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.
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Mario’s about to be the most least interesting part of his own movie just you wait
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Luigi: What are you in the mood for?
Bowser: World domination.
Luigi: That's a bit ambitious.
Bowser: And you're my world~
Luigi: Aww...
Luigi:
Luigi: OH.
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My favorite comment under the mario movie trailer:
[ID: a YouTube comment that reads: “Mario’s Chris Pratt impression is (caps begin) AMAZING (caps end)! Now if only Chris Pratt could play Mario!” /end ID]
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this is how the trailer went right
could you believe i took several fucking days on this on the account of i didn't want to finish this. the sketch was so fucking good. reference images my beloved!!
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Listen, guys, I know girlboss Peach is always a win but. Come on. They went the completely wrong direction of Girlboss. This is ‘generic fantasy female lead #925′. Peach should be ‘I’ll bake a cake and choke you to death with the piping bag’ girlboss.
Like, sure the halbeard scene is cool but. Give her her fucking parasol, and let her go to work like she always does. That thing can canonically hit as hard as Mario and let her fucking fly.
Girlbossing should not be treated as a trade off with the pastel soft femininity she’s known for.
(yes, I know there’s only been one trailer with her in, but the implications of her greater role in the story are there, and also: No amount of good writing will change the fact that they cast a VA I doubt can even hit the right octave to do anything approaching Peach’s canon voice. There’s just too much grit to her voice, it’s downright off-putting from someone who’s supposed to be Peach, if they wanted her for her big name (Idk who she is, but heard she’s popular) they should’ve cast her as Daisy, if anything. (Though. Someone replacing Mario’s VA would have nothing on the absolute shitstorm they’re gonna get if they try to cast Daisy as a big name live action actor-))
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Y’all see that new Mario movie tv spot
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