Speaker 1: Hell, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the five hundred
and fifty second episode of the geek Verse podcast. I'm
the peck pouper Tress. Now I'm joined by.
Speaker 2: The Protector of Peach Kirkland Patzer.
Speaker 3: I am the Chunky Dylan Muss the peaches.
Speaker 1: Peaches, peaches, Yes, Oh sorry, I didn't know how many peaches.
Yeah there was one. We're in there. My bad, but yes,
if you haven't guessed by our nicknames, Mushroom Kingdom, here
we are. We're finally here, you know, a Golden Geek
winner for most Anticipated Movie of the Year. It's definitely
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Speaker 3: For all the games I've played in my entire life.
Speaker 1: Good time, Yeah, you have to check YouTube because there's
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so you know, drop your rank even if you played
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Speaker 3: We're excited over here.
Speaker 1: Excited, yeah, Kirkin pats Or what did you feel about
this film? Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just right up right right.
Speaker 3: Out the hop.
Speaker 6: I think this that this was fantastic. I I I
had a really good time with this movie. I think
it has its issues for sure, but I still just
really got captured in this Mario universe and this this
movie made me want to just jump in and play
some Nintendo Mario games for sure. And I just coming
out of it with that thought and like just smiling
and just feeling very nostalgic about just yeah, like where
like I don't consider myself a huge Nintendo guy. I've
played Mario games here and there. I never owned like
the original Nintendo systems or anything like that, but just
watching this reminded me of like, man, Mario has just
kind of always been around in my life, Like like
early on in gaming, I remember just going over to
like aunt and uncle's house or something they had like
an nes or something and just playing those like classics.
So this really like hit me in the in the
heartstrings at moments. And I think there is some certain
character decisions that I just wish that they went in
a different direction with, So that's kind of like cloudy
my mind. But all in all, I really really enjoyed this,
and I'm I'm I'm I'm really happy that we got
this because this is just a movie that I feel
like I didn't realize how much I really needed. But
so yeah, I think it's fantastic. And if you're if
you're a big Mario and Nintendo fan, I think this
is definitely the movie for you. You're probably gonna be
seeing this anyways. I think everyone is going to be
seeing this movie. It just really had that effect. My
theater had good energy, for sure. There's lots of kids
and people dressed up and Mario Luigi costumes.
Speaker 3: It was oh my god. There was one kid just
screaming like the whole time. Just like he's commentary on this.
Speaker 4: Defense you went to an early showing I want why.
Speaker 3: Was that defend him in any way? What are you
talking about?
Speaker 1: Show footage of Dylan just.
Speaker 3: Shut the swear Whenever it got kind of quiet. There
was at least four to five kids talking at all times.
Speaker 5: What happened?
Speaker 6: Yea, When when I was in there, I was reminded
on like, okay, if if I, if I have the option,
I like to do the later showing. So just not
packed for for a bunch of kids in there. But
I don't know, I I got used to it.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 6: I was enjoying the ambiance at least, and luckily I
didn't have like too many obnoxious ones there was. There
was a cute little girl behind me that kept like
saying to her dad, like what was going on? I
thought that was kind of fun.
Speaker 3: I did that my dad. When I saw Return of
the King with him, I was like, here's all these
plot points. Someone definitely shushed me back in to write.
Speaker 5: I didn't show.
Speaker 2: Sure I was. I was dimidated, but so good times.
Speaker 3: For sure he gets the plot Yeah.
Speaker 1: Harsh as Yeah he as a parent, we don't let
our kid like they can talk to us quietly, but
don't be that parent. They get a couple, but then
you're it's on your theater etiquette to train your kid
early to like, you know, keep it down. It's not
a it's not an autorium now or anything like that.
Speaker 5: Right, are you toushing your kids?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I know what's going on. I know that's Mario.
Speaker 2: I grew up on this.
Speaker 1: You give them a little just like remember it's like
it's there's other other people and they're good Logan. The
first like two minutes was just like I think that's Mark,
Like just we had no, no, no, and then once
we did that, and then she's like, okay, she calmed down,
but she got out of her system and stuff like that. So,
mister Muss, other than the kids, how was your experience?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I wow, I loved this movie so much. It
was exactly what I wanted from it. It was just
a dumb, silly, fun adventure that looked great. The music,
oh my god, it was great. Even though there was
you know, some non Nintendo music thrown in there. It
didn't tell me too much. But yeah, I mean I
feel like there's things I couldn't it picked. But I
meant I was just grinning ear to ear. I had
such a good time, so many fun references in there
and all that. So I yeah, I don't think I
have a single negative thing to say. I loved it
so much.
Speaker 1: I'll go next because I'll leave Taylor last. He is
he always more positive one. I feel like now I
don't know how to preference this. I'm definitely the odd
man out here. Our press is that I still enjoyed
the movie. I think this is the way I can
say it is. The magic that I felt from the
trailers is not the same way I felt in the movie.
I don't think it reached to that level of it.
I think they made certain choices. And that's one of
the things I will never get reviews of Tim about, like, oh,
this story, it's like, I don't know what you expected.
It's a plumber that steps on goobmas and stuff like that.
This is no way like a negative view. It's not
a failing gray or anything like that. It just didn't
reach the heights I was hoping for. And there's like
a few little moments here and there. But I think
the best way I can describe it is if you
don't know if you're making a movie, what you usually
do is you write a treatment and that's kind of
like the bolt points of the plot, and then what
happens after you go and write the script. To me,
I don't think that ever happened. I feel like they
just wrote the treatment and that was it. They didn't
even bother writ in the script. I'm sure they did,
but that's what it feels like as far as just
like it moves very fast and not even a negative wag,
just as far as just there's not a room to breathe.
And even when this movie ended, it was a very like,
oh it's over, like it just like cut to black.
It's like, oh, that's odd. Like it feels like when
you watch a if you were to watch a Mario
game and just do the cut scenes, and if you
would think about a Mario game, there wouldn't be much
too right, But I think what's missing and sort of
I don't know, just some breathing. I think it's smart
of them marketing wise to make an hour and a half,
but I could have used a little more. I could
have used a little more character interactions, not a way
of like I don't need a character arc. I don't
need to deeper story, just some you know, there's some
things that even Peach and Mario talk about in certain
points of the movie and they just never talk about again.
It's like, oh, I guess we'll pick up on that
in a couple of years or so. So again, it's
nothing major. I think this is a it's a nostalgia fest.
If you love Mario, I think you're at least going
to enjoy this. It's pretty much just the last point
I would make. It feels like it's an amusement park
ride from Mario. It's like if you were to sit
in a trolley and they're like, we're gonna take you
through the years from Mario one to now, and you'd
see all these things from Kart and other franchise and
that's what's tied into and there's not much semblance of
a story, which that's fine. So and the other things
that just didn't work for me. I really really did
not like the license song. I think that's part of
the thing that killed the vibe for me, because just
like you know, certain actors appearing in certain franchises, the
second you hit ACDs, I go, I'm like, I don't
buy this. As Mario anymore. I'm kind of taken out
of it. And I guess for me too, which is
kind of odd because I find lots of the illumination
stuff more I guess the Despicable Me franchise stuff, like
their humor funny. I had none of the jokes. I
know it's a kid's movie, and I definitely feel like that.
I feel like this is way more kitty, way more
in the sense of, you know how Pixar has built
this reputation of like, oh you can enjoy it for
your family, but also for yourself or like put some boots.
I feel like this is full, like really leaned into
kids stuff and that's fine. And the humor for me,
it's just luckily they didn't do any illumination, like lots
of potty human stuff like that. Just just the jokes
weren't really landing with me. Nothing that I was like,
this is some of the worst writing, just not really
voice casts. I think did a great job. I don't
care what people say about Chris Patt. I think he
killed those mar I think they all did. I think
I had to stand out was probably Charlie days Luigi.
I think he just like nailed Luigi and stuff. But yeah,
I think you're gonna have an enjoyable time. This is
a movie that I could watch and like it. I
think there's some moments I really liked. I really was
appreciated of my donkey Hawn getting some good stuff in there.
So yeah, I liked it. But I'm definitely on the
lower tier of these ones, and I was expecting this.
I was hoping to come out just loving and be like, man,
I can't wait to see this again. Where abka, I'll
be fine to wait, like I don't need to see
in theaters again. I'll be fine for when the kids
want to watch it. Oh yeah, sure, but it's not
one that I have to like. When I saw Spider
Versus the first time, I was hoping for that type
of feeling and I didn't really get it here. So
mister Field, oh yeah.
Speaker 3: This the peach comes out with the ice. Oh yeah,
it's exactly what I thought.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so people, though I did not mute or
kick Taylor, Oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a true inn moment.
Speaker 2: I wanted an edit of this where he just turns blue.
It was just like totally frozen.
Speaker 1: Listen somewhere, you're gonna make that for us, We'll wait
for Taylor to come back. Yeah for a minor spoiler, yeah,
I know, trust that they did not say a certain line. No,
I was upset. I was a little bummed. But I
feel like when we saw the first trailer, I was like,
I bet that's not even in the movie because it
felt so fake. But a great father daughter moment I
had was at one point Toad said Mushroom Kingdom and
Logan just looked at it over it. We went like,
as I just say all the time, Yeah, it was
really focused. She just like registers I say that, and
then she was saying, mushroom Kingdom. Here would come like
all day after the movie. And that's what I say
I as a parent. The kids loved it. They had
a great time. Everything worked for them. They were like,
when's the next one out? When we got those end
creds like, they were fully So that's where that's where
I also felt like it was more kids movie too.
It's like it was a knockout home run for them.
So they completely enjoyed it. So because some movies even
kids just getting a little antsy, they're like asking for
more food. But when they finished their popcorn and they're
not asking for more. That's when you know, Okay, they're
into So they had a great time and stuff.
Speaker 6: So I left so hard just at myself. I was
the only one in the theater just giggling in that
moment because I just pictured Travis in his own theater.
Speaker 3: Just mushroom Kingdom, you weeko, with all the kids just
stand up, just so, all the kids rally behind you
as they're kids, like a bunch of little toads.
Speaker 1: The parents like, fuck, this guy's from the geek for
his body, Taylor, you missed it. We just finished the review.
It was a good one.
Speaker 5: So all right, I'm going to bed. I'll see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so what were your thoughts day? Because you literally
got cut off for You're like, oh boy, And then
it was it like up.
Speaker 5: We was fantastic.
