Why is the voice acting so shit?

Why is the voice acting so shit?

why is the art style so shit?

I am more bothered by the square heads, everybody else looks fine

They look like funko pops

SNL

Because they're all voiced by grown adults who make no attempt to use anything other than their normal voice, let alone sound like a child

I blame gravity falls for starting this meme

Because it's not.

When I first watched the preview from Comic-Con, I thought Scrooge sounded ridiculous. He sounded like someone doing a terribly fake Scottish accent. Which I know is bizarre, because even though I've never seen a single episode of Dr. Who, I know David Tennant is Scottish. The whole episode worked for me, and I like Tennant's Scrooge now, but did anyone else think this? I can only assume that as an American I'm so used to fake Scottish accents that the real thing sounds artificial to me.

Could be he was instructed to go for a heavier Scottish accent than his natural one, so it sounded a bit off.

That might make sense, but I've watched some interviews about Ducktales and unless he's doing that accent on purpose as a promotional thing, Scrooge is basically just his voice.

he doesn't speak with a Scottish accent in Doctor Who so that wouldn't have helped

Why is Mrs. Beakly's haircut so sexy.
I'm Very conflicted.

Huh. Interesting.

Because it's all washed up d-listers. The VA strike should have been stronger.

His natural accent is a moderate scottish, but he puts on a more basic british accent for doctor who
I'm not sure whose decision it was or if it was to make him more understandable, because peter capaldi kept his scottish accent for the role

Are you an actor?

Square heads.
Depressing pastel palette.
The voices of 25-year olds for preteens.
Webby is a disturbing amalgamation of Mabel Pines and Louise Belcher.

>The voices of 25-year olds for preteens.
>Webby is a disturbing amalgamation
So being an experienced actor can't voice a preteen? Do you know how acting works

Don't put any effort into him mate. Sup Forums is filled with casuals.

>Depressing pastel palette.
imagine having taste this shit

Casuals would be ok for this instance, this is just will full stupidity

>So being an experienced actor can't voice a preteen?
Apparently not, as this show is proof of.
>Do you know how acting works
Yes, evidently much more so than you and the people phoning in their performances for this garbage do.

>responding to yourself
It's like Sup Forums anno 2008

>Webby is a disturbing amalgamation of Mabel Pines and Louise Belcher.
No she's not, you're just saying that because you think she's voiced by Schaal

>Apparently not, as this show is proof of.
What would you know since you can't act yourself. So don't even try to think you know good acting frI'm bad.

No, you're just saying other people think that because you're fucking retarded and upset that others can see the glaring flaws in the show you're personally invested in protecting online.

Wrong again faggot

>Gravityfalls faggots never watched another cartoon in their lives
>hurr durr Mabel invented quirky girls

>What would you know since you can't act yourself.
Not that you would know anything about that, faggot. Considering we've thankfully never met.
>So don't even try to think you know good acting frI'm bad.
Please stop being so fucking retarded. It's the worst kind of low-tier trolling.

You wouldn't know phoning it in since you have no experience or talent to do it.

>same exact character down to the grappling hook meme
>IT'S NOT THE SAME AT ALL, YOU JUST DON'T GET IT! MIMIMIMII

Why couldn't they just get women to voice Huey, Dewey, and Louie? It worked well enough in Quack Pack

>Not that you would know anything about that, faggot. Considering we've thankfully never met.
Too bad I could easily teach you a thing or two about acting.
Trolling is an ass hat complaining about a shows voice acting because he doesn't like the voices but passes it off as someone else's fault. Believe me child it's yours.

That's quite an assumption to make about someone you have never met and know absolutely nothing about.
Are you even dimly aware of just how incredibly fucking stupid it makes you look when you do that?

Well, you're probably used to it by now.

welp you sure got me. here's your (You).

I like that you are so genuinely mad right now that you can't even make a coherent sentence.
Also a word of advice, roleplaying in Second Life (or whatever it is you do) isn't "acting".

I'm pretty sure by your statements alone prove what kind of idiot you are since all youve done was say
>acting is bad
>phoning it in
While not actually explaining how they are phoning it in. In fact you just parot what other people say about acting and use it stupidly to get attention. It world you got my attention, on how you know nothing about acting or the process.

Projecting much?

What glaring flaws is that praytell? Acting? From a person who knows nothing about acting?

>While not actually explaining how they are phoning it in
Why do people like you always do this? You get an explanation of the problem in the very first posts you get mad at, then you start to pretend you didn't, in order to stay offended. It's fucking tragic, especially as you have the grammar and spelling comprehension of a young child which certainly doesn't help you look like anything other than a flailing mong who's overly defensive about a cartoon show.

