The Super Mario Galaxy Full Movie 2026

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00:00:00Real quick, you have not been spoiled by the thumbnail.

00:00:03I made it yesterday before I saw the movie.

00:00:05That being said, this is your final warning.

00:00:07Spoilers for the Super Mario Galaxy movie ahead.

00:00:10The Super Mario Galaxy movie has officially released, and...

00:00:13What?

00:00:14How is this video so early?

00:00:15Well, you see...

00:00:18Yes, I went to the midnight release of the movie, and gosh, it was such a really weird

00:00:22experience.

00:00:23I originally wanted to film much more than I did, but it was really hard because there

00:00:26were a bunch of people, and it's harder to do than you think, okay?

00:00:29So instead, here's a picture of a $10 water bottle and me standing there.

00:00:33And what did I have to say when the movie was finished?

00:00:35Yep, he certainly saved the galaxy.

00:00:37That was spot on with that prediction.

00:00:41There is a lot to talk about, though.

00:00:43What actually happened in the movie?

00:00:44Is it building towards something much bigger?

00:00:46How is Star Fox in the movie?

00:00:48And what's with the negative reviews?

00:00:50Are they justified?

00:00:51My name is SpookyDude.

00:00:52Make sure to like and subscribe.

00:00:53Now let's discuss.

00:00:55To start off, we need to go over what actually happened in the movie.

00:00:58Don't worry, this isn't going to take too long.

00:01:01Really quick before we get into it, too, unlike the previous All Lore Explained videos that

00:01:05I've done, I don't actually have footage of the movie.

00:01:07That would get this video taken down by Nintendo.

00:01:10So you'll have to deal with whatever was released in trailers, terrible MS Paint drawings,

00:01:14and random PNGs moving around.

00:01:15Sorry about that.

00:01:17We begin zooming through the cosmos, landing on the Comet Observatory.

00:01:21Rosalina is here and calls the Lumas to come read a story before bedtime.

00:01:24The Lumas, like the one in the first film, are all basically children.

00:01:28They act like kids, and they talk like kids, and Rosalina frequently refers to them as

00:01:31her kids.

00:01:32I want to pause and interject real quick.

00:01:35There's a very obviously placed moment where the door in the Comet Observatory opens, and

00:01:39Rosalina is standing there.

00:01:41Proudly.

00:01:41There's enough of a pause for applause or cheers, but my theater was dead silent.

00:01:47Like, not just for Rosalina, the entire movie.

00:01:49They never cheered at all.

00:01:51They, like, lightly chuckled at a joke or two, but that was it.

00:01:54Nearly packed theater.

00:01:56It's midnight.

00:01:57These people went to the midnight release, and nobody said anything.

00:01:59You know, at first I was kind of concerned that it would be annoying to hear all these

00:02:02people screaming, but I would have preferred that over nothing.

00:02:05It felt depressing.

00:02:07Anyway, anyway, Rosalina goes to her bookshelf to choose a book for the Lumas, and I will

00:02:12mention that in this scene, if you look at the books she can pick from, one of the books

00:02:16has Tippi from Super Paper Mario on the spine.

00:02:19However, because Rosalina has no taste, apparently, she picks the one about Princess Peach, but the

00:02:24Lumas don't want to hear about Peach.

00:02:25They want to hear about Mario and Luigi, and the story of the events of the first film.

00:02:29They are excited for Rosalina to tell the story, but before she can, a huge slam shakes

00:02:33the room.

00:02:34Rosalina leaves the Lumas, telling them to go to bed, only to be faced with Megaleg from

00:02:39Mario Galaxy.

00:02:40Rosalina summons her powerful wand to actually fight Megaleg, and she's pretty much winning

00:02:44most of the fight.

00:02:45She blasts it with lasers, is able to dodge all of its attacks extremely fast, and actually

00:02:50knocks it over.

00:02:51It's only when one of the Lumas shows up to see what's going on that the pilot of Megalegs

00:02:55figures out Rosalina's weak point, and fires bullet bills at the room the Lumas are in.

00:03:00Rosalina obviously protects them, but in doing so, she is captured.

00:03:04Inside the robot, as expected, is Bowser Jr., who's trying to bring back respect to the

00:03:08Bowser name.

00:03:09Alongside him is Kamek, who is yet again a disliked henchman who keeps getting in Bowser

00:03:14Jr.'s way.

00:03:14Aluma tries stopping Bowser Jr., but he ends up getting captured as well.

00:03:18They're all taken inside a massive UFO ship that Bowser Jr. controls.

00:03:23Title card, and then cut to Mario and Luigi in the desert on bikes.

00:03:27If you've seen the trailer, you know what happens here.

00:03:29Mario and Luigi are in the Toast Arena Kingdom, and the residents are asking for help with a

00:03:33scary sound coming from the pyramid.

00:03:35Mario and Luigi go inside to explore.

00:03:37They eventually find a pipe, and inside the pipe is Yoshi.

00:03:41A cute, silly rendition of Yoshi, who's like, I don't know, I don't want to say

00:03:45he's super different than the games, but there's also this aspect to him that's

00:03:49kind of a bit odd, in my opinion.

00:03:51He functions exactly like any other character would, and seems to have the same level of

00:03:55cognitive awareness.

00:03:56He just can't speak, except for saying the word Yoshi.

00:04:00Either way, there's a pretty funny sequence showing how Yoshi got into the warp pipe in the

00:04:04first place.

00:04:05We see him hatching in the sewers from the post-credits scene of the first movie, while

00:04:09he then walks around Brooklyn.

00:04:11He eventually knocks over a T-Rex skeleton at the museum, and is chased into the sewers

00:04:15and through the warp pipe by the police.

00:04:16It is in this sequence, by the way, that we actually see a whole bunch of characters

00:04:20from the first movie.

00:04:21Spike, the dog from the first one, and Donkey Kong, and this is the only time these characters

00:04:25appear in this film.

00:04:27Anyway, we cut back to Rosalina, stuck in Bowser Jr.'s massive UFO.

00:04:30Rosalina asks where Bowser Jr. is taking her, and he shows her a massive, scary

00:04:34Bowser-y planet, designed entirely like Bowser itself.

00:04:38It has lava, and the planet has like a big scary Bowser mouth.

00:04:41And there's spikes, and rollercoaster rides, and Bowser and Bowser Jr.'s faces carved into

00:04:45a mountain, and lava everywhere.

00:04:47All of Bowser's henchmen from the first movie are now here.

00:04:50Jr. gives a speech to his henchmen about how with Rosalina's powers, they will destroy

00:04:54the universe.

00:04:55However, after tugging too hard on the chains used to hold the luma, Rosalina gets upset

00:04:59with Bowser Jr. shouting, no one hurts my kids.

00:05:02She breaks out of her chains and starts to fight with Jr.'s minions.

00:05:05The luma goes free and escapes.

00:05:07Bowser Jr., however, uses the paintbrush from Sunshine to create a goopy piranha plant that

00:05:12helps recapture Rosalina, locking her up in a chair where Jr. can start to sap her powers.

00:05:17Now back in the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi gear up for Princess Peach's birthday

00:05:21party.

00:05:22Mario has a present for Peach, and asks if Luigi thinks she'll like it.

00:05:26The movie has a repeating joke that starts here, where Mario is in love with Peach.

00:05:30It's not really a joke, but Luigi teases him about it, and Mario shyly brushes him off,

00:05:35and this kinda happens multiple times throughout the film.

00:05:38The three heroes go to Peach's party, and Mario finds her sitting alone on the roof.

00:05:42Peach admits she doesn't like birthdays.

00:05:44This isn't even her real birthday.

00:05:46This is just the day they celebrate, because it's when the Toads found her for the first

00:05:49time.

00:05:50Peach says she never knew her family.

00:05:52She spent her entire life wondering where they are.

00:05:55Mario offers her support and gives her the birthday present.

00:05:58It turns out to be Peach's famous umbrella, the one she uses in many of the games.

00:06:03Suddenly, star bits start falling from the sky.

00:06:05Everyone looks up in awe, only to see a massive shooting star crash nearby.

00:06:09Mario, Peach, Luigi, and Yoshi investigate, and it turns out to be the luma that had been

00:06:13captured with Rosalina.

00:06:14Peach takes the luma up to her room, and the luma explains that Rosalina has always told

00:06:19stories about Peach, and said that if she was ever in danger, that they need to find her.

00:06:23Luma tells Peach that a giant robot took Rosalina to a scary planet out beyond the Gateway Galaxy.

00:06:29Peach, while encouraged by the worried Toads to stay, decides to go alongside the main Toad,

00:06:34leaving a note from Mario and Luigi saying that they're responsible for protecting

00:06:38the Mushroom Kingdom until she gets back.

00:06:40Montage of Mario and Luigi fighting enemies from the games and using power-ups.

00:06:44This ends with the scene from the first trailer.

