Well, he gave a win to Luigi being supportive of Mario in the face of Bowser's intimidation even when he wasn't there, so I'd say it counts well enough.

I'd add an extra win (or 20) for, at the last minute, not just Mario, but both Mario Bros. taking the Super Star and beating Bowser with it. It reminds you that this isn't "The Mario Movie", it's *"The Super Mario Bros. Movie"!*

@@Draezeth Damn straight, bro!

My favorite lines in the movie.

I'm 5'2" and I don't know how to feel either.

wow Mario is taller than me

Maybe you have never been depowered

oh my god its bramblestar334 real ?!!??!?! anyway. feel honored maro

I’m 5’3 so a tiny bit taller than the Italian plumber

What? Really? That's awesome!

14:29 YOSHI CinemaWins: Yes Me: DOUBLE YES

Great point

​@PrideEepy64 I'm triple yes

Didn’t need to cry over a big bro being a sweetie pie over his brother

My family always shouts HEYO but the thing is we are definitely not Italian 😅

They are from Brooklyn

​@@jacobschiller4486 Yeah. 3rd generation Italian-Americans living in Brooklyn. Still Italian.

Glad they didn’t go cannon

Get out of here cringe sonic fan.

Too bad Luigi is completely off to the sides for almost the entirety of the movie, to be a "damsel in distress." Yay...... 🫤 (You can tell I fucking hate this movie)

@@pitaalfereti58 well that’s kinda how he is in the games, a ghost.

@@animodev2099 So what? They could've have at least done something interesting with him, like him trying to come up with a plan to escape Bowser's castle. Y'know, something that would warrant him to be in the movie, besides him being filler until the last 15 minutes of the film? I swear, this movie juggles all these characters and barely develops them at all. (besides Bowser)

Think that’s a good point. And now. They could easily have them team up for most of the movie in the sequel as they go save the mushroom or whichever kingdom they base the sequel in.

My new headcanon is that Peach actually clears the courses until the very end because a toad got kidnapped and they had just reset their defenses to try and stop you

absolutely. also any ghibli movie would be awesome

​@@plootyluvsturtle9843 that's gonna be a problem, because Ghibli would block him and give him a copyright strike

That movie is beautiful. Tone, visually, and songs.

Why would he do that? It's a Christian story and speaks to morals that he likely doesn't agree with, considering how political he gets in so many of his videos. He's probably complain about Val Kilmer playing a Hebrew.

YES PLEASE

And that kinda makes sense when you think about it! You can say Brooklyn and the Mushroom Kingdom are two entirely different universes with their own rules, and this is a great, subtle way to let us remind us of that detail.

Either that or he had so many Mushrooms his durability increased more maybe even giving him the same type of agility Peach has normally

yeah! and once he and luigi get the star, all his injuries vanish, like it healed him.

So power ups can absorb at least one hit before reverting back to normal (aside from the star) in the mushroom kingdom?

I heartfully agree!😁 The thing that caught my attention the most besides the references was the music and how well the composer orchetralized the original songs, and then of course it's Brian Tyler aswell!

@@stevetheweebgamer6939 they were brilliantly done, though I do kinda wish that the licensee music didn’t replace some of the original score

Absolutely magnificent, indeed. Here's hoping he'll stick around for the sequels.

And funny thing is if you go to the OST videos of it, most comments are about the Gusty Garden segment!

100%

SHIT U RITE

I love this

Thats so sweet. It's always amazing to get to share things you really care about

Also in Galaxy, it's been a fairly consistent part of 3D Mario for a while.

Even in 64

@@samuelchallis3420 so all 3D games aside from Sunshine, it seems.

@@sladelucas5531 guess so, haven't played 64 before and I was too young to remember galaxy

you can stomp on them in the 3D Mario games. not so much in the 2D games

On the left.

XD Wow. I wonder what they saw.

Kinda like how Luigi reacted to a maskless Shy Guy in Mario Power Tennis.

Also, at Peaches wedding, when she's walking out. A piranha licks its lips at her 😂

I remember there was a gameimg comic where it showed Shy Guys face and well it was terrifying.

I wonder if that's foreshadowing. 🤔

But then there’s fly through the mushrooms that don’t count as damage

Mini mushrooms can't take damage

Even the most recent Paper Mario game went into it with one of the mini sidekick characters.

