Speaker 1: Mario, Luigi Toad, Princess Peach and Bowser are back, and
this time they're joined by Princess Rosalina, Bowser Junior and
Yoshi in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. I'm Roneled Young Junior,
and I'm leaving the theater.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: This is Ronald and I am leaving the theater after
seeing the Super Mario Galaxy Movie. The Super Mario Galaxy
Movie written by Matthew Fogel, directed by Aaron Horvath and
Michael Jellinik, starring Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor Joy, Charlie Day,
Jack Black, Keegan, Michael Key, Benny Safti, Donald Glover, and
Brie Larsen, and as usual, for complete listing of the
cast and crew, you can check out the link in
our show notes. It is just me today, but if
you listen to last week's episode of the drama, you
know it's only just me today because I just did
a double header. This was the first part of a
double header, meaning I saw the Super Mario Galaxy Movie first,
and then I walked into the drama. But I came
out of the drama and recorded that first. Took a moment,
gathered myself and now I'm back recording the Super Mario
Galaxy movie. This is the sequel to the Super Mario movie.
And normally this is the part where I tell you
the plot of the film, and I can tell you
I don't think it's gonna matter that much to you,
But Princess Roselina is kidnapped by Bowser. Junior and Mario,
Luigi Yoshi and Princess Peach and Toad all have to
rescue Princess Roselina. There's some backstory revealed about Princess Peach
and their Bowser goes on an emotional journey, and it's
it's there. There's a lot going on in the film.
It's only an hour and thirty eight minutes, so it's
not very long. I liked this one a lot more
than I liked to the first one. This movie is
just full of joy, jokes, lots of joy, lots of jokes,
and it's it doesn't really burden itself with having much
of a plot at all. It just it's like they
really were just like, look, we know they're gonna go
say the thing, do the thing. Well, I haven't fight
some stuff, and then what we what we really want
to do is put a bunch of references all throughout
the film. It is full of references. There are some
some characters that pop up. Starfox is in this film.
Sorry if that's a spoiler if you haven't seen it. Uh,
it's very I was very excited to see when he
showed up. There is a part of the film in
which there is a reference to the side scroller Super
Mario Brothers The Originals that is played out both in
three D and as a side scroller, which is very,
very entertaining. Uh. There is the voice acting was great.
No one particularly stood out. Donald Glover is playing Yoshi,
and Yoshi doesn't have any real lines. It's it's kind
kind of like it's almost the I Am Groot of
not saying that Yoshi's saying the same thing, but Yoshi
is more making sounds than Yoshi is actually talking. So
in a lot of ways, it feels a lot like
I Am Groot or when George Clooney played.
Speaker 3: The dog on South Park.
Speaker 2: It's just the little things where it's you got this
person to play this, and we don't really get to
hear that it's them. We really just get to hear
this character, which is good. I really enjoyed seeing Yoshi
in this film. He was very cute.
Speaker 3: Lots of cuteness in this film.
Speaker 2: If you liked Mario, if you grew up with Mario
like me, this was a lot more fun than the
first one. I feel like the first one, I got
a lot of backstory and a lot of this is
Mario's family and Mario's hanging out and their plumb was like, no, no,
I don't care about any of that. Get them to
the Mushroom Kingdom, get them eating mushrooms. I don't care
about his origin story, none of that. I feel like
some of that stuff bogged down the movie. This one
we get right to it. We're we're going on a journey,
We're on a quest. We're already in the universe. They
don't ever They're never in Brooklyn, which I appreciated. I
just you don't need to be in Brooklyn. I need
you to be in the Mushroom Kingdom. Put them in
the game world.
Speaker 3: Let's go.
Speaker 2: And that's what this movie does. We get to watch
them be in the game world for the majority.
Speaker 3: Of the movie.
Speaker 2: For all of the movie, I think there's only one
character that's briefly in Brooklyn, which you'll see.
Speaker 3: But other than that, it was a great journey.
Speaker 2: There's not really this this is this is kind of
like a movie that's just it's it's fluff.
Speaker 3: There's not much going on here, and I think the
kids are going to like it.
Speaker 2: But as as far as if I'm comparing this against
another Pixar film, Hoppers, Hoppers had a message.
