Thread 149150401

Now that the settle has dusted, what did you think of the Mario movie after two years later?

>>149150401 (OP)
I hated it.
It was normiecore to the max.

>>149150401 (OP)
I still think it sucked.
The Sonic movies also suck... But, like, differently

The absolute definition of mediocre to the point that I have zero desire to ever watch it again. They played it way too fucking safe. I get more entertainment out of the 90s movie just for how fucking stupid it is.

>>149150401 (OP)
If it came out in 2012 they'd 100% would have a Gangnam Style scene.

>>149150401 (OP)
I thought it was shit then and I think it's shit now.
>>149150423
This. I bet the script was AI generated.

>>149150401 (OP)
I loved it.
It was (almost) free of all the shitty autism stink of post-N64 Mario. To the max.

>>149150401 (OP)
It's the most video gamey movie of all time. I'm still not sure if that's a good thing or not.

>>149150461
It had Cat Mario...

>>149150401 (OP)
It was a movie.

>>149150401 (OP)
the live-action movie was better. Not even kidding

>>149150401 (OP)
Peach was just some random hole that walkedoff the street and acted like a cold fish.

>>149150468
Yes, and that shitty Mario Galaxy star. But it was almost free of shitty zoomer autism. Alas.

>We had to make Mario a loser with Daddy issues.
Why?
>Reasons!

>>149150483
The whole movie is paced like a Frontnite match.

>>149150493
Had he acted like he does in the games, you would be calling him a bland Gary Stu.

>>149150615
No, Mario is an already fully formed character like Conan & Superman, He doesn't need an arc.

>>149150401 (OP)
6/10
It was a certified ok

>>149150401 (OP)
Mario is a fine movie. I've seen worse adaptations

>>149150401 (OP)
Boring

>>149150416
Retard

>>149150401 (OP)
>Mario is a plumber
>he lives in Brooklyn
>he doesn't talk like a he has autism like in the shitty modern games
>used Mario 2 enemies like Shyguys and Snifits
>used the Mario rap
>No Walugi, Rosalina, Bowser Jr, or Daisy

10/10 movie, would watch again.

Bowser was really shit in this movie

>>149150886
That's actually a better movie.

The use of I need a Hero after Shrek 2 is beyond fucking tacky.

>>149150401 (OP)
>Tfw Charles Martinet's last line ever said in Mario media is "These are my boys"

>>149150401 (OP)
It could have been worse, that much is certain. Really, my only real problem with it is the FUCKING pop songs that Illumination insists on putting in all their movies, despite the fact that the composer had a perfectly good set of original and evocative pieces ready to go. Nobody wanted to hear fucking Take On Me again.

>Is called Super Mario Bros.
>Luigi is only in 5% of it.
>Their relationship is beyond saccharine and forced.
>Peach does most of the saving and traditionally does all the masculine things.

>>149150461
Anon, all 3d mario games (Except for Sunshine) afer 64 try to suck it off

>>149150401 (OP)
It's just a standard Illumination movie with a Mario coat of paint, not bad, but not fantastic either.
I enjoyed Sonic 3 more than it.

>>149150416
Sonic is way easier to adapt because the games have, yknow, stories in them

>>149151032
The stories in the Sonic movies are shit, though. Jim Carrey is the only reason to watch them.

I never had the urge to re-watch it after my first screening.

>>149150401 (OP)
Ok at best, absolute mediocre at worst.

Also hated that they went the Illumination route of having pop songs play everywhere. They had a Gusty Garden theme rendition in the credits yet used it only in the credits

>>149151032
To make race-mixing propaganda?

>>149151075
>Also hated that they went the Illumination route of having pop songs play everywhere.

More like the Super Mario Bros. Super Show route.

>>149151075
>They had a Gusty Garden theme rendition in the credits yet used it only in the credits
Where would you even put it? The real crime is creating an amazing Jungle Japes remix and replacing it with fucking Take On Me.

