Voices from other language versions
 

Voices from other TMNT language versions - anyone possess such files? I'd be glad to hear them speaking in different languages...

Best wishes,

Robweiller

P.S. The title is my AFD prank, hope no one will be upset.

Hehe, I don't think you'd want that. At least for the french voices.
Because... the french voices are horrible. All the turtles sound alike and gone is the uniqueness of each of them. Imagine all of them speaking with Leo's voice... there you have it. Even Raph! I could barely believe my ears when I heard Raphael's french voice! I'm too used to the brooklin voice, I guess.
And Raph's slangs don't carry over in french. They all speak the same way. O_o

isn't a torrent site illegal, and thus against the rules here?

Robweiller said it was just an April's fool joke.
Since he started a discission about the TMNT's voices in other languages, I decided to reply. It is perhaps time to change the topic to 'Voices in other languages' or something... :)

Listen to the foreign themes on this site. (click here)

It's pretty bizarre getting yelled at in German about the TMNT.

The Dutch dub is horrible. Nearly all of the jokes and expressions are lost in translation, and a lot of the voices (Michelangelo's in particular) are very annoying.

And for some reason they added some kind of 'metallic' effect to Shredder's voice, so you can barely understand a word he says. His accent doesn't help either. x_X

@ Zachatello - title was an April joke and I'm glad someone has changed it.

@ Tigerfog - as long as I adore French language, I loathe films and cartoons dubbed in French. They always use very childish and conventional voices and my head aches when I listen to them. I reckon French directors choose voice actors BEFORE watching the original show, just by judging by the appearance. And all characters from one group always receive very similar voices, like little boys always get the voices of little histeric idiots screaming their stupid heads off. I was startled last summer in Belgium when I discovered TV in my room had French CN - and watched few episodes of "Dexter's Laboratory" in French. French Dexter was yelling with an irritating high-pitched voice all the time idiotic phrases like "Ouais, Ouais, Dee-Dee qu'est-ce que tu fabriques aie aie aie aie ouais" - and because I knew these episodes earlier, I was adversely shocked. The same with other toons or dubbed films. So I can imagine what French did to TMNT :|

@ Matthew - German theme is my favourite. Not as funny as Russian one but much darker than English version. That should be the theme of the new show. I just don't understand why in this theme Raphael and Michaelangelo's descriptions comes before Leonardo and Donatello, instead of "Splinter taught him to be ninja teens". Quite a secret for me. The whole song complements well with the intro - without this strange swap of lines.

I found samples of Russian dubs at www.ninjaturtles.ru - this page was mentioned earlier in Foreign Logo thread. Don't know if I can post here direct links to them or not. They are just 30 or 40-second fragments of Russian dubbed episodes and not entire ones but I don't know if it's still against the rules. I found them quite funny, cause turtles sound there like typical old Russian men.

Cant psot them at the moment, but the danish voices actually sounds pretty good most of the times. The voices of the main charaters is a lot like the original.

From what I've heard in the japanese opening song of the old cartoon. it seems Leo and (huh?) Don have very low-pitched/adult voices in japanese. Quite interesting, given the fact that the exclusive TMNT japanese anime ('Super Turtles') have Leo and Don with voices that fit their american counterpart better than the classic cartoon dubbed in japanese...

Oh, and Robweiller, I agree that most french dubs are not so good. I don't know if you have noticed, but everytime a character speaks in french, it seems the background music is toned down a bit only to revert back to normal when no one's speaking. And yes, I also think Dexter's Lab in french was horrible. But you haven't heard anything yet if you didn't watch a french TMNT episode (new)... talk about conventional voices, they are all conventional!
The only french dub I found superior to the english dub is South Park. Believe it or not, I just love how the South Park kids speak like Parisians with parisian slangs and accent (I LOVE how they pronounce their names with a french touch to it!). They are a lot more vulgar than in english.

i am from argentina and i saw the old toon and the new in spanish

the old toon in spanish: sucks!!! :-?
but the new is good. is very cool the voice of leo,don,mike :)
but RAPH is so better in english.. :D

LOL! I couldn't agree more. The German version is one of my favorite TMNT themes. A couple years ago, Nturtle made a mini flash movie to go along with the German theme... I wonder if he still has it. Funny stuff.

Indeed I do! Click the taojam link in my sig, its under the misc section. It's actually pretty popular on some underground German sites, thanks to Damnhooligan.

That flash you made has a special place in my heart. :thumbsup:

Haha, I loved that German TMNT flash movie. And the love needed to be spread around.

I know over at the official Italian Turtles' site they've got a whole load of theme songs and videos, but I don't think any of them actually have any samples of the voices. Though I've been pretty impressed with most Italian dubs. Italian Lenny Briscoe from L&O is surprisingly dead on. As is Italian Will Smith.

I've saw the TMNT cartoon in German. It had episodes with Dregg in it. The voices weren't memorable and none really sticked out in my mind. I didn't tape them or nothing. I had never saw those episodes before.

Neat! I still laugh every time I see it, especially the "na logo" part and "buy our toys". :lol: You did such a great job, especially with all the animations.

I personally like the French version the best out of the foreigns. Mostly because the singer really gets into it. ^^

While we're on the subject, if anyone's got higher quality versions of any of these (the Japanese one, for instance), could you drop me a line? I've got a little project on the backburner, and despite my searching, I haven't had much luck.

:) Thanks all, I'm glad you still enjoy that old silliness.

I have a VHS I purchased in Saudi Arabia of the Original Ninja Turtles in Arabic. The voices and the theme music is quite different but due to it being VHS, it would be difficult to load and share it with everyone. I can make copies of the VHS though!