Celebrity Voices Bobblehead Cher

Cher is no stranger to reinvention. The Queen of Pop has been a singer, actress, philanthropist, Meryl Streep’s mother, taste-maker, burlesque club owner and so much more. Her latest endeavor, Bobbleheads, is an animated movie in which she voices a doll version of herself. The 74-year-old tells Good Housekeeping that the role has been a longtime dream come true. She also says that the film’s message of embracing one’s uniqueness has allowed her to truly connect with the project.

Cher has been on a roll in 2020. She’s released an album of ABBA covers, helped a dying elephant and even gotten involved in politics. However, it’s her animal rights advocacy work that has captured the most attention. She’s been working to get Kavaan, a 36-year-old elephant that was kept in captivity in Pakistan, out of the country and into a new wildlife sanctuary in Cambodia. The campaign has garnered millions of dollars in support and has captured the hearts of many fans.

While she’s not as involved in the #FreeKaavan movement as other celebrities, Cher has still managed to stay busy during this hectic year. In addition to her Mamma Mia! sequel, Here We Go Again, Cher has also been voicing characters in animated films and promoting her beauty line. In addition to a recent appearance on The Tonight Show, she’s been hard at work in the recording studio and has a slew of concerts scheduled.

So it’s no surprise that the feisty star would jump at the chance to voice a bobblehead movie. Bobbleheads, directed by Beauty and the Beast’s Kirk Wise and produced by Mortal Kombat’s Lawrence Kasanoff, is a family comedy about a group of misfit knick-knacks who band together to protect their home from two no-good thieves. Bobbleheads stars The Boys’ Karen Fukuhara as skater-bobble Ikioi, Dollface’s Brenda Song as cat-bobble Kelani and Warlock’s Julian Sands as baseball bobble Deuce alongside Luke Wilson and Jennifer Coolidge as Jim and Earl, the trashy human intruders.

Unfortunately, the film doesn’t deliver on its promise of being a fun and whimsical animated adventure. Instead, it’s a mindless lump of cinematic coal that adds to the growing list of terrible movies from this year. It’s also a blatant rip-off of Toy Story and the aptly named Foodfight! and smacks of seedy commercial calculation and tawdry commerce. And, oh yeah, it’s impossibly padded even at eighty-two minutes.