I'm into it.Ĭhristian Donlan '"No," I thought immediately. Everything that Mario games have ever sort of suggested about the wider world feels like it's going to be on the screen here. This is why I showed the trailer to my wife saying, "Oh man, it looks just like Mario 3." I mean, it doesn't - Mario 3 is an 8-bit game that delivers a 2D world. Not the Mushroom Kingdom as it exists in the games, but the Mushroom Kingdom as it's existed in our heads since we started playing the games - the kingdom that the games could only hint at. What's weird is how much it looks like Mario.
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There's a Mario movie coming! And it actually looks like Mario! I had pretty much forgotten this film was on the way, so the trailer was kind of a double gift for me. Martin Robinson Kevin Michael Richardson's Kamek seems spot on. Rather than dreading the next trailer for the Mario movie, I'm quite looking forward to it. And Chris Pratt as Mario? Well frankly it's hilarious how little effort he's put into the character, though in truth that's better than some forced Brooklyn accent - and it's perfectly offset by how amazing Keegan Michael-Key's Toad is (I watched the trailer again this morning with my daughter and he had her in stitches) as well as Charlie Day's briefly glimpsed Luigi.Īnd now something funny has happened.
It was fine? Good, even! Leading with Jack Black's Bowser was a masterstroke, since a perfect alchemy seems to have been found between the School of Rock star and Mario's nemesis, while the Mushroom Kingdom looks simply incredible (and simply quite edible, really - Mario levels at their best look good enough to eat, as was the case here with what Illumination has done with Nintendo's world). So I sat down to watch it last night and. In my head there was a world before this trailer dropped and one after, because Nintendo would be forever changed once its iconic were put through the Hollywood mangler (not for the first time, sure - but the stakes feel immeasurably larger this time out).
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Silly because I care so much about a dumb fictional universe full of talking dinosaurs and mischievous mushrooms, and silly because I'm so damn invested in characters like Mario, Peach and Luigi. It's a bit silly, but I was feeling a sense of absolute dread ahead of our first proper look at the Mario movie. Manage cookie settings 'I was feeling a sense of absolute dread ahead of our first proper look at the Mario movie' To see this content please enable targeting cookies. One last thought before I go, that moment that Mario first found himself in the Mushroom Kingdom - was that an homage to Super Mario Galaxy's ending? I guess they made introductions between the clips shown)! Or even, Peach! Does this mean that this take on Nintendo's games is going to be an origin story for the brothers? And, if that is the case, where did Mario come from? Did he get sucked into that green pipe against his will? Or was there some otherworldly aura calling out to him that made him feel compelled to explore? I have a lot of questions, and I am looking forward to finding out more in the future. So, Mario doesn't seem to know the Mushroom Kingdom in this film! Or Toad (although he knew Mario's name. Back to that thing that caught my attention. As such, I am reserving any judgement about Pratt's take on Nintendo's beloved icon as I do not think there is enough to base my opinions on as yet. The one thing that really caught my attention about Mario himself however, was not his voice as, despite Pratt and Nintendo both hyping up how he will sound in the fim, we didn't actually hear all that much from the moustachioed hero. Meanwhile, while it was more Luigi's Mention than Luigi's Mansion, I loved the small snippet of our green-clad plumber fleeing from an onslaught of Dry Bones. That was a rather feisty intro from the small shroom man. Movie and, I have to say, I kind of loved it.īowser looked like an absolute Boss with a capital B making his volcanic and egotistical entrance, the attempt at the penguins to defend their icy palace made me laugh, the koopa henchmen were as imposing but also as unthreatening as they are in the games (had slightly hoped to see one curl up into its shell and scoot back and forth across the ice, but you can't win them all - I am sure we shall see some shell scooting in the film itself) and the Mushroom Kingdom looked absolutely jam-packed and beautiful.Īs for Toad, he is quite the fire-cracker in this adaptation. Chris Pratt, who assured us this trailer would blow our minds, we finally got the new teaser for Illumination's upcoming Super Mario Bros. So, after a lot of hype from a certain Mr. 'Is this going to be an origin story for the brothers?'
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