I share your opinion, the dubbing its just pathetic, I truly believe that Spanish people don't even know the real voices from famous actors, their loss since the dubbing takes away all the main and good representation.
Its in fact embarrassing that Spanish people working in hotels, museums and tourist places cant barely speak English. One time in Seville, I went to a restaurant and asked for the BATHroom, the lady who as at the balcony then made this brilliant dumbass figure by making fun of me saying "bedroom?bedroom? this ARE a restaurant!" while making gestures of pillow and sleeping...I raged and shouted " Really? you cant barely speak English and although you are trying to humiliate me? Just tell me where is the TOILET and give the complain book"...at this point she started "no hablo ingles" realizing that she made herself look like an idiot, some English tourists in the back of the restaurant also started getting pissed off with the situation and also asked for the complain book. The rest was just a very sad episode, you get the idea...
So yeah, Spanish people cant speak English, and when I read arguments like " when you go to other country you try to learn their language", that's just yada yada, because for instance, Spanish tourist when visiting Portugal or France don't even make an effort to understand the country language, they just keeping speaking Spanish and hoping for people to understand it, for their luck the average Portuguese knows, apart from the mother language, Spanish, French and English.
When a tourist approaches me for help in my country I really make an effort to speak their language, if not, i try to use the universal language for BUSINESS, ECONOMICS, POLITICS, TRAVELLING,etc, that is ENGLISH.
It's amazing, yet sad, that in Granada the only person I could find that could properly speak English was a Chinese girl in a Chinese restaurant.

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