The genie role wasn’t a standout performance because of Williams’s star wattage or magnetic charisma it was a product of his unique vocal acrobatics. It was the wrong lesson to take from Aladdin’s success. However, he did appear in 2011’s Happy Feet 2, alongside the voice acting talents of Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Sofía Vergara, Pink, and Common.)
(Williams never worked with Disney again. Marketed on the star power of an ascendant Williams, against his express wishes, the film went on to be a massive hit, altering the course of casting in animated movies going forward.
Long gone are the days when roles in animated films went to the vocal performers best suited to them.Īs many have previously pointed out, the origin of this trend seems to be 1992’s Aladdin, which featured a bravura vocal performance from Robin Williams. Brown, no less than five SNL alumni, and-why the hell not-Jojo Siwa.
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movie lands all-star voice cast,” a Variety headline declared breathlessly, as though there had been some suspense about whether such a feat could happen, as though this wasn’t what always happens, as though the cast of 2019’s The Angry Birds Movie 2 didn’t include Nicki Minaj, Sterling K. Whatever the reason, though, this particular announcement felt like a kind of tipping point in the long-running conversation about voice talent in animated films. Maybe it was just how familiarly soulless the announcement felt, or how the new film will share costars Rogen and Keegan-Michael Key with the recent, similarly celeb-swollen “live-action” Lion King. Chris Pine's normal speaking voice but as a water demon. Jude Law's normal speaking voice coming out of a muffin.
Gen X with kids grew up on cartoons and don't need to be sold and kids could care less about celebrity voices : Enter the #Spiderverse had working actors (not stars) for voices and made zillions Īnimation is cool because it lets you portray all kinds of wacky things but with the regular voices of famous actors. You actually DON'T have to pack animated films with celebrities.
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