History Main / HongKongDub

* The overworld skits in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' have their MouthFlaps synched to the original Japanese text. It's barely noticeable most of the time, since the skits aren't voiced, but now and then it's obvious that they're taking too long or not long enough to say a line. In one particular instance, Sheena [[TranslationYes takes six syllables to say "I...I..."]]. [[note]] Most likely [[UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns watashi]].[[/note]]

* Also done with Stan in the first two ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' games. He almost never stops talking or waving his arms.

* The English dub of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'' has a lot of moments of this, often having close-up shots of the characters flapping their lips but saying nothing.
* The English version of ''VideoGame/GodEaterBurst'' seems to have just decided to ignore the MouthFlaps when they dubbed the game.
* The Polish translation of ''VideoGame/AztecWars'', especially painfully visible in the intro, where everyone and their mother move their lips even when quiet, as if they were all chewing gum.
* Starting with ''Soulcalibur IV'', the character models in the ''VideoGame/SoulSeries'' were designed for specific dubs. In ''IV'', the characters' mouths are synced to the Japanese dialogue, but are synced with the English dub in ''[[VideoGame/SoulcaliburV V]]''.
* ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'''s English dub would get this every now and then depending on the episode. The most glaring moments, however, are in Episodes 11.5 and 15.5, mostly due to the fact that those particular episodes use anime cutscenes instead of in-game cutscenes.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' does this in two different ways. During cutscenes, the English dub does its best to properly match lip flaps for characters, but there are a few times that slip by now and then. Heart-to-Heart interactions are fully voiced, non-cutscene interactions between (usually) two characters that require the player to manually advance the dialogue. If they never press the button to advance, the current talking character will continue to animate their mouth until the other character continues the conversation. It should be noted too, that even the Japanese voice acting has moments where they fail to sync with the lip flaps

* The dub of ''VideoGame/DragonBallXenoverse2'' often falls into this during cutscenes, both in the ones made with the game engine and in the anime ones.
* The English dub of ''VideoGame/AstralChain'' runs into this issue during in-game cutscenes with skippable textboxes. Rendered cutscenes fare quite a bit better, but still have lip-flap issues on occasion.

* In the first of the ''Film/PoliceAcademy'' movies, Larvelle Jones (played by Creator/MichaelWinslow, a.k.a. the guy who does the funny sounds) puts on a MartialArtsHeadband, makes FunnyBruceLeeNoises and flaps his mouth in imitation of this trope to intimidate some thugs.

* [[https://youtu.be/IMD_gA06AaQ Hilariously parodied in this]] ''Series/InLivingColor'' sketch involving Fire Marshall Bill Burns.

* Parodied on ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' every time they played Film & Theater Styles and "kung fu movie" or "spaghetti Western" came up.

* The sketch-comedy ''Series/AlmostLive'' did this with its "Billy Quan" kung-fu parodies. Amusingly, one of the actors in the skit (John Keister) always supplied the still-out-of-sync voiceovers for his own character.
** Later, the character got a minor recurring segment on ''Series/BillNyeTheScienceGuy'' called "Mind Your Manners with Billy Quan".
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. In "Restless" Dream Xander is confused when Giles and Anya try to explain what's going on, but they're talking in badly-dubbed French.

* 2012 show ''Series/{{Danger 5}}'' has all dialogue (English ''and'' subtitled non-English) done like this, as part of its [[{{Retraux}} loving homage to old action/adventure television.]]
* Brazilian group Casseta & Planeta had a CopShow parody, ''Fucker and Sucker'', where the title characters (two American cops who are transferred to Rio de Janeiro) are portrayed like this. At least [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEx31lyk1N4 once,]] the voice actors are even present!
* ''Series/IronChef'' opted for this (wanting an accurate translation) instead of LipLock, reasoning that since the bulk of the commentary would be done by off-screen people, it wouldn't matter the times they talked on-screen. And they didn't even bother dubbing Chairman Kaga (subtitling his dialogue instead) unless absolutely necessary because his voice actor wasn't received very well.

* ''Film/TheRoom'' has an unusual example in that the "dub" is the ''original language''; a large portion of Creator/TommyWiseau's lines as Johnny are obviously [[LoopingLines looped]] with little regard for lip-flaps.

* From Hungary: the dub of the first live-action ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' film. The timing is about half a second off in most cases. Then, there is Ironhide's line about exterminating the parents, which he says ''during'' Optimus' reaction to his suggestion, and also Judy's "You're so cheap." comment, spoken about 10 seconds too ''early''.

* In ''Elvira's Haunted Hills'', everybody talks normally except for one badly-dubbed character. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when [[Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark Elvira]] [[BreakingTheFourthWall turns to the camera]] to ask, "How does he do that?"

