"Does The Super Mario Bros. Movie Look Good?!"

[kane_magus]

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"We discuss the Super Mario Bros. Movie trailer! What do we think about the animation and how the voice acting sounds?"

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I'm not insulted by the Chris Pratt Mario voice the way Pat claims to be, and I don't have a straight up hate-boner for Chris Pratt the way Ian seems to, but I still don't care for the voice. Simple as that.

Essentially, Chris Pratt's voice is for the Super Mario Bros movie what the pre-redesign Sonic model was for the Sonic the Hedgehog movie. To restate, Chris Pratt is the audio equivalent to Ugly Sonic. Well... okay, no, Chris Pratt's voice isn't quite that uncanny valley nightmare-inducing, I guess... but it's still not great.

That said, kids aren't going to give a fuck. Hell, most 30-40-somethings who grew up with Mario aren't going to give a fuck, either. Even I don't really give all that much of a fuck. Chris Pratt voicing Mario is not a RUINED FOREVER or Jumping the Shark moment for me. It's a Mario movie. Even with and despite the crappy Chris Pratt voice for Mario, the movie is going to be inoffensively fair-to-middling at worst and will probably do well enough. *shrug*

(Can't wait for the inevitable follow-up The Legend of Zelda movie with Timothée Chalamet voicing Link, though. ¬_¬)