Official Discussion - The Super Mario Galaxy Movie [SPOILERS]

*it's always sunny theme plays*

"Somehow. . .  " Eh forget it. 

Same. Thought I saw Captain Falcons ship too

Love the Pikmin appearance with their Captain Olimar rocket. Thought that was adorable.

You did

Does he commit tax fraud though? That’s the only crime I want Yoshi committing.

The fact that he was a full grown sentient man that could only say Yoshi like a pokemon made the parts where they ride him wierd.

My boy had a nice day out in NYC and nobody questioned it

And then gave a bigger role to a character not even from Mario at all?

Really should have just done World and saved Galaxy for the 3rd. Its a clear and easy progression. Use Daisy if you need another princess for this one. Can still use Bowser Jr in this one and escalate with galactic power to make him more a threat.

And the paintbrush is stronger than this super powerful Rosalina that can melt stars just like a Death Star

I mean, the title and maybe 40% of the plot is Mario Galaxy, but it's pulling from a bunch of other games, too. The "final boss" is literally that realistic dragon from Mario Odyssey.

She did nothing in the Galaxy game either

I agree. Call me pretentious, but in a post Lego Movie world I just can’t really accept the argument that these kind of mass market IP driven kids movies have mediocre stories by definition. There is just no reason at all the Mario movies couldn’t have had emotional, engaging, well written stories. It was my biggest disappointment with the first movie and I was really hoping they’d spend more time on the writing in the sequel. Guess jokes on me for spending my money to see it opening night and contributing to the cycle lol.

It makes me think of the filibuster from Parks and Recreation where Patton Oswalt just talks for ten minutes straight about a Star Wars movie where more and more Marvel characters keep turning up

Pretty much describes the 1st movie, too,

If you haven’t already, check out “A Fox in Space” on YouTube. Not official, but one hell of a passion project.

They need villains. I’ll be shocked if they don’t show up. Bowser is getting redundant and his character was all over the place

I really hope they do some great casting for Wario/Waluigi and write them as good villains. They have the potential to be hilarious if done right.

kinda surprised they didn't do a Wario and Waluigi stinger.

Barebones means at least everything is justified because of a main arc and it's just not anymore interesting than that. But when I got to the latter half I started to feel like there stopped being a narrative because I was zoning out. That will happen when I'm waiting for a follow through for something but it's taking too long but here it feels like it never "got" to what it seemed to have set up. A paperthin plot is at minimum an ok movie but I literally felt like they only wrote the movie half way because it got shoved out for these mandated events that had to happen by the time the movie ended.

Also, Glen Powell nailed it as Fox McCloud, when I was watching the movie I was like, "Damn! This guy is excellent as Fox, I can't wait to see him again"

i don’t know why would you spoil something like that ~~3 days~~ a week before the movie is in theatres?

It took me back to circa 2012 Nintendo where they would spoil *everything* in trailers, including late-game reveals. Not the resurgence I would've wanted but arguably the one we deserve.

Was anyone else expecting Mr Game & Watch to hit a 9 when he pulled out the hammer? Honestly was a bit disappointed it wasn’t that haha

I wanted bowser to save Rosalina and sacrifice himself as an act of redemption. But alas we got dry bowser “the skull king!!”

What I took away from it is that Bowser was willing to give up his past antics for a new way of living up until Bowser Jr showed him the dream he and his father envisioned since he was a child. That dream and finally being able to be close with his son and temptation of power overcame him. He couldn't resist such belonging when he's dedicated so much to reach that purpose. Seeing his son making it for him convinced him all the more to trade in his newfound growth for an old founded desire. Not excusing him of course but it never came off to me that Bowser wasn't going to at least be compelled by the idea in some way.

So long gay bowser

I literally gasped when I heard him speak because it 100% sounded like that lol. No clue how no one heard the same in production and went “maybe we should have he re-record that line” lol

I THOUGHT I HEARD THAT TOO

I HEARD THAT TOO. After that line delivery there were tons of murmurs and giggles in the audience and I heard one kid relatively loudly tell his friend "no yeah I heard it too" which led to more giggles from the audience.

That and what looked like a kaizo mario level with jr putting ridiculous objects as traps for peach and mario

He specifically requested that role lol

Apparently cuz he asked nicely lol

Because "Donald Glover is Yoshi" was a headline that got a couple more people into the theatre. That's why they hire expensive celebrities at all, instead of talented voice actors.

The few non-Mario IP Nintendo cameos really makes them doing Zelda live action a confusing choice.