* The English dubbed version of ''Anime/MacrossDoYouRememberLove'' was rumored to be used as an education tool to teach English. It featured an ''[[WhatTheHellCastingAgency interesting]]'' bunch of Australian and Hong Kong voice actors. See for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtthuOBGUQY yourself.]]

* ''Doogal'', which is the American dub of the 2005 film adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicRoundabout'', suffers horribly from this, seeing as how most of the dialogue makes reference to pop culture.

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':

* The segment, A Fistful of Yen, from ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie''.

* The episode "Lost and Found in Translation" from ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'', where the Rangers are watching an episode of ''Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger'' [[note]]Most specifically, episode 10: "Abare Leaguer Bind"[[/note]], the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' series where the fighting/Megazord scenes and footage for ''Dino Thunder'' come from.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. In "Restless" Dream!Xander is confused when Giles and Anya try to explain what's going on, but they're talking in badly-dubbed French.

* ''[[VideoGame/SeriousSam Serious Sam II]]'' parodies this in the beginning cutscene of the boss level of the third world.

* One of Horton’s [[ImagineSpot Imagine Spots]] in ''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho'' is done in an {{Animesque}} style, with terribly translated English dubbing and mouth movements that don’t match up to the voices.

* The English dub of ''LightNovel/GuinSaga'' has become pretty notorious for its poor production values, poor voice acting, and poor lip-syncing. It's unusually bad for a dub from Creator/SeraphimDigitalStudios (formerly Creator/{{ADV|Films}}), whose dubs had been fairly well-received. Check out how [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmEESOXQJso AWFUL]] this dub is. It's especially weird considering that the first half's dub… wasn't that bad. For some reason, Seraphim was rushed on part two, and not only did the quality decline, half of the cast ended up changed.

*** The [[DuelingDubs first two]] Cantonese dubs of the film had a literal [[HongKongDub Hong Kong]] GagDub that featured contemporary pop culture references, DubNameChanges galore, humor that [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece specifically dates the dub to 1980s Hong Kong]], and very little regard for the lip-synching. For the Blu-ray remaster, the film would be given a third Cantonese dub that would be much TruerToTheText and had much better lip-synching.

* ''Film/KungPowEnterTheFist'' makes prodigious use of the trope. Using advanced GreenScreen technology, it inserts Creator/SteveOedekerk into a 1970s kung-fu movie, rewrites all the dialogue, and dubs in all the new lines this way -- with all voices [[TalkingToHimself provided by Steve Oedekerk]]. Even the lines Oedekerk already said himself on screen. Being a comedy, it did the Hong Kong Dub deliberately:

* Done InUniverse in ''Fanfic/HuntersOfJustice''. ComicBook/TheLeagueOfSuperheroes have rings that [[TranslatorMicrobes translates their spoken words into the appropriate language and dialect]] whenever they TimeTravel. But while it's subtle, [[spoiler:Jonah Hex]] points out that you can see a Legionnaire's lip movement won't match the translated words if you look closely enough and know what to look for.

* ''Film/TheRoom'' has an unusual example in that the "dub" is the ''original language''; a large portion of Tommy Wiseau's lines as Johnny are obviously [[LoopingLines looped]] with little regard for lip-flaps.

* Creator/DingoPictures films are infamous for having horrible lip sync. However, this trope is taken to [[UpToEleven the extreme]] by even the original German-language versions having bad lip sync, let alone the dubs, often resulting in long stretches of mouth flaps with no audible dialogue.

* ''Animation/PinocchioATrueStory'''s English dub doesn't really try to match the lip synching, resulting in the characters' mouths frequently moving after they've finished talking. Taken Main/UpToEleven in the infamous Creator/{{Lionsgate}} US redub with Creator/PaulyShore, where the lip synching is even more off in addition to the [[DullSurprise wooden acting]].

* The French dub of Latin-American telenovelas broadcast on the public service channel for overseas territories, France Ô. In one particularly egregious case they had a 10-year-old dubbed by what was very obviously a ''middle-aged man'', and generally speaking the dubs bring the already {{Narm}}y dialogue UpToEleven.

** The Croatian HRT dub in particular stands out as it [[UpToEleven manages to take it up a notch]]; on top of careless lip-syncing, the voice actors' recorded lines are oftentimes either too short or too long, which in the former case leads to either missing dialogue/empty air or [[BrokenRecord line looping/replaying]] and in the latter case to lines frequently and blatantly overlapping each other. There are also a few cases like a line being so long that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wkMJdo1ggM it pushes the next one out completely]], essentially replacing it, and [[https://youtu.be/IMyfE0xskCY?t=2m53s existing audio being copy-pasted into a new place]] (sometimes even including ''sound effects'') instead of properly recording new dialogue, leading to glaringly non-existent lip-syncing. In very rare instances it becomes even more severe such as blatantly missing dialogue (for example, in "The Show Stoppers" the CMC's initial song rehearsal as Applejack listens is completely silent and Apple Bloom's remark about being librarians doesn't play, leaving her with just lip-syncing) and wrong dialogue audio (for example, when Fluttershy sings to Hummingway in "A Bird in the Hoof", she instead repeats one of her previous lines ''despite the clear fact she was supposed to be singing'').

