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For the second time in August, a foreign movie tapped again local voice talents to attract more Chinese viewers.
China Daily reported that 20th Century asked Shen Teng, Ma Li and Chang Yuan to be the voices in the Mandarin version of its forthcoming animated movie, "Ice Age: Collision Course." The three come from Mahua Fun Age, a popular theater stage group.
Shen Teng is the voice behind Buck, the male weasel, Ma Li is Brooke, the female ground sloth, and Chang Yuan is Shangri, a llama who loves yoga.
Shen said it is the first time he did a voice to a Hollywood film, which he discovered to be a big challenge. He explained, “Buck is a funny but neurotic character. I had to use all my experience to do the voice-over. It was much more difficult than I imagined.”
Shen Teng became famous overnight for his role in the 2015 hit Chinese movie “Goodbye Mr Loser.” Ma, the leading lady in the same movie, voice the character that Jessie J, a British singer, voice in “Ice Age’s” English version.
Established in 2003, Mahua was behind the production of 26 comedies and had performed over 4,000 shows across China.
In early August, He Jiong, a TV show host, and Chen Peisi, a comedian, were the voices in the Chinese-language version of “The Secret Life of Pets” from Universal Pictures.
“Ice Age: Collision Course,” opens in theaters in China on Aug. 23. It is the finale of the franchise, which spanned 14 years in which there is an installment issued every three or four years.
Directed by Michael Thurmeter and starring Ray Romano, John Leguizamo and Denis Leary, the film got a PG Rating for “mild humor and some action/peril,” wrote The Tech which described the movie, in a review, as a disaster because it is “full of gender stereotypes and bathroom humor.”
