OH MY GOD, Baby Peach is in the movie?!! That image that BLOF posted of her is so f***ing adorable. She has the cutest eyes
Also, I'm glad that they gave Peach a good role that's different from her usual role in the games. She gets to actually do stuff and is an action girl in the movie, from what I can tell. Glad they made Luigi be the kidnapped princess instead.
(None of that is spoiler-y, right? You've all seen that in the trailers)
All I can say is WOW!!! The Super Mario Bros. Movie is breaking records to an unprecedented level. A $377 Million opening weekend ($204 Million domestically) making it the biggest opening for an animated movie of all time. Nintendo and Illumination has really done everything right to please Super Mario fans like you guys, and families in general. Not only does this unprecedented success totally annihilates all the demons from the disastrous 1993 live-action Super Mario Bros. Movie it also makes Universal the new king of family friendly movies, dethroning Disney after decades of their dominance at the box office. It could not have come at a better time, because Disney is a mess after two box office bombs with Lightyear and Strange World thanks to all the woke propaganda that Disney is saturating their animated movies that is keeping families with children away. The Super Mario Bros. Movie has no woke propaganda what so ever, along with doing a video game adaptation right, that is a formula for major success. Bob Iger has got to be lying down face first on his bed crying like a baby over hearing that The Super Mario Bros. Movie is just annihilating Disney.
The 'Anti-Woke" crowd went apeshit over Peach being proactive before shifting to "This giant unfeeling Corp is totally owning that other giant unfeeling corp"
I went to the movie cause I'm a fan of Mario and the trailers impressed me, not to do something as meaningless as participate in a culture war
Also, acknowledging queer people exist and aren't inherently horrible is not going to harm any child in the slightest, it's going make them understand and help queer kids feel accepted
A day late since I actually saw it yesterday but I was very much amazed by this film! This is now possibly one of my favourite films of all time, mainly due to the very satisfying amount of references such as Luigi's ringtone being the GameCube theme (though I do have to say I'm very much dissappointed that there were zero references to the Paper Mario series or to the Mario & Luigi series as far as I recall). The animation was some of the best - everything is so smooth and the lighting is just outstanding. I actually liked the voice acting for the most part, especially for Bowser and Peach. Plenty of funny moments and meme scenes (I loved the "DON'T TOUCH THAT MUSHROOM YOU'LL DIE!!!!"). As I had been anticipating from the trailers, Peach was extremely cute yet also very cool and interesting, and I found her very well written and a welcome departure from her traditional role in the games (similar to SPM I guess) making her probably my favourite character in the movie (I guess Luigi took the place of being the one who needs saving lmao). Her voice acting was also amazing though I honestly didn't feel like Taylor-Joy's voice sounded familiar having watched The New Mutants. I'm not sure how I feel about Donkey Kong being a bit of a jerk tbh. The power ups were extremely well handled, especially the cat suit scene.
The Baby Luigi scene immediately made me smile because I knew that it would make BLOF happy.
I did enjoy the amazing remixes of various tunes in the Movie (such as the remix of the main theme, the underground theme, and a few bits from Odyssey, Galaxy 2 and DKCR off the top of my head) - however I was once again dissappointed that there were none from the RPGs as my favourite soundtracks by far are from TTYD and SPM, with close runners up including Superstar Saga, Bowser's Inside Story, and Dream Team. I'm honestly not sure how I feel about including tracks such as Take on Me and Holding Out for a Hero as while I very much like those two songs, they're entirely outside the Mario universe (or indeed Nintendo) and it feels weird to have outside songs in official Mario stuff - also both of those songs were already strongly tied in my mind to certain scenes from other "kids" movies, namely the Time Cycles scene from Teen Titans Go to the Movies and the castle invasion from Shrek 2.
I also think its pretty cool how Mario and Luigi have canon parents (and other relatives) in this movie. I think Spike is supposed to be a reference to a real life person but I didn't know who he was really so that was lost on me I guess. Also no Toadsworth is a big letdown, especially when there were moments that it'd have made so much sense for him to be there. Especially in the Peach backstory scene, a young Toadsworth meeting and raising Baby Peach would have been epic.
I guess I maybe have mixed feelings about the Super Star being the maguffin given that it is initially hyped up to be of huge significance but then doesn't really serve much during the majority of the plot and then ultimately gets used AGAINST him because he just didn't guard it well enough I guess? And given all it was hyped up to be it was a one time use that only lasted a few minutes, granted it did make them 100% invincible but I still feel that doesn't match up with how much importance Bowser placed on it?
I would probably say I found the Banzai Bill scene a bit annoying as that really should've been the end of Peach's castle but apparently the Banzai Bill gets easily distracted by Mario dressed as a racoon. (Plus the whole Banzai exploding inside a pipe creating a black hole that sucks everyone into Brooklyn is a little odd to say the least.)
I have never played MK8(D) and don't like MKWii but even then I found the Kart construction scene epic and the rainbow road sequence very impressive, especially the anti-gravity and the blue shell scene.
I guess I do think it was a bit shorter than I'd have liked and the plot could also use a bit more substance (it's no secret that I love the story rich Mario games and movies are a generally more story driven medium) but on the other hand I do understand why there wouldn't be too much story and I hope that any sequels we might get (which it looks like we will based on the post credits scene) have more. I guess it makes sense to do the first film being mostly an adaptation of the traditional Mario story, except for Peach's proactivity. Hopefully the sequels could be a bit more original and creative.
All in all yes, it may not be perfect, but the amount of goodies, references to my favourite games, fun moments, animation, voice acting, and soundtrack for this movie easily place it as one of the most special experiences I have ever had from a movie and a childhood dream come true.
au contrary to the nonsense earlier: the mario movie is woke.
it promotes the idea that low-income/blue collar adult descendants of immigrants who live with their mom and dad (and in real life italian immigrants have been historically been subject to discrimination) are capable of saving the world