>>149150401 (OP)
Only good part was the DK rap

>>149151103
When Mario, Peach and Toad began traveling

The whole end fight was bullshit and anticlimactic.
It's fucked-up that Paper Mario has a better story.

I saw it 4 times because different friends asked me to go with them, and every time after the first viewing was agonizing because the novelty was gone entirely and that's kind of all this movie had.
Would rather just watch The Mar instead.

>>149151078
Like a filthy fucking Shitalian hooking up with a Aryan Princess?

>>149151173
Mario's family are clearly North Italians.
Definitely Lombards

Two years ago people couldn't criticize this bad movie because you'd get crucified by militant, Nintendo adults.

>>149151173
I'm talking about the Sonic movies.

>>149151200
MovieBob would scalp your grandmother for saying anything bad about this slop.

What do you think about them?

>>149151250
They suck.

THIS SUMMER

>>149150401 (OP)
It's fine

>>149151250
Seeing Mario and Luigi's actual hands was off-putting

When the movie like 99% done there was this one stupid kid behind me finally realized that the Toads were a race.

I like how the Mushroom Kingdom looks like a sleazy theme park and has zero verisimilitude and world building.

>>149150401 (OP)
I like it.
It was silly ans fun and full of cute easter eggs. It's not high art but I didn't expect it to be. It's serviceable which is probably why it attracts so much hate here on /co/. A lot of anons wanted this to suck but can't simply come to grips that it's an okay movie.

It was a good movie for children but I can see Mario's autistic fanbase having issues with it for doing things different from the games. I dug it, though.

>>149151032
The Sonic games easily have worse stories than the mario games. Or do you unironically think "sonic but black is the greatest lifeform" is good story telling?

"It's fine"
This is how Dan Slott keeps getting work with is mentality.

>>149151291
They've been seen quite a few times in the games though.

>>149150416
Intelligent person.

>>149151250
Alright honestly

>>149150401 (OP)
The jukebox soundtrack was a huge misfire. Basic okay movie that at least could have not used "Take on Me" for the hundredth time and had iconic donkey kong music instead.

>>149151402
Looks like Mario Right arm was stung by a bee

>>149151330
>He doesn't like the evil clone trope
AH BLOO BLOO

>>149151472
I mean I also think a religious gooball destroying life because echinads were mean to it is also stupid, but I'm sure you'll defend that shitty writing.

>>149150401 (OP)
It's crap.
I really thought that with Miyamoto involved, it was going to be a Japanese-style Mario story, a simple story without the nonsense found in current American and European cinema.
Also, Illumination's designs are awful, in the most Grub Hub-esque way. They definitely should have continued with the Wii U-era renders. It's depressing that we live in this timeline.

>>149151520
Also how Sonic's ultimate ability is doing a Goku impression

>>149150416
Agreed.
Mario's movie just a product.
Sonic movies are retarded movies.

>>149150968
ok sharktaleanon

>>149151669
The Commie Robots are the best part of the film.

>>149151635
>Sonic movies are cinema
ftfy

>>149150401 (OP)
Ehh it was alright.
>>149150423
I legit don't think the 90's movie is that bad, it's the best they could do with a live-action mario, unless they did something like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, mixing 2D and live action, but that would potentially look weird as fuck

>>149151687
whatever you say sharktaleanon

>>149151032
>Sonic is way easier to adapt because the games have, yknow, stories in them

Yet Sonic used its "best" story (SA2) and got beat by a direct-to-vhs tier Lion King prequel.

>>149151250
I think... you're nuts.

It was alright. Not very ambitious (and had a weird overtone) but it was competent.

>>149150401 (OP)
At least it was better than Sonic's "live action" movies, yeesh.

Jack Black >>> Jim Carrey

>>149150401 (OP)
I liked it. I would also be fine with never seeing it again.

>>149150401 (OP)
I'm still annoyed at the Jukebox musical aspect.

>>149150401 (OP)
jesus christ when they mentioned the mario movie in Studio I thought they were talking about the 80's film. I had completely forgotten about this.

