![]() ![]() Unfortunately, neither of those two actors are still with us. Until Martinet's performance, Mario may have been spouting off mamma-mias, but he was doing it in throaty New Yorkese. Kids, probably the target demo for that first Mario movie, would likely only have recognized Hoskins as the hard-nosed New York private eye from Who Framed Roger Rabbit, released five years prior, and seeing as he used a similar voice for Mario, it seemed like there was a general idea at the time of how the jumpy plumber should sound. But when Mario made his first jump to the silver screen in 1993, Bob Hoskins followed up with a similar voice, despite not even being American. Now, as some people have pointed out, Pratt's not Italian, which in their minds makes him less qualified to play Mario in the more classic '80s style. Born in Rome and having spent a long portion of his adult life in New York, Albano certainly had some similarities to the backstory of the character he was portraying, all while his using a genuine Italian-American Brooklyn accent. Professional wrestler and Cyndi Lauper's dad in the "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" music video, Captain Lou Albano acted out the portly plumber in both animated and live-action segments of Mario's Saturday morning cartoons of the '80s and '90s, most notably The Super Mario Bros. While his yowling "Here we go!" when jumping into one of Super Mario 64's paintings is burned into so many of our brains, Martinet actually sounds nothing like the two on-screen Marios we had in the '80s and '90s, and his cartoonish Italian accent actually stripped away a layer of Mario's (and by extension, Luigi's) identity - that of a schlubby plumber living in Brooklyn, New York. Martinet was not the first person to play Mario. But those insisting Pratt's voice is wrong for the role because he's not aping Martnet should remember one thing. MovieĪs if the hubbub over their rightful voice of Bayonetta weren't causing enough of a stir, the fan community seems to have divided itself pretty neatly into those who stand behind Martinet, with his heavily-accented falsetto, and those who believe in giving Pratt a chance. ![]() RELATED: The Behind-The-Scenes Disaster Of The (Original) Super Mario Bros. Even if you're unfamiliar with Strong's name, you probably know her voice - at least one of them - as she's been Raven in Teen Titans, Timmy Turner in Fairly OddParents, and Twilight Sparkle in My Little Pony, just to name a few of her 633 television and movie acting credits, so it's safe to say her words carry a little more weight in the animated film industry than the average person's. Voice actor Chris Pratt is highly unlikely to be responsible for the latter, but the community seems sharply divided on how he's handling the former.Įarlier this month, voice actress Tara Strong publicly objected to Pratt's casting over Twitter, claiming the title role in the upcoming Super Mario Bros Movie should have gone to Charles Martinet, who has consistently provided the plumber's in-game voice since Mario Teaches Typing was released back in 1991. ![]() We've seen less than two-and-a-half minutes of The Super Mario Bros Movie, planned for release in theaters in April of next year, but fans have already found a lot to criticize about the main character, from his vocal qualities to the way he fills out his overalls. The fan community is a fickle one sometimes. ![]()
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