Just saw the movie, and now I think I have to go to Pizza Hut.
Seriously, I think Q.L. was a very poor choice for narrating this film. I still believe that narrators should be able to speak basic English (American, Canadian, Island, etc...) not the mumbled rubbish that passes for street in Latifa's world... WOW I sound like a biggot... OK, I'll rephrase that because I am not in any way a biggot: If you want to drop the last letter or two off your words, go learn French, in the English language we have set rules for which letters are pronounced and which ones are not. If your JOB is to convey ideas in English I think you should be able to speak it the way it is understood worldwide. With that said, I am by no means an English scholar or fanatic, I do however hate to go see a movie or TV show in which the narrator is difficult to understand as Latifa is in this movie. The timbre and pitch of her voice us unattractive, and her attempts to sound cute at times fall flat. The read is borring and innefectual. I've been very disappointed in the recent trend to use major actors as narrators, some are great like the afformentioned J.E.J. or M.F. but Q.L. is not good at all. The reasons that the older documentaries and cartoons were so good (Warner brothers for example) is that they used professional voice actors to narrate or character. While you may like Latifa as an actress (I don't but I gave her the benefit of the doubt when I went into this movie) that is fine, but she is by no means whatsoever a good speaker.
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