs to sound amazing or at least impress even casual viewers like myself enough to actually think his take on the character is (really) good, not leave everyone feeling “yeah, whatever, fine, it’s passable, let’s get on with this.”

I really want this movie to turn out well, it looks amazing! So I’m trying to stay optimistic (despite hearing how some of the other dubs have handled their casting choices, I wish I could also watch those movies and understand what they’re saying) and hoping for the best. Right now everything looks amazing aside from the maybe less than ideal cast. It was probably not their best first foot forward. Hopefully that will change soon. I’m really hoping I will get to really liking all the other cast members’ voices soon!

If you’re angry about Chris Pratt replacing Charles Martinet.

But not angry about Anya Taylor-Joy replacing Jen Taylor and Samantha Kelly.

And not angry about Jack Black replacing Kenneth W. James.

And not angry about Keegan-Michael Key replacing Samantha Kelly.

Don’t pretend it has anything to do with the original voice actors not getting hired for the movie. Just be honest and say it’s because you don’t like Chris Pratt. You’re allowed to not like certain actors. 

And sure, there are things to not like about Pratt.

So this is a legit thing that happened (x)

La Alfombra Roja del Estreno Mundial de 'Wonka': Timothée Chalamet, Calah Lane, Olivia Colman, Hugh Grant y Keegan-Michael Key en el Estreno en Londres.

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My Review/Thoughts on Illumination's recent film, Migration

Hey fam, I know it's been a while since I posted, but that's because I had a lot going on, I got sick for a few days but I'm feeling better now. Anyways just wanna give my thoughts on Migration because I was hyped for it and I love Illumination. I thought it was fun and cute, the animation was gorgeous as usual, the score was really great which makes sense since John Powell is a great composer, and I really love the characters, I thought they were all really funny and likeable, the best character in the movie is Danny DeVito as Uncle Dan. I also liked the kids and the parents. The villain was good, even though he's not in it that much. Keegan Michael Key and Awkwafina's characters were also fun, I guess my only issue with the film is that it's a bit too short, only 60 minutes, but you get what you get. Overall, I think this is one of the best Illumination films and I hope this Renaissance of theirs keeps going, 8/10.