>>149150401 (OP)
One of the worst movies I've watched. It's not because it is "woke," it's just that bad

>>149151790
>and had a weird overtone
?

>>149150401 (OP)
Pros:
>Some cool easter eggs like that song from The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Pauline as the mayor, Foreman Spike, blue spike, and the Double Rider Kick from Kamen Rider.
>Hearing Mario characters saying stuff like "die" or "dead man" was kinda based.
>Peaches song was kino and it made Bowser look like a simp.
>Power-up items made for some fun scenes.
>NGL It's either this or that live-action Mario movie, and I prefer animated over live-action.

Cons:
>Illumination's use of licensed songs are annoying. Granted, Holding Out for a Hero kinda fit in with Mario's training scene, but Take On Me felt very out of place for that Kong village scene.
>A not so subtle segue to that Mario Kart scene.
>Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong.
>Could have done without the DK Rap as an easter egg.

Not quite my cup of tea, but not bad, either.

>>149153374
*blue shell

>>149150401 (OP)
It has really bad pacing issues and the Mario Kart stuff felt pointless. The brothers being split up is also pointless and hurts the film. Luigi doesnt know any of the mushroom kingdom people now or have any kind of meaningful onscreen relationship with any of them. Idk why they couldnt be together the entire film. They work off each other way better than Mario and Donkey Kong or Toad do.

>>149150410
Fpbp
I didn't like how Illumination emasculated Mario & made Luigi the "damsel in distress." I didn't like how they made Peaches a mary sue either. I'm hoping Japan releases a better version of a Super Mario movie than Jewmerica

>>149151002
>>Peach does most of the saving and traditionally does all the masculine things.
stop complaining about movies you havent seen

>>149151311
do you hate the lord of the rings movies for the same reason?

>>149151250
>I JUST BOUGHT MORE LAND IN THE METAVERSE

>>149153785
She had literal penis envy.

>>149150401 (OP)
Peach being so competent is both out of character and renders Mario redundant

>>149153829
She was thirsting for Mario, my guy. Singing his praises about how cool it was that he never gives up. She was soaked for him.

I like it on the virtue that it's a straightforward adaptation of the games with little differences, but it's not a good movie of you take that bit out of the equation. This series just doesn't lends itself for movies, at least the main games (maybe the RPGs would do better since those have actual storylines).

>>149153861
her plan to rescue the hostages and defeat bowser at the wedding would have failed without mario and DK unexpectedly showing up

>>149153861
>Peach being so competent is both out of character and renders Mario redundant
Competent my ass. Her talks with Cranky failed immediately if it wasn't for Mario stepping in to challenge DK and get the army. Then Mario wins and Peach think he's the coolest and falls for him.

>>149153867
You're trying too hard.

The Kong Army is a fucktarded idea and makes no sense.

>>149150401 (OP)
it was exactly what it set out to be

>>149153931
They're Gorillas, my nigga. Think it through.
>>149153908
Not the gotcha you think it is, bro.

>>149150401 (OP)
>No luigi B-plot of him breaking out of prison. Barely appearing in the movie
>Mario having daddy issues and needing a character arc for some reason
>using Pop songs
>Some of the models looks like shit
These were my biggest gripes with the movie. Other than that, it’s a pretty generic kids film that isn’t offensively bad but not particularly good. The movie should’ve followed the game lore of Mario&Luigi being native to the mushroom kingdom and copy paste the plot of any Mario RPG title.

>>149150401 (OP)
I hate how donkey kong was more relevant to the plot than luigi

>>149153739
You do know Japan did make a Mario movie, right?
[spoiler[And both Mario and Bowser got cucked in it[/spoiler]

>>149151531
He was involved.
Illumination was going to make it more woke. It took Nintendo of all thinks to tell Illumination "no"

>>149154274
They made a few movies & OVAs during the 80s & 90s. They're Mario movies & OVAs are better than the Jewmerican slop. So I'm hoping a revival of Mario anime comes back.

>>149154280
>Illumination was going to make it more woke.
How so?

