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NEWS: The Super Mario Bros. Movie Animated Film's 2nd Trailer Previews Peach, Luigi, Donkey Kong, Ma

The whole concept of "canon" in Mario is highly questionable anyway.

For all the things the trailer shows the movie took from the games, they seemed to completely ignore Peach's arsenal. I mean, a pike? Really? Why not her parasol, or turnips, a golf club, a frying pan, magic, or anything else she's known to use in the games.

Folks, just come out and admit the truth. The reason why you didn't want Chris Pratt to get this role has nothing to do with "justice for voice actors". It is because you dislike Chris Pratt. Why?

Shay Guy wrote:

The whole concept of "canon" in Mario is highly questionable anyway.

Nah that’s Zelda’s side of the street

This ran in Nintendo Power.

I won't quote the rest of this paragraph because it's just a bunch of inexplicable insinuations that the Chris Pratt hate is some sort of left-wing conspiracy, but people have been pretty clear about why--because Mario already has a voice actor, who is still alive and working. (Unlike, say, Kung Fu Panda.) Voice acting in a slapstick-filled comedy movie is very different from making "Wahoo!" noises for a video game (though Martinet is certainly capable of both), so this change of actors isn't necessarily a bad idea. But there's no ulterior motive to (some) people's distaste for it.

There is, of course, one ulterior motive to the casting choice--promoting the movie through name recognition. But that's true of all big-budget movies.

Regardless of the actor, I think it could have been funny to have all the characters act and speak normally, except for Mario, who would only make Mario Noises. That could get old if used for the whole 90+ minutes, but maybe he'll transition to that during his training arc, or something.

You are aware all the characters also have voice actors already, right? The fact you're singling one actor out on this and not the others is definitely not a good look and undermines peoples attempts at playing this off as merely a concerned citizen. Charles Martinet also voices Luigi, and here's Charlie Day stealing the role from him and just using his normal Day voice just like Pratt is. Certainly that must also be an issue people will harp endlessly on now as well now that we've heard his and Peach's voices.

You are aware all the characters also have voice actors already, right? The fact you're singling one actor out on this and not the others is definitely not a good look

By all means get rid of all the celebrity actors and let the whole cast be voiced by their actual voice actors.

Pratt's lack of effort is even more evident when looking at the dub in other languages. Where there is an attempt to mimic Charles Martinet and some of them nail it perfectly. I was particularly impressed with the Brazilian version. Not a fan of Peaches' voice either. It gives me Zendaya as Lola kind of low energy vibes.

bleachj0j wrote:

Pratt's lack of effort is even more evident when looking at the dub in other languages. Where there is an attempt to mimic Charles Martinet and some of them nail it perfectly. I was particularly impressed with the Brazilian version. Not a fan of Peaches' voice either. It gives me Zendaya as Lola kind of low energy vibes.

I actually got curious and checked it---You are actually right, the brazilian dub for Mario is pretty impressing. That said, I don't know portuguese so I can't tell nuances in the language, but it does feel the most like "Mario" as I've known from games to me.