Kilau
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Have you seen the Super Mario Bros. Movie?
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I think I read it's coming to Peacock as soon as it leaves theaters. So those in the US with Xfinity should be able to stream it for free.
HoodWinked
Member
I'm in Europe, maybe I'm lucky and I can rent it from the PSN Store (used to do that several years ago quite often)
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poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
That's kind of weird. Do they have a major holiday coming up?
Wheeljack539
Member
Golden Week in Japan is coming up.
Beastclaw Raider
Banned
It was a fun movie and I enjoyed it so did my daughter, my son on the other hand said it was just ok, but he loves contradicting us -_-
Happosai
Hold onto your panties
Yessir. My feedback:
Good
- Fun to watch with the wife for the various Nintendo tropes
- Target is really going to resonate more with children. Teens not so much. Adults, maybe for some of the game-related gags or a niche of the fandom crowd
- Implementation: Animation was fine for 3D. No hidden socio/poltical signalling in the writing, scoring was great and fully orchestrated
So-so
- Jack Black can't help being the same immature Tencious D-like guy
- John DiMaggio, Carlos Alazraqui and Martinet had minor voice roles. Forgettable big name celebs just don't fit characters for a simple franchise like Mario. Those bigger names took the spotlite for billing of course...
- Simple writing does make it easier to mass market internationally. That said, you can't go in with expectations too. If that's your angle...John Wick: 4 is still in select theaters
Other than that, if you have the time give it a go. Or...wait for it to roll out on streaming platforms.
Good
- Fun to watch with the wife for the various Nintendo tropes
- Target is really going to resonate more with children. Teens not so much. Adults, maybe for some of the game-related gags or a niche of the fandom crowd
- Implementation: Animation was fine for 3D. No hidden socio/poltical signalling in the writing, scoring was great and fully orchestrated
So-so
- Jack Black can't help being the same immature Tencious D-like guy
- John DiMaggio, Carlos Alazraqui and Martinet had minor voice roles. Forgettable big name celebs just don't fit characters for a simple franchise like Mario. Those bigger names took the spotlite for billing of course...
- Simple writing does make it easier to mass market internationally. That said, you can't go in with expectations too. If that's your angle...John Wick: 4 is still in select theaters
Other than that, if you have the time give it a go. Or...wait for it to roll out on streaming platforms.
No for the same reasons I never saw Ready Player One. Its because I hate the idea of having my nostalgia coopted into a "passive" product and sold back to me.
In gaming it doesnt annoy me as much since at least you can still excercise agency via the gameplay. But to just sit there for 2 hrs straight going "ewww...i recognize this" and "remember that" rubs me the wrong way.
In gaming it doesnt annoy me as much since at least you can still excercise agency via the gameplay. But to just sit there for 2 hrs straight going "ewww...i recognize this" and "remember that" rubs me the wrong way.
Heimdall_Xtreme
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Gamerfan81
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Yessir. My feedback:
Good
- Fun to watch with the wife for the various Nintendo tropes
- Target is really going to resonate more with children. Teens not so much. Adults, maybe for some of the game-related gags or a niche of the fandom crowd
- Implementation: Animation was fine for 3D. No hidden socio/poltical signalling in the writing, scoring was great and fully orchestrated
So-so
- Jack Black can't help being the same immature Tencious D-like guy
- John DiMaggio, Carlos Alazraqui and Martinet had minor voice roles. Forgettable big name celebs just don't fit characters for a simple franchise like Mario. Those bigger names took the spotlite for billing of course...
- Simple writing does make it easier to mass market internationally. That said, you can't go in with expectations too. If that's your angle...John Wick: 4 is still in select theaters
Other than that, if you have the time give it a go. Or...wait for it to roll out on streaming platforms.
The bolded. I have to add before 1992 Aladdin, animated films almost never used big name celebs. Robin Williams was the voice of the genie in that film and he was hesitant to take the role, because he was worried that voice actors would lose out to real live action movie stars. He was hoping that wouldn't be the case, but he was wrong. Now very good voice actors don't get these parts that they might be suited for, it goes now to big name celebs. Just check out the voice actors in films like the Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), etc. They aren't movie stars, just established voice actors and people who worked on Broadway. Now check the voice actors after 1992 like Toy Story 1, Lion King 1994, etc. What do you see? Big name recognizable movie stars.
