#super mario bros critical

[technicallydelightfulpenguin]

Look how they massacred my girl Stella.

"All what Stella wanted to do is throwing parties and gossip with her friends and everyone hated her for it , god forbid a woman have hobbies."

Submitted by @fromdusttoashes

[cryptid--bunny]

Hi! Sorry for not posting art in a while! Work has me by the balls! Here's what my autism has been on for the past week, you can see the evolution of me studying bowser to yassifying him. I will not apologize.

[cremanata]

happy mario movie day! ♡

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[dragons-hoard-of-fandoms]

FNaF movie: beloved by fans but getting dunked on by critics who don't understand it

The Super Mario Bros. Movie:

[peachi-blossom]

Even more shows that have better color palattes than Hazbin Hotel

[pianokantzart]

Mario and the Incredible Rescue is mostly a nothing burger in terms of characterization, but here are a couple of bits that I liked:

He be pining hard. Also, my heart grows three sizes every time something confirms outright that Princess Peach is fantastic at her job as a ruler.

The Yoshis are very doglike in this book (positive). There's a moment later on where Mario momentarily breaks away from the group with Yoshi, and when they return Luigi and Toad are killing time by playing with the rest of the pack. Just a big candy-colored mob of friendly puppy-dinos who will also devour sentient beings alive if they're too mean.

Luigi's relationship with Toad in this book reminds me a lot of his interactions with the toads in the Luigi's Mansion series. I would not mind if Toad and Luigi developed this sort of dynamic in the movie canon somewhere down the line. Two more little moments:

[bridoesotherjunk]

This article is so fucking right. Go Off, king.

"With the enthusiasm of an underpaid retail worker, who just realized they have to clean the bathroom." Is an incredibly accurate way to describe Taylor-Joy's line delivery as Peach.

The article goes into several examples of films that still failed, even with A list celebrities in the cast and talks about films that succeeded and why they did. Mario was going to succeed no matter WHO voiced him, but we deserved to get a performance from someone like Charles Martinet.

People deserve to watch animated movies that aren't just a glorified "which celebrity of the week is it" guessing game.

I'd recommend taking a read through it. I will say I slightly disagreed with his take on Charlie Day as Luigi, because he seemed good, but yeah a voice actor would probably have done better. He even mentions movies I loved like Rise of the Guardians and how the movie still flopped even with a stacked cast.

[kogglyuffs]

silly blorbos <33

[strawberryamanita]

BBW: Big Beautiful Woman

BBM: Big Beautiful Man

BBL: Big Beautiful Luigi

[chloecherrysip]

As much as I mourn all the lines that appeared in mario movie trailers but for some reason, didn't make it to the finished product (RIP "I'm not afraid! I'd do anything for my brother!" YOU LIVE ON IN MY HEART ALWAYS AND FOREVER), I've been thinking about "I hope you told your brother how much you love him, because you're probably never gonna see him again" and the rest of that whole dialogue exchange in particular from this specific trailer and how much I wish we'd gotten that moment because I think it would have helped spotlight a vital aspect of Mario's character that the movie already does a REALLY good job with getting across in the first place: the way he communicates how he feels through action and acts of service instead of words!

(more under the cut because this got too long, haha)

Mario is usually a very quiet protagonist so this tracks with the games too, obviously, but even movie!Mario seems like someone who isn't overly verbose or who's especially eager to enter into heavy, feelings-based conversations (at least not without a struggle). Talking about his feelings might not come easy to him, and he maybe even forgets to say things outloud that to him, seem obvious. (Meanwhile, I think Luigi is always up for gushing about his favorite people (see the interrogation scene lol) and probably ends every phone call/text message exchange ever with "love you!" to Mario and his parents, to the point that he might accidentally say it to acquaintances and customers too on occasion, LOL).