00:06:46Bowser is tiny and claims to be rehabilitated, so he wants to be freed and turned big again.

00:06:51However, Mario sends him into frequent rages that cause him to reveal his true villainous

00:06:55side underneath.

00:06:56Suddenly, the ground in the castle begins to shake.

00:06:58Bowser Jr. has arrived with his UFO and has begun sucking up Peach's castle, as he knows

00:07:03Bowser is inside.

00:07:05Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi evacuate the Toads and face Bowser Jr.

00:07:08He asks for Bowser to be handed over, but Mario refuses and they have a really cool visually

00:07:13impressive fight in which Junior uses the paintbrush to turn him into cool, purple-y powered-up

00:07:17forms.

00:07:18Just when it looks like Mario's got the upper hand, Mega Legs descends on them with

00:07:22Kamek piloting, trying to assist Junior.

00:07:24Yoshi, however, eats Kamek and turns him into an egg, jumping into the pilot's seat and

00:07:28taking over.

00:07:29Chaos ensues and ultimately Bowser Jr., Kamek, and Mega Legs are sent back up to the UFO.

00:07:34The Mega Legs robot explodes and Peach's castle falls onto the planet below.

00:07:37Bowser's still frustrated with Mario, and yet again asks Mario to return him back to

00:07:42his regular size and free him.

00:07:44Bowser finds out, though, that everything that just happened was because Junior was looking

00:07:47for him, and Bowser is shocked.

00:07:49He says that he was a bad father, and it's surprised that Junior wants to see him.

00:07:53Bowser says that maybe he could reconnect with his son.

00:07:56Cut to Gateway Galaxy, a big sort of traveler's hub connecting all different worlds, filled with

00:08:01crazy different species from all different franchises and Mario games.

00:08:04We see Piantas, these wooden block guys from Galaxy 2, the metal cleaner guys from Galaxy,

00:08:10and more.

00:08:11Peach walks up to a poster of Rosalina, and suddenly has a flashback of when she was very

00:08:15young and holding onto a younger Rosalina's hand.

00:08:18Rosalina, however, let her go.

00:08:20Before she can figure out what this means, Toad is robbed.

00:08:22Ukiki the monkey takes Toad's bag, and he and the princess give chase, eventually finding

00:08:27themselves in a massive, seedy underbelly of the Gateway Galaxy, basically the Mos Eisley

00:08:32Cantina of the Mario universe, I guess.

00:08:34We then see that Bowser Jr. is still searching for Bowser, while meanwhile, he taunts Mario

00:08:39into finally punching him to turn him big again, by calling him a tiny, pathetic failure

00:08:43of a plumber.

00:08:44Bowser, now big, still claims he wants to be friends with Mario and Luigi.

00:08:47He doesn't turn on them immediately like you might expect him to.

00:08:51Meanwhile, Peach makes her way to a big, six-sided casino shaped like a coin block, where all the

00:08:55walls are walkable.

00:08:56It's a cool set piece.

00:08:58Peach and Toad battle with Wart and his crew, another visually impressive crazy action scene,

00:09:03and eventually get Wart to tell them where Rosalina is.

00:09:06Yes, while they started just by chasing the monkey that stole Toad's bag, they ended up

00:09:10getting info from Wart because apparently he knows stuff.

00:09:12This is kind of just one of those movies, you know what I'm saying?

00:09:15They go to do the next thing, and go to do the next thing, and go to do the next

00:09:19thing,

00:09:19and you don't necessarily have to link it up.

00:09:21Yes, they're chasing after a monkey that stole Toad's bag, and then they get to the

00:09:25place, and it turns out that they know the information they just so happen to need, and

00:09:28it's like, whatever.

00:09:29You know, there's a level of that we can accept, but we're not at that point yet.

00:09:33We're not at the criticism point yet.

00:09:36So to continue.

00:09:38Mario and Luigi are cornered by the Queen Bee.

00:09:40As it turns out, this planet is like Honey Hive from Galaxy, and ruled by bees.

00:09:45When the castle crash-landed after the Bowser Jr. UFO let it go, it destroyed flower fields,

00:09:50and the Queen wants them imprisoned to work off the damage they did, but Bowser volunteers

00:09:54himself instead, truly expecting to do the work, no tricks up his sleeve.

00:09:58Mario tells him that he might not be as bad as he thought.

00:10:01They leave and are brought to the Gateway Galaxy.

00:10:03We cut to Bowser working in the mines, hacking away at stones with the other bees, only to

00:10:08be rescued by Bowser Jr.

00:10:09They reunite, and Jr. reveals his full motivation.

00:10:12When Bowser Jr. was a kid, Bowser told him a bedtime story about how they would build their

00:10:16own planet called Planet Bowser, and it would have a universe-destroying canon, but they'd

00:10:21need the power of a space princess, aka Rosalina, to do so.

00:10:25This bedtime story, by the way, was told through puppets, which was super fun because it's

00:10:31animated characters doing the puppets, so it's animated Bowser with a puppet on his

00:10:35hand, doing the puppet show, I don't know, maybe it's just a me thing, but I thought

00:10:41it was just such a fun concept, it's puppets on puppets, you know what I'm saying?

00:10:46Anyways, Jr. has brought this bedtime story to life, and tells Bowser that he's created

00:10:50planet Bowser.

00:10:52In the Gateway Galaxy, Peach and Toad deal with Rob the Robot, who is remarkably slow

00:10:56and a pretty funny gag, and are led to the shipyard where we see Pikmin exit a tiny little

00:11:01ship, and we also meet Fox McCloud.

00:11:04There's this great bit where Fox explains who he is, and we see him and the other Star

00:11:08Fox characters in regular 2D animated form.

00:11:11Fox explains that his warp drive exploded, blew a giant hole in the fabric of space and

00:11:15time, and now he's been sucked into a different universe.

00:11:18He's trying to find a way to go home.

00:11:19He agrees to help fly the Princess and Toad to Space Junk Galaxy, where planet Bowser is,

00:11:24in exchange for some money.

00:11:25Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi finally arrive and meet up with Peach, Toad, and Fox.

00:11:29The six person team then fly in an R-Wing, while Star Fox music plays, and are ambushed

00:11:33by Bowser Jr.'s ship.

00:11:35Fox blows up the turrets on the underside of Jr.'s ship, however, inside the ship, Jr.

00:11:39has his own weapons cabinet.

00:11:41Inside of that, by the way, we see both Flood and the Poltergust.

00:11:44Jr. takes out a massive bazooka, but Bowser, however, is cautious, and asks Jr. not to

00:11:50kill Mario and Luigi.

00:11:51You can see that Bowser is conflicted.

00:11:53He loves his son, he wants to give him the life he told them the stories about, but he

00:11:57was truly starting to like Mario and Luigi, and wants to be their friend to some extent.

00:12:01Jr. decides not to kill them for his dad, and instead shoots them with the super scope,

00:12:06turning them into babies.

00:12:07No explanation is provided as to why this happens.

00:12:10Jr. drops the scope, and it flies down and crash lands with the R-Wing carrying our heroes.

00:12:14As Fox and Peach now on this new planet try to repair the ship, Toad and Yoshi try to

00:12:19get the super scope and turn Mario and Luigi into adults again, but are attacked by a massive

00:12:23actual T-Rex and have a big chase sequence.

00:12:26Finally, Yoshi manages to turn the babies back into adults, and the T-Rex back into a baby,

00:12:31and they meet up with Fox and Peach.

00:12:33Feeling hopeless, Luigi jokingly calls for help using Fox's radio and a trucker voice, and the

00:12:37Lumas from the Comet Observatory hears it.

00:12:40Meanwhile, Jr. tells Bowser that he's meant to be a bad guy, not friends with Mario and

00:12:44Luigi.

00:12:45Friends will just stab you in the back.

00:12:47They arrive at planet Bowser, and Bowser is awestruck.

00:12:51Cut back to Fox and the gang, as the Comet Observatory arrives, giving the heroes a viable

00:12:56ship to fly to planet Bowser.

00:12:58Peach goes to the library and reads the book about her from the beginning of the movie.

00:13:02The book reads,

00:13:04Once upon a time, there was a brave and noble princess named Peach.

00:13:07Her story begins many years ago when she lived on a small planet with her sister Rosalina.

00:13:12The two sisters were made of stardust.

00:13:14Their love burned as brightly as the stars themselves.

00:13:17Together, they could summon the power of the cosmos.

00:13:19We see, visually, a baby princess Peach touch hands with a young Rosalina, and have a sort

00:13:24of cosmic connection, summoning grass on a barren planet.

00:13:27The story continues.

00:13:29But evil forces wanted the power for themselves.

00:13:32Rosalina had to send Peach away, to safety.

00:13:35The toads raised and protected her until she grew strong enough to protect them.

00:13:39Peach realizes that Rosalina is actually her sister.