​@@cometvaudin9496Rest in peace, Bobby...

It's weird considering other games show them being made in a factory, there are probably both sentient and nonsentient Bob-ombs

@@ballisticboo7808 They are sentient, but that doesn't make them organic. Bob-ombs are made in a factory, sure, but that doesn't make their lives any less real than a creature born naturally. Like AI, except more explodey!

Sometimes when they blow up, that's it for them, sometimes they just detonate and get covered in soot. Personally, I prefer the idea that they don't necessarily die when exploding. Like in Paper Mario, and Thousand Year Door.

This still confuses me. Even if it wasn't expected to be, what in the world did people expect? I've seen nothing but poor adaptations that are just spearheaded by people who have no idea what made the original so beloved and think they can do better, resulting in mess after mess that resembles the original in name only. This movie not only fully accepted all of its weird, goofy, fun aspects of its source material, but it looks almost exactly like what I dreamed a Mario movie would be like. There's not even a need to justify a "basic plot." It's just modern western culture that seems to be always expecting cinematic worlds that "make sense" or have some kind of sci-fi explanation when I never gave a crap about why Mario's world has floating blocks, power ups, a random road in the sky made of rainbow, etc. Evidence of this is the shift in explaining super powers in all the modern super hero movies and shows. [Fake science term] particles", meta-humans, genetically modified [animal], etc. Like, those types of explanations have existed before, but that need to make sure the audience understands "how" it works almost exactly, was not as prominent a few decades ago as it is today. So, no, in my opinion, it doesn't even need defending in that "it's shallow but that's OK." It's not even shallow. Its narrative structure follows the classic hero plot. It has a surprising number of hidden little lore drops and makes sense out of things that weren't even clear in the games such as why Peach is good at the obstacle course. Instead of being some Mary Sue, she is a human, more capable of fighting than the toads who are not warriors, and she grew up there, having lots of opportunities to practice, and her Toads are literally family to her. It's touching. That's just one example, but you get my point.

@@TayoEXE ........Woah. I respect your honest, thoroughly detailed opinion. But to be honest, i think the Mario could've been way better than it actually is. The LEGO Movie which came out almost a decade ago, not only follows the same basic Hero's journey plot line, but does it like 1000× times better, exploring themes of creativity and self-expression. While also being an amazing tribute to LEGO (I should know, as a hardcore fan), with sharp and hilarious writing, and beautiful animation. You can tell that not just the animators poured their blood, sweat, and tears into it, but *EVERYONE* working on the film did. If the movie about fucking LEGO minifigures can do this and more, why can't the Mario movie? They wasted 40 years worth of creative ideas to give us a bland cracker-fuck movie that does a disservice to one of gaming's greatest icons. But hey, that's my just overly long opinion. EITHER THAT OR I'M RETAR---

@@TayoEXE Something else than "Well that wasn't a total waste of money". That is what people expected but not what we got. They had an opportunity to make a truly great piece of cinema and we got something like this. And people like you still defend it

@@pitaalfereti58 lego movie has new herous, live action segments and star wars characters for like 15 seconds, try ever do that with mario

@@volvoman5262 Did I ever mention that? I said that if they actually tried, why couldn't they be able to make a Mario movie on the *SAME* *LEVEL* of *QUALITY* as the Lego Movie. Not to follow it 1:1.

Tried to say exactly this myself, think you did a better job

Yeah, Illumination, while they are known for making quality films like this, and the Despicable Me, Secret Life of Pets, and Sing franchises, they finally did a movie where there wasn't a damn fart joke, innuendo, or anything else cringy, so that's great! They actually took it seriously while still being funny!

And the most I cringed at

@@SweetCandyDragon Why?

@@SweetCandyDragon How dare you?!

i gut laughed when i first heard it in theaters XD i was NOT expecting it

​@@fanofyoshi2238 like, it's cringe in a good way. Cringe can be executed well if it's on purpose and be funny.

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I really wished they hadn't replaces his compositions with licensed music, huge misstep there

@@SpyderDragonDude I didn't replaced it. The licensed came first and they composed the original music for the scenes later. They then decided to keep some of the licensed music because they thought it fit the scene better.

Yeah, it really was clever! Just goes to show those people that shamed him that anyone could be small!

wait i found you

NGL, forgot he started the Pirates series and he only did the first

I second this

You’re wearing him down! Keep it up! I’m sure by week 200 he’ll cave.

