Posted on 04/05/2023 7:17:33 PM PDT by Saije
Ever since the first trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie dropped at New York Comic Con last fall, Nintendo fans have been expressing serious issues with Chris Pratt stepping into the role of the video game giant's mustachioed mascot. Specifically, they've been concerned about his speaking voice, which is a far cry from Italian-accented line readings like "It's-a me, Mario!" and "Let's-a go!" everyone knows and loves from Nintendo's deep bench of Super Mario games.
But the Guardians of the Galaxy star feels that once they see the highly-anticipated animated movie, those concerns will vanish into one of the many dungeons within Bowser's Castle. "There were certainly discussions of how best to voice the character," Pratt tells Yahoo Entertainment. "We tried a lot of different things and ultimately settled on the voice that you hear when you watch the movie. I'm really happy with it, and I think people are gonna really enjoy it."
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People who use the word ‘controversy’ with any of this need to get.....a....life!
Everything is ‘controversial’ these days, even the weather.
Exactly, WTH makes it controversial?
Chris Pratt is one of the few good guys in Hollywood.
I think the issue is the character is named Mario, which is often an Italian man’s name, but Chris Pratt is not Italian, to which I say SO WHAT? It’s a CARTOON. He is an ACTOR who pretends for a living. Some folks cannot relax and enjoy the simple things.
As Freud may have privately said;
“Sometimes, a cartoon is just a cartoon!”
That’s what I’d like to know.
I’ll say!
Recycling a prior line from another topic:
Dont care, wont vote for him. :)
The real controversy is Chris Pratt is not Italian, so voicing an Italian cartoon character is cultural appropriation. /s
I just want to know when the second season of The Terminal List releases.
And Mario and his brother are supposedly from Brooklyn.
Are these complainers going to turn “Italian” back in to a race?
CRITICS have been expressing serious issues
#metoo
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