>>149151032
The 2D games (which are what the first two movies were ostensibly "adapting") had about as much of a story as their contemporary Mario games did. The latest one looped in some SA2 wank but I would hardly call it an adaptation.

When are we getting info on the Super Mario sequel?

It lost me at using No Sleep til Brooklyn at the start. That’s the sort of lazy shit I expect from an early 2000’s Dreamworks movie.

>>149150401 (OP)
Mediocre. Not the worst, but it still bad and sloppy .

You CAN tell the Japan Unit were fighting against Illumination over changes and stupid parts but at the end they swallowed their pride and just bend the knee and just accepted it like how japanese tend to be.

The fact that the Japanese dub pulled lots of dialogue changes that didn't help at all due to the character interactions and mannerisms clearly being for the original script and being your mediocre shitty kids movie just to shut them up and entertain them, as well of the other biggest issue.

Nintendies, Nintendo fanboys. Are just insane, they are shameless, tasteless, with no self respect, as long as they $0¥out and clap like seals while playing their switches, you get the idea.

It's a bad film that went through the lowest common denominator that failed upwards, which the Stupids of the world, the normies, see as success.

>>149150933
>when I saw it the first time in the theater, I love it
>When I saw it again, I love it even more
>Make sure to leave a comment and subscribe

You can see through the dishonesty and falseness.

>>149154280
By just reading and following scripts with a gun on his back, the humiliation ritual.

girlboss peach was ick

>>149150401 (OP)
Same thing I thought two years ago, overall a very great movie but the jukebox elements were unnecessary and actually did harm to the movie

>>149150493
>worked years in construction
>started his own small time local company
>very skilled at his job
>Was good at movement and parkour even before mushroom kingdom
And this makes him a loser?

>>149150939
Bowser carried the movie though.

>>149154657
Hopefully in the next Nintendo Direct

Shrek 2 did it best

https://youtu.be/T8PcBTvdxPs?si=uJAzgazGLkCqMeIE
https://youtu.be/Ix9gCDqZ9Hg?si=0kRPGse_0_irkCP4
https://youtu.be/hyNjTrWcn2I?feature=shared

It's completely stupid, but it's fun. It's more fun than Sonic 3 and DEFINITELY more fun than Sonic 2. The big "Peach is a girlboss" complaint is valid but it wasn't so overbearing that it ruined the movie for me. Rosalina WHEN?

>>149155712
>Loses all those agilities during Training

Yes

>>149151173
Mario has clear blue eyes and light brown hair, he's clearly of Aryan stock

>>149150401 (OP)
It was fun. Most of the anons who claim to hate it are just curmudgeons with a stick up the ass

>>149156245
When I was a kid in the 90s I was a huge Mariofag, but I also fucking LOVED "Holding Out For a Hero", mostly because of the ending of Short Circuit 2. If you had told me back then there would be a Mario movie where it played that song, I would have flipped my shit. But now I'm just too fucking old and jaded to even care because all I can see are the soulless algorithms behind every piece of media in existence.

>>149156702
This. Fuck contrarians.

>>149150401 (OP)
>The Kong Army invented Mario Kart
I will not stand for this Kongwashing of Mario history.

>>149155212
>Nintendies, Nintendo fanboys. Are just insane, they are shameless, tasteless, with no self respect
Snoys buy $700 video game consoles with no games on them. Nobody has less self-respect than them.

>>149156900
The koopas had karts as well though. You could say it's turtlewashing.

>>149154145
>The movie should’ve followed the game lore of Mario&Luigi being native to the mushroom kingdom and copy paste the plot of any Mario RPG title.
Nintendo seemingly acknowledging the DIC lore is part of the reason people went to see the movie. Take that away and it would have performed significantly worse.

>Kids liked it
>Normies liked it
>Other boards like it
>/co/: IT WAS SHIT!!! I HATE IT!!!! WHERES THE CHILDREN TO JERK OFF TO?!?!?!?