Speaker 4: It packaged up so much that I loved with this franchise,
and I feel like I need to watch this again
and again and again just to kind of comb over
and see everything I missed on the previous viewings because
there's so much detail and heart and passion put into
the landscape, the creation of the worlds, the scenery, so
much going on. I loved that just being able to
recognize things, and just you feel it feels like it's
tapping into moments of your childhood. I felt like I
was back going to my grandparents' house with my cousins
and we're playing on the nest, playing that original Mario Bros.
Then eventually upgrade and playing Marios Sunshine in the GameCube.
Speaker 5: Like there's so many different audio cues that we're clicking in.
It's like, oh my god.
Speaker 4: And then like I'm looking over at Medicine and the whisper, like, oh,
like this this track here at this certain point, like
this is very very cool, like it's.
Speaker 1: She was like, I'm trying to watch.
Speaker 5: So I really really.
Speaker 4: Loved all of that, Like this is this is just
it's risen up again. There's all these great movies so
far this year, but this is just another major contender
for me. I'd say, yeah, there's at least two other
great movies this year early.
Speaker 1: Yeah, remember twenty twenty two, we had like five Best
Picture contenders already. You know, it's definitely three for me now.
So I guess I just feel like our narrative this
year's like, oh, the movie's all been disappointing. You're like
there's there's a plethora of great films this year. I
guess I gotta watch them. I haven't seen yet.
Speaker 4: Uh so, yeah, I just I want more. I want
so much more, like from this world and everything again that,
like I said, they built and they established in this
movie was fantastic. You you guys said already with the
characters and their voices they did. I think it was fantastic.
Like I was not at all thinking at Jack Black
or a Chris Pratt or or anyone. It was just
felt like, wow, this just feels like these characters And
as far as the story goes, yes, it's it's very rocky,
it's exceptionally fast paced.
Speaker 5: But there was never a moment where I felt like
I needed.
Speaker 4: Anything anything more than what I was getting, Like would
I take it, absolutely, But I never felt like.
Speaker 5: I was wanting that.
Speaker 4: While I was experiencing this movie, I was totally okay
and content and excited and happy with what I was
given and just just the Smorgsborg of Easter eggs and
nostalgia just being presented on screen.
Speaker 5: So yeah, it was.
Speaker 4: It was great and there were no no kids acting
crazy in my theater, although it was weird because when
we went in.
Speaker 5: This time.
Speaker 4: So when we went in and again this is the
kickback re climbing seats theater. So we went in and
we had our seats and we looked and when I
was walking up with Madison, there was a ticket. There's
a drink, and there's popcorn just sitting on the seat.
Speaker 5: It was like, this is fucking weird.
Speaker 4: So we moved the seat, sat down and no one
questioned it, like if some kid just left all the
ship here. There was a ticket too, that's the ticket.
The ticket was for three seats down the row. Is
very fucked up. I don't know what happened. I just
moved it over and so we sat in our seats,
but it never came back for it.
Speaker 5: No one came back and.
Speaker 1: Well that's a good what's that old reality or whatever?
The what would you do? And it used to be
the guy like they put in scenarioso pop up, like sure,
why didn't you report this popcorner? You a coward? Like
remember how they would like because they would like have
people get attacked on the stream and be like is
Kirkling going to walk by or do something? And the
kirk will walk by and they stopped be like, hey,
why didn't help that woman? Huh, why didn't you do it? Oh?
I was a little scared. Why weren't you scared? Don't you? Man?
Like this embarrassing these people on national.
Speaker 3: To the Mario review.
Speaker 1: Exactly, just like light Year all over again. Well the
very gullition. It sounds like we all recommend in our
own certain ways and whatnot. So so, yeah, if you
haven't seen the movie about now, if you have, we're
gonna get in this spoilers. So we'll be right back
and we're back. So where where do we want to
start with Mario?
Speaker 2: Here we come.
Speaker 3: I just got an idea.
Speaker 4: I just it's a quick one. I just want to
slap it out there. I'm sure you guys all picked on.
At the start, Luigi's phone is ringing, and his ring
tone is the GameCube like boot up sound, And that
was just so unexpected and so good.
Speaker 6: All of I mean, just piggybacking upon that all of
like the the Nintendo Mario remixes just ten out of ten.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, thout the entire movie. I was eating
all of that stuff up. I wanted more. I was yeah,
copyright music. It didn't take me out of it too much.
There was a couple moments when it.
Speaker 6: Was just like, ah, I wish they had just a
fast paced Mario's theme right now, because I had like
references throughout the movie already that they just killed it
with those.
Speaker 2: So I just wanted a little bit more.
Speaker 6: Maybe I would have subbed out maybe the copyright for
just more of it because it was just so fantastic.
But yeah, I love the ring tone, I love just
all the little audio cues.
Speaker 3: All the sequences with life and music were so short
that it's like they very easily could have got away
without it. I think. Yeah, the fact that everyone in
our discord was talking about that, like earlier in the
day set that expectation for me, like, Okay, I guess
I have to get ready for that, and so I
think that probably helped. I think if I went in
not expecting that, I might be would have been a
bit salty. But yeah, man, all the music that wasn't
there was fantastic, and a lot of it was just
very subtle too, where they would just hit like the
three or four notes of like the main notes of
like a melody or something like that, just to throw
it in, Like when they're going when they're pretty much
right about to get sucked into the pipe, and you
get a little bit of the underground theme just like
a few notes right trickled in there among like the
more kind of orchestral, kind of classic sort of stuff.
Just so many of those little notes too. And then
just the credit sequence where it's like, here's five seconds
of all these different songs, you know, little gusty gardens
from Mario Galaxy, just every like here's all the best
Mario tracks back to back to back to back, which
oh man, it was. It was amazing and really love
that part. I can't wait to get the soundtrack on
Spotify or wherever they put it and just listen to
all through all these songs like fully, all the full
renditions and all that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's what even like annoyed me more
about the license stuff was that all those remixes and
new versions were kind of good because most of them
are playing the classic but they're just reducses and stuff
like that. So whether it was the training sequence, the
kart sequence, stuff like that, I'm really over this is
just Mario. Just like I'm really over that. You need
a hero. It's like one Shrek two did it. I
feel like it's all in these past couple of years,
like you get it so much in these projects now.
But yeah, I think that's why the music was so good.
I would just rather them just make people do the
all the time. Make an epic version, like if so
it's him training, right, Just make some epic version one
of these Mario songs. Figure it out. That's all you
need to do. But yeah, when this stuff was there,
like for me, when you got the the Superstar at
the very end, that was a great moment. So yeah,
that's the thing. It's like, it was so strong. I
don't know why they did it, And it's funny at
first a few ones, and I didn't mind it in
the real world because like, okay, they're in Brooklyn. That's
kind of working for me, Like I can probably pass that.
But like I said, when they were building the carts
and a CDC hit, it just like it was like
a cock block. I couldn't get in the scene anymore.
I just like I love ACDC.
Speaker 3: Cock block in the Mushroom Kingdom that is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, Like I like ACDC as much as the
next guy. There's some of the stuff that I enjoyed,
but it just didn't need it there, especially in this
world where it just feels like another thing. It's just
the same way I compare to like Carry Potter or
Star Wars, And that's what to me, the trailers were
feeling like where when we got in this world, it
didn't feel exactly like, oh, this it's own world with
its own sound, its own movement. It did mostly, but
it would always kind of take me back. So I
hope if we get another one they kind of lean
off that, but I don't think they will because I
think they'll just make a bunch of money. Go Ah,
let's get a Lady Gaga song in here next and
then them and stuff.
Speaker 6: So I feel like all of the Mario like reduct
songs like I like felt them like when they played it,
like like got goosebumps or something like here in the
back of my neck raised. Not a single moment the
copyright music did that happen? So that like there, that's
that's a good comparison.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very fair.
Speaker 3: I want to talk I want to talk about Bowser. Obviously,
I'm a big Jack Black fan and even bigger fans
specifically of Tenacious D. So when he's whipping out the
piano and just playing these ballads. You know, Taylor's nickname
over here Peaches. Peaches does a little a big again
in the credit sequence there, Oh man, I was just
eating that up. He's doing his Jack Black like Tenacious
Deism's in there, and I just I just love the
whole thing. When he's doing the duet with Camick there
on the piano. I loved all that. I think he
was such a fun it's hard to even call him
a villain. Obviously he's the villain, but he's just such
like a loser and a goofball. But he also like
is intimidating sometimes when he's like fucking up the Penguin
Kingdom and all that. So I love the way they
used Bowser here because like he's never really has a
personality in the games, right, so he's nomina these characters do.
So I really like the path they took here to
make him like just kind of a goofy loser who's
still intimidating.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Travis, Yeah, yeah, no, I was gonna let
you guys go no.
Speaker 1: I but that's but Josh Wright, Josh Wright hit hit
it here perfectly right where he said there were some
great Jack Black and Stuff Rogan moments that gave such
fun personality to their characters. I think that's the thing
where for Dylan when he goes, oh, I love that,
he injects like the todation to stuff. If it's me
that doesn't like like that type of Jack Black and
it's injecting the bowser, that's why I don't like it.
And again that's where for me it was saying I
like them making him a loser. I like them almost
send me that idea if he wants to get Peach right,
So it's like I like this idea of him being
obsessed with her. I like when he's asking like, well,
do you think she's impressed with Mary? Like I liked
that dialogue, the singing and the piano stuff I didn't
need because I feel like they added that when Jack
Black gone there. And that's what it comes down to.
If you're a fan that that's great. But that's where
it brings me out again, like, Okay, I'm starting not
to see because that was the thing I worried about
when they got Jack Black. I'm like, I don't like that,
and all the trailers are like, oh, he's doing great.
I just see bowser, I love it. When he started
to sing that, I go, Okay, it's Shack Black. So
again it pulled me in the real world. And Jack
Black's doing that quite a bit this week, so the
man just needs to stay retired. But anyway, so I
wasn't a fan of that, and I guess I just
didn't find it as funny, you know, like I feel
like they and this movie did this a lot where
whether it's empty or other Disney stuff like and you
guys wouldn't this, but like that just felt like a
complete ripoff of Frozen two in the Han song and
stuff like that. So it was like, Okay, I've seen
this done in the past few years. So yeah, that
didn't really work for me. But the same thing, I
guarantee you people don't like Seth Rogan. They don't like
that Donkey Kong last like Seth Rogan, right, So that
that's the way I would compare because he has the
so good and see and I like Seth Rogan and
I feel like he's a perfect fit for Doun Kon
and that worked for me. But it's someone that doesn't
enjoy Jack Black, and I didn't need the musical stuff.
