I think the only reason it sounds goofy is because of the same voices and dialects being used everywhere, so when they do use a different dialect, it’s usually a reference to something. Farmer stereotypes get the remote farmer accents, “foreigner” stereotypes get a generic foreign accent, and every other character sounds like they grew up together in the same neighbourhood.
I’m kind of glad we don’t really do dubbed movies for adults over here, I have plenty of childhood memories of the quality of Dutch voice actors in general, let alone their diversity. I know they’re doing the best they can, but there aren’t that many Dutch speakers. For double damage, most good VAs also do commercials and radio work, so you end up with characters sounding like the ad selling you skin ointments.
(that said, the Dutch voice for Sponge Bob will always sound better than the English one to me, they really nailed that show)
Ser_Salty@feddit.de 11 months ago
They don’t just sound like they’re from Hannover. They sound like they’re a Hannover stereotype. Every fucking vowel is sounded out completely. Like, I’m from Mecklenburg Vorpommern, we speak pretty clear Hochdeutsch here for the most part and it still all sounds stilted as fuck to me.
It also doesn’t help that they always use their “voice actor” voice when dubbong live action, where the original actors will use a more normal/natural voice compared to when they’re doing VA for a cartoon or something. Then the audio mixing is all fucked and all semblance of a natural conversation is lost. Genuinely the only thing I can watch in German is animated stuff.
Prunebutt@feddit.de 11 months ago
Yup. I really hate that notion that people think that one dialect is “normal” and the other ways to speak are degenerated deviations for the underclass. Everyone has a dialect and they’re all equally valid.
You can’t even watch the Sendung mit der Maus? ;_;
Ser_Salty@feddit.de 11 months ago
Oh no, German productions are fine, it’s just dubs. They don’t fuck up the audio on their own productions.