Schizophrenic Much?

The Allens (2004) is a take on foreign voice overs and the impression that they leave, created by Erik Bunger. He plays all the different language voice overs for Woody Allen at the same time. He says that it's his belief that changing the voices into another language, while sometimes necessary in other countries, takes away from the movie as a whole. Especially with a character like Woody Allen who is known for his New York accent.

I agree with this view point. As I watched the presentation, though I understood a good portion of the French speaking voice, it was weird to me to hear the way it came out. It makes the character lose some of his personality. Perhaps this is because my entire family is from New York and speaks in the same manner that Woody Allen does, but I didn't like hearing the other voices. I spent some time overseas last summer and I remember thinking the same thing while watching even some of the more mindless shows like The Simpsons. While the German and French voice overs didn't take away from the characters as much in a situation like that, it still definitely changed the way I perceived what was going on. It was hard to watch it in the same way that I would have back home.