From Turbo to Monsters University, Actors Relive Juicy Past Roles via Animation

DreamWorks Animation’s Turbo, which opens today, is a veritable who’s who of serious actors lending their voices to a selection of mollusks and another animated characters. Paul Giamatti, Luis Guzmán, Michelle Rodriguez, Richard Jenkins and Samuel L. Jackson are a few of the no joke actors involved in this film about a snail named Theo (voiced by Ryan Reynolds) who dreams of being as fast as his favorite IndyCar driver, Guy Gagné.

It’s not news that Academy Award winning and nominated actors have routinely lent their voices to animated movies. It's also not news that many animated features have characters that contain subtlety,...