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** CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg justifies the practice of hiring celebrities for voice over roles by explaining that most on-camera actors give more "human" performances to characters, while regular voice actors try to come up with too goofy of voices, which is not what he wants.
*** Which is a [[Kick the Dog|pretty big slap in the face to professional voice actors]].
* [[Pixar]] doesn't do this as blatantly as Dreamworks, but they're still very guilty of this trope. All of their films have a cast of familiar faces much better known for on-camera work, assuming they've done any animation at all (beyond appearances on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''). Their only lead actor to date with extensive voice acting experience is [[Edward Asner]], and even he is [[The Mary Tyler Moore Show|no stranger]] to [[Lou Grant|live action]]. (''[[WALL-E]]'' is an exception to this trend, for obvious reasons.) To their credit, at least after the original ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' ("Starring [[Tom Hanks]] and [[Home Improvement (TV series)
* Disney also does this outside of the [[Disney Animated Canon]], as evidenced with their American dubs of [[Hayao Miyazaki]]'s films and the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series (though the latter also employs many regular voice actors as well, considering that there's [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]).
** Speaking of Disney, ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire|Atlantis the Lost Empire]]'' had [[Michael J. Fox]] as Milo Thatch, '''[[Leonard Nimoy]]''' as the king of Atlantis, [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001258/: James Garner] as Rourke, and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001815/: Jim Varney].
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