Firstly, I never thought of Danny as having an accent. I just accepted that that’s the way he talks. So when I start hearing some hammy impersonation of an east coast accent, I was like “huh?!”
I feel like the Rock screwed it up royally. It sounded like a New England accent not New Jersey.
The other girl was better (whoever she is) but overplayed it at times.
Seems many agree that Awkwafina (the Asian actress) did do a better job, which is funny considering she has way less experience as an actor than Dwayne Johnson. She seemed to nail some of the nuances better, as if she really studied and shadowed Danny DeVito for a while.
Film reviewer Alonso Duralde said Dwayne Johnson sounded more like a generic New Jersey retiree than Danny DeVito.
He over did the ending of words. Instead of the ER sound they use AH, and he overthought it. The change to AH in linguistics is a softening of speech, not added emphasis. So it was unnatural.
shareI agree. The Rock did a terrible DeVito, but it worked just because he was playing an old guy who didn't understand the concept of being inside a video game.
But yeah, I couldn't help cringing whenever The Rock said "Spenca?"
Yeah it was so hammy. Danny’s accent isn’t even that noticeable to me (could be because I’m Australian and we have similar phonetics to east coasters.)
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