Speaker 3: Hoppers was telling me something.
Speaker 2: Super Mario Brothers isn't really isn't really saying much about anything.
It's just there to be cute and to throw a
bunch of characters at me, which it does.
Speaker 3: It did that, It did that well.
Speaker 2: I think it showed up, it understood the assignment, and
it fulfilled the assign But again, I liked this one
better than the first one. I don't remember much about
how the first one. I don't remember much about how
the first one ends. As a matter of fact, I
saw a preview for the Super Mario Galaxy movie and
I see that Bowser is shrunk small, and I didn't
understand why he was small.
Speaker 3: But I also want.
Speaker 2: To point out that I don't think you need to
have seen the first one to watch this one. If
you know who Mario is and who these characters are.
That's all you need to know to walk into this movie.
And it's funny because I listened to a dude who
just told me he Binge watched The Testaments over the
weekend and loved it with Chase Infinity, which is now
her second mention in two weeks.
Speaker 3: But he mentioned he watched it.
Speaker 2: He's like, and I'd never seen The Handmaid's Tale, and
I remember thinking, I don't know why on earth you
would ever watch The Testaments without having watched Handmaid's Tale.
It's I just it's not The universe is not so enjoyable.
You're like, yo, I gotta see this. This looks compelling,
because I'm like, if the Handmaid's Tale didn't look compelling
to you, I don't know why this would look more
compelling for me. I want to watch this because I
think they're actually gonna give me the revolution that I
actually want to see that I did not get to
see in The Handmaid's Tale. And The Handmaid's Tale we
get to see the escape of Afred, but we don't
actually get to see the revolution, which is what I
wanted to see. In the Super Mario Galaxy movie, we
just get to see the Mario brothers being the Mario
brothers in the Mario universe, which is all I want.
I don't need a bunch of other stuff. I don't need.
I don't need a gritty backstory any of that stuff.
I just need Yoshi being Yoshi. Yoshi was Yoshi. Princeess
Peach was Princess Peach. Princess Peach was Princess Peach. Mario
as Mario, Mario was Mario. Y'all see that. I got
myself stuck into this thing. Luigi as Luigi and Luigi
was Luigi. So yeah, I mean, with all of that
being said, i'd watched this again. This is a three
and a half star movie. It's not a four star
movie because I mean, this movie can only be so
good because I just told you it was like fluff.
It's disappearing from my mind even as I think about it.
But if it was on, I'd be like, oh yeah,
I'll watch that and scroll my phone. Actually, I would
put my phone down, like for a couple of scenes
in this that I really enjoyed. I really like seeing
Yoshi do stuff. It just I enjoyed it. I liked it.
It's an enthusiastic three point five of five Stars and
with that leaving the theater, it's a production of Oh
It's Big Round Studios. I mixed this episode, and as
you heard, this was a double feature day, meaning that
I had to spend a lot of time in the movies,
sitting there being lost in the movies, which is fun.
I like doing it. I like watching movies. It was
a long drive to get to this side of town.
There's a lot of prep I have to do beforehand.
Then I have to chop and edit all of this afterwards.
If you're hearing a new episode of the theater, I
edited that. I did that myself. I go into Adobe audition.
I cut the tape myself. I edited me Ronald Young Junior,
that's who does it. I'm not passing it off to
Tom Tyra. It's not at Bias Studios. Ronald does that.
And then I open the mic and I record, and
I put filters on there, and I worry about the
background noise, and I worry about lof levels. You don't
even know what that is, do you. Unless you're an
audio person, you don't know what left levels are. I
know what left levels are, and I make sure that
it's the left of negative fourteen, so you can hear
this well in your car while you're driving. That's what
I'm doing. I'm also doing Wait for It. I'm also
doing Heartbreaker. I'm also thinking of other ideas to continue
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to you all about my feelings and other people's feelings,
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our show notes. Show art from Heather Wilder, theme music
by the mysterious Breakfaster Cylinder. For more information about the
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Leaving the theater will be back soon. Thanks for listening.
I'm raveled, young Junior, and I'm full of joy and jokes,
lots of joy. Lots of jokes,