>>149150401 (OP)
i thought it was ok but fast paced. needed like a few minutes more of runtime for help with that pacing.

>>149150401 (OP)
It was okay but it was too fast paced and had too much going on. Wish it was just Mario and Luigi going on a roadtrip style adventure.

>>149151613
I know this was intended as a joke, but Sonic the Hedgehog (June 1991) was already deep into development by the time Goku first went super saiyan in the manga(March 1991).

>>149150401 (OP)
After hearing Pratt in the first real trailer I decided I just wouldn't watch it.

>>149150401 (OP)
It was more of a Mario Kart/Smash Bros movie than a super Mario one.

mario and luigi need to kiss and suck each other.

>>149150401 (OP)
When is Mario 2

>>149158868
1988

>>149158864
In reality

I'd rather take girl boss Peach than Tenacious D Bowser

>>149150401 (OP)
I like the soundtrack. But ultimately? I still like it decently enough but Peach was written out of character. It really should have been Mario + Luigi as the highlight of the adventure. Having Peach feature so heavily wasn't a turnoff but, again, it's an OOC fanfic Peach so...eh. Seth Rogan should never, ever do voice work ever again. He doesn't actively try. He's awful. Cranky's voice actor was somehow more terrible.

I was blown away when I first saw it because I gave in to hero worship, literally. Movie is about a 5/10. Good, but there's room for improvement. I didn't like Mario never saving Peach. I didn't like Peach essentially never being a damsel. I disliked Luigi being sidelined. He should feature heavily and get over that cowardice bit. That should have been his entire arc in his film, honestly. Having Peach be so competent took away from that in my eyes.

This place talks as if we still had the 90's console wars.
Mario and sonic are bros sonce the 2000's
Why people are still on the sonic vs mario bamdwagon?

>>149150401 (OP)
I really liked the movie, my only complains are how luigi was almost irrelevant and appeared basically on the first 10 minutes and the final battle.
I still think peach looks kinda strange compared to the beauty she had on the games, people likes to complain she became a girlboss, girl power character, but she was actually a pretty down to earth character, she only wanted the mushroom kingdom to be safe, but beside saying mario was short, she never really tried to shit on mario, in fact she wanted to train him to help her, and helped him using power ups against donkey kong.
Everyone elses designs were fine and cool, specially bowser and kamek glowed trough the movie. It was cool to see dk and company, while it was cooler to know they made the blue shell koopa an actual character, i wish the games used him.
By far the best to me was the mario family, it was cool to see now we have an official design to all of them, glad mario father conserved his original hairdo.
I agree on illumination use of pop songs but we had a lot of mario songs on it.

>>149160242
>Why is the 4chan house of manchild arguing about mario and sonic
90% of posters here are two steps away from chris chan levels of delusion and debauchery

>>149153861
Peach has been keeping up with Mario since Super Mario Bros 2.

>>149160242
Sonic only ever stood a chance against Mario because of the "2cool4skool" Western marketing. Since then it's been carried by nostalgia and autists.

>>149150401 (OP)
It feeds in "WooOoOo rEfeREnCeS!!", but it was ok. It could be much worse. 7/10 tops.

>>149160242
>Why people are still on the sonic vs mario bamdwagon?
Nintendo are the big bad right now and sega is doing """good""" with sonic so people are trying to bring back the rivalry, even sega's marketing is interested in the idea

>>149161051
>Nintendo are the big bad right now
I get the Jewish prices and being anal about copyrights and piracy, but how is Nintendo actually bad? Their stuff mostly has a lot of quality, talking about games specifically, everyone loved to shit on the wii and switch for being "gimmicks" but ironically they were so successful even Playstation, steam and Xbox made their own versions.
No bros, I'm not trying to make a fanboy war, im genuinely curious why Nintendo is seen as the bad guy now, I want actual non biased nor fanboy shitposting replies.

>>149161220
pretty much just increasing their prices, ignore that most companies have been hiding their true price behind micro transactions and "deluxe" editions for years now, its just easy to bandwagon on hating something, especially if its a company that became massively rich after making a lot of successful products. a lot of people WANT things to fail because posting about it and watching others talk about it is cheaper and easier.

