The Pros and Cons of Celebrity Casting in Animation

Max Borg
7 min readNov 22, 2020

A few musings on the popular and controversial practice of casting celebrity voices in animated films.

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Among the most recent additions to Netflix’s international roster of shows and films is The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, the third feature-length offshoot of the popular Nickelodeon series (US viewers will be able to see it on CBS All Access — soon to be renamed…

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Max Borg

Freelance entertainment journalist, specializing in comic books, film, TV and streaming.