It pull it pulled it down for me, and I
want to be immersed. I don't want to be I
don't want to be thinking about the real world. I
just want to think Mario. And whenever he's saying I
didn't think about Mario, I thought about Jack Black.
Speaker 3: I I thought you were gonna say some kirkling, but
I mean, to quickly speak, Seth Rogan was the one
performance and hear for me that I could not separate
the actor from the character. And so that's like the
one character of any that I'm slightly disappointed and just
like I don't feel like I have any Donkey Kong
memories from this movie. I just have like Seth Rogan
memories from it. But everyone else, for me, I was
able to kind of merge them into their character and
just be immersed in that way. But I still Yeah,
once again, I do like Seth Rogan enough, so it
wasn't like a serious negative, but yeah, that was that
was the one for me that stuck out.
Speaker 6: Yeah, with Bowser, I am kind of torn because I
do like Jack Black and I feel like I just
didn't like the more comedic side to him, which I mean, Dylan,
you loved it. Eighty percent of my theater loved it too,
Like they were just eating up all the scenes with him,
all the moments of him being like just this pathetic loser,
Like everybody eating it up except for me. I feel
like I just see Bowser as this like ultimate bad guy.
Maybe I just channel him too much when I'm playing
him in Smash, and I just I don't like seeing
him just this pathetic loser.
Speaker 2: I wanted him just to like his motivation.
Speaker 6: I want to just be takeover Mushroom Kingdom and just
absolutely just annihilate everyone. And but here he just like
it is more Mario centric though, because he do he
or sorry he does have a like a wedding with
Peach if I remember qruictly at the beginning of.
Speaker 2: Odyssey, is it Odyssey?
Speaker 3: When that happens, like we suit.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So like that's like when I was in the theater,
it was just like, Okay, this is the decision that
they're making, and clearly everyone around me is enjoying it,
and I'm just gonna be this person that that isn't
loving it, which which is a little bit unfortunate. When
when he was singing, that's when I was really just
seeing Jack Black, which like isn't a bad thing, but
I think I was just kind of a little bit
bitter still with just where Bowser was in this movie
and for speaking upon like other actors, Like there is
a lot of big names in this movie, so I
feel like there is sequences throughout the entire movie when
I can really just pick out the actor that's that's
performing it, like Chris Pratt even had that a few times.
Speaker 1: But I just think I was I was just loving
so much where it's like he just sounds like star
Lord right there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 6: I think the weird one for me is is actually
Peach that like my my favorite Mario character is the
one that I really feel like it was just Annia
Taylor Joy playing Peach. I didn't feel like I was
just this is this is this is Peach like this
like she killed it. I think she did a phenomenal
job and I really like and you Taylor Joy too.
It was just I was kind of torn in that
sense because it's like, this isn't really the Peach that
I close to her. Maybe yeah, yeah, I guess that's it.
Speaker 2: I guess that's it.
Speaker 6: So I don't know, I maybe that'll change on more
viewings on maybe Bowser as well, especially now that I'm
I'm kind of I don't know, like accustomed as to
what I'm jumping into, Like Travis, to your point of
like comparing it to the trailers, I I I just
saw Bowser in the train.
Speaker 2: There's the big, ferocious menace that he is.
Speaker 6: Whereas I feel like we did get those scenes in
this movie and he does pop off in moments like
he just blows fire and and just looks mean and ferocious.
Speaker 2: I think I just wanted a little bit more of that.
But that's that's just my own, my own thing there.
Speaker 1: It's it's funny because we were just talking about recently
in the newscasts. He remind me a lot of some
of the jokes they do with like Lord Farquarhd like
in the first Shrek, like that type of humor of
like bringing him down and everything like that, which I
don't need him necessarily to be like the complete bad guys,
because I get it, it's a movie. In the video game,
bows Or you need to characterize him a little bit,
But uh, a cirking should be in my theater. All
the kids are booing what he's saying it was incredible.
Speaker 3: Really someone the kid, the kid that was screaming in
my theaters like your socks?
Speaker 1: Sure, Kirk wasn't there.
Speaker 3: That kid was the absolute worst. Oh I'm curious, like,
do you think ten less than say? I'll say he's.
Speaker 1: Ten, Taylor. You want to speak on bows or any
of the voice casts that did or didn't work for
you while we're here.
Speaker 5: None of the voices pulled me out of it.
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 4: I was on board for all of it. There was
not a single voice that pulled me out of it.
I Bowser worked for Bowser again, like I said, not
a spoilers, Peach, Peach, Mario Luigi. It all totally worked,
and so I'm very very thankful for that. I love
the Bowser singing. I was not expecting it. And when, uh,
when Chemick comes in and like is like, it's just
the way they blended together, because it messes so well
because Bowser's doing it like Peaches Peaches, and you see
the faces of Peach popping up everyone, which I was
laughing at that, and then yeah, he's he's pulled out
of his moment. Chemick sits next to him, He's like, yeah,
take a seat and then he's like do do do
do do do, and the cameras like it's just like, oh,
this is just so cool. It's just so seamless and
fluid with how like they're just kind of adding the
Jack Black mannerisms into this with the Mario world.
Speaker 2: I loved it so much.
Speaker 3: Like the piano was branded the look. Yeah, that was
a nice touch because we didn't see any of the
Coop kids as far as I can tell, the Kopa
lings whatever they're called. But I like that was that
was a good little touch. I like that.
Speaker 1: I feel like they're gonna break him out next movie,
you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, They're a good sequel bait for sure. Guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like that's one of the good thing
that when we did. I think that was a great
world building and it introduced a lot of things like
just before I forget because I didn't make knows for
this movie. I loved that for the wedding, you had
King Bou show up and you had and what's his
official name? Is it just King Bomb or King bomb Bomb?
Speaker 2: Like what is like obamb is it?
Speaker 1: I think it's just kicked Yeah, King King Obam. Yeah. No,
But like that because that villain has just like stuck
in my head just because of Mario sixty four because
he's the first one you fight. So I feel like,
probably out of all Mario villains, I've fought him the
most as far as like how many times I've started
that game. So it was great. I love in the
middle of any one point he just fell asleep. Like again,
I think all that stuff they paid great attention to,
you know, even if I had to just go Google
and find everything. That was great. But yeah, and then
I was the opposite for like, I think like everyone
worked for me. I thought Peach was like, yeah, she
was fine because I think Charlie did is the best.
But yeah, Donkey Kong for me, I guess with Rogan,
I liked it because I I don't mind them making
Donkey Kong this kind of I don't know, arrogant idiot,
because I feel like that's how don Kong can be.
So he's definitely a jock. That's how I feel, and
I feel like that's something that you know, very hopeful
we will get the Donkey Kong movie and that will
hopefully be his I guess his progression, but I don't
they probably will never do that because this movie didn't
do that. Like I feel like there might be a
two hour version of this movie, but I feel with
how it is, there's definitely some stuff chopped out that
feels very choppy. The editing of just it was so funny. Again,
I don't need the story, but it's so funny when
Peach and Mario meet for the first time of like,
who are you, Like, Oh, Mario Bowser a kidnapped my brother, Okay,
come with me, and they literally just on the adventure.
It was not like, yeah, I just thought about like
times where you think of like when again talking about Shrek,
when you have like Shrek and feel on I mean,
and there's like some back and forth dialogue to getting
to know each other. It's just like they just go
and stuff like that. And when they're on Rainbow Road
and they start talking about like where you live and
you might be from there, I found it very odd
that they're kind of like hinting at the romance and
stuff like that. And then that's the last conversation they
had in the movie. And when the movie ends and
they are just like they go down the tunnel or
the pipe and they're fixing mushroom Kingdom and Peaches nowhere
to be found. It was a very I was so
shocked it just went to black. I was like, oh, okay.
So that's why I definitely feel there's a longer version
of this movie, and they probably cut it down to
try and just get more showings for kids and stuff
like that. That's my theory because it just it moves
so fast of just go, go, go, go go. So
I wish there was a little bit more time to
breathe because I like the world that they said in
and I like the characterations of these characters. But uh,
I don't know how you got there. I forgot to say.
But yeah, I love Donkey Kong, so.
Speaker 2: I well, I just your last point there. I completely
agree with what you're saying.
Speaker 6: When when it ended they jumped through like the pipe,
I was expecting them like pop up in the in
the castle and us to just have another moment with Peach,
but it just didn't happen, and it was kind of shocking.
Speaker 2: And I think there was dialogue amongst characters that I
just wanted more of.
Speaker 6: I wanted, like we did get DK and Mario bonding
in the Uh, it wasn't a way it was an eel, right,
So yeah, I think I just wanted more of that
because I love that that setup dynamic that they had
or they just hate each other, and I love that
relationship amongst Mario and DK, and I was so excited
to get a lot of juice out of that. And
I got a little bit, I got like a little
like Veggie shot thing, but I don't know, I think
I wanted the full booster size.
Speaker 1: So this movie to me feels like sometimes I remember
you used to watch a movie that was like edited
for TV and they would short it down so they
make sure it was two hours. That's what this felt
like to me. Sometimes if oh they cut the stuff
that in essentially need but would maybe help the film
out and stuff like that. And yeah, I think that's
the only relationship that kind of changes at all, is
DK Mario. Right. The rest of people just know each other.
They're automatically best friends, automatically partners, their brothers. So that's
the only one that kind of and I don't need
that from a Mario. I just think that's what could
help it go.
Speaker 3: Saying that you keep saying I need it, I don't
need I don't need it, but you can no, I
want it.
Speaker 1: I want it, not need it. I want it. That's
what I mean because like because I the reason I
don't saying that I needed, that's not what would take
down marks for me. For me, that's like a con
It's just like it would boost it up. But my
marks down are not that because oh I didn't get
a long term relationship with Mario Peach. It's just odd
that they would sprinkle a little bit of it but
then just kind of move past it. So there there,
I want it. There's nothing you need in this world
except for food and money unfortunately and air so but
uh yeah and air but yeah, either way. Don Khan
big fan of that. I liked his characteration, very happy
diddy media in there because we weren't getting any of
him in the trailers, and luckily it was just a
small thing. But I love the ever the stop clapping
and he's like cheering and stuff like that. Daddy that's enoughing.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, so that was Dixie next to him too, right,
and a few other members there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Conkey, how could you forget the great Chunky Kong
who was only I think playable in Donkey Kong sixty four,
Like he's such a random Asskng, so I was shocked
to see him in the stands there. But he has
the hat, the goofy little vest, such a goofball. So
I was so happy to see my man Chunky there
because Don Kong sixty four we just talked about the
side quest this week.
