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Chris Pratt Just Did It Again
2 years ago
I have a feeling some guys have a too big position in Hollywood. Recently, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson proudly announced... a live-action remake of Moana - a Disney animation which had its premiere just seven freaking years ago. Get it? 🤦♀️ "The Rock" announcing such a remake wasn't any coincidence as he was a Maui's voice but it's not enough yet. He's gonna be Maui again but this time not just his voice. The problem is Disney seems to decide of making a remake of only a 7 year old animation just because of "The Rock".
I'm afraid now Chris Pratt seems to be a similar case as "The Rock" 'cause how can we explain in the other way the fact that just after replacing Mario's original voice actor we used to hear for years, he did exactly the same with Garfield's now? Excuse me but I don't think The Super Mario Bros. Movie became the biggest after Barbie commercial success this year because of Pratt voicing Mario. Meanwhile, Sony/Columbia (Garfield's creators) seem to not notice this and yup, here we go again but this time, instead of Mario we have Garfield. 😕
Why big companies do that to us?!? Now Hollywood seems to prefer to have a big names to put on their fucking posters instead of voices which just suit the characters when it comes to animations. Sure, this trend is started with Shrek from 2001 and the first actor who wasn't just a voice actor but gave his voice to animated character was Robin Williams as Genie in Aladdin from 1992 but in both cases it was good anyway. In Aladdin's case, Robin Williams wasn't just Genie's voice but the character has been created on the base of Robin Williams himself as he's even got his face as well. When it comes to Shrek, well... the characters of the movie NEVER got other voices than those actors'/celebrities' ones and they just suited perfectly to them, right?
Now I see everything's not under control anymore and people in Hollywood companies put big names everywhere they can, no matter will a one's voice suit to character or not. We have to have only a big names on those posters of PG rated family comedy cartoons for kids, even if we won't see those famous people's faces in such a movies anyway. For now, voice actors seem to be reduced for TV shows... 😞
I'm afraid now Chris Pratt seems to be a similar case as "The Rock" 'cause how can we explain in the other way the fact that just after replacing Mario's original voice actor we used to hear for years, he did exactly the same with Garfield's now? Excuse me but I don't think The Super Mario Bros. Movie became the biggest after Barbie commercial success this year because of Pratt voicing Mario. Meanwhile, Sony/Columbia (Garfield's creators) seem to not notice this and yup, here we go again but this time, instead of Mario we have Garfield. 😕
Why big companies do that to us?!? Now Hollywood seems to prefer to have a big names to put on their fucking posters instead of voices which just suit the characters when it comes to animations. Sure, this trend is started with Shrek from 2001 and the first actor who wasn't just a voice actor but gave his voice to animated character was Robin Williams as Genie in Aladdin from 1992 but in both cases it was good anyway. In Aladdin's case, Robin Williams wasn't just Genie's voice but the character has been created on the base of Robin Williams himself as he's even got his face as well. When it comes to Shrek, well... the characters of the movie NEVER got other voices than those actors'/celebrities' ones and they just suited perfectly to them, right?
Now I see everything's not under control anymore and people in Hollywood companies put big names everywhere they can, no matter will a one's voice suit to character or not. We have to have only a big names on those posters of PG rated family comedy cartoons for kids, even if we won't see those famous people's faces in such a movies anyway. For now, voice actors seem to be reduced for TV shows... 😞
You guessed it right. Pratt is voicing Daxter, while Jak is going to be portrayed by Tom Holland. Apparently they didn't even consider contancting Max Casella for such a funny and iconic voice role!
On a related note, a month ago, Charli XCX (one of my favorite artists) released a new song called "In The City" featuring Sam Smith, an artist who appears to be everywhere in the music industry right now (nothing aganist them, I swear!). After hearing the song, I was like "Sam Smith is the Chris Pratt of the music industry."
It just sucks how industries have a certain celebrity they like to overuse for clout.