* ''Film/KungPowEnterTheFist'' makes prodigious use of the trope. Using advanced GreenScreen technology, it inserts Creator/SteveOedekerk into a 1970s kung-fu movie, rewrites all the dialogue, and dubs in all the new lines this way -- with all voices [[TalkingToHimself provided by Steve Oedekerk]]. Even the lines Oedekerk already said himself on screen. Being a comedy, it did the Hong Kong Dub deliberately and turned it UpToEleven:

* Despite Creator/StudioGhibli's reputation for having SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing and {{Woolseyism} in the English dubs, thanks in particular to Creator/{{Disney}} and Creator/{{GKIDS}}' efforts, some of the English dubs have been legitimate Hong Kong dubs.

** This also applies to other animated films localised by the infamous Creator/HarveyWeinstein. Other victims of this process include ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'', ''WesternAnimation{{Hoodwinked}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Ballerina}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Metegol}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/LeoTheLion'', among many others. In many of these cases, characters speak loudly even when their lips are visibly not moving. Usually averted for alternate dubs not made by Miramax/The Weinstein Company, however.

* Despite Creator/StudioGhibli's reputation for having SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing in the English dubs, thanks in particular to Creator/{{Disney}} and Creator/{{GKIDS}}' efforts, some of the English dubs have been legitimate Hong Kong dubs.

* ''Animation/PinocchioATrueStory'''s English dub doesn't really try to match the lip synching, resulting in the characters' mouths frequently moving after they've finished talking. Taken Main/UpToEleven in the infamous Creator/Lionsgate US redub with Creator/PaulyShore, where the lip synching is even more off in addition to the [[DullSurprise wooden acting]].

* Despite Creator/StudioGhibli's reputation for having SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing in the English dubs, thanks in particular to Disney and GKIDS' efforts, some of the English dubs have been legitimate Hong Kong dubs.

** ''Anime/OnlyYesterday'' suffers from this in some dubs since the adult sequences, just like Anime/AKIRA, had the voices recorded before the animation. GKIDS' later English dub attempts to [[LipLock match the lip synching]] and it mostly works well.

This is especially problematic for foreign dubs of WesternAnimation since voice recording is done first with the animation being done after to match. {{Anime}}, however, doesn't run into this problem as much since there really isn't any lip syncing to be done (most animes have the characters talk by simply [[http://pa1.narvii.com/6332/087bf13337abd84407c67af14d75df8781cc2236_hq.gif moving their mouths up and down]]), but the timing and general mouth movements still prove to be an issue for English dubs. It's also easier for video games to avoid this since editing the lip syncing is cheaper to do thanks to being done in-engine.

* A staple of many {{Spaghetti Western}}s, including ''The Film/DollarsTrilogy''. Oftentimes, actors would recite lines in their native tongues, for it all to be redubbed into a given language for the local market. This creates an odd situation where English-speaking actors have dialog synched (mostly) to their mouth movements, but their Italian co-star have the signature loose lop flaps. The vice-versa is present in the Italian versions.

* A hallmark of Creator/FedericoFellini's career. Fellini routinely filmed without sound recording and looped all the dialogue in post-production. Actors on set would simply count down from 100, rather than recite actual dialogue. Sometimes it works and a viewer can't tell, but just as often it doesn't work and the dubbing is very very obvious. ''Film/LaStrada'', ''Film/NightsOfCabiria'', ''Film/JulietOfTheSpirits'', and other Fellini films all have very obvious dubbing. Often this was a necessity, due to international casts where a shared language wasn't guaranteed.

* Lots of {{Spaghetti Western}}s have this going in, including The Film/DollarsTrilogy. All the characters said their lines in their native languages, which were then redubbed into the languages the movies were released in, resulting in a bit of oddness as the English-speaking actors having their dialog synched (mostly) with their lip flaps, but their Italian or Spanish co-stars having their lips flap all over the place.

* A hallmark of Creator/FedericoFellini's career. Fellini routinely filmed without sound recording and looped all the dialogue in post-production. Sometimes it works and a viewer can't tell, but just as often it doesn't work and the dubbing is very very obvious. ''Film/LaStrada'', ''Film/NightsOfCabiria'', ''Film/JulietOfTheSpirits'', and other Fellini films all have very obvious dubbing.