00:13:42Back at Planet Bowser, Junior shows Bowser everything.

00:13:45They begin to absorb Rosalina's power in a massive generator to power up their big universe

00:13:50destroying cannon that they're going to use to destroy the Mushroom Kingdom.

00:13:53Bowser is impressed, and fully commits to siding with Junior and being evil.

00:13:58He gives a rousing speech to his minions, and the final action sequence begins.

00:14:02Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Yoshi jump from the Comet Observatory and chase after Bowser

00:14:06and Junior in Planet Bowser.

00:14:07At one point, Mario and Peach fall into a pit, and we see Bowser Jr.'s advanced security

00:14:12system try and take them out.

00:14:14But from Bowser Jr.'s perspective, it's like an NES-style graphical interface showing 8-bit

00:14:19Mario and Peach jumping around a regular Mario level.

00:14:22It's super fun, that kind of thing.

00:14:24Same thing from the first movie, with all the little references and gags.

00:14:27After escaping Bowser Jr.'s trials, Mario and Peach make it to a big bridge, like in the

00:14:31original Super Mario Bros.

00:14:33Bowser appears and fights them, throwing axes and shooting fire.

00:14:36With Mario finally using one of the axes to cut down the bridge and send Bowser into the

00:14:40lava pit below.

00:14:42Junior comes out, distraught, only for Bowser to re-emerge as Dry Bones Bowser.

00:14:46Mario and Peach run towards Rosalina, with Mario closing the gate behind Peach, locking

00:14:51him and the two Bowsers outside, to let Peach have the best chance at getting Rosalina.

00:14:56Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi fight with Dry Bowser and Bowser Jr. in, you guessed it, a visually

00:15:00impressive fight with lots of fun gags and references.

00:15:03The highlight of the fight is when Luigi gets ahold of Bowser Jr.'s paintbrush and uses

00:15:07it to draw Mr. Game & Watch, but says,

00:15:10What?

00:15:10You know, I never learned how to draw.

00:15:12It's a funny way to have Mr. Game & Watch show up.

00:15:16Mr. Game & Watch then actually fights with Bowser on behalf of Luigi, before getting cut

00:15:20in half.

00:15:21Jr. uses his brush to create the dragon from Odyssey as his big final attack, which, for

00:15:26some reason, immediately tries eating him instead of Mario.

00:15:30Bowser's terrified, and Mario grabs the red star that makes you fly from Galaxy, and uses

00:15:35it to fly into the dragon, destroying him.

00:15:37The fight with the Bowsers is over, as Mario is now saved, Bowser Jr.

00:15:43Meanwhile, Peach makes her way to Rosalina, and breaks her out of the generator by touching

00:15:47hands like from before.

00:15:49Rosalina breaks free, and planet Bowser reforms into a grassy, nice planet instead.

00:15:53The Lumas asks to visit the Mushroom Kingdom, and say they want to see the castle, only

00:15:57to cut to the empty hole in the ground where the castle was.

00:16:00They all decide they'll build another castle, in a fun 2D sprite cutscene using 8-bit graphics,

00:16:06and Mario finishes it off by using the cape flying to the top and planting the flag.

00:16:10Credits.

00:16:12There are two post-credits scenes.

00:16:14The first shows Fox, who says that the princess has fixed his warp drive and he's going back

00:16:17to his home.

00:16:18Dry Bowser and Jr. are locked in prison together, with a Luma guard who jokingly threatens them.

00:16:24The second post-credits scene shows someone else getting robbed by Ukiki, only for none

00:16:29other than Daisy to show up, punch him, and save the day.

00:16:33The end.

00:16:34You know, I feel like that was a lot, but in reality the plot was very simple.

00:16:39This was not a very complex movie.

00:16:42I'm sure you're wondering what I left out.

00:16:44I, this is probably the shortest plot summary in any of these all lore explained videos.

00:16:50What did I leave out?

00:16:51Nothing.

00:16:52Like, this was it.

00:16:54They...

00:16:55I wanna save criticism for a little bit longer, but it is true that these characters in these

00:17:02movies are very passive, are very reactive, and a lot of, in both Mario movies, it's something

00:17:08happens and the characters then react.

00:17:10And that's the same in this movie.

00:17:12Like, Princess Peach, what did she do?

00:17:15Princess Peach got the Luma who told her to go and find Rosalina.

00:17:20So she goes to the Gateway Galaxy, and there she reacts to Toad getting robbed and chases

00:17:26after Ukiki, which leads her to Wart.

00:17:29And Wart openly mentions knowing something about Rosalina, which then makes Princess Peach want

00:17:34him to tell her what he knows, and that leads Princess Peach to go and find Star Fox, who...

00:17:41And it's like that kind of thing.

00:17:43It just keeps going, going, going.

00:17:44I could keep going, you know, forever.

00:17:45But it's very reactive.

00:17:47You know what I'm saying?

00:17:48Mario and Luigi, the only reason they end up getting to Peach is because the things happened

00:17:54to them.

00:17:54You know?

00:17:55Oh, Bowser Jr. sucked up the castle and dropped it on a planet, which just so happened to have

00:17:59a bee with a bug that would take them to the Gateway Galaxy.

00:18:02Boom.

00:18:03And that is how the plot is.

00:18:06There is very little...

00:18:08I had so much more to say, for example, with something like The Amazing Digital Circus when

00:18:12I did...

00:18:13I think that was the last All Lore Explained video I did, because The Amazing Digital Circus

00:18:16is filled with these, you know, dialogue moments and conversations and introspective

00:18:23shots and, you know, you could take something like, oh, I mean, I don't know how many of you

00:18:27have watched The Digital Circus, but if there was a scene where, you know, Pomni said something

00:18:32about her previous life to Jax, and Jax reacted weird, you could take that and sort of analyze

00:18:37it from so many different angles.

00:18:39You could, you know, the literal angle, what did Pomni actually say, what did Jax actually

00:18:42say, and then, oh, well, what does this say about the mischaracters?

00:18:45The Mario movie isn't like that.

00:18:48You know, I think that something that surprised me is that I, as I wrote the script, I remembered,

00:18:54oh, yeah, Donkey Kong was in one of the flashback scenes when the little Yoshi segment where

00:18:58where we saw a silly explanation as to how Yoshi ended up in the pipe, Donkey Kong showed

00:19:03up, and I remembered, oh, yeah, and then he showed up later, right?

00:19:07Wasn't, wasn't he around?

00:19:09And I realized, no, Donkey Kong wasn't in this movie at all, except for one little cameo.

00:19:14And so that's the thing, like, could you say that he was missed, that his character, you

00:19:20know, not having him in this film deeply affected it?

00:19:23No.

00:19:23You know what I'm saying?

00:19:24And so I, I, when you're, when you're listening to this and thinking like, well, wait, what

00:19:27was the story?

00:19:28The only real story outside of, of action happening, because it has to happen, is that Princess Peach

00:19:38was sad because she didn't know her family, and then it turns out that her family was Rosalina,

00:19:42and they had this sort of cosmic backstory that she didn't know about, so she wants to save

00:19:47Rosalina, and she does.

00:19:48That's it.

00:19:50There is no stakes outside of Rosalina's safety, and, I mean, there are in the sense

00:19:56that Bowser Jr. is going to use Rosalina to power the cannon that can destroy planets,

00:20:01but, I mean, that's just like a, like a big third act final reason that you have to stop

00:20:08Bowser, and not much more.

00:20:10And so, throughout this whole movie, like, there's, there's not much to say.

00:20:17There, there's not much to say about the characters.

00:20:19There's not much to say about the story.

00:20:20That was it.

00:20:23I, I want to talk more lore, though, and this is important because I don't really think

00:20:29this movie has any.

00:20:30Yes, you heard me right.

00:20:31I know that's either obvious or obviously wrong based on who you are.

00:20:34You might be saying, yeah, of course the Mario movie wouldn't have any lore, dummy.

00:20:38It's the Mario movie.

00:20:39It's probably something, I, I think, that's, that's something that a lot of you would say

00:20:43to me, but others would probably scoff at me and say, we just saw Pianta's, Pikmin,

00:20:47Star Fox, Rob, and Mr. Game & Watch all at once.

00:20:51Here's my thought.

00:20:53When Fox talked about how he's from another universe, and we see him actually animated

00:20:57in 2D, I sort of thought, okay, this makes sense if they're actually doing it.

00:21:02They're setting up for a Smash Bros movie.

00:21:04Fox is from another universe, meaning that there are multiple Nintendo universes.

00:21:10Any character that doesn't make sense to be in the Mario universe can potentially join

00:21:14the Smash Bros movie if they're in a different universe from Mario and get there like Fox

00:21:19did.

00:21:20I almost felt like perhaps showing us this little glimpse of Fox was like teasing more.

00:21:25There could be a story in this other universe.

00:21:28However, I think this is kind of quickly thrown out the window.