I'll quickly outline it for you once more, since you clearly need things explained multiple times to get it.
"Phoning it in" means not giving a shit about their performances, in this case illustrated by way of not even attempting to do a fitting voice for the characters, with Webby being the worst offender.

Don't want to have to explain it again, so if you still don't get it, kindly ask your tard wrangler to explain it.

It's impressive how much you think you've learned about acting despite never leaving your mom's basement.
Sadly though, you wouldn't know the first thing about it. As your pointless and extremely agitated defence of this hackneyed shit proves again and again.

>Why do people like you always do this? You get an explanation of the problem in the very first posts you get mad at,
Because that wasn't an explination, that was you ignorantly complaining about voices you don't like and want some sort of acknowledgment using phrase like "phoning it in" which is not a proper description on why the acting is bad since you never heard or looked up thsee actors until now.
Then you go on bitching about grammar on an anonymous image board to sidetrack the issue because you have no real argument.
It's obviouse you can't tell from phoning it in because you never actually experienced it. All you want to do is complain about the show, I mean what we're you expecting the entire show done in anemic pentameter? Don't know what that is? Oh because you aren't an actor or someone who performs or someone who works in the business. You are some whiny little bitch who complains his cartoons aren't the way he likes and tries to pass it off as critism with out giving actual criticism. So try again boyo, tell me why you think they are phoning it in when clearly they are keeping the same odd voice they have to record OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN. Tell me how you know this when you never even auditioned in your life. You can't because you don't know what you are talking about.

I'm at work faggot, in LA, I'm doing more with my life than you.

It may be that we're all used to hearing the triplets speak with identical voices as well as the fact that Webby's done a personality 180 since the original cartoon.

That said, I like that the boys all have different personalities now, and that each one's a sort of facet of Scrooge himself. It's making for some fun dynamics.

Why is new webby such a SJW bullshit character?

You are a cock sucking faggot
everything you do is worth nothing

>It may be that we're all used to hearing the triplets speak with identical voices as well as the fact that Webby's done a personality 180 since the original cartoon.
I wouldn't call her a 180 completly, i mean she isnt that shy cute girl, but she that bumbling cute girl with no friends. Which is what I really like about her, she is nuts but she was cooped up in the house all the time and having friends for the first time was touching.

Projecting again.

She isnt, her not having friends because of her crazy ass behavior is proof of that.

Also a terrible liar
And doesn't take so much screen time

>anemic
Sorry auto correct
Iambic*

she's shit and you know it
>HURR DURR Grabbling hook HURR DURR
Webby is Mabel 2.0 just worse in every sense
Mabel at least got a good VA

I disagree, I think you just hate thw sjw trope so much you see it everywhere.

I didn't have a problem with the accent per se, but I still feel that Tennant sounds a bit young for the role.

Webby's VA has done a nude scene with Malin Ackerman. Your argument is invalid.

That I agree with, he should deepen his voice abit but not grumble like glomgold.

Not him and I get what you're saying. They're the same approach to a female character, not the same character.
Mabel is cock hungry and Louise is a deceptive bastard. Webby is a mystery freak. She's Dipper given the Mabel treatment or under a Mabel filter if you prefer.

Am I the only one that thinks the only thing wrong with this show is Kristen Schaal voice? I am sick of hearing her.

>I HATE ADULTS VOICING KIDS
>ONLY KIDS SHOULD VOICE KIDS

Why is Sup Forums so fucking dumb?

No I'm tired of her like I'm tired of jonny Yong vosh

That's not her

You're a fucking idiot

Mabel is PP while Webby is RD.

i want you guys to give me an example of good art style. i feel you people just say this to hate on it.

Do people really want to hear a bunch of shitty private school kids doing a horrible job of regulating the volume, pitch and emotional tone of their voices?

They sound like edgy adults instead of child ducks.

I sure as hell don't

Name one scene where Webby used or mentioned a grappling hook.

What's with phoneposting shills and speeding out? The show is okay but these faggots are cringey as hell.

I never left, and nice try faggot.

What's cringey is some autistismo complaining about acting when they don't even know how to correctly use the term "phoning it in."
Same fagging btw no need to hide

>Haha, OP forgot that you have to BE an actor to judge acting! Because everyone knows only actors can judge acting, duh!

Why you so angry phoneposting user? It's a cartoon about talking ducks.

I don't, Im more concerned about a retarded op speaking about shit he doesn't comprehend in the first place.

Pretty much or at least be in the business of something that works wit acting.