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Happosai
Hold onto your panties
To be fair too, not all big named celebs like Robin Williams hurt the movies they voice acted in. They fit the roles and sometimes exceeded. However, the majority (especially today) are not attached to the role as you'll see at a table reading with real voice actors. They can't identify with fictional cartoon characters of which they have no interest. But they add some effort for the large salary and royalties which minor VAs could only dream of seeing.
Side note too on Robin Williams...he was a fan of animation genuinely had interest in the voice role. Great example with little Mermaid though. Let's not forget Sharon Stoner (animation writer and VA) was the live model for Ariel.
I'll stop though as not to derail too much. The movie does hit it's target and wasn't boring as I've read from others who saw it. I'm a big retro animation buff too and can't stand CG movies beyond Shreck. So, I was surprised they pulled it off so well. Saw the trailer for that CG Spiderman movie... Yeah, Spiderman had all the key animators AWOL or they just intentionally did a crap job with that animation...
BearNecessity
Banned
Unfortunately I've seem some youtubers calling the whole peach anti-damsel in distress as liberal brainwashing.
E-Cat
Member
Yup. The movie releases on Fri Apr 28 in Japan, then Golden Week starts on Sat Apr 29, 2023 and runs through Fri May 5, 2023.
South Korean release will be on Wed Apr 26. That's weird, because I strongly recall that it was originally slated for May 5th. That would make sense, too, as May 5th is Children's Day (“red days”), when all the children get a day off from school. Anyway, that will contribute to a 3-day weekend on its second week.
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Dirk Benedict
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Yes... Let's take a fucking COLLECTIVE SOCIETAL DUMP RIGHT ON THE HEADS OF THE CRITICS~!
I Love to see it.
I Love to see it.
Happosai
Hold onto your panties
Really? I mean, didn't the Super Mario Bros. 2 game feature Peach as a playable character? Meaning, way back in the 80's you could play her as the 'anti-damsel in distress' till the end of the game. This is people reading way too far into this...there's no political/sociological whitewashing. I've seen (although I wish I hadn't) modern Disney movies where I'd be notioned to say that is the case. However, this movie was just writing a simple story that'd target children.
I guess too, being a fan of retro anime (before the whole thing became weeby); having strong female protags that weren't inserted as feminist icons worked. Hard to see someone watch the original Gunbuster OVAs, Project A-Ko, Gunsmith Cats or even the original Gunnm (Battle Angle). Female protags who were tough but without any type of messaging. Again, comparing Mario movie to that too is a bit beyond as well. The Mario Movie was much more simple and the writing.
Now, I'd change that take if we were talking a movie where Mario & Luigi both get abducted and a muscular Peach has to save the Kingdoms. That'd be a step closer to modern Disney.
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
The US version did.
But the idea of Peach being a leader is liberal brain washing is just people trying to hard to find stuff to complain about. The extremes are always the problem. I'm conservative, but for the most part I just want to be left alone, and do not care about the culture wars.
TerribleAtThisGame
Member
Just saw it on the weekend. I thought it was surprisingly charming, fun and enjoyable all around. I saw it in Brooklyn and people had a shitload of fun with all the emphasis on Mario being from here and all that. Also had two 5 year olds with me and they fucking loved every second.
Kagoshima_Luke
Gold Member
Just watched this and was honestly pretty disappointed.
Some issues right off the top of my head:
Some issues right off the top of my head:
- Peach looks somehow weirder than the other characters. Like, generic spunky CGI gal #587
- Almost no funny scenes that weren't in any of the trailers
- Most scenes seemed like set up to get in some Mario game reference (i.e. the Toad guards and your princess is in another castle). Just felt forced
- Mario hardly seemed like the hero. Seriously, he was worse than many others at pretty much everything
- No spoilers, but whole ending sequence fell flat
