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The Movie of Mario

Johnny Unusual said:
Why can't shit be a fun surprise?
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My understanding of the situation was that it was going to be a surprise, but then a voice actor in the Polish dub of the movie was like "I play that guy!", and since it was then out of the bag, the marketing department put out the poster to get some kind of buzz about it.
 
I want the third movie to include Link as a major character. Entirely silent. No explanation why he is there. He just hangs out and breaks pots and shit in the background. Climax of the movie is when Link's hijinx cause the Vibe Scepter to break. The only thing better than this would be the inevitable discourse around which Link it is and what timeline he is from.
 
Saw the new Mario movie tonight. It was an alright, fine, perfectly whelming animated movie.

Some random thoughts:
Felt more like "Nintendo: The Movie" then even the first one, what with the edition of Fox McCloud, Pikmin, and just sticking in Mario and Nintendo things for the sake of it. There is one gag in the middle of the movie with ROBB that I was left alone to chuckle at because I have a suspicion that no one else got the joke; I got the joke because Official Old Fuck. (It also just wasn't that funny, essentially a version of the sloth gag in Zootopia.)

I'm not sure making Peach and Rosalina sisters adds anything. Kinda makes the Mario universe smaller, insofar that I care about a Mario universe.

Mr. Game & Watch actually got the biggest applause from the audience, which was kinda surprising but maybe not considering how many people love Smash. I've seen other initial takes that thought Yoshi was underused but considering how mildly annoying I found this version of him, I think he was used just fine. They've clearly left the door open for a Star Fox movie, which I can see working if it's less slapsticky than these Mario movies. I personally enjoyed Cape Mario at the very end just because SMW is my favorite but he's on screen for all of four seconds. In the post credits scene, the Blue Luma is back doing Blue Luma things, so if that was too morbid for you the first time, well, they've doubled down. You can see the Daisy stinger from a mile away but it was still kinda charming.

If you liked the first movie, I'd say you'll probably like this one, but this one has even less meat on the bones. A candy-coated reason to chew popcorn for an hour and an half. A cute but unnecessary sequel of the kind you'd expect from Illumination.
 
I finally saw the first Mario Movie. Thought I should know everything about the Super Mario Movie Universe before seeing Star Fox' First Movie.

Boy, Bowser was pretty unlikable in this. Bowser had this likeable single dad image in the last decade or so, and now he's trying to kill people. He even has Kamek torture a Toad to blackmail Princess Peach into marrying him. And then Bowser's going to sacrifice a bunch of prisoners into the pit of fire for the wedding, what game did that happen in?
And the Peaches song wasn't even funny. I've heard intentionally bad songs, like Trogdor, and Peaches wasn't even catchy. And then they played it again in the credits?
Best thing I can say is that the Jack Black voice sounded pretty good. The Bowser actors in the games always sounded like this regular guy who isn't even an actor doing a monster voice while reading a book to their kids.


But there were things that I did like:
Freeze framing the backgrounds for all the references to games
Cranky Kong
The Kong who drives Peach and Toad to see Cranky
Using music from the Mario games

The training montage for Mario hit me personally. When I was in middle school I made this 4-minute music video of the Prince of Persia getting killed every possible way (the SNES version had so many ways to die, Magic Sparkles FTW), and it also had pop music dubbed in. And then I see Mario failing over and over on this one jump, which was something I did myself, when it hits me that these lucky producers got to put what is basically their AMV into a blockbuster movie. Is there any better job out there?
 
If the third one isn't just titled "The Super Mario Bros. Movie 3" complete with a raccoon tail shadow on the "3", I will poop a whole butt. 😤
 
That's what I'm actually expecting, tbh. I kinda hope they include New Donk City somehow, and really lean into the uncanny valley thing the New Donkers had going on.
 
That Old Chestnut said:
If the third one isn't just titled "The Super Mario Bros. Movie 3" complete with a raccoon tail shadow on the "3", I will poop a whole butt. 😤
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The montage of Mario and Luigi taking care of the mushroom kingdom seemed to be full of references to 3 in particular
 
That Old Chestnut said:
That's what I'm actually expecting, tbh. I kinda hope they include New Donk City somehow, and really lean into the uncanny valley thing the New Donkers had going on.
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The humans of New Donk City will look absolutely realistic even though the humans of Mario Movie New York are cartoony.

That would be... Interesting!
 
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Saw it with my niece and nephew. Looks good but, like the first film, not big on substance. Still, not bad if you like eye candy. One thing I really appreciated is Donald Glover just does Yoshi noises and only says Yoshi. I mean, the character really added nothing to the story and the backstory never really informs anything but... whatever.

Probably the best looking of the Illumination films, particularly the puppet effects
 
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