My latest MSN Movies gallery uses the prestigious voice cast of “Astro Boy” (Cage! Theron! Nighy! Sutherland! … um, Eugene Levy as Stumble-Bot!) to remind readers of other animated features that have employed major names.
I was tempted to assemble the whole list out of DreamWorks titles, in an implicit criticism of that studio’s insistence on building movies around megastars rather than picking the best performer for a given role, but that seemed kind of churlish … and this way, I get to pretend that “Shark Tale” doesn’t exist.
Forgettable, Norm? Transformers: The Movie as forgettable? If there’s one thing that a movie with the audacity to stage a crucial action sequence to the strains of Weird Al’s “Dare to the Stupid” ISN’T, it’s forgettable. 🙂
Well, I’d entirely forgotten about that, so …
Oh, and Orson Welles’ contribution as Omicron was a cornerstone of this chef d’oeuvre of modern cinema…kee-rist.