00:21:30Mr. Game & Watch, Rob, and Pikmin are not at all tied to the idea of being anything other

00:21:35than fan service.

00:21:37There is no establishing these characters.

00:21:39Mr. Game & Watch is even a stick figure drawing who gets torn in half rather than a video game

00:21:43character.

00:21:44There is no indication that Star Fox has any plans to join back up with Mario or re-enter

00:21:49the Mario universe.

00:21:50I saw plenty of people saying that the reason they had all these crossovers and the reason

00:21:54they did Galaxy in the first place is to cast a wide net, so to speak, introduce as many

00:21:59characters as they can, grow the Mario universe as fast as they can, and build towards that

00:22:03Smash movie.

00:22:05I think that's false.

00:22:06I don't think that's why they did Mario Galaxy, and I think that that's not happening.

00:22:10On top of the recent Miyamoto comments, which admittedly are sort of being taken out of context,

00:22:16he said that in terms of the Mario movie, it's not a Super Smash Bros movie, and so you

00:22:22can't be expecting a Mario movie where all the Nintendo characters appear.

00:22:25However, he does like doing things like putting the Pikmin in the movies.

00:22:29However, the way he said it, I mean, I don't think there's going to be a Smash Bros movie

00:22:34anytime soon.

00:22:36They didn't grow the Mario universe itself with this movie whatsoever.

00:22:40We see that Wart and his gang appear, sure, that's cool, but outside of that, I wouldn't

00:22:44say that that counts as growing a universe.

00:22:46Sure, the Pikmin could appear in the future, but it's not like they were anything other than

00:22:50a little gag reference for fans.

00:22:52Or take, for example, Rosalina.

00:22:55There was a good amount that you could have done with Rosalina that was simply chosen not

00:22:59to be done.

00:23:00Rosalina's backstory, for example, was not only rewritten with the Peach Sister twist,

00:23:04but everything from the original book in Galaxy was discarded.

00:23:08Rosalina does nothing, serves no other purpose than to be saved.

00:23:11Going into the next Mario movie, we're not in some enlightened age of Mario where,

00:23:15oh, after Galaxy, now we have all these things established we can work with.

00:23:19We have just as much as the first movie.

00:23:22I'll get into why I think this is later, but I think it's going to be more of the same.

00:23:26Maybe the next one will be called Mario Sunshine, or Super Mario and the Rise of Bowser, or something

00:23:31like that, and it'll be another generic adventure with Mario and his friends, and possibly a Nintendo

00:23:36icon who shows up as a helpful side character.

00:23:39Maybe next time, who knows, it'll be Kirby or Ness.

00:23:42For everything that could theoretically be spoken about here, there's nothing to actually

00:23:46say about it.

00:23:47What did you think of the inclusion of the Mario 2 characters?

00:23:50What could that mean for the further development of this franchise?

00:23:53Nothing, really.

00:23:54They were simple goons who served as obstacles for less than three minutes.

00:23:57They don't have backstory, and they weren't written in a way that makes you think they'll

00:24:00be back for more.

00:24:02What's up with Daisy?

00:24:03Well, I don't know, man, but based on Rosalina's five to ten minutes of screen time

00:24:07max, I doubt much is up with Daisy.

00:24:10Yoshi, too, for as much fun as I think he was as a character, there's nothing to actually

00:24:14say about him.

00:24:15If this was the first movie, I'd have more to say about the actual deep lore.

00:24:19I'd be able to talk about the way that Brooklyn and the Mushroom Kingdom are separated.

00:24:22I'd question exactly how the warp pipes work and who built them.

00:24:25I'd try and nail down exactly what kind of world the film was building.

00:24:29But even compared to the first one, which is by no means a good movie, I don't think

00:24:33this one does any of that, even a little.

00:24:37We're taken to space not as a way to expand the Mario universe, but as an excuse to completely

00:24:42change the scenery as fast as humanly possible, and to put whatever they want in front of

00:24:46our faces.

00:24:47I can't ask a question like, where might the Pikmin have come from?

00:24:50Because that race is annoying questions.

00:24:52We haven't seen any environment in these movies in which the Pikmin would be suited as

00:24:56they're so tiny.

00:24:57So the answer is either they're landing on regular planets like the ones we've seen

00:25:02and are blending in because they're so small, or there are specific tiny planets meant for

00:25:06them.

00:25:07The existence of the Pikmin and Olimar at Gateway Galaxy implies that they're aware

00:25:10of their size being much smaller than everyone else in the world.

00:25:13But the problem I'm having here is that this is a pointless question.

00:25:16There is no answer to this.

00:25:18Pikmin showed up because it's a Pikmin reference.

00:25:21That's it.

00:25:23Fox was very cool.

00:25:24I do hope we get either a standalone 2D or 3D movie.

00:25:28The brief introduction to Fox was probably the only really great part of the entire movie.

00:25:33They cut to an actual photo of Slippy, like the Slippy UI screen from Star Fox 64, and

00:25:39it was the only part of the movie to get an actual vocal, you-could-hear-it laugh out of

00:25:43me.

00:25:44But I wouldn't say that Fox is gearing up to return to this universe anytime soon.

00:25:48The Mario movies, in my opinion, are like Nintendo's show floor, to utilize whatever characters

00:25:53they want in whatever ways they want, allowing you to test-drive them around for a little

00:25:56while before whisking them backstage where you'll possibly never see them again.

00:25:59But that doesn't matter because they've already made their money on this project, and

00:26:03next time they'll have even more enticing characters show up.

00:26:06I view these movies as sort of singular things.

00:26:09It's not so much that, you know, I've told this story before, I think.

00:26:13Actually, I'm not sure, but in Halloween Horror Nights, I was at Halloween Horror Nights at

00:26:17Universal Studios online for Haunted House, and a couple guys in front of me were these

00:26:22two guys, and they were, I think they were a little bit older than me, and they were

00:26:26talking about the Mario movie, and they said, oh, dude, did you hear that Mario Galaxy

00:26:29was announced?

00:26:30That's crazy.

00:26:31And the guy was like, yeah, what, how could they do that already?

00:26:35And I was, I was so confused, because then the next guy said in response, which is even

00:26:40better, I don't know how they're doing Galaxy already, they haven't even introduced Yoshi.

00:26:45Now, you can say that this is like fake people I've made up, I promise you they were real.

00:26:49And, I mean, all power to them for liking that kind of thing and for talking like that,

00:26:53but in my opinion, I remember thinking like, what?

00:26:56Like, how could you, they don't, there's nothing to introduce, that you don't have

00:27:02to explain Yoshi before you get to Galaxy.

00:27:04The amount of people that I've seen that were like, man, I would have liked them to

00:27:07take the Mario universe a little slower.

00:27:09I don't want to jump right into Galaxy.

00:27:11I wish we had gotten Mario 2, 3, World as movies first.

00:27:15What, what, where's the movie in that?

00:27:18Where, where's the movie in, in Mario World?

00:27:21You know what I'm saying?

00:27:22I mean, what, oh, well, we could have done the story where Mario has to fight the Koopalings

00:27:28or something.

00:27:29Like, all of these Mario games are, there's a good guy who is objectively good, will never,

00:27:34ever ask anything about his character because he's Super Mario and you're playing as him.

00:27:38And there's a bad guy named Bowser who's captured the princess.

00:27:41If you want to do Mario 3, Mario World, Super Mario, any of them like that, the movie would

00:27:51be pretty darn simple and pretty darn similar to the first one, you know?

00:27:55Like, that first one was all of those classic Marios in one.

00:27:58It wasn't the first Mario Brothers game, you know what I'm saying?

00:28:02And, and that's just this thing that I, I think is, is weird where people were like,

00:28:07oh, it's the Galaxy movie, so they're adapting the story of Galaxy.

00:28:10Galaxy, when it was clear, at least to me from the beginning, they were never going

00:28:13to adapt the story of Galaxy.

00:28:14This is the concept of Mario Galaxy.

00:28:17It's, it's very much like how Nintendo operates with their games.

00:28:20You know how every Nintendo game now has to have some big gimmick that is sold to people,

00:28:24even though it's, it's a small part of the game.

00:28:26You know, I, to be honest with you, I have kind of been disappointed with Nintendo recently,

00:28:31so I can't even think of a good example.

00:28:33Oh, no, I can.

00:28:34Metroid Prime 4 had the motorcycle.

00:28:36Did you play Metroid Prime 4?

00:28:37Did you know that the worst part of the gosh darn game is the motorcycle?

00:28:41And yet that was the big selling point.

00:28:43They, if they had, if they could have called it Metroid Prime 4, too fast, too furious,

00:28:49two Metroids, they would have.

00:28:50They loved that darn motorcycle so much.

00:28:52There was an amiibo of the motorcycle.

00:28:54Are you kidding me?

