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In terms of Illumination's upcoming Mario film, I should probably talk about other animated video game based films and what people are like about their casting choices:

*Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within - A film that in the universe of the live action Rescue Rangers film would put characters from it into the Uncanny Valley due to the animation style featured. One thing worth remembering about that film is that characters from it aren't from any particular Final Fantasy game, so the casting choices don't really matter that much.

*Ratchet And Clank - That 2016 film based off the video game series that's been exclusive to Sony Systems. Most of the voice actors from them reprised their roles in the film, including James Arnold Taylor and David Kaye, though we should of course still appreciate the celebrities that the film was able to have.

*The Angry Birds Movie Films - It's important to remember that the mobile games which those films are based off didn't even have voice acting, so the casting choices in what gave the characters more then what their in game sprites looked like don't really matter that much.

*The Super Mario Bros. Movie - Now to the main point of this post, this movie I'm talking about is based off a franchise that doesn't have full voice acting and has the characters sounding the same in all parts of the world. The thing that a lot of fans are angered about in particular is of how Mario and Luigi are without Italian Accents, and as someone who's found it hard to imagine them speaking full sentences and not being voiced by the same person, I feel the same way. I mean with Kirby: Right Back At Ya they allowed Kirby to still be like he is in the games, but in this Mario film they couldn't use archived recordings of Charles Martinet for Mario and Luigi, of which would be even more of a let down if Yoshi should he be featured in the film were to use archived recordings of Kazumi Totaka.

Note that films featured don't include the Wreck-It Ralph films, and the fact that I only talked about animated films means that no live action films based off video games are included.

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In terms of Illumination's upcoming Mario film, I should probably talk about other animated video game based films and what people are like about their casting choices:

*Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within - A film that in the universe of the live action Rescue Rangers film would put characters from it into the Uncanny Valley due to the animation style featured. One thing worth remembering about that film is that characters from it aren't from any particular Final Fantasy game, so the casting choices don't really matter that much.

*Ratchet And Clank - That 2016 film based off the video game series that's been exclusive to Sony Systems. Most of the voice actors from them reprised their roles in the film, including James Arnold Taylor and David Kaye, though we should of course still appreciate the celebrities that the film was able to have.

*The Angry Birds Movie Films - It's important to remember that the mobile games which those films are based off didn't even have voice acting, so the casting choices in what gave the characters more then what their in game sprites looked like don't really matter that much.

*The Super Mario Bros. Movie - Now to the main point of this post, this movie I'm talking about is based off a franchise that doesn't have full voice acting and has the characters sounding the same in all parts of the world. The thing that a lot of fans are angered about in particular is of how Mario and Luigi are without Italian Accents, and as someone who's found it hard to imagine them speaking full sentences and not being voiced by the same person, I feel the same way. I mean with Kirby: Right Back At Ya they allowed Kirby to still be like he is in the games, but in this Mario film they couldn't use archived recordings of Charles Martinet for Mario and Luigi, of which would be even more of a let down if Yoshi should he be featured in the film were to use archived recordings of Kazumi Totaka.

Note that films featured don't include the Wreck-It Ralph films, and the fact that I only talked about animated films means that no live action films based off video games are included.