#but overall i liked it. charlie day is a really good luigi imo

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just saw mario movie and . well i am the type of guy who sees a movie and goes “that was a good movie” 99% of the time so i liked it. also bowser had bisexual lighting at one point

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I am not the first person to say this by far but somehow Mario was the most boring character. And I mean hell I know in canon he's supposed to be the sort of generic guy but he still has this chill aura about him like you could hang out and be buddies. This guy is just nobody. Who is he. Why is he here

The whole thing felt...almost comically short. There were like three scenes that went on way too long and then everything else needed more time to develop. Mildly funny in how ten seconds he automatically goes 'oh okay fantasy mushroom land no need to question or be weirded out by it sure.' Why was he so stunned and confused by the warp zones, they were like the most mundane-looking system of pipes ever.

I'm usually pretty forgiving about pop music being used in these kinds of movies, it's corny but bearable. Something about this one felt so much more jarring and it confused me greatly. Yes, 'Take on Me' is one of my favorite songs, why is it here in a scene about a monkey driving a go-kart.

In a bizarre way the character I was most disappointed by was fucking *Toad.* I actually thought what they were trying to do was neat, the voice is different but this was the one case where it made pretty good sense since he's a single toad out of an entire species, of course he'd have his thing going on. With how he was introduced as an adventurer I really thought he was going to be some sort of Captain Toad-esque character whose personal arc was either going to be about distinguishing himself as an individual from the rest of the toads or to overcome the sense of timid cowardice that the toads were shown to generally have. I thought they were gearing up for a character arc and he was literally pointless outside of his introduction scene.

Peach didn't get to do enough but I did adore that her first interaction with Mario was throwing him over her shoulder. I know a lot of people were raising a fuss about her getting 'girlbossified' but personally I thought they did a good balance of making her elegant and letting her kick ass.

Also, again, I know I am not the first person to say it by any stretch, but man Luigi was actually really good. Sure his portrayal differs a bit from canon, but I choose to interpret this as an adjacent continuity ala the Paper Mario or Mario RPG series. It's got the fundamentals and does its own little twists. I'm not familiar with much of Charlie Day's work but he brought an appropriate level of cartoonishness without going overboard. Mario calling him 'Lu' is one of the few charm points for his character because imo that would sound really weird in Martinet's voice, but it feels fitting for this iteration. I don't know how serious Day was about making a Luigi's Mansion movie but I'd be delighted if they did and not just because I like the series, I think it'd be fun to see more of his version of Luigi.

Punch-Out!! Punch-Out references!! I literally shrieked. I hope I can find screengrabs because I only caught a little bit and I hope there's more I missed. I am a tiny betta fish and Nintendo is feeding me little crumbs

I didn't understand the ending whatsoever. I think part of it is because of the movie's shortness, but still. Kinda confused

I still don't know how to feel about this movie overall. Very weird.

Watched the Mario movie since it was on streaming and I think my most general summation of it was that is was weeeeeird

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Mario Movie Stuff

Reading on twitter people's reactions to the Mario Movie is wild man. There's people out there who were down on Chris Pratt's performance before who've somehow been won over with the new trailer??? Very strange to me. Like the whole concern when he was announced was that he was just going to do his regular voice, he assured us he wouldn't, and then like trailer one happend and we heard a little bit and it was not far from his normal voice and now two happens and it's literally just his voice. If that's his fault or Horvath / Jelenic's fault I don't know, but it's not an exciting performance from what I can tell.

People seem to really like Charlie Day's Luigi and hearing it now I'm not sure I dig it. Something is off about it. I had confedence when I heard him being cast but I'm waivering a little bit.

Jack Black sounds much better in this trailer IMO. I came across one comment that seems to think that Jack Black is just doing his regular voice and like bro what? Go watch Kung Fu Panda and tell me that he sounds like Bowser at any point.

Keegan-Michael Key is I think the stand out amoung the celebrety cast. (Granted Key, like Pratt, has done a pretty good chunk of voice acting before so it feels a bit off to call it stunt casting) Outside of Pratt, Key was probably the most out-of-left-field casting and outside of one line in the pipes TV Spot ad I dig everything he's doing. A friend likened his Toad to the Super Show Toad and I can feel that a bit.

Anya Taylor-Joy is fine. There's not really a set voice for Peach, so there's not a lot of expectations there. Her characterization is fun. I like girlboss Peach. I want more of that. Her in the motorcycle outfit with the halberd is ✨iconic✨

Toadsworth has been erased from history. The circle of advisor toads wear versions of his coat and one has a pair of glasses like him but I think he got retconned when Nintendo decided that Toads can no longer be interesting.

I've seen some folks who dislike the new Donkey Kong design but overall the response has been pretty positive towards it. I'm definitly in the "I like it" camp. It's a good blend of the Nintendo design with the Rare design. Reminds me of the Game Boy Donkey Kong art, but leaning slightly more towards Rare's design than that.

Curious to see how Seth Rogan does as DK. It makes sense in my head but after hearing Charlie Day I'm a bit concerned about it. I know this sounds kinda dumb but I do really like Takashi Nagasako's performance of the character over the years. Kirkhope did fine, but Nagasako really has a playfulness that I feel defines the character.

Afterthoughts

The Bowser x Luigi people are eating tonight.

Chris's Wahoo sounded bad. People are saying it was great, it was not.

That one polygon take of "Do we really want to hear bingbing wahoo for 90 minutes" acts like Charles Fleischer didn't go absolutly ham as Roger Rabbit which worked fine actually.