00:28:55Um, and like, if you remember any of the Mario Tennis ones, like Mario Tennis Ultra Smash,

00:29:00the whole game is sold on the concept of the Ultra Smash.

00:29:04Meanwhile, the Ultra Smash is just, yeah, you know, you can charge up a special move.

00:29:09That's how I view the Mario Galaxy movie.

00:29:12It is not, nobody sat in a room and said, you know, guys, we should adapt the story of Galaxy.

00:29:18I think there's a lot there.

00:29:19Nobody says that.

00:29:21They say, okay, we need to repackage the movie we've already basically made.

00:29:25We want to make another Mario movie, and we want to have similar beats, similar, you know, ideas,

00:29:33but we want to put in characters that people, you know, like different characters.

00:29:36We want to put in, you know, how can we sell another movie?

00:29:39How can we make people go back and basically watch the same movie?

00:29:42And I'm not saying this in like a malicious way.

00:29:44This is kind of all movies.

00:29:45It is very rare that the sequel of a movie is uniquely different.

00:29:50Like Terminator 2 is like the internet YouTube film bro answer for what a good sequel is,

00:29:56and it's true because it's so different.

00:29:59It completely twists everything.

00:30:00With something like Mario or Home Alone or, boy, I don't know, Sonic the Hedgehog,

00:30:06there's only so much you can do to convince people that this new movie is different enough from the first

00:30:11to be worth seeing.

00:30:13And one of those things is like what Mario does.

00:30:16This isn't Mario.

00:30:17This is the Mario Galaxy movie.

00:30:19We're going to have Brie Larson as Rosalina, and we're going to have—

00:30:23And yes, they obviously pull from the game, but the galaxy theming, the space theming,

00:30:29it's not so much because they want to tell that story.

00:30:31It's because they need some aesthetic to package the movie with to sell it as a sequel.

00:30:37And that's what they do.

00:30:38You know, that's why Galaxy exists as it does, and that's why I see something like, you know,

00:30:44I want to see this like some other people do.

00:30:46I want to see this like the guys online at Universal did.

00:30:49I want to be able to go home and talk to my friends and say like,

00:30:52oh my gosh, guys, how are they going to do Daisy?

00:30:54Like, what are they going to do with Daisy?

00:30:56I think the answer is they're looking for celebrities, and they're eventually going to find one,

00:31:01and they'll do either something where it's just part of the team or nothing, you know, like Rosalina.

00:31:09I will say, as far as the voice casting goes, because, I mean, it's kind of getting away from me.

00:31:13The cynicism, the negativity, it's escaping.

00:31:17But so before I get there, I will say that the voices were fine.

00:31:20I didn't have a problem with Chris Pratt Mario.

00:31:22Sorry, guys.

00:31:22I thought I was fine.

00:31:24I actually really liked Charlie DeLuigi.

00:31:28Brie Larson was really good as Rosalina.

00:31:30I wish she had more lines.

00:31:31I have no problem with Brie Larson whatsoever.

00:31:35No, I'm not one of those YouTubers, guys.

00:31:37I thought she was great.

00:31:38I thought, leading into the movie, I actually really enjoyed seeing how much she loved Mario and Galaxy,

00:31:43and like, that was like a cool thing.

00:31:44Like, oh, that's a perfect, perfect actor for Rosalina.

00:31:49You've got it right there.

00:31:50And then when I saw the movie, and she was so underutilized, I was like, boy, what was the point

00:31:56of that?

00:31:57And I actually think it's funny, because I think I know the point of that.

00:32:00And it's the same reason that Donald Glover was cast as Yoshi.

00:32:03I love Donald Glover.

00:32:05This is probably the lamest, most mainstream example, but I love Community.

00:32:12It's a very good show.

00:32:13Okay, I'm sorry.

00:32:14I know that's mainstream.

00:32:16I think he's a great actor.

00:32:18I think he's fantastic.

00:32:20He said the word Yoshi the whole film.

00:32:22Okay, I'm not going to pretend like he gave a standout performance here.

00:32:25And I think the interesting question is, why cast him as Yoshi?

00:32:30And I know that you might be saying, oh, well, yeah, they cast everybody as celebrities.

00:32:34But why cast Donald Glover as Yoshi?

00:32:37Why cast him as Yoshi?

00:32:39And the answer, in my opinion, is because they're saying to themselves, okay, we're going to have a creature that

00:32:44only says Yoshi the whole film.

00:32:46It doesn't matter who the voice is, because we have enough, we have other voices that we're bringing on.

00:32:51In my opinion, it comes from a place of, what if we could get Donald Glover fans or people that

00:32:58like him or might like him to watch the Mario Galaxy movie?

00:33:01To cast a wider net.

00:33:04And the way I see it, you know, Donald Glover was on the press tour for the Mario Galaxy movie.

00:33:09If you watch any, you know, promotional Jimmy Fallon podcast, you know, news, any of those things.

00:33:19Or it's like Good Morning America, where it's like the stars of Mario talk about the movie.

00:33:22He's there.

00:33:23And, I mean, he should be there.

00:33:25He's a main character.

00:33:26But I think, in my opinion, that's Nintendo's point of hiring him.

00:33:29It's to get another face out there to potentially sell it to more people who might not like Chris Pratt

00:33:35or Charlie Day or who, you know, the people that didn't see the first one, that weren't convinced.

00:33:39Here's new people.

00:33:40And maybe you'll be convinced to see the second one.

00:33:42I wouldn't be surprised if the third one's got a whole bunch of other well-known actors in very minor

00:33:47roles.

00:33:48As far as the actual deep lore of the movie goes, the only thing that I'd say is a mystery

00:33:53or worth theorizing about is when, in Rosalina's story about Peach as a girl, there were evil forces that wanted

00:34:02Peach and Rosalina's power for themselves.

00:34:05What does that mean?

00:34:06Who were the evil forces?

00:34:07It presumably wasn't Bowser, so could we be actually secretly hinting towards a bigger bad in the Mario universe?

00:34:13Or will this never be brought up again?

00:34:15Also worth mentioning, it's confirmed that Rosalina and Peach are literally made of stardust.

00:34:20What does that mean for them?

00:34:21Again, I kind of think nothing, really.

00:34:24Um, another thing I think that is worth talking about, because I know I just got done saying this,

00:34:29no, there's no development, there's no characters, there's no lore, there's no deepness, you're not supposed to think about anything.

00:34:34Um, but I will say it definitely seemed like they were trying to make the audience think that Bowser was,

00:34:40you know, conflicted.

00:34:41He wanted to be a good guy, like, in the beginning, when Mario turns him big again, you think that

00:34:45Bowser's going to immediately flip.

00:34:47But he doesn't.

00:34:48He actually helps them out, and he genuinely makes the suggestion of becoming, you know, a worker in the mines

00:34:55for these bees,

00:34:56just so that Mario and Luigi can go save Rosalina.

00:34:59And it's like, okay, well, hold on, maybe Bowser's kind of not totally evil, and then he's upset when Bowser

00:35:06Jr.'s, you know, trying to kill them.

00:35:07And it's like, you know, I kind of think Nintendo's doing a thing here where they're building towards Bowser being

00:35:14a friend of Mario and Luigi.

00:35:16But then they go back on that, and they do a thing where Bowser's like, you know, he's angry, and

00:35:21he's like, you know, you humiliate me and turn me small.

00:35:24And it's like, it was hard for me to determine as an audience member where exactly it was meant to

00:35:31be going, like, emotionally, I guess.

00:35:34Like, when you do something like that in a film, right, when you have a character potential good, potential bad,

00:35:40and you have a character like Bowser, let's just use Bowser for an example,

00:35:45you sort of show that he's got a soft side to him, and he actually likes Mario and Luigi,

00:35:49and then, you know, obviously he is Bowser, and you sort of show that he's battling with it internally.

00:35:54And when he's with Jr. on the ship, and he's like, oh, I don't want you to kill Mario and

00:35:58Luigi,

00:35:59you're sort of doing a thing where you are showing that it's conflicting,

00:36:03and is Bowser going to go to the bad side or the good side?

00:36:08Is Bowser going to fully align with Jr., or is Bowser going to instead, you know,

00:36:13end up saving the day and stopping Jr. because he says, like, I've been a bad father.

00:36:18I never meant to do this.

00:36:21I never meant to make you think that friends backstab you, Jr.

00:36:26I, I, you know, you gotta, if you are mean, then there's nobody in your life.

00:36:31You know, something like that.

00:36:33Which, I mean, I guess Nintendo's allergic to something like that,

00:36:36because that would involve a character going through an arc and coming out differently at the end of the tunnel.

00:36:41But, um, I'm joking.

00:36:43But, you know, instead what they do is sort of, they have their cake and eat it too.

00:36:48They have Bowser sort of conflicted, and then he fully sides with Jr.,

00:36:51but then there's still a side of him that's not.

