7. Tom Hanks – The Polar Express, Toy Story 1 & 2
Tom Hanks has the best quality animated role of them all I’d say. Pixar is normally huge on celebrity voices unlike some other sellouts (*cough* Dreamworks), but in Toy Story, Hanks performed admirably as Woody the cowboy opposite Tim Allen’s Buzz Lightyear. And then there was the Polar Express which made my eyes crawl out of their sockets and hide. But back to Toy Story. Easily one of the most fun and successful animated franchises out there. My son has watched each of these at least 100 times and he’s not even four. When is the next one coming out????
8 . Meryl Streep – The Ant Bully, King of the Hill, The Simpsons
Yes, another King of the Hill appearance, Go find it if you will. I’ve no idea what The Ant Bully is, but I do remember her Simpsons appearance as Reverend Lovejoy’s evil daughter who seduced Bart. No the Simpsons‘ clip below isn’t of that because Fox is a bunch of dicks and never lets more than eight seconds of any of their shows get posted on YouTube.
9. Julia Roberts – Charlotte’s Web, The Ant Bully
There’s that Ant Bully again. Roberts hasn’t done much animation, but her most notable appearance was probably as Charlotte the Spider in the “live-action” Charlotte’s Web remake. She was Tinkerbell in the live-action Hook, which almost counts, but doesn’t.
10. Will Smith – Shark Tale
To me Shark Tale sums up everything wrong with modern animation. No distinct plot to speak of, only a cavalcade of celebrity guest stars dressed up like fish. They didn’t want to waste their enlisted voice talent (DeNiro, Jolie, Aguilera, Smith) so they felt they needed to bash the audience over the head by making the fish look like the celebrities they were voiced by. Will Smith fish has big ears and Angelina Jolie fish has big lips. So funny! Sorry. I hate that movie.
11. Reese Witherspoon – Monsters vs. Aliens, The Trumpet of the Swan
The Trumpet of the Swan? Sure OK. More recently Reese voiced a giant version of herself in Monsters vs. Aliens which is Yahoo!’s 5th best animated movie of all time. Yeah huh. That movie made money so I’m sure she’s already reading lines for a sequel.
12. Bruce Willis – Over the Hedge, Rugrats Go Wild, Bruno the Kid, Beavis and Butthead Do America
Bruce Willis? I wouldn’t have expected that. He voiced Spike the Dog in the Rugrats movie, and I’m sure there’s a more detailed explanation for that out there somewhere, but more recently he was the devious raccoon RJ in the new Dreamworks celebrity voice orgy, Over the Hedge.
A-Listers Who Haven’t Done Animation…Yet: Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford, and you can look up any more you care about.
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