Speaker 5: Great game.
Speaker 3: I love it so much, So I was hoping for
maybe Lanky too, if they're gonna at Chunky. I feel
like Chunky and Lanky are a little duo made in heaven.
But no, just Chunky. But I'll take it with Diddy Kong,
Dixie Kong. Yeah, I don't think any of them got voices, right,
so that's something they'd say for the sequel or Donkey
Kong movie or something like that. But it was it
was cool to see them in the stands. Their little
little world building element for me for sure. And I
guess I was Funky who was like driving them in.
I assume Funky Kong on the car.
Speaker 1: Right, So I feel like he looked a little bit
different in my day and age, but that would work
as far as his aesthetic. And oh that was another
time too where I was just like, I love it
was weird because they when you meet Donkey Kong get
that theme, and that was really cool, And that's a
bum me about the dry like I wear my son
glass whatever song they play, it was take on me. Yeah,
and I again I wanted a nice Donkey Kong like
world building theme, like if we would have got some
more Donkey Kong like like old school music, Yeah, that's
what I wanted. So when that hit, I was like, Okay,
so again another weird choice because there's time music was great.
Speaker 3: But yeah, think you know there's something with that too
where I saw some people And this is a fair
criticism that, like some of the themes and stuff like
the dk rap for example, I think it's David Wise
who like wrote that, and he's not like credited at
all in this, even though there is like a version
of the dk rap, and so I think that honestly
might just be part of it is that they all
the music in this is like Mario music specifically, and
like Kogi Kondo his name has popped on there. Of
course he's very iconic. But yeah, I feel like they
almost didn't dip into that dk stuff, and I can't
imagine they'd be a rights thing, but maybe there is
because like Rare made some of those games, and there's
something weird going on there. I'm not sure, but yeah,
I once again, any one of those sequences, I would
have taken some great Donkey Kong music because there is
just some banging tracks in those games, for sure, don
Kong Country and whatnot.
Speaker 1: I want to ask you guys before I forgot other
than the Donkey Kong stuff and obviously the plethora of
Mario once, did you guys catch any Easter eggs for
any other Nintendo like Big Ips.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say big, but that's what I'm.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm talking about the headliners. I'm not talking about
no metroids, no links.
Speaker 3: In Mario's bedroom though, he's playing Kid I Ris, which I.
Speaker 1: Thought was wild, and he has he has the very
first Nintendo he.
Speaker 3: Has then e S which was cool, and then obviously yeah,
Kid I Chris is on the n E S. But
I was like, man, I'm so surprised to see pitt
On's I did not expect to see him in this movie.
And then he had a poster for F Zero, which
you could probably see the Blue Falcon. He also had
a poster for Ice Climbers, uh. And then he had
like a poster for a bunch of those like weird
nes like baseball and tennis that were literally just called
baseball tennis, like those sports games. So those are the
ones that I caught. But I feel like, once again,
that's a scene if you pause and look around his room,
I'm sure there's all sorts of stuff. But yeah, I
wouldn't say I saw any big Nintendo franchises. I mean
big enough, and like F zero is big enough just
because Captain Falcons and Smash and whatnot. Yeah, and none
of those like a a tier kind of characters.
Speaker 5: The that's fair.
Speaker 4: The restaurant that they were in at the beginning, and
they showed at the end of the movie that was
Punch Out Pizzaiah.
Speaker 3: Which is that might be the next biggest one for sure,
So like.
Speaker 1: Can those how does that work in the world now
with Mario having Antendo.
Speaker 3: I think this is my my theory is that there's
almost a reason they picked those smaller ones, and it's
because those are video games in this world, and those
characters will never exist. They'll never bring Captain Falcon and
lore Cat Pit or Little Mac. But people like Kirby
and Samis and Link, they're all on the board still
because they are not canonized as like video games or
as pop culture things in this world. That's that's kind
of my round in theory the moment, which sad, but
also I do like the references, and I can't imagine
Captain Falcon wouldever have a big role unless they do
a Smash Bros. Movie because these Mario movies and sequels
are huge in the future, in which case I don't
even know if they would bring Captain Falcon, and they
might just keep it to bigger, bigger characters.
Speaker 1: I would just love Captain Falcon. If it's like they
needed like a wolf type character, like they need some
character get them fast from one point to another and just.
Speaker 3: Star Fox, I guess they use a bigger character.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess you're right. Fall with the ship, Yeah,
you're probably right. Yeah. The one that I thought was
like a deadlock would have been something from Zelda, and
we didn't especially when they did the zoom out map.
But I know they're different, but I thought they might
have still done something like oh and then there's a
sectional hear that something, Yeah, like they maybe they don't
name it, but they give enough looking wise, So I
thought Selda anything Zelda was gonna be a dead ringer here,
just because I feel like that's the third or second biggest,
and it was unless maybe there will be some like
zum In somewhere, but it's not a case where they
don't think they don't own the stuff. I get they
probably just want to start slowly. But I thought for
sure we're gonna get something Zelda related, but uh a
last I didn't see it at least.
Speaker 3: So the other the other one I really liked was
the Wreck and Crew guy because that was like I think,
as there's arcade stuff and like, you know, Mario appeared
in like Donkey Kong first, that was like his first appearance,
and he was like jump Men. At the time, his
name wasn't even Mario, and that's they were playing a
Jumpman machine, which was fun. But then the record Crew
guy was like, oh, we used to you know, they
used to work for me or something like that, because
they Mario and Leedy were like playable characters in that
Recon Crew game, and I think that was before the
first like Mario Bros. Game, So that was kind of
a fun reference of like, here's the job they had
before they were the super Mario bros. So that was
a fun little I like that little bully character, probably
mostly because of the reference element of it. So yeah,
that was an.
Speaker 1: Spike, Yeah, Spike classic Bulley name.
Speaker 4: In that same sequence there, that was Charles Martine that
popped up as other Okay, I thought, so I like that.
Speaker 2: That was that was a fun little was too.
Speaker 1: Yeah right yeah, which then again I know why, but
I just go I'd be like, because this movie is
hour and a half, I'm like, I wonder how much
these people got paid, you know, like how much, Like
how much did Charlie Day get paid for this movie?
And how much could they say? Because like I still
think Mario by itself could be successful if he had
a bunch of no name actors in there. But just
because the short guy, I was like, man, these guys
like seth Rogen, Like what did he get paid for?
Like don Khin's like in it a lot, and I
think seth Rogen has times where he talks a bit,
but there's also just Donkey Kong being Donkey Kong is
doing stuff. I'm just like, man, like Seth Rogen can't
be cheap to get him and he's not even in
that much. But I guess the idea of him is
the hopeful I would imagine a Donkey Kong movie, especially
this one got the most like highlight offuly and you
introduce members of the family and another world there and stuff.
So that's probably why you, dude, I guess, is because
you're hoping to bank on it later on.
Speaker 3: So mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Just loves Mario. Man just wanted to He did it
for free.
Speaker 5: He did it for free.
Speaker 3: It would probably be a pretty easy job for him,
considering that he kind of just did his own voice
and didn't really oh yeah, iterate on it anyway. I
like that to Pauline was the kind of like mayor
or maybe she was the news anchor. I'm not sure
what she was going on there, but she was kind of,
you know, when the whole explosion stuff was going on
in in New York City, she was kind of the
one there doing all that. So that was cool. I
really when they were doing that sequence, when they were
on their way to their that first job in that
apartment and they were doing like a mini like two
D you know, platforming sequence to get there, I was like, man,
I just want a New York level in one of
these games, because they had like New Donk City and Odyssey,
but like just a two D Mario that has like
some New York sequences. Maybe it's been done, but not
in the forty Mario games I've played. But man, I
like really want that now. That would be even just
for like one world go to New York. That would
be so cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that that scene. I was just smiling on it.
It It just the attention to detail was phenomenal. And
I just loved how like Luigi was just this like
NPC that Mario had to like safely get across this
area and make it lug all the gear and all that. Yeah,
it was fun.
Speaker 6: And I will say, man, Luigi, I have the exact
same toolbag as him, so he's got great taste.
Speaker 1: There you go. Do you got the knees he has?
Speaker 2: I do have the knees, unfortunately, that's what he said,
do that my knees.
Speaker 1: So he better get ready.
Speaker 2: That's using network as well. I better train them up.
Speaker 1: You better get ready. And you know, surprisingly too the
real world stuff. I all like that, and I think
that's I wish the that's where I wish movie a
bit longer. I liked the pacing of the real world stuff.
Because I felt it was faster. But there were times
I could get that fun little scene with Mario and
his family. They're just talking about how like he's a
disappointment and everything like very nicely, and there you take
that moment of I really like Luigi coming on the
bed and talking to him and stuff like that. So
I like that. That had some moments of just like
you know, people hanging around, You're getting different iterations what's
going on, and there's always like some humor going around.
We had the trade or the commercial they released. They
obviously releases like a teaser or something I think months ago.
So I liked that opening and stuff. But yeah, I
liked the real world stuff. I was worried I was
gonna make Oh, let's just get to mushroom Kingdom when
it started, there's okay, that's just like get down the pipe.
But it was all working for me.
Speaker 3: So it was very short, as everything in this movie,
as you guys mentioned, like moves very fast, but it
still felt like we were there a lot longer than
I was expecting. For some reason. I guess maybe they
didn't like I guess they as you mentioned, they had
that ad as an ad that they just put out.
But other than that, we didn't really see any of
the family members, right, we didn't really see any of
that stuff, so I don't think so kind of held
back on that, obviously focusing more on the mushroom king
to me things. So yeah, I was, I was, I
guess a little bit surprised, but I didn't feel like
it hurt the pace and anyway, it was good word
for me.
Speaker 1: Except the dogs, except the uh the bathroom dog fight.
Speaker 2: You know, Francis went on the long for me.
Speaker 5: I got the dog was out to kill, which leads
me to something else.
Speaker 4: Actually, they they touched upon death and dying like I'm
gonna kill him, like he's gonna die, like many times.
Speaker 1: And the Luma was you know, very you know, yeah,
she was fantastic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you're not wrong.
Speaker 6: Yeah, with the all all the real world stuff to
your guys point, I agree. I feel like we got
more than I was expecting. But I was totally eating
it all up. I was definitely getting vibes from the
live action Mario movie, like in the beginning when they're
just like doing.
Speaker 2: Jobs or whatnot. I'm like, oh my god, that movie
was the blueprint for this.
Speaker 5: But then it it.
Speaker 2: Veered in a lot better trajectory than what that movie did.
