The Super Mario Bros. Movie | Sequel Announced

[Moonface]

I thought we had a thread for this but I got it mixed up with the initial reveal discussion in the Nintendo Direct thread that this movie had its cast announced during.

I'm sure everyone is aware of the cast by now because how can you not know Chris Pratt is playing as Mario? But I wanted to share something I saw just now which was a rumour about what the upcoming Mario movie contains, and while I don't know how much truth there is to it I wonder if anyone else feels as   about it as I did when I read this:

Untitled Mario Movie Plot

General

• Cartoonish art style “full of life and color”
  
• Similar to the look of Hotel Transylvania
  
• Humor is “very punny/meta”, but no dabbing, fart jokes, etc.
  
• Mario and Luigi have slight redesigns, starting off with more worn and dusty suits with a muted color scheme
  
• Mario starts off with a blueish purple shirt instead of brown
  
• Luigi has green overalls and a blueish purple shirt
  
• Both switch over to their more iconic colors later in the movie
  
• Mario and Luigi have Brooklyn accents
  
• DK Jr., Pauline, and Toadsworth rumored to appear
  
• Daisy is name dropped
  
• Female Toads are in the movie
  
• Villainous character “Spike” shows up at the beginning and then at the end to congratulate them
  
• Spike is a greedy/bossy character
  
• Goombas, Koopas, Hammer Bros., Bullet Bills and their towers, Banzai Bills, Lakitus, Ninjis, and Fuzzies in the movie
  

Plot

• Begins with Charles Martinet narration as he goes through the different jobs Mario had before joining the wrecking crew
  
• He fights Donkey Kong and saves Mario in the “real world” (still animated) “New Dino City”
  
• Fight apparently choreographed well and fast paced
  
• Mario gets the golden hammer in the fight
  
• Mario is famous in the present
  
• After hearing repots of gorillas and turtles fighting, he goes into the sewers to investigate
  
• Lots of gorillas underground; some are partying, others playing drums
  
• Mario runs into an older “cranky” Donkey Kong and tries to communicate, but can’t since he can’t speak gorilla
  
• Both end up falling through a pipe into the Mushroom Kingdom
  
• First song of the movie has Bowser singing and we see his younger years plus his desire to take over the kingdom
  
• Bowser then kidnaps Princess Peach, blows up Mushroom Kingdom, and heads for his ship
  
• Mario and Captain Toad go on a journey to stop Bowser
  
• Second “song” is about plumbing
  
• Luigi is worried since Mario has been gone for awhile and investigates in the sewers
  
• He ends up in Mushroom Kingdom; specifically “Forbidden Forest” and meets Yoshi
  
• Mario fights Bowser and is defeated
  
• Kamek drops Mario off the ship into the Forbidden Forest, and he meets up with Luigi and Yoshi
  
• They get new costumes with their iconic colors and go back to Bowser’s Castle
  
• Eventually they encounter three “Bowser Clones” that mostly tell joke and shape-shift into a gross combination of enemies after being defeated
  
• Before the final battle, there’s a song where essentially everyone sings, including Toads singing about saving the princess, Mario and Luigi about not losing hope; Bowser and Peach argue to the beat of the song
  
• Kamek gives Bowser a Mushroom which causes him to grow; Bowser chases Mario and Luigi through a pipe maze across different locations such as a desert, ocean, forest, cloudy area
  
• Fire Flower and Super Star power-ups appear during this, but not anywhere else
  
• Yoshi fights with Kamek since they have some history; Kamek uses his wand to alter the environment and such
  
• The last bit of the chase has them tricking Bowser to go into the last pipe and end up in his own lava pit
  
• Mario decides to start up a plumbing service in the Mushroom Kingdom
  
• Post credits scene is Bowser’s skeleton

Stuff like the Brooklyn accents makes me instantly think this is all fake but considering Chris Pratt got cast as Mario I don't know if I can really put anything past this movie now.

Maybe it'll be fine and end up like the Sonic movies that have both gone on to become the highest grossing video game movies of all time, and Nintendo did a decent job with Detective Pikachu so they could do fine with this. I wonder when we'll get a trailer though since the movie got delayed recently.

[Mr EliteL]

Didn't read all of what was in the spoiler, just in case it's true, up until...Mario and Luigi get their iconic colours that is. If it starts in a 'real' world into the 'game' setting world then I can live with that but would prefer if they already start in MK as they're both not exactly normal humans, even though they kinda are meant to be but obviously not.