00:36:52And then at the end of the movie, Mario helps him and saves Jr.'s life,

00:36:57and there's clearly, like, an emotional level to Bowser,

00:37:01but it doesn't really change anything.

00:37:02And he's still in the same spot he's in in the first movie.

00:37:04So is it worth, you know, opening Bowser up to potential, you know, sincerity with Mario and Luigi

00:37:11if all you're going to do is close it back down and say, like,

00:37:14yeah, you know, I guess he could like Mario and Luigi in some theoretical universe,

00:37:18but he's Bowser, so he's going to be the villain of the next one.

00:37:20Like, why do that, you know?

00:37:22I actually think that just the little thing I've suggested here, um, make Bowser turn.

00:37:29Make Bowser, in the end of this movie, decide not to kill Mario and Luigi and say, like, Jr., no.

00:37:34You know, you could have had the emotional arc.

00:37:38You have Bowser.

00:37:39I mean, I'm sorry, I sound crazy, but you've got a character who has a clear flaw,

00:37:48and you have the potential to make them go through a narrative arc in which they realize that they're wrong

00:37:55and come out better.

00:37:56I know this ties into two more of my opinions.

00:38:02I'll get to it in a minute.

00:38:04Making Rosalina and Peach Sisters destroys the Mario canon.

00:38:07No, I'm joking.

00:38:08But for real, I do think it's indicative of Rosalina not having anything to do in this movie.

00:38:13So to try and glue her back into the main plot, they add this random twist.

00:38:16I think it's also because Nintendo is allergic to expanding their franchises.

00:38:21When they have the key brand icons locked in, there is no going back.

00:38:24Quick, I want you to do something for me.

00:38:26Are you ready?

00:38:26Think of Super Mario Birthday Decorations.

00:38:30Did you think of the New Super Mario Bros. style?

00:38:32Of that one Monty Mole render on, like, a happy birthday sign?

00:38:36Of Bowser with his arms crossed?

00:38:38That's what I'm talking about.

00:38:40Mario Games will only ever have Bowser as the main villain.

00:38:43The plot will only ever revolve around rescuing Peach.

00:38:46And it will go on like that forever and ever.

00:38:48This is, in my opinion, an example of that.

00:38:51You can't have some random, unknown character showing up and being all-important.

00:38:55Rosalina needs to be tied to Peach in the eyes of Nintendo.

00:38:58Somehow make them related so that she feels more like an extension of Princess Peach than her own character.

00:39:04This is sort of bleeding into my own thoughts on the film, so I don't think I need to hide

00:39:07it anymore.

00:39:09I was not the biggest fan of this film.

00:39:11The thing is, it wasn't as insulting as people are claiming.

00:39:14It's just not really a movie.

00:39:17When the first FNAF came out, the FNAF movie, I should say,

00:39:20I specifically criticized the way that fans just watch to see things they like on the screen.

00:39:24No nuance, no interesting takes on the source material, just things they know.

00:39:28They want to see it presented.

00:39:31I said specifically they want, basically, visual encyclopedias.

00:39:34That is very much still true.

00:39:36And to an extent, I think this movie checks that box.

00:39:39Warp, Birdo, Mr. Game & Watch, Rob the Robot, Fox McCloud, Bowser Jr., Mega Legs,

00:39:45and then they all jump and fly and fight like action figures.

00:39:48The obvious problem that everyone has said already is that there's no story.

00:39:53This is, in my opinion, a Pandora's box-like statement,

00:39:56as I think it goes so much deeper than a statement as simple as,

00:40:01it needs a better story.

00:40:03So, let's finally talk about this, okay?

00:40:05You've seen the Rotten Tomatoes scores.

00:40:06They're very bad.

00:40:07Is the Mario movie bad?

00:40:09Is the Mario Galaxy movie bad?

00:40:11What is the problem, and what does it mean to have a bad story?

00:40:15I think that there are two central problems that go hand-in-hand.

00:40:18Okay, first of all, by the way, to answer your question,

00:40:20yeah, the Mario movie's bad.

00:40:21The Mario Galaxy movie is also bad.

00:40:23And the reason I say the word bad is because I'm not the kind of person

00:40:26to say, like, oh, it's okay.

00:40:28Oh, that's okay.

00:40:29I feel firmly.

00:40:32I'm sorry about that, but I feel firmly.

00:40:36And as much as I didn't hate the Mario Galaxy movie,

00:40:39I wouldn't tell anyone with a straight face it was a good movie.

00:40:45Here's the thing.

00:40:46There are two words that are used very frequently,

00:40:49one of which is obviously story,

00:40:50and the other of which is pacing.

00:40:52To talk about pacing very quickly,

00:40:54I think that the biggest problem with the first Mario movie

00:40:58was probably the pacing.

00:40:59And I think pacing is a bad word to use

00:41:02because nobody really knows what they're talking about.

00:41:04I saw someone say, right before the movie came out,

00:41:07like, it was a review of Galaxy.

00:41:08This was, like, yesterday.

00:41:09One of the reviewers said, like, oh, you know, this was breakneck speed.

00:41:13Things just happened so fast,

00:41:15and nobody was properly introduced.

00:41:18And, you know, we never have time to emotionally sit with any B,

00:41:21and there was no underlying narrative that tied these things together.

00:41:26Things just kept happening.

00:41:27And one of the comments was from, like, Super Mario Evan number one Mario fan 11,

00:41:33who said, like, so is the pacing bad this time, do you think, or no?

00:41:37It's like, I'm sorry, but people are using the term pacing

00:41:42without really understanding.

00:41:44They're seeing that the common trend is, you know,

00:41:46in fandom Twitter, in Mario fandom,

00:41:49oh, the pacing of the Mario movie was bad.

00:41:51And in my opinion, I think the problem is the word pacing itself.

00:41:57I think a better word for pacing,

00:42:00because pacing implies speed, how fast things are happening.

00:42:03But I don't think that that is a valid way to judge the pacing of a movie.

00:42:10Like, I can think of movies with lots of things happening very fast, you know.

00:42:13I could describe movies that feel slow and feel fast,

00:42:17and I could make them feel the opposite way by the way I described the plot.

00:42:21Like, you know, I'm trying to think of an example off the top of my head.

00:42:24I'm never good at that.

00:42:25I'm never good at that.

00:42:27I think you could take a movie like Bullet Train,

00:42:30and you could say, Bullet Train has this happened,

00:42:34and this happened, and this happened, and this happened, and this happened,

00:42:36therefore it's bad pacing.

00:42:37But I think the pacing is fine,

00:42:39because I think that you have time to sit with everything.

00:42:41There is no thing has to happen.

00:42:44And you barely introduce anything before it happens.

00:42:47You have time to sit with everything.

00:42:49And that's why I love that movie so much.

00:42:52In the case of this discussion,

00:42:55I think that it would be better to not use the word pacing.

00:42:58I think it would be better to use the word digestion,

00:43:00which is a gross word to say about movie facts,

00:43:03about how good a movie is.

00:43:05But I do think digestion is a better term,

00:43:08because the problem isn't so much that things have to happen fast.

00:43:11The problem is how long you have

00:43:14and how well you digest everything that happens in the movie.

00:43:18You know, I re-watched the Mario movie the other day

00:43:21to get a good idea of just, you know,

00:43:23what to expect for the Galaxy movie.

00:43:25And the thing that shocked me the most was that

00:43:27I think it was like the third...

00:43:29Peach and Mario's first conversation was just so awkward, right?

00:43:32Mario shows up, and Peach says,

00:43:35What? You're a human?

00:43:37Oh my gosh, where did you come from?

00:43:39And Mario says,

00:43:40Me and my brother came from Brooklyn,

00:43:42and then I fell in this pipe,

00:43:43and he's in the pipe,

00:43:44and he's in the Darklands or whatever.

00:43:48And Peach goes,

00:43:50Oh my, if he's in the Darklands,

00:43:51it might already be too late.

00:43:52Bowser's gonna kill him.

00:43:53And Mario goes,

00:43:54What? How can we stop him?

00:43:56And Peach says,

00:43:56Let's go see what you've got.

00:43:57And then takes him to the obstacle course.

00:43:59And it's like, slow down.

00:44:00Like, these are two characters meeting for the first time.

00:44:04You need to have Mario introduce himself.

00:44:08You need to have these characters.

00:44:09Like, the third thing Peach says is,

00:44:11Okay, let's go see what you're made of.

00:44:13Let's go to the obstacle course.

00:44:15Like, who are these characters to each other?

00:44:17You know what I mean?

00:44:19I think that the problem is digestion.

00:44:23We don't have the...

00:44:24I'm gonna use Bullet Train for example.

00:44:25Okay, here's Bullet Train.

00:44:27We have to establish two assassins,

00:44:29and we have to establish

00:44:31how they're different from each other,

00:44:33what their personalities are,

00:44:34and also who they are as a group.