You might wanna lurk more

He has a point in the lack of effort put into the voice acting though. I wouldn't say it quite goes into "phoning it in" territory but it certainly feels/sounds uninspired. Of course Donald might be a bit too far on the opposite end of the spectrum where he's nearly unintelligible even compared to most Donald performances.
Most people that start smashing keyboards passionately are a part of some established fanbase, but this iteration of Ducktales only recently debuted. I suppose we could chalk it up to them being Disney fanatics (and lord knows there's still network warriors here if modern Nick fans are anything to go by), but it still seems odd to me.

I don't know, how dumb do you have to be to not see the obvious stupidity in what you just wrote? Of course the ideal situation would be to have kids voicing fucking kids--they're KIDS. There's even a strong precedent for this: see Steven Universe and Adventure Time.

Still, you can put away your strawman of Sup Forums saying they only want adults to voice kids because NO ONE said that. Everyone knows that using female VAs to voice children of both sexes is the norm... or at least it was until Steven Universe kicked off this lazy trend of using adults (I'm talking specifically Jason Ritter here) who make no effort whatsoever to sound like children. And if you can't pull off a child's voice (or in this case, the voice of a young cartoon duck) you shouldn't be fucking around with iconic characters such as Huey, Dewey, and Louie. This is common sense, something you seem to lack since anyone who has a problem with these voice actors is just "fucking dumb", full stop, no further explanation needed.

>He has a point in the lack of effort put into the voice acting though. I wouldn't say it quite goes into "phoning it in" territory but it certainly feels/sounds uninspired. Of course Donald might be a bit too far on the opposite end of the spectrum where he's nearly unintelligible even compared to most Donald performances.
Now that is a fine form of critism. But mind you, actors are still directed, I had to do an indie game and my director told me to keep the same voice when I brought it down to a depressed scene. I gave him all these different versions and he wanted the same tone that I did through out the game. So all I can say is that director decides in the end.
>Most people that start smashing keyboards passionately are a part of some established fanbase, but this iteration of Ducktales only recently debuted. I suppose we could chalk it up to them being Disney fanatics (and lord knows there's still network warriors here if modern Nick fans are anything to go by), but it still seems odd to me.

Yes this is true but when it comes to reboots you aren't going to get the same as before especially when one of your actors just died this past year.

>you can put away your strawman of Sup Forums
What about your strawman that every kid character needs a child voice actor?

>Everyone knows that using female VAs to voice children of both sexes is the norm... or at least it was until Steven Universe kicked off this lazy trend of using adults (I'm talking specifically Jason Ritter here) who make no effort whatsoever to sound like children.
You do know that this lazy trend you speak of is because of many reasons.
1. This isn't a trend my Steven universe This has been going on long before the simpsons.
2. Children are hard tp work with not because they maybe undisciplined it's because they can work long hours like adults and you have to go through a lot of channels to employ a child, not to mention adjust their recording schedule with their every day life. It's just much more efficient to use adults.
3. You seem to lack any knowledge of this at all and are bitching about common sense when you have none yourself.

Where are their hats?

They went quack pack route, only huey is the one with the hat this time.

How can you be this thickheaded?

Quiz time, user.

1. Who reviews movies?
2. Who decides whether a TV show lives or dies?
3. Who decides whether a film succeeds or fails?

If you answered 'actors' to any of the above, I have good news for you: your head has officially gone so far up your ass in defending this show that if you just crane your neck a little further, you'll see out your own mouth!

In case any of that was somehow lost on you, let me be clearer: every single person who pays money or devotes time to watching anything is a participant in the continued success or failure of the actors they are watching. This world you envision where only actors judge acting is nothing but a fantasy; audiences judge acting, and when a majority of viewers aren't actors themselves, well...

>What about your strawman that every kid character needs a child voice actor?
You mean the strawman I didn't make? Don't even bother responding if you're not going to read the whole fucking post.

Duckgirl cloaca

>1. Who reviews movies? People who have a decent understanding of what acting is
>2. Who decides whether a TV show lives or dies?
The network
>3. Who decides whether a film succeeds or fails?
The box office, because remember ninja turtles by bay got a sequel because it did well it's opening night.

Since you don't read I also pointed out people who are in the business. But you wouldn't because you ignore important details.

Again, it's like you can't fucking read. Nor write, for that matter. What does
>1. This isn't a trend my Steven universe
even mean?

>2 It's just much more efficient to use adults.
So in other words--my words:
>Everyone knows that using female VAs to voice children of both sexes is the norm
LEARN TO READ, MOTHERFUCKER

Yes you did, you made a strawman about how child characters need to have an exact type of child voice. Might as quit while you are behind.

By* sorry a simple typo can trigger you so much
You make a retarded statement that it's a trend of Steven universe, which wasn't the case, ever hear of Lisa simpson the woman doesn't even change her voice, and she can only voice one character. But keep sperging out.
I don't read the rest because your opening statement proves you are wrong right off the bat, so why bother reading your word vomit.