>>149150401 (OP)
It was fine, and forgettable. it was a very "safe" kids' movie and for the life of me I can't even remember half of it

>>149154265
>>149160393

>>149161431
That's hilarious, why did he think funky was on the movie in the first place?

It's weird how Sonic had a whole trilogy with a 4th movie in development, but Mario only had one in all of this time.

>>149150910
I accept your concession.

>>149161431
kek

>>149161220
Where do you been for the last decades? Which rock?

>>149158907
>Reino del Reves

>>149150401 (OP)
It was good. I enjoyed it.

>>149161678
Again

>I watch it in the theater, and I love it
>And then I watch it again, and I love it even more
>Gun behind back

>>149150401 (OP)
>Pop music instead of an original score

>>149161659
Explain it, to me please.

It was ok, not great.

>>149150401 (OP)
WE'RE THE MARIO BROTHERS AND PLUMBING'S OUR GAME

>>149150401 (OP)
It sucked so much. I hated Peach in this movie.

>>149150401 (OP)
Luigi is MUCH more handsome!

>>149154274
Not those dudes but I'll say this, any story that's all about What If The Hero Is Rejected is shit. I hated that Mario OVA and to this day refuse to watch it because I hate that Peach rejected Mario. And worse this Peach rejects Mario bullshit took forty years but it happened in Mario Odyssey.

For the next Mario game if the story is Mario has to rescue Peach I will not buy it and hope that future game fails. Mario in the official Nintendo games owes NOTHING to a bitch who already rejected him. And if Mario still rescues her from Bowser or whatever for no valuable compensation like money and gold then that makes Mario a fucking Beta Lose Simp. And if that's the direction Mario's games will take then to HELL with Nintendo.

I will never respect subversive trash like that. This is also why I in advance reject the Live Action Zelda movie because its bound to be shit. And don't get me started on how Nintendo is probably going to do other hideous things to their properties. More shitty feminism, more bumbling emasculated males, more shit.

You know, when people say Nintendo is the Replacement Disney I say, that doesn't mean squat.

>>149150416
The sad thing about the Sonic Movies is they are......about to get worse.

The new fourth movie is about using Amy to spam Hollywood Feminism Shit. I already refused to see that shitty movie Bad Guys because of Feminism bullshit and hope the sequel fails. And same to this fourth Sonic Movie due to Feminism. I've had it with the Jewish Spam of that shit for many years now. I hope Jews are killed for funding Feminism.

>>149150401 (OP)
It was ok. Really didn't like how Luigi pretty much did nothing the whole movie and never really built up to anything either. Kept thinking the whole time he'd be helping to break everyone out of the prison or something, anything, but he just stayed behind bars the whole time.

>>149151032
Yes and the Sonic movies did their best to do almost nothing from them and just shit all over. They weren't terrible or anything but fuck they may as well have not even bothered trying to tie into the actual story Sonic had and just went fully original.

>>149150939
Jack Black's shitty voice coming out of Bowser's design was awful that was simply Po from Kung Fu Panda. Not Bowser. And his voice is too high pitch to be Bowser.

And I hate how EVIL they made Bowser in this movie. He was going to kill all those people he kidnapped as a sacrifice to his wedding. In Mario Odyssey Bowser kidnapped people for his wedding but NOT to kill them. The Bowser from his illumination film if the writing was decent would have gotten killed off exactly like the live action Bowser from the live action Mario movie. Being too evil should mean a villain gets killed.

>>149150401 (OP)
it exists i guess

>>149154280
The results were still lousy. The only good thing is that after making a sequel to this Mario movie illumination and Nintendo are breaking up. Nintendo has their own domestic Japanese animation studio they are training right now so they are going to make their own animated films in the way that they want.