00:44:36And so within a few minutes of each other,

00:44:38of itself,

00:44:39we get a scene where we see them argue

00:44:42about how many kills they got

00:44:45on their last assassination mission.

00:44:49And it's funny

00:44:50because you see their personalities in the argument.

00:44:52And then they cut back to show you

00:44:55what the actual truth was

00:44:56as they go through the assassination mission

00:44:59and they show how many people they killed.

00:45:01And then we cut back

00:45:02and we then see

00:45:04that the one assassin

00:45:05is a big fan of Thomas the Tank Engine

00:45:07and uses Thomas the Tank Engine stickers

00:45:09to describe people.

00:45:10And it's just like,

00:45:11this is not anything crazy.

00:45:14I'm not saying like,

00:45:15listen how good this is.

00:45:16It's just,

00:45:17hey, look,

00:45:17they had two characters

00:45:18in order to make them unique

00:45:19and interesting

00:45:20and different than the other characters

00:45:22and also different than each other.

00:45:23they had unique personality traits.

00:45:26They just had them talk to each other.

00:45:28You know,

00:45:28they had them talk to each other.

00:45:30They didn't do that in the Mario movie.

00:45:32Mario barely has time to talk to anyone.

00:45:34Like 90% of conversations

00:45:35in the first Mario movie

00:45:36is Mario going,

00:45:37hey, what?

00:45:38Hey, wait a minute.

00:45:39Wait, where are you going?

00:45:40Hey, wait a minute.

00:45:41And it's like,

00:45:42like Toad meets him.

00:45:43He's like,

00:45:43oh, hey, Mario.

00:45:44All right, come on.

00:45:44Let's go.

00:45:45Mushroom Kingdom.

00:45:46And Mario's like,

00:45:46hey, wait a minute.

00:45:47That's the whole thing.

00:45:49And then,

00:45:54I think that,

00:45:55you know,

00:45:55a lot of people said,

00:45:56oh,

00:45:57I saw this post on Twitter

00:45:58that was like,

00:45:58the scene on the Rainbow Road

00:46:00from the first movie

00:46:00where Mario and Peach

00:46:02are sort of like being flirty

00:46:03and talking back and forth

00:46:04and Donkey Kong comes

00:46:05and makes fun of Mario.

00:46:06That's so good.

00:46:07They should include more scenes like that.

00:46:08And yeah, they should

00:46:09because that's like the first time

00:46:10that any of these characters

00:46:12have actual characterization

00:46:13in the film

00:46:14that's like done properly.

00:46:16So yeah,

00:46:16I think pacing is a potential issue.

00:46:20I don't know how bad

00:46:21I thought the pacing was

00:46:22in this film.

00:46:24And that really comes down

00:46:25to the second thing,

00:46:26which is the story.

00:46:28Your characters need to be something.

00:46:32I said earlier that Donkey Kong

00:46:33wasn't in this film

00:46:35and that I wasn't,

00:46:36I didn't realize it

00:46:37until after the fact.

00:46:38And I think that that's

00:46:39a very bad thing

00:46:40because if all of your characters

00:46:42are replaceable

00:46:43with other characters,

00:46:44if none of your characters

00:46:45have any element of uniqueness

00:46:47that makes them who they are,

00:46:49that's bad.

00:46:50Like,

00:46:51when you're writing a story,

00:46:52very rarely

00:46:54is it,

00:46:55hey, let me come up

00:46:55with a fun world,

00:46:57let me come up

00:46:58with a crazy character,

00:46:59let me come up

00:47:00with a ridiculous villain,

00:47:01let me come up

00:47:02with a whole society

00:47:03and a weird,

00:47:04unique system.

00:47:06Oh, shoot,

00:47:06now I guess I gotta

00:47:07come up with a theme

00:47:08for all this

00:47:09and some story stuff,

00:47:10don't I?

00:47:10That's not how it works,

00:47:11right?

00:47:12When you are,

00:47:13you know,

00:47:13John Pixar,

00:47:13you come up

00:47:14with a,

00:47:14I'd like to make

00:47:15a movie about

00:47:17environmental stuff

00:47:18and,

00:47:19you know,

00:47:21this and that

00:47:21and then you make

00:47:22WALL-E based off

00:47:23of that

00:47:23or you say,

00:47:24oh,

00:47:25I'd like to make

00:47:25a movie about,

00:47:27you know,

00:47:29I don't know,

00:47:30I don't know,

00:47:30I can't think of the,

00:47:31gosh darn,

00:47:32I want to make a movie

00:47:33about the,

00:47:34I can't think of

00:47:35an example I am,

00:47:35I hate coming up

00:47:36with examples

00:47:38but in a case like this,

00:47:40like,

00:47:40all your characters

00:47:41need to do something

00:47:42for the main story,

00:47:43okay?

00:47:43They all need to tie in.

00:47:44I think that there is

00:47:46a good children's animated film

00:47:48that has a good story

00:47:50that is enjoyable for adults,

00:47:52that is a children's film

00:47:54that does not have

00:47:55a very deep story

00:47:56and yet it manages

00:47:57to be extremely enjoyable

00:47:58because it does

00:47:59everything right

00:48:00and I think it's

00:48:01Despicable Me

00:48:02which is probably

00:48:03not the movie

00:48:04you'd think I'd say.

00:48:05You'd think I'd give you

00:48:06something like Toy Story

00:48:06or Monsters, Inc.,

00:48:07but those are too easy

00:48:08and too actually great

00:48:11to really use

00:48:12as an example.

00:48:13They're too easy to say,

00:48:14yeah, well,

00:48:14those are perfect.

00:48:14Mario movie's not

00:48:15going to be a Toy Story.

00:48:16I think it could be

00:48:17very much better

00:48:18than a Despicable Me.

00:48:20Despicable Me

00:48:21is a very fun movie

00:48:21because it's fun

00:48:22to see the characters.

00:48:23You are immediately

00:48:25introduced to

00:48:25a very unique character

00:48:26you've never seen before

00:48:27who is Gru

00:48:28and he's a villain

00:48:29and he's not just a villain

00:48:30in the super villain sense.

00:48:32He's a villain in society

00:48:33and he freezes people

00:48:34to get ahead

00:48:35on the coffee shop line

00:48:36and that's enjoyable

00:48:37to watch as someone

00:48:38who will never do that.

00:48:40You're not going to do that

00:48:41and it's enjoyable

00:48:42to see him do these things

00:48:43that you kind of wish

00:48:44you could do

00:48:44and so that's fun

00:48:46and then you see

00:48:47the three girls

00:48:48who are, you know,

00:48:49they're orphans

00:48:51and they're sort of

00:48:52really badly mistreated

00:48:53in their adoption home

00:48:54and you sort of feel

00:48:55very bad for them.

