Yes. I was disappointed that the dog, Doug, wasn't female. Then I was hoping the mean dog with the broken translator would surprise us with having a female voice. Like, I was *hoping*, you know? As a desperate grasp for something. I mean Whoopi Goldberg voiced the lead hyena in Lion King. But the only female character was one who didn't speak, and even when they go back to the town at the end, all but one of the Wilderness Adventure kids was was male, and the one that I'm not sure about could have been either. The club announcer was male, too. Why not just call them Boy Scouts if they're all going to be boys, anyway?
Anyway...it didn't ruin the movie for me, but it certainly irritated me. I knew going in that the boy, the old man, and the dog were male. I didn't know that every single voiced character in the cast would be male! And I barely count Kevin as a female character, because Kevin--while important--was not as pivotal to changing events as the the two old men, the kid, or the talking dogs. And she wasn't personified the way the dogs were.
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Date: 2009-06-07 01:52 am (UTC)Anyway...it didn't ruin the movie for me, but it certainly irritated me. I knew going in that the boy, the old man, and the dog were male. I didn't know that every single voiced character in the cast would be male! And I barely count Kevin as a female character, because Kevin--while important--was not as pivotal to changing events as the the two old men, the kid, or the talking dogs. And she wasn't personified the way the dogs were.