While everybody is asking for a "Smash Bros Cinematic Universe" which has been talked to death. I'm just sitting here thinking of how much potential the Star Fox franchise has to getting adapted into a fun and energetic animated film series. The [Nintendo Power Star Fox comics](https://imgur.com/gallery/star-fox-nintendo-power-comic-by-benimaru-itoh-5Vvlb) released in 1993 managed to flesh out the game's universe and characters before it was retconned by SF64. It even introduced Fara Phoenix, the first female Star Fox member predating Miyu and Fay from Star Fox 2 and Krystal. It would be a decent companion piece with The Bad Guys films in terms of being more action-packed. I could see either Dreamworks of Sony Pictures Animation being the perfect fit to adapt it. Nintendo if your reading this, please put the 1993 Star Fox Comics back in print like you did with "Super Mario Adventures"!

Seeing Fox and the original Star Fox team on the big screen was a very surreal experience! Man, the Internet would had a field day if Krystal alongside Miyu and Fay from Star Fox 2 were included.

They didn’t spoil Mr. Game and watch!

I was in a full theater. If they didn’t spoil fox, I’m sure I would’ve heard a huge applause. Barely anyone flinched when he showed up since we all knew

Yeah, I want a Star Fox project with that 80's anime style.

With Slippy getting dunked on with his N64 sprite XD.

It felt like Super Smash Bros, the movie.

This movie was made for TikTok. It's basically a series of 2-5 minute sequences that have little to no bearing on each other.

Tbh it made no sense why Mario and Luigi didn't go with Peach in the first place.

My thought process was Mario was just barely escaped bowers jr, he knows Peach is going to recuse Rosalina, so she’s probably gonna need help

Yep! Also they make a big deal of Wart getting in contact which led to nothing.

>The writing felt missing. Agreed, in a very literal sense (there were long stretches with no dialogue where there really needed to be), and not something you should reasonably be saying about a sequel to one of the highest grossing animations ever. It's like they knew they didn't need to bother with a decent script or story, that the brand name would just carry any old c*** they shat out.

The writing was missing. Things just happened for the sake of happening. It also felt weirdly disjointed. Like this is a hacked together version of another Mario movie.

The movie ended so abruptly it was kinda jarring

That sister moment was not earned. Chatgpt writing

Glad someone mentioned the action. Sure even the fights were reference-galore, but they were REALLY creative at mixing in a ton of different moves and power ups spread across the games. Hell, we got Game and Watch's Up B falling animation lol.

Yeah, one of the most positive aspects of this movie was they let the score shine and helped our movie watching experience.

Same as the previous film's end tease with Yoshi, they're just confirming that Daisy will be in the next movie.

Movie was made for marketing

Honestly the people who try to negate criticism because "it's a kids movie" are f****** stupid. Not only do kids deserve good, well-written movies, some of the most impactful movies ever made are kids movies. Don't excuse mediocrity just because "it's not for you."

There’s an insane amount of nostalgic references for gamers, so many I’m sure I missed a lot. Shame they couldn’t work in a good way for those references to show up organically

Yes, I was thinking of this exact line while watching! It's just random stuff happening and you don't have a reason to care.

True, the biggest take away for me was just pacing, didn’t”t feel like “and then and then and then and then” it was more like “andthenandthenandthenandthen”

I was literally thinking of this during the castle abduction scene. And then and then and then with no cause and effect. No one talks to each other in a meaningful manner in this movie….

I can’t believe Mr. Game & Watch is f****** dead

Yes. Hopefully with better f****** writers.

Eh. Shrek did it first. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That fight scene was actually pretty cool lol

And then what little screen time she does get, she spends it being tortured and imprisoned. She doesn't even get her just desserts at the end, just a nonsensical hand touch with her long lost "sister" that saves the day I guess. Bad movie for Rosalina fans :(

Way to retcon the Mario galaxy storybook they even brought back to retail. Also why did Rosalina throw a baby into the warp pipe instead of going with her

I can’t picture Charles Martinet saying that. “Over my-a dead-a body! YAHOO!”

On the other hand, we do see Luigi's soulless corpse in the Simon Belmont trailer for Smash

Honestly it kinda feels like no one has a character arc in this movie except bowser, who flip flops very unnaturally imo, and maybe debatably peach? I find it really puzzling that Bowser's obsession with peach, the driving force of his actions in the first movie, plays no relevance in his actions/conflict this movie and is only brought up for two gags. I understand not wanting to do the same thing but you can't just sweep it under the rug when you made it his **entire personality** in the prior film. How did it never come up between him and Bowser Jr.? Even if they don't want to redo the whole "Peach is your mama" thing from sunshine, it's a pretty big elephant in the room he should address before deciding to go ahead **and just try to kill her** along with Mario. The character writing is just so weak...Even Fox didn't feel like himself. Falco is the cocky ace pilot. Fox is the cool-headed, responsible leader trying to live up to his father's legacy. Sure he can have fun from time to time but idk he came off weird in the movie.

So he was talking for an hour and 38 minutes straight?