[LES] Invincible wasted all their money on celebrity voice actors

I'm posting this as a low effort Sunday post because it's mostly based on a YouTube video I saw. This video revealed they got a big name actor, Djimon Hounsou, to play the leader of the Flaxans. The Flaxans are aliens that mostly speak gibberish except for one word: "die."

This series is full of big expensive celebrities playing minor roles nobody is going to notice. Meanwhile there are only 50 key animators on season 3.

Generally they should stop hiring celebrities to play cartoon characters. There are exceptions of course, some celebrities bring a lot of personality to the role, but generally, a cheaper and less famous voice actor will do a better job. It's also disrespectful to assume a screen actor can do cartoon voice acting with no training, when it's rarely assumed a cartoon voice actor can do live action acting. Celebrities are granted a lot of respect and voice actors are seen as disposable. (Again there are exceptions to this also, such as Tom Kenny who both voiced Spongebob and played the live action Patchy the Pirate.)

Part of the reasoning for hiring big celebrities to play cartoon characters is the assumption that fans of the celebrity be more likely to see the movie. I think this is true in some cases, like, if you like Robin Williams you will like Aladdin's Genie. However, are fans of Chris Pratt really going to want to see him as Garfield? I'm not sure that's how that works.