Official "Volcano High" Talkback

[ShanNAblah]

Its time to enroll in Volcano High !!!

The fine folks at Mtv has brought some kung fu goodness from Soulth Korea. This has the moves of crouching tiger and the special effects of the matrix movies. Also Mtv has listed the talents of popular hip hop artists and others to dub the film

Here is the list of who you be hearing and the charcter thier will dub.

Snoop Dogg voices Hakrim
Method Man voices Mr. Ma
Lil Jon voices Jang Yang
Kelis voices Song
Tracy Morgan voices Woo Ping
Pat "Mr. Miyagi" Morita Princepal Cho

Additonal voices include

Andre 3000 and Big Boi from Outkast
and Mya.

So sit back and enjoy the show.

[Caffeine King]

How pitiful!

They only have the rappers doing it so that it'll be "hip" and people will actualyl watch it.

I hope it flops in the ratings! :shrug:

I'm watching it now...and I can't recgonize any of their voices. :eek:

They must of done something to them. :rolleyes:

Don't get me wrong, I love rap but having them dub a Japanese kun fu movie...bad idea! :sweat:

[Caffeine King]

Milkshake was playing in the background... :rolleyes:

This movie was probabley good before MTV gotta hold of it. :shrug:

[okendri]

How pitiful!

They only have the rappers doing it so that it'll be "hip" and people will actualyl watch it.

I hope it flops in the ratings! :shrug:

I'm watching it now...and I can't recgonize any of their voices. :eek:

They must of done something to them. :rolleyes:

Don't get me wrong, I love rap but having them dub a Japanese kun fu movie...bad idea! :sweat:


So I take it you like this movie since it is a Korean kung fu movie. :p

Well I have to give Mtv some credit at least they didn't throw in street dialogue to go with the rappers dubbing the movie. While the voice acting is flat and uninspired, I've heard worse dubs.

[Spike Mcdougal]

This is coming out of left field but that short haired women who was with the new teachers looked pretty hot.

[AlphaPrime]

Like an anime yet live action w00t goooooooooooood movie, woulda been better with some GOOD VAs but the rappers didn't do to bad i guess.

[ClockStomper]

It was weird hearing black rappers with heavy accents voice Koreans. Jeez, at least get some asians! The Andre Outkast guy and Method Man did decent jobs, but they slipped up during the scenes involving yelling. Jang's voice was just lame.

Still, it was pretty good and not to much of the dialouge and story was changed or comprimised. It really did feel like live action anime (the noodle scenes are right out of "comedy" animation.) I assume the only edits was the blurring (I don't mind, I can live without seeing Kim's nuts.)

[okendri]

From what I've read Mtv cut 30 minutes from the movie. Getting asians for the parts wouldn't have gotten the attention Mtv wanted. It isn't like studios hire asians for anime dubs.

[ClockStomper]

It isn't like studios hire asians for anime dubs.

Because in most cases the characters have no particular ethnicity. You'll notice if there is the occasional black or asian character in a show, they cast someone who sounds accordingly.

Case in point, Jet Black's origins are unknown, but Beau Bellingslea, a black man, is cast perfectly because he sounds like the japanese counterpart (infact, when Jet's japanese actor speaks a few line of English in the Bebop CD set, it sound indistinguishable from the english voice.)

Obviously, when a dubbed voice of a korean sounds like "Daymn! Mah ass hurts!", it's all wrong.

[Space Cadet]

So, how accurate was the script the original Korean film? To me, it seemed accurate for the most part. I thought they were going to Americanize the dialouge with "hip, slang" words. The music was bad, but not the worst I've heard.

[okendri]

Because in most cases the characters have no particular ethnicity. You'll notice if there is the occasional black or asian character in a show, they cast someone who sounds accordingly.

Case in point, Jet Black's origins are unknown, but Beau Bellingslea, a black man, is cast perfectly because he sounds like the japanese counterpart (infact, when Jet's japanese actor speaks a few line of English in the Bebop CD set, it sound indistinguishable from the english voice.)

Obviously, when a dubbed voice of a korean sounds like "Daymn! Mah ass hurts!", it's all wrong.


What about Inuyasha, Card Captors, YYH, and other series set in various times in Japan? What about the live action movies where the dub actors don't sound anything like the characters?

[Supernovametalstar]

Judging from what I heard about this before hand, I thought it was going to turn out like an episode of Kung Faux, but it didn't turn out that bad.

[David Lucas]

I sat through Seasons 1 and 2 of DBZ.

Then I sat through that god awful phase of DBZ in Season 3 where the FUNimation VA's were trying to sound like the Ocean Group VA's.

Not to mention I sat through that dub of Escaflowne on Fox Kids.

Compared to all those, the dub in this was good. And with the added effect that it was pretty ****ing cool looking, ya really can't complain.

Good idea, MTV. Although I never woulda watched if I didn't see Andre and Big Boi backing the damn thing.

[Chris Sanders MSX]

I missed it, but it's MTV so I'm not so worried. I don't like how some of you were already biased about it because the film featured rappers AND R& B artists. If they had chosen an all rock star cast I doubt anyone would complain.

However some people are just born not respecting some genre's of music, like if this had featured "teeny bopper favorites" I'd be ready to say it sucked before seeing it. Oh well, I hope it's good.

[ClockStomper]

I missed it, but it's MTV so I'm not so worried. I don't like how some of you were already biased about it because the film featured rappers AND R& B artists. If they had chosen an all rock star cast I doubt anyone would complain.

However some people are just born not respecting some genre's of music, like if this had featured "teeny bopper favorites" I'd be ready to say it sucked before seeing it. Oh well, I hope it's good.

Fred Durst or Kid Rock would have been just as bad, if not worse. No discrimination here.

[Chris Sanders MSX]

Fred Durst or Kid Rock would have been just as bad, if not worse. No discrimination here.

Yeah you have a point. But Fred Durst was too easy, haha everyone would say it sucked if he was in it. :p

[Neo-Era]

Missed it the first two times. Caught it today.

Even though I haven't seen the original version in awhile, from what I can remember, this is the worst butchering I've seen in a long time. Horrid. Kyle Pope would have a heart attack trying to make an Edit List for this one. Entire scenes were moved around (at least two were shifted from the middle of the movie to the beginning), an entire subplot (about a secret martial arts manuscript everyone is looking for) was deleted from the storyline, lots of explanatory voice over dialogue was added where it didn't exist in the original, the new wall-to-wall hip-hop soundtrack stunk and sounded completely out of place, and the dubbing was somewhat worse than your typical modern martial arts movie dub because the casting director thought it was more important to get hip-hop "names" than voice actors who might genuinely fit their roles. They didn't do as bad as I figured they would but that's like saying I actually laughed once or twice during a Jay Leno monologue. I think parts of the last fight were even edited to make it more choppy-MTV in style.

The only positive thing about it was when they deleted the subplot, they pretty much tossed out the Principal's character and his "comic" tendency to fart. He's not in much of the movie anyway.

With no signs that they're going to bother releasing the original version of this film on Region 1 DVD and Distant Horizon actually trying to prevent people from buying legitimate foreign copies from importers, the shabby treatment of Asian cinema in America continues...

[ToonamiGir]

I really thought this was a bad idea. You're okay with kung fu and rap, but when you mixed together, it's kinda offensive. MTV was only targeting one group and they would've had a larger audience if it was just normal dubbing. I, personally, think that if you mixed anything with anything, you would offend some. I'm korean and I just wanted to see pure martial arts and not any hip-hop. People, keep it separate.