>>149150401 (OP)
Honestly, the cast reveal was more entertaining than the actual movie

>>149150401 (OP)
It was decent and a fun time. There was way too much happening and not enough emotional substance to be a memorable classic though. Hopefully the sequel is better.

>>149161584
Animation takes way longer in development.

Bland and generic, I wasn't expecting much from bing bing wahoo: the movie but it was painfully boring. I kinda wanted something like this as a mario movie when I was a kid.
https://youtu.be/JpBGRA6HHtY

>>149150401 (OP)
It was only okay, but I'd wanted more. It didn't feel classically Mario, despite having so much of the visuals from it. Mario wasn't as emasculated as most male leads nowadays, but you can tell Illumination wanted Peach to be the real hero, and really badly. Nintendo didn't fight back hard enough on that.

I kinda wish they'd made Mario more of an upright boy scout role model. Think Superman except he's resourceful instead of powerful.

I also did not like so many celebrity voice actors, as I heard them more than I heard the characters. The only one that fit was Jack Black as Bowser

>>149154280
>woke
So Peach was going to be more of a girlboss?

>>149151250
If only they'd show the concept art that Nintendo apparently did years ago.

>>149150401 (OP)
The part where it lost me was the Mario vs Donkey Kong fight. No, it wasn't the licensed music. No, it wasn't Seth Rogan.

It was the mini-mushroom.

Its use in the fight was all wrong. It's played as a skit to laugh at Mario for a few minutes while he scrambles for a better power-up that makes it easy to outplay DK. It should have been the tool he won the fight with.

Mario has three iconic traits as a hero: brave, hearty, and resourceful. Most people who play the games will agree on that. Being shrunk down to the size of a pea against a strong ape would have been the greatest test of that. Yes, the mini mushroom is the weakest power-up, and should remain so, but subverting the rules is what makes a hero charismatic. It's easy to win when you have the power star carrying you. It's hard to win when you have to make the most of a bad hand.

Mini Mario could have been testing DK's patience. He could have been making leaps and surviving falls that no other power-up could. He could have gotten under DK's skin, luring the ape into hitting himself or breaking the rails he stood on, and triumphing in an upset that leaves the cynical crowd unable to deny his worth.

Yes, Cat Mario wins the fight normally, but that's not enough. It tells us that Mario when in a bad situation is just going to let himself be a punching bag. That's not what heroes do, so Mario shouldn't have either. Let the flea beat Goliath.

>>149161431
This is the only time a Letterboxd review made me chuckle.

It feels limited, Spider-verse and the Lego movie have become over rated but the Mario movie needed something that got to the core of the character.

Worse is the fact that Luigis barely plays a role in the plot and we're suppose to care.

>>149151250
They were nice. The payoff with the dad's pride was great, especially since he's voiced by Charles Martinet.

I rather liked the scene afterwards with Mario trying to forget his stress with a video game. I imagine a lot of people in the theater related to that.

>>149163946
Ick.

>>149158683
Anon Super Sonic didn't appear until Sonic the Hedgehog 2.

>>149150401 (OP)
I refuse to watch it. Not because it might be bad or something. But its because its pandering to a Zoomer audience and I'd feel embarassed to watch it. It would be the equivalent of watching the Emoji movie.

Pretty good, best vdieogame movie, but that's not a high bar. Didn't care about Chris Pratt Mario because i watched it dubbed. Miles better than the Sonic movies, since those fucking suck when they don't involve the CGI critters, qmd the plot of Sonic wanting a dad is weird and i don't like it one bit

>>149163923
Sperg found.

Kamek dressed as Peach sure made me feel something...

>>149157620
Nobody except a few nerds care or remember about the DIC cartoons especially out of the US, it would have performed the same.

>>149160076
This, you can just feel Illumination trying to put as much woke shit as possible and Nintendo saying "no that's retarded". Peach never feels in any danger and doesn't even have a character arc despite being so heavily featured. She just takes space. Even Mario's "arc" is botched because he barely interacts with Luigi, they just beat Bowser at the end with the Mc Guffin and that's enough for their family to respect them apparently.