Bump

That movie is an underrated masterpiece. I'm serious.

Yes, please! With either John Carpenter or Danny Elfman to do the soundtrack.

Biggest burn of the entire movie and I completely missed it on the first viewing!

Also when he "sits down" you can see King Boo phase through an annoyed Goomba

Left side

It really is the little things. Spike, their relatives, everyone seems to think Mario is a failure and they he's just dragging Luigi down with him. It's just so wholesome to see that despite that, Luigi willingly sticks with his bro because Mario was always there for him. It's a simple premise, but hits home with me and my own brothers.

I just wanna squish them, they look cuddly lol

@@thejaded 😆 Thank you! Yes! You get it, lol I just wanna squish them as well, they look so cuddly! I agree with you lol

How did you emoji like that?

​​​​@@FooBarBash yt emoji i think

The shy guys were amazing in this movie, they were cute and creepy at the same time

Hinting at them would make sense.

I was really expecting them to have a cameo in the beginning and be set up for later

To me, it feels like an homage to the 1998 Godzilla, which also ends with an egg among the ruins in New York.

I'd love to see them both in a potential sequel

Yeah, that may very well have been the damn problem with the crappy original Mario live-action film from 1993 and other bad video game movies, it wasn't even remotely faithful to it's source material, unlike this sheer beauty! The characters barely looked like their counterparts and looked way too realistic! Here, they actually look like the characters with far more detailed designs, and they actually do the games good in this movie too! The Sonic Movies also pay plenty of homage to the games, including the rings, areas inspired by levels, great human characters, and characters being true to the characters in the games in terms of personality!

Yeah... Cinema Sins can be arbitrarily prickly like that.

It’s deserved !

Not enjoying the fun and cynicism that is CinemaSins’ hatred of logos *DING!*

@@denmark_2172 To be fair, I've been a longtime fan of CinemaSins, but even I can't deny how overly nitpicky Jeremy can be in at least newer Sins videos.

​@@JBJblaze Jeremy when the movie has 0.023 milliseconds of logos: DING!

That's what I'm saying! It baffles me how nobody else gets this. The moment that Mario saved Luigi, I finally felt myself relax. I hadn't realized that for the whole movie, I was just tensing up because I was eager for them to be ruinited again. On an intellectual level, I know that Mario and Luigi care about each other, but it's hard to feel that through a game screen when there's no real narrative or dialogue. This movie sold me on them being *brothers* for the first time, and I loved that it did. In the future I expect to see them do more together, but I think this one handled it perfectly.

@@NovusIgnis I'm the youngest of three brothers. My brothers still mean the world to me despite all being so far apart, so Mario and Luigi's relationship is very relatable. Luigi is supportive of Mario even when others thought Mario was dragging his little brother into his mistakes, and he looks up to him because Mario was always there for him.

I also loved Luigi defending Mario and completely roasting Bowser with the "good taste" line despite being completely petrified of him. Biggest burn of the entire movie and it gives some credence to Peach's statement at the end about how brave Luigi truly is. On first watch I loved the movie but felt like they destroyed Luigi (my long-time favorite Mario game character), but on the second watch, I noticed details that bolstered him. Love this movie!

Definitely

"You have no right!" Sorry. Just remembered Dennis Hopper (from the live action movie) saying that over and over in Land Of The Dead.

​@bullsonparade171 YO! Dennis Hopper was President Koopa in the original Mario movie.

Hard to find anyone who _doesn’t_ dread getting Blue-Shelled while on _any_ Rainbow Road.

@@vidmanandrew09 True. I’ve definitely gotten better at staying on the track, but those dang blue shells are the bane of my existence on ANY course

Charlie Day said he wanted the latter, so who knows? We may get it in the future...

Oh my gosh i didn't realize how much I wanted a Zelda movie until you said it

So, rumor's are that Illumination is in fact in talks about doing a Zelda movie.

​@@Dot_Eleven And apparently Tom Holland is playing Link?

i'd rather get a Zelda anime series. those games are too big to fit in a 90 min movie. unless they adapt the first game, then it might work.

wow

I felt genuine fear and shocked out loud during that scene.

