I don’t like the cast in the upcoming Mario movie. Not because I don’t like Chris Pratt. I think he is an amazing actor who should be in a lot of high-profile movies and shows, but he shouldn’t voice Mario because Mario is one of the most recognizable voices in gaming history. Pratt shouldn’t be a voice actor for someone who doesn’t sound like him. If I’m paying A list celebrity, one of the most recognizable actors in Hollywood today, someone who has a very clear and distinct voice, then I want to hear HIM.

I feel this way about a lot of voice acted movies with high profile actors in it. Sean Penn in Angry Birds and Vin Diesel playing Groot were waste of time castings meanwhile Pratt and Tom Holland in Onward were amazing castings because they sounded, acted and weirdly enough kind of resembled their characters on screen.

I played a game called Twelve Minutes that had James McAvoy, Daisey Ridley and Willem Dafoe as voice actors. Dafoe was the only one I recognized. And it was a terrible game so you wasted a lot of money on two voice actors I had to look up to actually know they were in the game.

Pratt is just going to do his best Mario impression and if he does it well, then he will sound like Mario in the videogames and you didn’t need Pratt for that. Or if he doesn’t sound like Mario then people are going to complain that he doesn’t sound like Mario.

The rest of the casting choices are very weird as well. Charlie Day as Luigi, Jack Black as Bowser, Seth Rogan as Donkey Kong, I don’t know who Anya Taylor-Joy is but she’s playing Princess Peach. These actors all have distinct voices and it just seems like they are grabbing all these big names to build the hype of the movie. Which isn’t a good sign.

I do hope the movie is a massive success. I love videogame movies, but hate when they take the characters in the game and put them in the real world. So, what do you guys think about it?

Simptastic Joe