Yeah I hope this film does turn out good, for it's own sake really and not fall into the bad video-game movie pile. Like you said though, anything can happen after what the voice cast was revealed to be.

[Moonface]

Imagine if Chris Pratt is actually the live action Mario and then gets turned into game Mario.

[ShiraNoMai]

The Brooklyn accents thing reminds me of all their other media portrayals, like the Super Mario Bros cartoon, or the Super Mario Bros movie (1993). It wouldn't be too out of place TBH.

Plot wise, well, it's about as coherent as any other Mario game's plot if I'm honest. This will all come down to execution in the end, I believe, regardless if this is legit or not.

[Moonface]

I think that even if the plot itself isn't accurate, I question if the movie is really going to take a musical approach and if that can actually turn out good. In my mind Mario and singing numbers just sounds like bottom of the barrel kids movie stuff when Mario is more of a all ages thing, but I won't be surprised if it ends up being cringey instead.

[Moonface]

The official poster for this has been revealed ahead of Thursday's trailer, which will be aired in a special Nintendo Direct focused on this movie:

The Direct will take place at 1:05pm PT for those interested in the time.

I wonder if this poster is literally showing what the Mushroom Kingdom could look like in the movie, or if it's just representational to better show off the journey Mario might take to get there.

[Mr EliteL]

Hope the direct will go well, in that the film will actually look good. From the poster it's a start sort of, although I hope the Mushroom Kingdom doesn't look like this exactly, what is Peach's Castle doing on top of a hill/mountain? Also just don't make Toadette be Smurfette or remove any existence of female Toads. Yeah I got picky a bit there.

[Moonface]

Honestly with how quality strict Nintendo are when it comes to handing out their IP, if this movie doesn't fire on all cylinders then I genuinely think no video game movie will ever be able to hit near perfection.
I'm still unconvinced Chris Pratt is going to work as Mario but I think Nintendo wouldn't use him if that was the case.

I don't think Peach's Castle will actually be on a mountain like the poster; I think it's just that way to give the poster more space to show everything. I'd rather that than Mario just standing in front of the castle at the same height as himself. That would be what I'd expect of any generic fan made poster to be like that you'd find on DeviantArt or something.

[ShiraNoMai]

This poster really makes me think that the point of its existence is to push sales/tickets/marketing towards their Super Nintendo World, cuz the environment shown here looks not-so-subtly influenced by the park's design

Let's see how it turns out, though. Expectations are pretty low so I can't be disappointed, only humored if it winds up being laughably bad.

[WR91]

I'm going to hold my breath that this is any good. But only time will tell for sure.

[Mr EliteL]

Just over an hour to go. Happy I didn't miss the Direct live because I didn't take note of the time it's happening, thought it was like in the afternoon and I remembered just a little while ago the Direct was even today.

[Moonface]

I like that Nintendo had to clarify there's not going to be any games shown in this Direct because otherwise everyone is just going to expect stupid shit like Metroid 4 or something.

[Moonface]

The Super Mario Bros. Movie - Official Teaser Trailer


Have to say Jack Black does a good job with Bowser. I don't dislike Pratt as Mario but I think it'll take some time for me to get used to the voice. Voice acting aside, visually the film looks amazing!

[Mr EliteL]

Jack Black will surely be the highlight of the movie, no doubt. That opening though, making Bowser's ship look so menacing as it came down on the penguin's kingdom, then them attempting to defend while looking as if they're going to be a force to be reckoned with.
Mario was er, well casting Pratt to do Italian would be awful, and this was...I dunno. Wasn't terrible but could be better? Need to hear more of it. Suppose I'm OK with them going for a more American voice though at least. Toad, Kamek and the very very brief Luigi voice seem fine though.

[Moonface]

Had to go back to re-listen to Luigi; not much to go on, but it at least seems his character has the higher scared tone I would expect. Toad and Kamek didn't ring an alarm bell for me upon hearing them; it's really just Pratt I'm iffy about. I don't know if I'm so bothered by the accent as I am by the tone and speed itself, particularly the "Mushroom Kingdom, here we come", since I really expected a more classic higher pitched "Here we go" and a faster pace of speaking to go with it.
I do wonder though if there's multiple Toad's and if so, do they all share the same VA?