Jesus, you don't even know how to separate your answers from the green text. Here, let me do it for you:

> People who have a decent understanding of what acting is
And who would that be, user? Actors or average joes who watch movies and then voice their opinion on the acting? Let me tell you which is the larger group: it's the one that consists not only of professional movie critics (who often disagree with each other's opinions about acting quality, but still they get paid for their opinions), but every single user to writes a review on Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes. To use a phrase you've apparently never once considered the truth of, "Everyone's a critic".

>The network
Wrong. Ratings determine whether a show is a hit or not and ratings aren't provided by the network.

>The box office
Durrr... but who gives money to the box office? Surely it's actors, right? They're the ones turning B-listers into movie stars by seeing their films again and again. The actors, of course!

>Since you don't read
>you ignore important details
The irony is palpable.

Do you really think that the guys doing huey dewy and louey use their normal voices? I mean there is a video showing them in their normal voices and they sound nothing like their characters, you are overreacting to nothing.

>Yes you did, you made a strawman about how child characters need to have an exact type of child voice. Might as quit while you are behind.

With every post you reveal to everyone just how godawful your reading comprehension skills are.
This is what I wrote, you flaming retard:

>Of course the ideal situation would be to have kids voicing fucking kids--they're KIDS. There's even a strong precedent for this: see Steven Universe and Adventure Time.

There isn't a single word of that suggests that child characters NEED child voice actors. Once again, read the rest of the post, you idiot:

>Everyone knows that using female VAs to voice children of both sexes is the norm...

Somehow in your undeveloped mind this equates to "durrr he made a strawman about how child characters need to have an exact type of child voice".

>And who would that be, user?

Look to Here
Because you simply don't know how the biz works.

>Let me tell you which is the larger group: it's the one that consists not only of professional movie critics (who often disagree with each other's opinions about acting quality, but still they get paid for their opinions)
Yeah and those are people who are part of the business that is acting because the reason they get paid is because they learned what acting is, they went to school. You are some faggot who watches way too many cartoons.

>Wrong. Ratings determine whether a show is a hit or not and ratings aren't provided by the network.
Wrong they control the purse, they have the power, even good shows get canceled, take early family guy and early futurama. That wasn't ratings it was the network. Network makes the decisions why do you think tim and Eric awesome show got to keep going? Or q2 oz. Mouse? They filled a slot that was it. It wasn't ratings that kept them alive it was the network.

Box office is what decides the if it was a success, if it didn't beat it's making price it's not successful, but if it does and it's a terrible movie it is still considered a success.
All you have is a child like understanding of how things work. So stop trying to think your autistic opinion actually matters, because if it did these actors wouldn't be working now would they?

>Universe kicked off this lazy trend of using adults (I'm talking specifically Jason Ritter here) who make no effort whatsoever to sound like children.
Read your own words fagbutt.
You even calling his performance lazy is saying they need to sound like kids.
So excuse me for noticing your hypocritical statement.

So, who are we shipping Webby with?

Or is she taking the 3 corkscrews?

Now I know you can't read. I said there was precedent of cartoons using real children for their actors and used SU as an example. I used the word "trend" to describe what happened with Jason Ritter and then later cartoons casting adults that don't sound like children.

>ever hear of Lisa simpson the woman doesn't even change her voice
Wait, so they cast someone who sounds like a child? WHOA, YOU SURE SHOWED ME. It's not like I fucking wrote several posts ago that the standard practice in cartoons is to cast women to do children's voices! Simpson's is a great example of that as both Bart and Lisa are voiced by women. Thanks for proving my point that casting women who can sound like kids is better than casting adults who sound like adults.

>B-but Bart Simpson doesn't sound like a real kid!!!1
Fuck off. You know exactly what I mean when I refer to a cartoon kid who sounds like a cartoon kid and not a 30-year old man.

Are there really people who disliked this? I thought it was good.

Yeah trend, that's a simplification used for strawmaning you fucking twit

>WHOA, YOU SURE SHOWED ME.
Yes in more ways than one I did.
Do you really think that Lisa simpson actually sounds like a child you need to get out more. In fact stop watching cartoons because your sense of reality is really warped if you think characters like rap wiggum actually sound like real children.
>Fuck off. You know exactly what I mean when I refer to a cartoon kid who sounds like a cartoon kid and not a 30-year old man.
Only after you can stop making some silly precident that cartoon kids sounds this way because that what you grew up with.
Get your head out of your ass.

Isn't it funny how Bart grew up he still sounded like he was 10? Oh yeah, I guess they could have used a 30 yr old man for that job huh? BY your standards I mean.