I started watching Pinocchio: A True Story, yes the one where Pauly Shore and Jon Heder are inexplicably there and terrible.
The animation is good, honestly, and the rest of the voice cast is fine, for what this is, which is a low-tier English dubbing of a foreign language animation. The translation is pretty awkward, but that happens a lot, and I'm hardly in a position to gripe about a Russian-to-English cartoon translation not being poetic enough. Outside of Shore and Heder, the movie isn't even bad, just an utterly mediocre exactly-what-it-is.
The "bad" is Shore and Heder. And while they are not hilariously awful the entire movie, they deliver enough lines badly that it is funny enough. I stopped watching it because I was too distracted thinking about how the hell this happened. The other actors are meh. But these two are garbage. And both are industry professionals of some stripe, so how can their reads be so terrible? It is almost like they are doing it on purpose, except it is too good at being the kind of bad it is for it to be intentional.
All I can think is, those two specifically were directed by an inexperienced voice acting director, or by someone who just wasn't one at all, or they literally had these two record these lines alone somewhere because they were too "big" to be with the rest of the cast, out of context of the full script. At any rate, the American director had to use whatever bad takes there were and here we are.
I don't know. I'm not researching it, and I'm not finishing it. It isn't funny-bad enough for me to care. I'll watch a YouTube video later explaining what happened, which will no doubt be more entertaining.
It is free on Tubi, so you got nothing to lose but time.
I'd suggest instead watching the 1993 Pauly Shore movie Son In Law, which is also free, places. I just did the other weekend. It is a long sitcom and very 90s, but way better than it has any right to be. And Pauly Shore is legitimately funny and charming in it; you'll see why he was such a big deal for like 6 minutes in the mid-90s.
I don't know. I always liked his gregarious stoner philosopher shtick. But I grew up in the 90s so keep that in mind.
I thought of a really fun idea! With the 2020s being the era of Pinocchio apparently, with this year's Inktober I came up with the idea of putting in elements that are usually associated with the character by replacing some prompt words. Just to give it that feeling of still being a part of the official inktober this year, rather than making up an entirely new list.
Feel free to use this list as you wish, whether it be for the upcoming Lies of P, Del Toro's Pinocchio, the memey Pinocchio: A True Story, D20 Neverafter's Pinocchio, or hell, even the original lad from the book itself! Whatever iteration(s) of Pinocchio you'll be drawing, official or your own, I'm hoping people will participate in at least a few of these prompts!
Feel free to spread to other platforms as long as I and the official Inktober are credited!