Malcolm in your language

admin

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I have always wondered what the actors and actresses sound like after being dubbed into a different language. Many of you live in different countries so this will be an interesting thing for us to do.

If you can record a line of an episode in the dubbed language and as an audio file upload it here so we can all listen to see what it sounds like. We could also see if we can work out the character and line/episode you have posted from.

Its also interesting to see pictures of the dubbers, as they are often very different in looking than their US counterparts
 

samboo1

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Yeah, ive always wondered that as well. Even if i lived in a different country and was watching the dubbed episodes i dont feel i could get used to that!!:)
 

willdubbs

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Well, in my country (France), Malcolm is dubbed by Brice Ournac. Brice is a young actor and he dubs extremely well. He often dubs Haley Joel Osment in most of his movies (sixth sense, pay it forward and others...). But though Brice is around 18 years old, he still has a shrill voice, he can dub sometimes a ten years old actor, so Malcolm sounds a bit weird sometimes and younger than he is in reality.

Justin Berfield used to be dubbed by Romain Doullit(can't remember how to spell his name) until the third season, he was good enough and his voice broke approximately at the same time as Justin's. Today he's dubbed by Don Reignou, he's good enough but he has a strange voice, a bit harsh.

Jane Kaczmarek is dubbed by Marion Game, an excellent actress. That's the only voice I like more in french. No offence, I like Jane Kaczmarek, but her voice is a bit too harsh, even if it's good for the character.

Chris Masterson is dubbed by Cedric Dumond and he has almost the same voice.

Bryan Cranston is dubbed by Jean Louis Faure, and he really sounds like the real Bryan.

But Erik Per Sullivan is not very well dubbed, Yann Peyrou is not too bad but I hate his voice, I really prefer Erik's voice.
 

allison

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I don´t know how to send an audio file (so you can´t play the game:p ), but here are video files where you can hear what the actors sound like after being dubbed into german.

Malcolm, Dewey, Reese (younger)& Lois
http://www.sendmefile.com/00075534

Dewey and Reese (older)

http://www.sendmefile.com/00075521

Francis
http://www.sendmefile.com/00075580

Malcolm (older) and Hal (This one also contents "Dewey and Reese older" again. Sorry, I made a mistake when I uploaded it):D
http://www.sendmefile.com/00075559

I prefer the original voices of the actors, but I think the german ones are quite ok (could be worse).
I liked Reese´s german voice when he was younger, but when the voice actors´voice changed it became weird.
Dewey´s voice actor does a pretty good job and especially during the first 3 seasons I thought his voice was pretty cute. :D
Lois and Hal are both quite ok. And this sounds weird, but I even like Lois´voice actress´ voice a bit better than Jane´s.
I think Francis´german voice is even quite similiar to his real voice. So I think it´s good.

Here are the names of the german voice actors. But unfortunately I don´t have any pictures of them.

http://www.seriensynchron.de/Serien/Malcolm_mittendrin.htm
 

allison

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MalcolmReeseDewey said:
Allison (my name's alison!) Unfortunately the files don't work!!
Oh, I thought you´re a boy (probably because of your username) :D
Sorry, I have no idea why you can´t download them. These files are usually availabe for 2 weeks and I uploaded them on september 8th, so you should be able to download them. :confused:
 

Niels

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Hey, I've got an audio clip of Brice Ournac, the young french dubber of Frankie Muniz in MitM. I actually met him last june in Paris during a meeting and debate on dubbing, he's a really nice person, he told us about dubbing for "Malcolm" and his other works, even about the guitar scene in "Hal Sleepwalks" episode, he said he can't sing but Frankie Muniz was out of tune too so it wasn't a big deal :rolleyes:

Don't try to guess wich episode the audio clip comes from, it's actually from his dubbing of HJ Osment in "AI"

http://voxofilm-audio.site.voila.fr/vox/Brice_Ournac.rm

Sounds like a funny game, I may put some sound clips from french version of MitM soon and you'll have to guess where it's from :)
 

arach

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Thank you for that one! That's a pretty interesting voice for Malcolm, but it kinda fits. "Parce que je suis exceptionel! Unique! Ma maman ..." :D That's what I understood.
But funny, in the first few seconds I thought he is doing stuff that a boy in his age shouldn't do. :D But I can tall that he's really putting effort in speaking malcolm, he doesn't only read the lines.
 

Niels

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I've just made an audio clip, from an episode of "Malcolm..." this time. Let's see if non-french speakers would identify wich episode it is from and wich scene it is. I can tell you it's from season 5, the scene starts with Hal and Lois speaking to each other, then Lois calls for the boys, Dewey and Reese come while chatting. Then Malcolm arrives and speaks with Lois while Hal and Reese comment. I'm sure some words you may identify (similar to english) will help you a lot.

http://lifeisunfair.perso.cegetel.net/MitM%20season%205%20french%20dubbed%20scene.mp3
 

admin

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Same, I can work out the general gist of whats going on, I just can't pin point an episode. I could have sworn it was from a Season 4 episode if you hadn't said Season 5. Can you give us any more clues? Is it a cold opener for example or a proper part of the episode.
 

Emrysgirl

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Dirty Magazine? I don't know...I don't speak ANY french...I just thought the part where there's a pause and the french Lois says something sounded kinda like the part where Lois asks "what's her name?"
 

allison

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Emrysgirl said:
Dirty Magazine? I don't know...I don't speak ANY french...I just thought the part where there's a pause and the french Lois says something sounded kinda like the part where Lois asks "what's her name?"
I think you´re right.
 

admin

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Emrysgirl said:
Dirty Magazine? I don't know...I don't speak ANY french...I just thought the part where there's a pause and the french Lois says something sounded kinda like the part where Lois asks "what's her name?"
You are probably right about that, I was trying to think of an episode with a girlfriend of Malcolm's in, all I could think of was Forbidden Girlfriend, but thats from Season 4. I didn't think of Dirty Magazine! :D

We will have to wait for Neils to see if you were right! :D
 

Niels

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You're right, it's from "Dirty Magazine" ! In the beginning Hal tells Lois about his female boss who wants to flirt with him. Then Reese tells Dewey about the plant supposed to grow in his hand. And then Malcolm explains the magazine issue. :)

Near the end, Malcolm says "Ronnie est lesbienne", I thought this would have helped you a lot since it's very similar with english...

I'm sure this clip from the episode would have been a LOT easier :D :

http://lifeisunfair.perso.cegetel.net/collision.mp3
 
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