The Worst Voice Acting You've Ever Heard

[Medikor]

One thing I like to point out to Japanese purists when they're bashing good English dubs (just because they are dubbed in English) is the Japanese dub of Beast Wars/Beasties. The acting may be fine (I can't tell since I don't speak the language) but how they changed some of the characters. Megatron went from being the smooth, calculating and charismatic mastermind to a coward that screamed like a school girl at the drop of a hat.

[kageri]

Originally Posted by Nathander

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAtC1SzWSXg

...Wow.

I must admit, "I don't even know you, but you need to die. :)!" made me lol pretty hard.

THAT'S JUST WRONG DUDE

[taranchula]

Originally Posted by Nathander

As for a new dub I need to show you, behold the terror that is Animal Soccer World:

Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four

I'm not sure what's worse: the fact that there are three voice actors tops, the horrible rip off of Disney animation, the looping background music, or the fact that this is somehow a GAME FOR THE PS2.

Wow what a coincidence, I was just on my way here to post about the awfulness that was Animal Soccer World, but you've beat me to it.

So here some of the tragic history of Animal Soccer World:

This movie (for lack of a better term) was made by Dingo Pictures, one of those fly by night overseas animation studios whose major stock in trade is doing cheap knock offs of popular Disney animated movies. (And some from Fox/Dream works too.)

Now how did it come to the PS2 you ask? Well the people responsible for that were a fly by night British video game publisher called Phoenix Games, who for some reason bought the rights to some of Dingo's movies and put them on a PS2 DVD along with some half assed puzzle/painting games (I guess to justify it being called a game.) And unloaded them on the game playing public.

Now the original films were recorded in an another language (German I believe) so therefore Phoenix had to dub the game for the English audience and most likely due to to the lack of funds Phoenix most likely had, we get the wonderful voice acting we hear in those videos.

[Subzeroace]

Originally Posted by Nathander

Speaking of Sonic Adventure 2, it quite possibly had some of the cheesiest song lyrics ever written. Here are a few examples:

EGGMAN
Pumpkin Hill

XD I have the Pumpkin Hill song on my computer =3 That songs hilarious! But seriously, Live and Learn, Shadows Theme and the first biolizard theme are awesome... And Shadow's voice is beautiful in that game compared to his replacement. Ahhh... Adventure 2... Back when Shadow was cool *sigh*

[taranchula]

I just have two words to say about this....

Good Gravy!

Yes, who better to sing the American national anthem then cartoon/video game characters created in Japan or Italy. (With the exception of TMNT. natch.)

[bloonuggets]

Originally Posted by taranchula

"I just have two words to say about this....

"Good Gravy!"

You forgot the following:

"HELD BACK. REPEATING THE THIRD GRADE. LOW STANDARDIZED TEST SCORES. I GUESS THIS WAS MORE THAN TWO WORDS. THE PAPER, PLEASE TAKE US HOME."

Hey, I check out homestarrunner.com more than you think!

[some guy you dont know]

Originally Posted by taranchula

I just have two words to say about this....

Good Gravy!

Yes, who better to sing the American national anthem then cartoon/video game characters created in Japan or Italy. (With the exception of TMNT. natch.)

i remember that. not fun times.

while on 4kids, i might say some (if not all) of the voice acting on their one piece dub. why they made sanji sound like a chain smoker and then change his ciggarette into a lolipop ill never know.

[Pawbah]

That National anthem... was pretty bad.

Originally Posted by some guy you dont know

while on 4kids, i might say some (if not all) of the voice acting on their one piece dub. why they made sanji sound like a chain smoker and then change his ciggarette into a lolipop ill never know.

I think it was so funny that it was redubbed though. I mean, it was such a terrible dub that a different company got rights to it and redubbed it.... I haven't seen the new dub so I can't say anything for it, but I'm sure it's better, I can't see how it could be worse.

[One Radical Dude]

Originally Posted by Pawbah

I think it was so funny that it was redubbed though. I mean, it was such a terrible dub that a different company got rights to it and redubbed it.... I haven't seen the new dub so I can't say anything for it, but I'm sure it's better, I can't see how it could be worse.

It's an improvement, from what I've seen. They kept the original music (the openings are translated; no more 'Ya-yo ya-yo' mumbo jumbo), instead of replacing it with new junk.

[Medikor]

I finally remembered about the voice acting in Baten Kaitos! As good a game as it was, you would think that the voice acting would be up to par (Xella is particularly grating). It's a shame that it didn't have the effort put into it like Tales of Symphonia which came out just before it and had excellent acting.