Ronald Young Jr.
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945 appearances
13 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 24 Aug
Ronald Young Jr.’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And when I say fine, I think it's fine that it exists.
All of the...
Why am I here?
All of the why am I here is kind of embedded in there.
The comparison I make is to How to Train Your Dragon, a movie where I'm sitting in there watching it, wondering why I'm here, because I just watched the original, and the original still hits.
This Moana, the original still hits.
So when I get here, I think about a movie like, let's say, Aladdin, where Robin Williams is dead, so obviously he can't play the genie.
So they bring out Will Smith, which brings a whole new interpretation to the genie.
And you could go back and forth to say whether that movie landed with folks or not, but you can say that they took it in a different direction, which is my biggest quibble with casting The Rock as Maui.
Because when I was watching this, I remember thinking, he is executing this role well if I did not have to look at him.
And I'm not saying that as an insult.
This is not about how he looks.
The point is when I'm looking at The Rock in that hair with his prosthetics on, I am taken out of him being Maui.
When I was watching the animated version and it's Maui with The Rock's voice, I believe in Maui as a new character.
Right.
But when I'm looking at The Rock and his face, and he's supposed to be someone different, it just felt like The Rock trying to be funny, which just wasn't working for me every time I saw him.
They don't like Moana stuff.
That's baffling to me.
I feel like that's one thing that gets me is like, and I understand the nature of the chicken doing what it's doing.
It is slapstick and it is fun in the original and in the new one.
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