Speaker 1: You know. It's how scared I was when I got
the finale this movie and it took place in Brooklyn.
I was like, Oh my God, like it's a sequel
gonna end with Bowser and something taking over Brooklyn like
the next movie Brooklyn's, you know. And I was like, Oh,
please don't. And I still am kind of bummed because
they did the training and they did the music. I
really want the finale to be in like Bowser's Castle
or something like that. So I didn't like love the setting.
I like it, I guess enough for what it does
for our characters because people see them as heroes and whatnot. Again,
they mess up questions now, but I get why they
put it in Brooklyn. I just wish the finale was
in Bowser's Castle or something more Mushroom Kingdo because I
like Brooklyn. It was fun enough, but it's uh not
as fun as Mushroom Kings per se. So it was,
but still there's some fun stuff with the superstar and
just even I was happy we got to see donkn
and Bowser fight a little bit because I'm like, ah,
they probably won't do that here. They'll probably separate them.
And we've got some motes like okay that that's very cool.
So obviously we've seen many tough Smash, but in the
movie it was working, so uh yeah, I enjoyed that aspect.
Speaker 6: I always I always saw those two just being like
so similar, probably from just playing Smash on like power level.
But when like when DK went at Bowser and Bowser
was just like tarried over him, just like totally clocked
him and you just went flying, I'm like, oh my god, Okay, Bowser,
Yeah he's the big bad d DK.
Speaker 3: You know, he's very formidal, but man, Bowser's whole little level.
I feel like DK is like eighteen years old in
this movie. Maybe it's just because sethro is a self
proclaimed like eternal teenager whatever he says in the teenage
Meeting Ma Turials trailer, But uh yeah, I feel like
you just definitely the frat boy vibes that Travis was mentioning.
But I feel like maybe he still has to fill
out a little bit, or maybe he just needed a
super mushroom to grow to full size and that it
would be comparable to Bowser in size. I really like
during that fight too, that they did the classic Mario
sixty four tail tail throw, like grabbed by the tail
and swing them up into the sky. That was a
nice touch. And of course they did the kind of
like the shore you can punch that they always do
and stuff like that. So yeah, I really like that sequence,
and even like before that, when we were at the
wedding and Peach gets the like ice flower and starts
just destroying everyone. I think that was one of my
favorite parts about this movie is that Peach just got
to be badass and cool in a way that she
often does not in many, many, many many Mario things.
You know, some ash she gets to pop off and whatnot,
but the factually she took out so many of those
people at that at that wedding, and even before that,
I was really happy with with the uh, the way
Peach was using here. I'm curious, Kirkling, Now, obviously the
voice you were in love withness really, but what did
you think about the actual scenes with her in action
and stuff.
Speaker 6: No, yeah, for sure, I think all the actual action
scenes was exactly what I was wanting. I remember seeing
just in the trailers her just getting ready to kick
ass and just really popping off, and I was I
was so excited to see that, and they completely delivered
in that regard, because yeah, to your.
Speaker 2: Point, Dylan, like she never really pops off.
Speaker 6: Maybe that's why it's so fun for me to like
play her in games, because I just I'm like, come on, Peach,
time for you to just kick ass and take over here.
Speaker 2: But yeah, all like the different attire that she got to.
Speaker 6: I love how she was like utilizing the different powers
and just the way that it would like change her
look because a lot of a lot like especially like
the the Ice Flower, I feel like I've never seen
a Peach version of that, so that was that was
just really well done, as well as the like the
Flame Flower, So all of that stuff was was really
really fun for me. It was mostly just like the dialogue,
it was like, okay, any Taylor Joy, she's just using
her regular voice here, which you know, beautiful voice and everything,
but Peach is just a very particular voice that that
was different from that, And I don't I don't, I
don't even think that would have been like a better
version for what this movie was.
Speaker 2: It was just I think it might be a bit.
Speaker 3: Much for an hour and a half long movie. It
would be just yeah, it would be good when she
says two sentences, you know, in the very high pitched tone,
I think you're dead. I liked the uh, just goofiness
of them doing like flashbacks when, of course the story
of this thing is so light that they don't need to,
but they just do it because it's almost silly and
tropy intentionally. And so you get these quick sequences with
the babies, baby Mario and baby Luigi, which notoriously I'm
not a fan of the baby characters. Yeah, but I
still like the way they're shown there. You get a
little see little Mario and Luigi that they've always been close.
And then like the beach back story, which is like
so quick, but I loved it for what it was,
and you get just like almost like little screenshots of
her like training montage as she was like growing up
in Mushroom and Kingdom and all that. So it was
very quick, but it was I didn't need any of it,
so it was like a little bonus on top, I guess,
and it was just a fun way to throw in
some baby characters that otherwise wouldn't really make made sense
in the movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was my fairtie strike because I'm a man
massive fan of Baby Luigi b Mario, Big Big Yoshi's
Island fans. I think that's what started. And they're usually
my go tos in Mario Kart and stuff like that
for their speed. So I like that because it's just
they just look so ridiculous. That's what I like about
them that I do this flashback where the's other kids
just dress normally, but these kids are still dressing like
their plumber overly size hat and stuff like that, and
you're like, you mess with my brother, you mess with me,
Like that was all good and everything. So and again
I was I was curious what they're gonna do with
Peach and maybe they'll pick that up in the sequel
when they're talking about like her coming from the world
world not really knowing. Now, we didn't really do much
with that. I think you could have just taken that out,
but it's you know, it's there for them to do
something with and see where they go if if they
go anywhere with it. It's just I think a mini origin,
but at the end of day, it was more about
saving mushroom Kingdom and stuff. And they did, you know,
they beat Bowser.
Speaker 6: It seemed like they were setting that up though, like
early on the movie, because yeah, like they do the flashback,
they make a point of like, oh, I don't know
what I am. And I thought that was gonna be
like a big story point of like her trying to
find like her true home even Thoughmushrom Kingdom is her
is a real home, but like let's go through that journey.
But it seemed like they had that idea and they
kind of erased parts of it, but they left some
of it in there because yeah, like in the moment,
it didn't really hit me until afterwards, like looking back
on it was just like, oh yeah, they definitely set
up on that trajectory, it seemed, but just rerouted.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm telling you. I'm not saying it's like
the Snark And I'm just telling you there's a longer
version of this movie. I guarantee you release it. I
don't know what the cuts called, but we're gonna release it.
But you know, but yeah, maybe they're just planning on
six to seven movies. So that's that's why you're gonna
get it. You're just gonna get like that they like
you got like three minutes of peach screen like Backstore here,
you're gonna give that each movie, so when you get
to Tan, it like fills a hole half an hour.
Speaker 3: Yeah, better deliver, better deliver.
Speaker 1: Pof Yeah, let's take a second break and we'll be
right back. And we're back. You're trying to say something.
I saw your fingers moving around yourself.
Speaker 4: But one point I love to talk about is the
Mario Kart stuff. I think it was either Dylan or
Kirk when one of you two mentioned like the wheels
that you could see in the trailer where it was
like you pick your like selection, and I love how
they just totally roll with that. Again, the Mario Kart
like main menu theme was popping off here and I
was like, oh shit, this is super cool. And yeah,
they're selecting the different parts scrolling through.
Speaker 5: Ah. This was just this was really really like groove
grooving for me. I really liked it.
Speaker 4: And I love seeing all the vehicles too, and just
when that really pops off on the Rainbow Road dynamic
and just the you know, it was just as literally
Mario Kart it was, and they just.
Speaker 5: Fitted in so nicely, so nicely to the story. It
was so well done.
Speaker 4: I love seeing the carts like transition to like their
glider forms and like their cover forms and everything. Oh,
it was so wonderful.
Speaker 2: And the drift, like the speed burst the.
Speaker 5: Cool.
Speaker 3: I've never seen noone get purple that quickly. That was definitely. Yeah,
as the pace in this movie is I'll given do
him is pretty sick. I really like the trick that
Peach did of like disabling the hover thing, which is
obviously not a mechanic you can do in the game.
Disabling that saved Toad and then like you know, land
into the parachute, which which was really cool. But also
I love that Toad just got like the biggest truck
you possibly could. That was just good comedy there. Really
enjoyed that element of it. But yeah, I feel like,
I mean, honestly, a lot of this movie. You kind
of get a lot of taste of the different scenes
in the trailers because it is kind of short, and
there was I feel like a lot of marketing for it.
So yeah, I don't know if I have too much
to add on it, but it looked great. It was
a lot of fun. Really enjoyed that sequence for sure,
And then yeah, it was a good opportunity to like
split up the characters for a little bit, and then
they kind of let them do their own thing for
a bit, where Donkey Kong and Mario go go into
the water for a while, and then Peach and Toad
go to the back to the Kingdom.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think for me that was probably the highlight
of the Moon. I think that's the best part was
the Rainbow Rold because I actually just enjoyed the action
they did there, the mechanics of you know, they had
a cooper and then like they used the s and
you get to see like a film version of a
vehicle get taken down. You get the guy who just
like it's just like I get why he does it,
but he just ran me just like he's blue shell,
just like he turns into blue shut and he does
the whole thing and stuff like that. So I like
the dynamic. I like seeing the bridge actually break apart
and be like these like actual like the like loud waters.
Speaker 2: That was really cool the way you listen up.
Speaker 1: So yeah, everything from when they took off until kind
of the end point. I was a big fan of
so And like I said, I think that was just
much like Mario you're seeing decades of Mario Kart stuff
just you know put there. That's kind of fun thing
in this film coming out so much later, right because
obviously now like the glider's pretty recently new, right because
of the last like I guess, like what we you
and then Mario Kart when they like Redid and stuff
like that.
Speaker 3: It was on the three D version first actually, but okay.
Speaker 5: There you go.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so and back in the day you got
like on the like double Dash all this stuff that
it's not there, but you get to incorporate each everything
from those. So yeah, I enjoyed it. And uh that's
when we also got the first look at them. I
can't remember what they are. The Koopas were in those,
like those propellers and stuff like that, like because they
go and start whatever kidnapping and stuff like.
Speaker 3: The yeah, the little Bowser Junior like yeah, and I
was like, oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he had a whole like platoon Junior.
Speaker 3: Is he popping on his classic vehicle right there?
Speaker 1: Yes, it felt yeah next week for sure, so because
his son's gonna have to break him out, but uh yeah,
it just felt like a a dog fight. But with
Mario and I enjoy I think that's the best thing
because the next one close to that is I did
really enjoy Mario and don Kong just popping off to
go save Peach when they were just like I loved
like the panning of the camera. Donkey Kong with the
firepower looked very sickly look, but I love I just
felt like a very Avengers moment of going, you know,
don Kong beats up some guys, Mario beats up some guys.
