There are dubs, and there are awful dubs. Some can be alright. In AoT I preferred the dub version, while in Jormungand the original one was much better.

But my perspective might be a bit skewed. Germans dubbing everything coming from English speaking countries (even the James Bond movies), ehh, sounds a bit ridiculous to me. All that effort, just to ruin the perfect original voices. I've been watching subtitles for the good part of my life, and I can't imagine watching a movie without them, even if it's in my native language.

And yeah, disfigurement of Chip & Dale's speech shouldn't be a problem for native American speakers. In their brains they have integrated hardware accelerator for deciphering rough English. While you have to understand English using a software-based processor. :P

Hahaha, "rough" english... more like highly overpitched english. I don't have trouble understanding chip because his english is difficult, but because my brain activates a self-defense mechanism just to protect my ears from bleeding out xD

And I guess I used the word "dub" wrongly - I generally meant what you call it when people give virtual characters a voice (cartoons, 3d movies, games) - don't know the right term there, I always thought it's "dub".

Well, germans have terrible voice choices as well (again, in my oppinion). I found Smaug in Hobbit to sound RIDICULOUS, but some seemed to like it. It's just not the voice I'ld put on a big dragon. But then, japanese stuff is even worse - the new DBZ Super? Goku sounds like a shrill child (apparently it always was like that, don't know, was never forced to watch it in japanese), and King Kai? Sorry.... but WHAT WHERE THEY THINKING? That actor talks in a bored, completly monotone voice (I can't understand a word obviously, but I can still hear the monotony out of it) while the character on screen is yelling and wiggling his arms in rage! What the fuck? It's just so wrong. And pretty much ANY other voice for goku is better... xD

The Case with Goku's voice is because he had the same Voice actor since the debut of the original Dragonball in 1984 (31 Years ago!) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masako_Nozawa Masako Nozawa. And since Boy Kids are usualy dubbed by woman, and not boys because boys tend to go through puberty after a while and their voices change, while their cartoon/anime/whatever counterpart does not. That Lady is almost 80 years old btw.

But yes, i do agree. Sometimes the english variants sound just awful. Maybe because americans think that any young or feminim character needs a ultra high pitched shrieking voice or something. Also, the original voice isn't always the best voice, even in movies. I mean, just look at Schwarzenegger. His german dubbed voice (not himself) sounds so much better then the real one. Or Bruce Willis. etc. etc.

Hahaha, yeah you told me that about the female voice actor for goku - but it doesn't make it a GOOD decision. It's nice that they stay loyal to the actress and the original voice - but that's the problem: She was there for a kid's voice. Goku is... how old is he actually? Hard to tell for a non-aging race xD Well, I'ld guess 65+ since he's a grandpa. But what's their excuse for that monotone King Kai voice? I mean, it just doesn't fit a character that screams and yells and complains all the time hehe.

Yeah you're right - Arnold has to be dubbed too... never thought about that hahaha, it's kind of funny that he doesn't dub himself (or does he sometimes?). But to be honest, that's something where I almost only have the english voices in mind, I can't even recall the german voices for Arnold or Buce, etc - I'll have to look into it!

Does Rescue Rangers count as a dub? It was made by and for an English audience, first and foremost. l3~

Ah well, dub, voiceacting, or however you call it xD I'm not an expert, I thought dub is just the general term when talking over movies / cartoons!

And yes, it certainly was - but that's why I was so surprised to find out how I have so much trouble even going through a single episode... xD