VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

Bruce

Chris Pratt, is a beloved and funny actor ... until this week. Apparently he and the team at the new Mario Brothers movie decided he shouldn't do the squeaky little Italian voice the game voice creator, Charles Martinet, initiated over 30 years ago for Super Mario.

Hell hath no fury like video game fans scorned!

https://screenrant.com/super-mario-bros-movie-chris-pratt-voice-bad/

Here's a look at the original Mario: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcdIqTFgWRA

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Bob Bergen · CM Joined: 22 Apr 2008 Posts: 981

Box office returns will have the final say. Personally, I have never played the game and cannot relate to the original actor’s performance. I saw the trailer for the film and from what I heard Pratt was fine. The trailer didn’t blow me away, but rarely does a trailer blow me away. My gut tells me they stayed away from the Italian accent due to today’s PC trend. And they hired Pratt due to celeb box office draw. Personally, again, I am not PC, so even if they hired a celeb I wish they chose to allow the celeb to vocally play the character as intended. If the film is a big hit, it’s another nail in the coffin for original actor casting and the PC trend.

todd ellis · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2022 7:45 am Post subject:

i'm sure bob is right about the reasons (as usual). i would have liked to have seen pratt lean into the absurdity of the accent. that said, i am (probably) the least PC person on this board and think there are a lot of things on the "i'm upset about ..." list WAY higher than a silly voice on a silly movie about a silly video game.
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George · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2022 9:40 am Post subject:

Voices for video games change constantly since that capability started getting built into the engines and space more available. I don't recall anybody being furious when Scott Burns was replaced as the original Bowser or Isaac Marshall was the original Toad in that same series of games.

i spent too many years playing every single one of those games......

The high profile nature of it is probably part of the rage. That and people still have mixed feelings about Chris Pratt due to religious practices of his so any opportunity to dunk on him is going to take place. The fact that he didn't imitate the existing voice, to me, is refreshing. An imitation would be far more of an insult to Charles Martinet in my opinion.

Having said that, hopefully for the game franchise Charles continues to reap the success he has built from his decades as a beloved video game icon.

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Bruce · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2022 12:35 pm Post subject:

This whole "he's not like the video game version" thing has been taken another step into the ridiculous... some folks are complaining that the movie Mario's butt isn't as big as it is in the game. It's really big in the game because he needs it to leap so high. Holy carp.

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todd ellis · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2022 3:12 pm Post subject:

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scottnilsen · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2022 3:41 pm Post subject:

Todd I am sad to say how long it took for me to get it. But i did eventually.
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Lee Gordon · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2022 5:47 pm Post subject:

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