Back and forth or go out tunnel. So those are
probably my two highlights of like, okay, we're just having
We're just having a good time here.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I love that there was kind of the
two planes, you know, don Kong was in the back,
Mario was in the front, both going side by side,
and the two d kind of setting. I love Mario
gets the Tanuki suit. I'm of course very nostalgic of
that from Super Marlbo's three.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: I love that they were like losing powers getting new
ones and it kind of just this back and forth.
So the whole sequence was was super fun. I love
even when they just get to uh, you know the
toad Land Mush from Kingdom whatever you want to call
that area and they're all just like hoarding and you know,
all the coins and stuff like that. They all look
over kind of concerned all the koopas and goombas and whatnot.
So yeah, that was a great sequence as well.
Speaker 4: The other thing I liked when Mario was you know,
getting those power ups too, and he'd be he'd be running.
Speaker 5: Uh he does his arms.
Speaker 2: Out and I love that run.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah with the story, yeah exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just again that's just classic as you know,
his his Mario pos when he's getting speed and he's
about to fly, uh, and then two when he's doing
his jumps. This is because it's in sixty four. I
haven't played a lot of sixty four. I played a
lot of Sunshine. I know you can do in Sunshine,
but like he does that first jump and then the
next one like does.
Speaker 2: Like like a triple jump.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the next one is like the longer one. Yeah,
he did a few of those, and I really I
like I like that it's subtle.
Speaker 1: Well, and that's why in that big fight sequence too,
that's when I was looking for it with Don Khan
and then they actually did like the him spinning around
as a Propeller like it's in the background, but they
did that. Yeah. Yeah, I love in the fight, like
the role.
Speaker 3: And everything, like yeah they bak on Country.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they gave all they gave him all his like
move sets. So I appreciated that.
Speaker 3: The amount of games that you could like hit the
check box of, like they pull a move or a
mechanic or whatever it is from is Oh. I can't
wait to do that at some point. It's just like
when when I when the movie's out on streaming and
I can go through and make that list. That's there
so many good stuff there. One a couple of touches
I really liked. When Peach goes back maybe this I'm
trying to remember when this happens. It's either when they're
the first planning the trip and Peach and the crew
were going to go through these different kingdoms, or it's
later when Peach and Toad get back after everything has
gone to shit, but one of the Toads like has
his map up of they're like, Okay, this is the
route you're gonna go on and it looks like pretty
much identical to the Super Mario World map. That was
really nice. And then even when they're doing that like
once again that ad that they had on the on
the television, like they had that kind of yellow cape
from Super Mario World. So that was a nice touch
as well, which kind of makes sense where it's like,
what would their power up be in the real world,
it's just some yellow blanket or something, right, like it's
it's nothing special, but they make it look look like it.
I had a point about to say something I feel.
Speaker 5: Like gonna be.
Speaker 4: This was not obviously in the movie, but the way
that we have this universe set up, it just has
me so excited for some you know, maybe two more
Mario movies down the road, just to see Luigi and
a warrior in this world contact created. I'd love that,
Like Rival Plumbers. I don't know what they'd spin on it.
Bowser just recruiting them and seeing that dynamic like and
it could be so good.
Speaker 6: I was really I was really leaning into and I
even predicted it when Dylan and I did the cast
on Rosalina appearance and that did not happen at all,
I was I was kind of disappointed because I just
felt like we were really going in that direction. Peach
drops the line of like there's so many galaxies out there.
Speaker 3: When that happened in the middle of the movie, I'm like, yeah,
Roselene is not here. If that was something at the
actual end, I could have seen it happening.
Speaker 2: But I was banking on the end credit scene for sure.
I was sitting there. I'm like, it's gonna happen. It's
gonna happen, But there's there's room for the next one.
Speaker 1: I just yeah, I thought, what's the stars character? Again?
I always forget it because I didn't play as much
with the little star that was being very limous. Yeah,
I thought for sure that was gonna be our gateway
to get to Rosealina and end credit and stuff like that,
which they did the Marvel thing. You got one end
credit that was funny, and then you got the other
credit that like set up something and stuff like that.
So they got that formula going down. But yeah, I
think that will probably I think it the future. Maybe
do a discussions or like a mini prediction cast like
what we do Mario too, because like there's so many
of like, yeah, the coup of kids, Warrio and Wall
Luigi could be a villain in there, sell like for
a movie, you know, like you would.
Speaker 3: Know too almost don't make sense with the you know
the start of this that no one knows who Mario
and Luigi are, so why would these like alternate versions
of them exist, right, It almost it almost makes more
sense in the context of now Mario Luigi are famous,
so then they would pop up with their costumes. So
I think, I mean, this movie had enough going on,
didn't need Warrio w and Wallaweigi in it, but I
think it would actually make more sense than a sequel anyway.
Speaker 1: Well, and we need to figure out too. Now they
introduced the family. You know, some canon they're not, but
some canon they are cousins. In my head canon, they're
always cousins. You can have them like the next time
they do the family dinner that oh you know, your
cousins are coming on and they like, oh yeah, like
like you hate, they like do not like each other,
and they're trying to be plumber as well. So I
actually think they'll go them being cousins route, because that's
just like it like with the family already introduced.
Speaker 3: That's a a tennis match, the four of them doing
a little time.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and Mario Luigi win and they just hate
that they win or that's what it could be. It
could just be a montage of different sports things and
Mario and Luigi always winning and Walluigian Warrior just like
hate these two because they always win, and that's why. Yeah,
you could get Bowser or these two. I think, like
I said, they could carry a movie on their self.
I think there'd be a baby face turned at the end,
they'd help save the day and whatnot. But I'm I'm
very excited for that. I am excited for hopefully in
the sequel that I like the amount he was in there,
but I do want more Luigi on the Adventure because
he was kind of swap with the Peach roll as
far as instead of Peach being kidnapped, he was kidnapped.
And I really like Charlie Days that. One of my
favorite sequences was they should have been the trip, but
it was with him getting kidnapped. I love them using
shy guys as like these really scary fucked up things
in the universe, Like they get like the shadow effect
and they're like their voices are really scary and stuff
like that. Yeah, a little sound too, which yeah they do,
but when they talk they sound like their ghost face.
On the other end of the phone, so I like
the use of Shy Guy. And again I did like
that Luigi got to be in the final battle and
he helped Mario with the sewer great and he got
to do the Superstar too. So honestly, you know, maybe
Daisy can be involved at some point too, But I
I hope we get more of Luigi. But yeah, that's
that's why. Yeah, two to three of these weeks, keep
making money. You have a whole pluthora of Galaxy, get
a Sunshine in there, you got Bowser coming back and
stuff like that. There's tons of routes, so.
Speaker 3: I feel like a fucking.
Speaker 1: Bird on at some point.
Speaker 3: That's a good like Yoshi kind of related character. I
do feel like, yeah, Luigi maybe suffers the most from
like his scenes what should be like his scenes were
kind of all shown in the trailer, and of course
they're longer in the actual movie, but I think that
took away from it a bit where I, yeah, I
don't feel like there was a big moment of his
that wasn't really shown here. Obviously Mario and him saving
the day at the end, but like truly just like
a Luigi's specific moment, I still liked all this stuff.
When he's going through the woods and fighting the dry bones,
that was really good. And he's like, you know, the
flashlights broken, so he's smacking it, just like in Luigi's mansion. Course,
all those details are great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was waiting for just one other. I was
wanting to see something about the Professor. I don't know how,
like even just him on a poster, like not just
just something like the background, like something like, yeah, he
exists in the world, because that's again, that's the spinoff.
I want the most one in don Kong. I want
Luigi's mansion. And I think already them making him like
he was on like the creepy mission, right, I think
they're kind of giving him that aesthetic.
Speaker 5: So he he was like Mario like he did them.
Speaker 1: He did that when they were locked up in the cages,
so they had a couple. I just want one little
but you know, again, they showed King Boo, which I
also have because that was a villain too. I was like, uh,
I bet they're not gonna show King Boo because they
might like wait for that, that could be longer, but
they showed it, so they established again that could be
a villain in the future and that's and maybe that's
where you could just instead of having King Boo from Mari,
you could specifically have for Luigi's mansion. But uh, another
thing that only popped up in like the end credits,
but then Colin brought this up is I think they'll
go to Yoshi's Island the next one the world map
shows Yoshi Island. Sar I was landing along the Mushroom
Kingdom don Kong Country, and we talked about this. I
guess I wasn't surprising.
Speaker 3: We all kind of assumed the Big Yoshi, you know,
he's the expert on.
Speaker 1: The Big Yoshi. Yeah, let's see, they screwed up King
Buza sign though it wasn't the Leegi's mansion side. That's okay,
though that doesn't have to like it's fine, I don't
need I know the difference of that king, but like
I think, yeah, it's the crown, but I think you
could just use them differently. But I think we kind
of all resigned to that that's what Yoshi was gonna be,
Like we thought he was gonna be saved when we saw.
Speaker 3: The Yoshi's earlier in the movie. Where were those supposed
to be just in Mushroom Kingdom because I thought we
like maybe just quickly glanced past Yoshi's Island or do
you guys think that was Yoshi's Island and we just didn't, I.
Speaker 5: Think because they were going to DK like d kay Land, right,
the different worlds.
Speaker 3: So with the ending though, I mean, the Yoshi Egg
is in New York, right, It's in the sewers of
New York.
Speaker 1: Oh no, it's in Brooklyn.
Speaker 3: It's in Brooklyn, So that's where I I mean, I
do think if we get obviously Yoshi is a bigger character,
which is a good sequel thing, it would make sense
to go to Yoshi's Island at some point there. But yeah,
it is interesting that the egg is specifically in New York,
and I'm wondering, like what the high jinks that's supposed
to spawn from? That is where It's like, are people
in New York freaking out that there's a dinosaur walking
around or something like that.
Speaker 1: I don't know, well, and I think it's weird the
way they showed as far as so they wake up
and they're doing again like wake up in Brooklyn and
stuff like that. That's fine. Again, just hit me with
the Mario music. That's what I'm wanting at the end there.
But luckily the end creds kicked in and they're like,
you want the Mario music, Here you go. We're filling
you up. But then they so they wake up, like
we talked about, they they're in mushroom Kingdom. I thought
after the ancort that would have been the hook that
they're at home and the only reason they go back
is because, well, there's this egg and they need to see,
like what is this thing? But they're already back there,
so because like I feel like they're trying to make
it seem like the egg is hidden, but they would
be going I imagine, to and from.