You know it's bad when my 53 year old dad, who had a grand total of less than 2 days playing Mario Kart says to me "I really don't like that thing..." I just laughed that even people who know very little about MK know about the damage it can do

Yeah!!

I'm pretty sure incels are still gonna be uncomfortable with Peach being a badass

Peach did admit that she got the obstacle course right away, but then justifies that it's because she grew up in this world, which makes sense, seeing how this world is all one big obstacle course. It is great that she doesn't look down on Mario and rather encourages his determination. Also, not having Mario and Peach instantly fall in love was a good way to address the vagueness of their relationship in the games and go beyond just hero saves damsel. They start out as mentor and trainee, then teammates who work together and become good friends who talk and support one another. This is the progress of a more natural relationship... which might even lead to something romantic overtime. And while Luigi could've used more screen time, I love that him and Mario were shown to be very close and supportive of each other as brother. It's shown that Mario and is willing to do anything to protect his little brother and Luigi, despite the odds, always has Mario's back. I love how they are in each other's thoughts even when they're separated, to when they reunite and hug and touch foreheads, it is so stickin' heartwarming, I cried. Also, their team up in the climax it's the most satisfying thing I've seen in cinema since the Endgame final battle.

She has shades of it, but also we see her mess up and fail too like another replier pointed out. I would have personally preferred if they leaned more into how she fits in Smash Bros. and the games cause that's more entertaining and would have set her apart from Mario and DK, but she wasn't that bad. Mostly cause I love thwacking people with random sports/cooking gear as Peach or hucking turnips at them. The bigger issue is they basically gave her all the traits that make Daisy unique so..how do they do Daisy now? More importantly though, they take time out of the movie to show that she's sweet and kind too. Like you said, their friendly chemistry is really sweet and helps to make the girl boss and Mary Sue elements more palatable. Not saying the movie should have been longer (its paced pretty perfectly at its current run time), but it would be nice if they show in the future movies just WHY the toads decided this alien girl deserved to be their princess cause they don't seem like the type to see a bad ass girl and think 'oh yeah, that definitely qualifies her as princess material'.

It is nice to actually see a movie that isn’t trying to say that women are superior to men and men are blumbering idiots. Peaches is plenty strong enough to defend herself, but she also knows her limits. When Bowser came for her in the kingdom, Peaches knew that she couldn’t take him on then and there and her citizens needed to get away safely. Also, I find it funny that she was turned into Elsa for a little bit. Blue dress and ice powers and such

I wouldn’t even say Peach was a bad ass I’d just say she wasn’t useless, and all together at the beginning it shows Mario is used to an obstacle course but he is used to the one he grew up in

"depressing optimism"?

It's actually called optimistic nihilism. Basically where you know things are going to hell, and you just wholeheartedly accept that you can't do anything about it. @@Heru_Iluvatar

@@Heru_Iluvatar For a nihilist, depression would be optimism.

@@gazelle_diamond9768For a nihilist, depression is depression because A = A and A can’t equal not-A. Plenty of nihilists are also just not depressed, so I’m not sure what nihilism really has to do with anything.

@@Leith_Crowther ...I'm... not even gonna argue...

I thought it was really fun too

@@Jermare Yeah but against 95% audience score... That is a huge gap between critics and audience

Yeah. It has its flaws sure, but its probably one of the best movies that this studio has made. I think it also comes down to expectations. Most people weren't expecting the Super Mario Bros movie to be a cinematic masterpiece, heck many probably had low expectations for it. Most probably just wanted a solid and fun story that respected the source material, and heck, the movie definitely delivered on that! Its a flawed but fun movie.

Yea this movies a blast

Important detail, because that only means in future movies we gonna get more and more unique character power ups. Now Imagine Donkey Kat.

I know it’s a miracle

Thank you. I was looking for someone to say that.

Hi. Im a princess peach main. Across all games.

Yes I smiled so much at each reference felt like my 7-11 year old self watching

Yeah. In the 2D games you generally cant stomp on the Piranha plants but in most 3D mario games like Super Mario 3D world, Super Mario Odyssey, and Super mario Galaxy you can stomp on them willy nilly.

I’m sure they’re happy as friends with the others bringing it up due to the setup the others assume.

Año?

Mario also plays the saxophone on the Mario 3D World soundtrack cover art

HOW COULD HE?

I was afraid i was the only person to comment on that, but here you are.

RIGHT?!