Donkey Kong voice actor.
I guess the people behind the movie thought it would be problematic to cast an African American actor to voice a gorilla. Terry Crews or The Rock would have been perfect for the role.
shareI guess the people behind the movie thought it would be problematic to cast an African American actor to voice a gorilla. Terry Crews or The Rock would have been perfect for the role.
shareSame reason they won't make Tarzan black.
shareTarzan is the son of British nobles, why should he be black?
shareCan't they be black british nobles?
shareNo.
shareThen start watching the last David Copperfield. But a Tarzan movie is more serious, so an artistic choice like in Copperfield would be even more controversionally as any decision done regarding TLM.
shareCan't they be black british nobles who work for the L.A. police?
DarkLeafNinja, grow the F up.
If Hollywood would focus less on star power and more on finding voice actors that actually fit the characters, this wouldâve turned a good movie like this into an excellent movie. Mario is such an iconic franchise that people would have gone to see this movie regardless of who was cast, so they might as well have made talent their top priority. They didnât need star power at all.
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âTrue but it makes advertising easier.â
Iâm pretty sure just advertising a Super Mario movie on its own would get peopleâs attention. I donât think star power in the advertising wouldâve made any difference. I donât agree that itâs excellent as it is, itâs in the âvery goodâ category for me. It also doesnât change the fact that in the one instance where Hollywood could definitely afford to cast highly talented and skilled voice actors that didnât necessarily have star power behind them, those said talented voice actors once again got the short end of the stick.
When I said this movie focused too much on star power, I wasnât talking specifically about Anya Taylor-Joy. I had never heard of her before this movie, and I thought her voice was good for Princess Peach. I wouldâve kept her in the movie but rewritten Princess Peach because they made her just way too capable of a character. Anya may not have been exactly a star, but when you see other names like Jack Black, Seth Rogen, Chris Pratt, etc. you can tell that the people behind this movie just relied way too much on these recognized names.
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I completely disagree. Stars were not needed for this movie at all. A lot of the voice acting in this movie was really not good and just really didnât fit the characters (notably Mario and Donkey Kong).
I also never said that lesser known voice actors who had more talent wouldâve been more expensive. It most definitely wouldâve been the other way around, so these people spent all that money basically for nothing.
Anyone wouldâve been better than Seth Rogen.
shareI would have greatly preferred either of the actors you mentioned over Seth Rogen.