Speaker 3: Right again the vibe that the door is just kind
of eternally open at this point and like Agwarts style,
they can just come and go as they please. So yeah,
it probably isn't even even a big d that the
Yoshi egg is there unless they have no way for
like the real world to call Mario and be like, hey, Mario,
you know something got left here.
Speaker 1: I think it was literally not a story beat. It
was just to tell you, hey, world, do Yoshi in
the sequel, Like, I think that's literally what it was like,
then we can open them. This go on the porner like,
oh look, it's an egg, and they go right back
to mushroom King like there's probably no drama at all,
it's just to show you, hey. And I like how
it got there. It was someone gave it as a
gift at the wedding, so it was on the table
when it got sucked up and stuff. And I think again,
like Warrio and the WALLAWEGI I think that's what we
talked about in the newscast. I think that's a smart
thing to save, you know, because there's a lot going
on here. And yeah, I'll be excited and I'm happy
we got an appearance of them. And yeah, again we
talk about the can I'll be excited to see, like,
you know, is Yoshi's island even a part of that cannon?
And we always talk about like, what's the deal if
Mario's a plumber that was in the real world but
came down, how did Yoshi save them as a baby.
But they're already showing like like Peach was there as
a baby, so was there something that maybe Mario was
there at one point but then he did get sent home.
I don't know.
Speaker 3: I guess they could kind of replace who Baby Mario
is in like Super Mario World two Yoshi's Island with
just Peach, and that'd be great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would work. I would just like that origin
of the Yoshi's like what they are and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it would be fun to see, just like I mean,
because that, like, the Yoshi games have a very specific
aesthetic that is quite different from Mario right in terms
of its supposed supposed to look like a book that
you're opening up with like three D images, you know,
like those pop up books. That's the style. So I
hope that when we go there it does feel distinctly
different in that way and we can get some sequence there,
whether that's the Yeah flashback or just that's what the
place always looks like. Even when they go there now and.
Speaker 1: Peach better cry real fucking loud. I want when and
if they do a Yoshi's Island flashback and the baby cries,
I want those speakers, like that's something.
Speaker 3: In that game for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you do?
Speaker 3: You guys think this is actually a good point. Do
you guys think Yoshi gets a voice actor or is
it just like sounds?
Speaker 1: I think it's I think they do sounds. It's a
big mistake. I think that's a very like like the
aesthetic you go for is either like Yoshi Mario or
Bullseye and toy story. Like bulls Eye doesn't say word,
He's just a lovable horse.
Speaker 3: That's what you do with the You should just do
the g thing where like Yoshi says Yoshi and then
like they translate it into whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the right, you know, don't don't make I
don't need to be like I don't know ben Affleck's
voice in Yoshi or something. You know, I don't. I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't need them just everyday voice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my god? What else where? Anything else where
do you guys want to go next? Talk about real road,
talked about some of the wedding stuff.
Speaker 3: I don't think I have much else. I feel like
I've covered most mind notes here.
Speaker 6: I I actually really really loved the use of what's
his name, Camic the wizard in this.
Speaker 2: I loved his powers.
Speaker 6: I also just love I didn't know who the voice
actor was for him, but I just the voice fit
that character so well in.
Speaker 1: Top tier voice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was He's like this weasly little wizard thing
that I just it was ten out of ten. And yeah,
he was just a really fun like lieutenant for Bowser,
and he was like it seemed like Bowser's just main weapon.
Like every time that they were going for a threat,
like Chmick would just like do his magic and just
like completely disable like all of the enemies. Like he
just completely dismantled the penguins. You know, Bowser is formative.
Speaker 6: He could just breathe fire, but still I think he
relies on that that wizard a lot. And yeah, why
wouldn't you, He's so useful.
Speaker 1: I I was hoping this movie so me will get
the sequel. I was hoping for the classic gets on
the broom and rides across the stick the screen to
change something as wanting that moment of like the heroes
are winning and he does something on his broom and
reins over them. But I think it's another character that
could help in the sequel, help get Bowser out because
he has magic, so I imagine he'd get Bowser to
full size and stuff like that. So but yeah, I
thought he was a great right hand type of villain.
I thought he was just like almost like pitch perfect
pull from the Games like whatever I imagine this character
would be would be this iteration of it. So very fun.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know Bowser, you just have to like
hit him once and then he pops back to normal. Right,
So true? Maybe part I don't think you need magic
to do it necessarily.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess so, Yeah, maybe he's part.
Speaker 5: He would be.
Speaker 3: Smart and smart enough to know that, though I feel
like the Koupas would not.
Speaker 1: Maybe that maybe that's how we get the you know,
him going back for a screen. They just go mushroom
Kingdom and they got to get through the kingdom and
stuff like that. Right, so but uh, just just the
one hit and yeah, I get Yeah, here we go again.
I'm sure kick them here right, come again? And I
guess I should show too. I I was a big
fan of We've talked about lots of his and trips,
but I loved the DK Mario fight. I thought that
was lots of fun. I like that they kind of
played off that one Mario couldn't beat him without any
of the special powers, and two DK Loscus he was arrogant,
you know, like there's many times he had Mario dead
to rights, but he was just kind of like playing
with his food and we got the cat suit in there,
which again just showing all the different like genres and stuff.
But I really enjoyed their fighting again. That's when DK
was popping off doing a bunch of different moves and everything,
and they gave him the very Hulk thor Ragnarok and
trints as far as the cheer an he busts through.
But that was in a highlight for me. I think
that seemed delivered.
Speaker 6: I was kind of hoping that they would do like
a switcheroo and like completely change the outcome of what
happened in the trailer, because I feel like a lot
of things throughout the trailer I could just see them
as beacons throughout the movie, like I knew what I
was approaching because of something that was revealed in the trailer. Luckily,
like the plot isn't really the most important part of
this movie. It's mostly just the actual just it being
Mario and the execution of like the animation, it was
just stellar. Everything looked phenomenal, So that's a lot more
important than what the actual plot points were. But I
was hoping they do a switcher rue that he just
like like it's like the same start, but he just
like completely jukes them or something and then he just
like goes off to get the powers or something. But
you know, it ended up being a lot longer of
a fight than I was expecting, So that that was nice.
And yeah, to your point, Travis, it definitely definitely surprised
me with how good it was. I was I was
definitely eating that up.
Speaker 3: I feel like the one because Fred Armison is cranky,
cong right, Yeah great. I feel like that was a
truly transformative performance because I was like, I think it's
supposed to be Fred Armison, but I'm not getting Fred
Armison vibes at all. So it agrees to him. I
feel like he's I guess all the years on SNL
doing weird voices gives him that edge. But I thought
that was maybe the most transformative of all the voice
actors here.
Speaker 1: And funnily way to tie them in. I just like
that that was just going over taking lands they want to,
you know, combined with the Kongs to get they got
the most powerful army, right, So it's like, okay, cool.
I like that. It's a fun little story.
Speaker 3: That's all you need.
Speaker 1: Anything else, I will go.
Speaker 6: We already mentioned the dark Lands, but still just just
again that light moment, I just I was I was
so pumped. I'm not even like a massive Luigi Mansion fan,
but in that scene, I'm like, fuck, it's common, it's common.
Speaker 2: You're you're gonna get in a Luigi mansion.
Speaker 4: Apparently, apparently I found this easter thing here. Brian Tyler
put little sneaks of Luigi's mentioned theme in there, So again,
go back and re listen to that sounds.
Speaker 5: True, you find it?
Speaker 6: Yeah, super hot fire. I I just think all the
Mario isms throw we're just ten out of ten, just
just phenomenal. I loved all the video game references, as
we've already talked about in detail. I loved as well
when Mario was doing the training sequence, and it's just
this like theme throughout the movie that Mario he's, you know,
he's super Mario, but in the beginning he's pretty average Joe, Like,
he's nothing too spectacular. His main his main credit is
that he just never gives up and he just keeps
trying and trying again. And it just made me think
of like the early Super Mario games and probably just
all the Mario games. They've gone easier nowadays, but like
especially the like the ones back in the day you
had your like three lives at the beginning, and it
was just you would start from the beginning and you
would go and man, I remember banging my fucking head
against the wall trying to beat some of these levels,
and that's essentially what he was doing in that, just.
Speaker 2: Like a like a jackhammer.
Speaker 6: I I just really liked how they incorporated that into
like his main trait is that he just doesn't give up,
and you, as the player playing Mario, like that is
pretty much what you're doing in those games because they
are just so difficult, trying to learn like the pattern
or trying to land on the proper like platform at
the right timing.
Speaker 2: It just made me smile. It was like, oh, that
that's a cool trait that they they gave the character
for the movie, which I agree, that's that's uh.
Speaker 5: There's another Easter eg for Duck Hunt.
Speaker 4: There was a French restaurant named like chess Canard French
for duck Hunt.
Speaker 1: All the dead ducks from Nintendo's Passion.
Speaker 5: You can get dead ducks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm surprised they put it in French and didn't
just call it like duck Hunt. Cafe or something, but
we'll go We'll go with it.
Speaker 1: I like it, go the extra mile to get that
Easter egg.
Speaker 3: So there was I mean, I feel like that was
with the exception of F zero, like all those games
are and references are specifically things on the NES. F
zero was, Yeah, the weird one out where that's was
not on that console.
Speaker 1: We're not making a game, but we'll put it here.
Speaker 3: Exactly. Do you do you feel like that would be
a sequel thing, where like now they're gonna do a
bunch of references from the sn e s specifically, and
we go like up and up through these movies. Eventually
you get the game cube and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: I hope not, because I just want that I want
it kept open because, like I said, in my perfect world,
if we ever get to Smash Bros. Does that mean
we can't do ice climbers now?
Speaker 3: Because they're I guess, I mean like because in the
lower I guess we're kind of assuming that the NES
is like the modern console at the time. I don't
know if this movie takes place in like the early eighties,
I don't know.
Speaker 1: If I don't think so. They itself, they had remember
at one point alternate universe.
Speaker 3: But I'm just being like, what if by the time
the sequels around, it's like it's been a few years
and now the sn e S is like the modern console,
and then there's like new posters and stuff from like
those relevant games like Star Fucks as well. I don't
think that was an NES game. That'd be any sort
of thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, they'll get to the game cube. They'll be like,
look it has a handle. This is the best console.