So thinking about this exchange with Toad and how, even if the movie didn't acknowledge it past that point, this idea would be hanging over Mario throughout his journey hits harder because you can imagine him thinking: hey, when WAS the last time he told Luigi outright that he loved him that wasn't a distracted "yeah, me too" response to Luigi saying it first? Maybe it's been a long time. Too long. So long it's genuinely upsetting for him to realize! What if his brother doesn't actually know how much Mario loves him, because he does, he does so much, and he's been an idiot for going so long without saying the actual words and now he can't, he CAN'T and he would give anything in the world to go back and do things differently!

And of course, all this panic is totally unwarranted and even silly because I think Luigi knows like his own name how much Mario loves him. Because the audience watching this movie knows how much Mario loves his brother by that point! Mario never says the actual words - in fact, he never says anything particularly positive about Luigi, other than "you were great!" regarding the commercial in the very beginning - and yet it couldn't be any clearer!!! I think it's pretty impossible to come out of this movie (if you were paying attention in the least) not seeing that love plain as day in everything Mario does, down to the littlest things, because he is a man of action and that's how he expresses himself best!

You see it in how he shifts from mildly embarrassed to immediately Intense and Ready To Throw Down on a dime when Spike insults Luigi, you see it in how he pauses to open doors and create paths for Luigi to safely follow him through the construction site as he's parkouring, you see it when the dog becomes aggressive and Mario is just entirely focused on keeping Luigi behind him, pushing him out of harm's way, getting the dog's attention so it will attack him instead, etc. You see it in the warp pipe when his entire demeanor changes the second he realizes Luigi is in trouble, how he desperately paddles to reach him and grab his hand and comfort him about the situation. You see it in how his brother is front of mind for him at every point in his adventure and that's why he fights so hard to talk to Peach, why he agrees to the fight with DK, why he keeps trying even when things seem hopeless and no one believes he can do it. You see it written all over Mario's face during the reunion, every single little way he touches Luigi and brings him closer and checks in on him with crystal-clear relief and joy and gentleness!!! The "show, don't tell" aspect is just OFF THE CHARTS IN THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE because that's how Mario is. He's not so good at words and remembering to say them. When he loves someone, he wears that feeling, he lives that feeling in so much of what he chooses to do and how he interacts with the world, and while it's always good to say these things outloud now and then just to be clear everyone's on the same page (and I'm sure he does after the movie, haha), it doesn't make it any less meaningful. :)

[imagine-darksiders]

Considering when I saw it, everyone in the audience - children and adults alike - outright hollered their thunderous applause when the credits started rolling, I think it's safe to say whose opinion I value more.

[iguanastew]

The Smashsons 🍩

[askfoxythejokerfox]

proof movie critics don't matter

[thewither129]

No hate to OP, but im just now learning a lot of people dont actually know what “bowsette” is

Bowsette isnt “bowser but girl”

Bowsette is bowser wearing the super crown, a power up that turns toadette into peachette, who is basically peach in a toadette-style outfit

As soon as the trailer dropped, people made it horny, thus sprang forth a bunch of mario enemies and bosses as a sexualized peach, lead by the infamous bowsette. This spread far and wide to other IPs and characters

Theyre all named wrong too. Its always (name)+ette. The -ette suffix comes from toadette. Not peach. I guess “peacher” or “peachser” didnt have the same ring to it.

Anyway while it was a dumb and very obviously oversexualized trend, a lot of people have completely missed the point.

Again, its not “bowser but girl.” Its bowser as peach.

[magnetic-rose]

reblog for bigger sample size pls :3

[peachi-blossom]

Give me character who would be angry at Charlie for being incompetent and useless seriously this girl is utterly ridicilous

Here you go!

Starlow

TFA Ratchet

TFP Ratchet

Marlin

Sayaka Miki

Kyoko Sakura

Zooble

Ragatha

Pomni

Uzi Doorman

Sonic the Hedgehog

TFA Bumblebee

Paimon (Genshin Impact)

Lyney

Navia (again)

Mario

Luigi

Navi

Vanessa