Speaker 3: Yet, you know, the iconic game Cube controllers all that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I could see something like that, but like I said,
I just want them to be I want to be
careful in the references. I like the references, but I
don't want the like it's gonna break my heart if
you just see like a Sam's poster up there, and
am I not gonna get Samos in this world ever?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 1: And I know I'm thinking big, but I want to
be thinking big. I need this thing to be successful
so we can keep getting more.
Speaker 3: So, I mean, if they have a poster on the
background and then you bring that character in, I don't
think anyone's gonna blink twice.
Speaker 1: One out of ten right up for me? The error yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean you'd think all the other side characters would
have Super Mario Bros. Posters on their on their walls
after this, right, because they are heroes.
Speaker 1: Heroes now and it's just like the first movie there
there's always a new cast or someone be like they're
the Super Mario Brothers in.
Speaker 3: The I would love that if that has something to
do with Warrios storyline, because that's like the Warrior where
games is like he starts a game development studio and
just makes a bunch of shitty games and tries to
make a bunch of money selling them. I would love
if that was a part of the narrative for Warrio
in this universe.
Speaker 1: I would be trying to pitch them on this game
they can make, and that's where he starts, just to
make these shitty games. Yeah. I'm ready for I'm ready
for Warrio and I cannot wait if that does happen.
Who they get is the actor? I don't know who.
I don't know who is like Bizarro Chris Pratt and
Bizarro Charlie Charlie Day. I guess maybe Bizarro Chris Pratt.
You gotta go after one of the other Chris is
I don't know, but no, I'm excited for that.
Speaker 4: So yeah, uh my last thing I'll shut out here.
I really liked when Mario's trying to get to see
Peach and the castle and you just get the two
toad guards and just the dialogue that they had, like, oh,
I think you know your princess is another castle. I thought, Okay,
this is like classic. You know, you get to the
end of the Mario level and that's what Toad's saying
to you.
Speaker 2: So that was good.
Speaker 6: Fuck controls, man. I laughed out loud when just like
grabbed out his like dinner thing.
Speaker 2: He's like, oh, what do you guys happen? And then
he's just like Tomorrio just go. It was so random
and just bizarre. It just complete, completely just I don't know,
just threw me for a loop, and I just I
audibly laughed. I thought it was hilarious Toads in general,
I just I really enjoyed them.
Speaker 3: We didn't really mention Toad, but great, all great, Yeah,
he did a great job.
Speaker 1: I think they captured the perfectness of a helpful friend
yet kind of annoying, like that's Toad, and I thought
that was to a teeth stuff like that. Yeah, but
then completely loyalty. You know, he's the only toad. All
the other toads peach she had to go away. He
followed in the mission who was there at the wedding
to help her get the flower and stuff like that.
So he's he's the best toad, even though I guess
they're all kind of toads. I don't know what his
official name is, but it's confusing.
Speaker 5: They shafted toads worth because we've got this other good older.
Speaker 1: We shouldn't see it all, you know, you know, when
we get the toad explore what was that toad game
to Captain Toad? What Captain Toe?
Speaker 3: I mean, he's right, I just call it Captain Toad
treasurer track or.
Speaker 1: So okay, there you go. Yeah, when we have a
Captain Toad movie, we'll get toads.
Speaker 3: Tod you know, toad can have a little love interest
in a sequel.
Speaker 1: There we go.
Speaker 4: So all the females say to Tona, there were definitely
no female toads in this. I don't think it's like
a situation.
Speaker 3: Asexual like uh, genderless beings. I assume I don't know
different subspecies of toad subspecies, no one really knows, I
don't think. Just show up and no one questions it
and they're like all right, like the same thing as speech.
She just came out of a a pipe, probably yours.
Speaker 1: Now, could I should go back to the pipe? No,
get back here. I don't play the game, but apparently
Collin says they did play the Captain Toads.
Speaker 3: It's been a while so I did not catch that scene.
But that's cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's the fun thing about this movie. I
think that's where they're obviously there. There's not much to
there's not much gonna be changed. It's a quick movie
and you know what you're getting into. But I think one,
it's always gonna enjoy put On is like a good okay,
I just want to have some fun. But two, there's
gonna be other stuff that come out that make it
a bit more enjoyable as far as like Easter eggs
and everything.
Speaker 6: So I like to call and shout out the mini mushroom.
That was a fun moment too, because up up until
that point, Mario had only had the one mushroom, So like,
why would you think that it just because it's a
different color, like it would have a different effect that
was a fun moment and the way they utilize it
to you know, dismantle Bowser in the end.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I loved that in actual fight because when
you see the color, you know it's blue. So when
he's about to take it with Dong Kong, I just
knew madness was gonna ensue. And I love that shot.
If he's jumping and just like DK's like pointer finger,
just like hitting Mario and they're doing like the slow
ocean box or knockout and stuff. So I thought that
was a good little reveal thing. He has the upper
hand and it's just it's just it's little Mario down
there yelling, screaming. Yeah, it's ton Koin's peck pop and
stuff like that. Hence my name. They mentioned that a
few times, so I was happy with that.
Speaker 3: So then later it's like no time for that, No time,
I'll do it later.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then for Brooklyn people though he was showing off
big time at the end, he was just going but
that that to me, that's DK because he would do that.
There's a serious side DK, but he would definitely pop
us back.
Speaker 3: So yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: Anything else. Alright, final thoughts, I'll go first still I
know probably he might listen to this and be like, oh,
I don't know if you has enjoyed. I had a
good time with it, like I said, I just didn't
reach where I was hoping, like an all time like
S tier level, which is a lot of expectations. But
that can happen when you got these great marketing traits
stuff like that. But I enjoyed it. I will be
excited to watch it again, Like I said, it's not
that when I'm itching I need to see again tomorrow,
which I was hoping. But that's where I'm kind of
like at a seven point five range. Seven is the
movies that I always enjoy go back to a bit.
That's why it's in the middle, because I think it's
higher than that, but it's not in the eight. They
it's like a different type of tiar So seven point five,
like I said, had some issues license music. Would be
nice if it just float a little longer. It would
be nice if there's a bit more, like I said,
not as kiddyish, but for the family, that's what's great
because the kids are gonna love it. I'm excited that
I hope it is gangbusters, And it's the point that
even if my cons I had like the stuff, like
the music, it's not anything that I'm like, ah, you
know what, I wouldn't be excited for more, whether it's
just Mario two, whether it's Don Kong with Luigi, whether
it's just a full on smorrow Car movie. It gave
me enough to be like, kay, I'll be excited to
see what else they could do. And maybe they could
do even more because this was the first one just
to introduce the world and open it up, and then
you can kind of go a bunch of different routes
that way. So yeah, it gave me enough that I
am invested in this and like, I like it definitely
more like the Sonic movies and stuff like that, Like
animation is easily a way to go. And again, I
appreciate you too, because I feel like a lot of
people said there's a lot of illumination humor, but there
wasn't characters farting or doing a bunch of stuff like that.
So I really appreciated that. The humor. It didn't always
hit with me, but it didn't offend me either. Then
maybe have piano sequence, but yeah, seven point five for myself.
The massifule thoughts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean this is this is like a childhood
dream right here.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: It really was just a long time fulfillment kind of
thing for me. I loved it so much. Obviously, it's
I cannot remove my nostalgia from what this thing is.
And I just had such a great time, and I
cannot wait to I feel like I'll just put this
on like all the time when it's streaming, I'll just
have it on in the background. And yeah, I just
came home and like, you know, I watched The Survivor,
but then I was playing some Mario odysty I just
like immediately wanted to get back in there and all
that stuff. So, man, what a great time this was.
This was exactly what I needed out of this thing.
So I'm very happy over here.
Speaker 1: Mispatzer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had a grand old time as well. Although
like I do maybe not love.
Speaker 6: The direction that they went with the character like Bowser,
I think overall they really really captured that that magic
that's that Mushroom Kingdom brings. And yeah, all the marioisms
ten out of ten, the Mario music ten out of ten,
the animation ten out of ten.
Speaker 2: Like it, like it really?
Speaker 6: Yeah, Oh my gosh, did it ever look great, and
like there was some zoom in shots of like Mario's
hat or something, and just like the level of the
tale of like the texture on the material.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 6: We take it for granted, like to like the level
of like actual detail that animators can like just apply
and like artists and all that stuff. Just huge shot
out to them. So yeah, they killed it for this movie,
and yeah, I think I'm gonna give it an eight
point five out of ten.
Speaker 3: Couple couple.
Speaker 6: I feel like my main criticisms other than the Bowser thing,
is just I wanted more. I wanted more dialogue amongst
Mario and Peach. I wanted more dialogue once DK and
all the other characters that he interacted with. I just
wanted like an eight hour super cut apparently because it
just it really brought me into that world and it
was super super fun. And yeah, I really just want
to play some Mario Kart right now or some other
Mario titles, So I'm excited to jump in there.
Speaker 1: Field.
Speaker 5: This movie is fantastic. I want to see it again
and again and again.
Speaker 4: There's nothing, even after picking it apart, nothing con wise
that I could think of with this thearacter.
Speaker 5: It's all worked for me.
Speaker 4: The score and the inserted music all worked for me
as well. Again, I was a fan of all the
songs they played, so I didn't have any any beefs
with it. Yeah, I just think that I wasn't going
in hoping for that like in depth story, and maybe
the reports that people were posting, like a little reviews
talking about like seeing a story and stuff like not
being all there. Maybe that kind of helped me kind
of go in and kind of like em brace myself,
I guess a little bit more, just kind of go
in and.
Speaker 5: Just enjoy it for what I'm getting.
Speaker 4: H Yeah, It's just this was a fantastic time. There's
so much like I'm with you. I want to I'm
waiting for that Spotify the soundtrack just to drop. I
want to be listening to those Mario mixes all day long.
Holy smoke. So this I can't reckon enough, record enough
recommend it, record cannot recommend this movie enough. It's it's
it's absolutely fantastic. I hope that you know you all
see it many more times. Yeah, this is a ten
out of ten for me.
Speaker 1: Love There you go, Well, there you go. It's in
the books we have reviewed the Super Mario Bros. Movie.
We'll be back whenever they do. I'm sure it'll have
a good weekend. I'm wondering if they'll announce a sequel
kind of right away. That would be nice. I hope
they just do a big drop off, like, hey, we're
doing five movies. I want them to come out and
drop like a Figy slate, you know, here's our plan
for the next five years. They won't go that bold yet,
but that's what I want. So yeah, thank you very
much for listening to our review. We'll be back next week,
and I promise.
Speaker 3: You it'll not be boring Sea. Yeah, here we go.