00:48:56so when they go to Gru

00:48:57and Gru starts to like

00:48:59destroy the world

00:49:01for them

00:49:02that's extremely satisfying

00:49:04with the scene

00:49:05where Gru wins

00:49:06what's her name

00:49:07the doll

00:49:07the unicorn

00:49:09because he

00:49:11destroys the carnival game

00:49:12that the guy was like

00:49:13being a jerk with

00:49:14like that's really satisfying

00:49:16to watch

00:49:16and it's also fun

00:49:17to see Gru talk

00:49:18with the girls

00:49:18because those characters

00:49:20you know

00:49:20bounce off each other

00:49:21really well

00:49:23and on top of the characters

00:49:25there's also a good

00:49:26story as a whole

00:49:27there's also

00:49:28you know

00:49:29like the plot

00:49:30is very interesting

00:49:30if Gru wants to steal the moon

00:49:32you see

00:49:33through the plot

00:49:34who Gru is

00:49:34you see as

00:49:35when he

00:49:35you know

00:49:36when the bank chooses

00:49:37not to fund him

00:49:38and instead gives the money

00:49:39to Vector

00:49:39you could see that he

00:49:40he sort of still

00:49:42powers through

00:49:43with the help

00:49:43from the minions

00:49:44and like

00:49:44you get a full sense

00:49:46of who Gru is

00:49:46as a character

00:49:47and then you watch

00:49:48his arc

00:49:49you watch that change

00:49:50go through

00:49:50you watch him become

00:49:52a better person

00:49:53and like a father

00:49:55through the course

00:49:55of Despicable Me

00:49:56and whatever you think

00:49:57about it

00:49:58being probably like

00:49:59oh it's a stupid movie

00:50:00it's really good

00:50:01for that reason

00:50:02the Mario movie

00:50:03doesn't have any of that

00:50:05and I think that

00:50:06the biggest thing

00:50:07that upsets me

00:50:08is that it doesn't even

00:50:09need all of it

00:50:10it just needs one

00:50:10right

00:50:11like

00:50:11I personally

00:50:13would be more inclined

00:50:14to share a clip

00:50:15as much as I love

00:50:16The Amazing Digital Circus

00:50:17as much as I love it

00:50:18I totally love it

00:50:19I would be more inclined

00:50:20to share a clip online

00:50:21with friends

00:50:22of The Amazing World

00:50:24of Gumball

00:50:24than The Digital Circus

00:50:25a funny scene

00:50:26from The Amazing World

00:50:27of Gumball

00:50:27because the characters

00:50:28are so well written

00:50:30because the dialogue

00:50:31is so fun

00:50:33and feels realistic

00:50:34and all of those

00:50:35characters are

00:50:36they're so unique

00:50:38and it's so enjoyable

00:50:40to see the things

00:50:40they say

00:50:41and the show

00:50:42has a unique tone

00:50:42of voice

00:50:43like

00:50:43because of that

00:50:45The Amazing World

00:50:45of Gumball

00:50:46is not something

00:50:46that I would ever

00:50:47be embarrassed

00:50:47about finding enjoyable

00:50:49as an adult

00:50:49if I saw a YouTube short

00:50:51of a clip from Gumball

00:50:52and said

00:50:52oh that's super funny

00:50:53I'd never feel like

00:50:54oh that's stupid

00:50:54here I am

00:50:55watching a stupid kids show

00:50:56because

00:50:58it doesn't matter

00:50:59if it's intended

00:51:00for kids or not

00:51:01what matters

00:51:01is if it's good

00:51:03you know

00:51:03and so

00:51:05with something like Gumball

00:51:06okay there's

00:51:06there's a good example

00:51:07of you know

00:51:08maybe every episode

00:51:09doesn't have like

00:51:09some kind of central arc

00:51:10or a theme

00:51:11or a great story

00:51:12but the character interactions

00:51:13alone are enough

00:51:14to make it enjoyable

00:51:15the Mario movie

00:51:15does not have that

00:51:16there is no

00:51:17really enjoyable

00:51:18character interactions

00:51:19everybody's generally

00:51:20positive and pleasant

00:51:21Jack Black is the closest

00:51:24you get

00:51:24to anything like that

00:51:26in either film

00:51:27but he falls short

00:51:29because there's nobody

00:51:29really to bounce off of

00:51:31like

00:51:31Bowser and Mario

00:51:32don't have

00:51:34the sort of

00:51:36dialogue exchange

00:51:38I would hope

00:51:38that a film

00:51:39version of Bowser

00:51:40and Mario

00:51:40would have

00:51:41um

00:51:44I think that

00:51:45um

00:51:46you could also do

00:51:47do you know

00:51:49a lot of people

00:51:50are saying that

00:51:50the big problem

00:51:51is that Mario

00:51:52doesn't change

00:51:53I've seen

00:51:53so many people

00:51:54say oh the Sonic

00:51:55movies are better

00:51:56than the Mario

00:51:56movies because

00:51:57Sonic and the

00:51:58central characters

00:51:58in the Sonic

00:51:59movies go through

00:51:59a central arc

00:52:00they change

00:52:01and the Mario

00:52:03movie

00:52:03the characters

00:52:04in Mario

00:52:05do not

00:52:06and I think

00:52:07that this is

00:52:08one of the

00:52:08biggest missteps

00:52:09when like

00:52:10critiquing these

00:52:11films because

00:52:11yes it is true

00:52:13that typically

00:52:15if you're writing

00:52:16a film

00:52:16you would be

00:52:17advised to make

00:52:17your main character

00:52:18go through a sort

00:52:19of central arc

00:52:19in which they

00:52:20change from A

00:52:20to B

00:52:21obviously

00:52:21that is

00:52:22film 101

00:52:24film 100

00:52:250.5

00:52:26even before 101

00:52:27you learn that

00:52:29and that's totally

00:52:30fair

00:52:31and there is

00:52:33however a problem

00:52:34which is

00:52:35that Nintendo

00:52:36would never

00:52:37do this

00:52:38here's the deal

00:52:39in any movie

00:52:40you could name

00:52:41or in most movies

00:52:42you could name

00:52:43a character

00:52:43who goes

00:52:43through a central

00:52:44arc

00:52:44who starts

00:52:45as A

00:52:45and that is

00:52:46bad

00:52:46and then learns

00:52:47to be B

00:52:48right

00:52:51Michael

00:52:51the gruff

00:52:53cop who

00:52:54lost his

00:52:54partner years

00:52:55ago

00:52:55doesn't trust

00:52:56anyone

00:52:56and he has

00:52:57to learn

00:52:57to trust

00:52:58again

00:52:58there's A

00:52:58to B

00:52:58there you go

00:52:59stuff like that

00:53:01you know

00:53:01every kid's movie

00:53:02typically has it

00:53:03you know

00:53:04Gru goes from

00:53:05being you know

00:53:06a selfish villain

00:53:08to a good father

00:53:09even though he

00:53:09keeps that

00:53:10villainous attitude

00:53:10and that's

00:53:12what most of

00:53:13these movies

00:53:13have

00:53:14and that's

00:53:15fair

00:53:16the problem

00:53:17is that you

00:53:17have to have

00:53:18a character

00:53:19with a flaw

00:53:19then

00:53:20and you'd

00:53:20have to

00:53:20potentially

00:53:21bounce that

00:53:22flaw

00:53:22off of

00:53:23the villain

00:53:24or another

00:53:25mentor character

00:53:26who sees

00:53:27the right way

00:53:28to go about it

00:53:29and so

00:53:30it all has

00:53:31to be based

00:53:31around some

00:53:32central flaw

00:53:33of your main

00:53:33character

00:53:34and the problem

00:53:35here is that

00:53:36you would

00:53:37never catch

00:53:38Nintendo

00:53:38dead

00:53:39giving Mario

00:53:41a flaw

00:53:41there will

00:53:42never be a flaw

00:53:43that they would

00:53:44say yeah Mario

00:53:44you know what

00:53:45he's greedy

00:53:46or he's not

00:53:47brave

00:53:48Mario is

00:53:49the Mickey Mouse

00:53:51of video games

00:53:52Mickey Mouse

00:53:52has no flaws

00:53:53he's not

00:53:55he can be

00:53:56mischievous

00:53:56sometimes

00:53:57but that's

00:53:57not a flaw

00:53:58that's played

00:53:59for comedy

00:53:59typically

00:53:59in the same

00:54:00way Mario

00:54:01never has a flaw

00:54:03Mario never

00:54:03has to get over

00:54:04anything

00:54:04I think

00:54:05that one

00:54:05of the reasons

00:54:06I really like

00:54:07the ending

00:54:07of the original

00:54:08Luigi's Mansion

00:54:08despite the fact

00:54:09that it's very

00:54:09very simple

00:54:10is because

00:54:11Luigi cries

00:54:12after saving

00:54:13his brother

00:54:13going through

00:54:15like something

00:54:16that you can

00:54:16tell is very

00:54:17clearly difficult

00:54:18for him

00:54:18because he's

00:54:19scared

00:54:19and as simple

00:54:20as that is

00:54:21as a story

00:54:21I'm not pretending

00:54:22that that's a great

00:54:23story or anything

00:54:23it works

00:54:24for me

00:54:26whereas Mario

00:54:27has never had

00:54:28to struggle

00:54:29with anything

00:54:29and you know

00:54:31I've seen people

00:54:31say oh no

00:54:32no no

00:54:32you don't

00:54:33understand

00:54:34you know

00:54:34Mario

00:54:35had to learn

00:54:36that he was

00:54:37enough

00:54:39that's like

00:54:39the only

00:54:40I saw a post

00:54:41on Twitter

00:54:41the other day

00:54:42that says

00:54:42something like

00:54:42that

00:54:42Luigi had to

00:54:43learn to be

00:54:43brave

00:54:44and Mario

00:54:44had to learn

00:54:45that his

00:54:46attitude

00:54:47was the right

00:54:48one to have

00:54:49and that he

00:54:50was doing

00:54:50the right thing

00:54:51which is like

00:54:52that's

00:54:52no

00:54:53that's like

00:54:54saying my

00:54:55A to B

00:54:55was learning

00:54:56that I had

00:54:56to go from

00:54:56A to A

00:54:57like

00:54:58no

00:54:59that's not

00:55:00an arc

00:55:01is not

00:55:01hey

00:55:02you know

00:55:02I have this

00:55:03attitude towards

00:55:03life

00:55:04you know

00:55:04what

00:55:05I think

00:55:06that's the

00:55:06right one

00:55:06to have

00:55:07that's not

00:55:07an arc

00:55:09and Luigi

00:55:09becoming more

00:55:10brave

00:55:10we didn't see

00:55:11that

00:55:11we didn't see

00:55:12that at all

00:55:12you know

00:55:13and so

00:55:15in Galaxy

00:55:15we have the

00:55:16same problem

00:55:16there are no

00:55:17central arcs

00:55:18there are no

00:55:18characters that

00:55:19change over the

00:55:19course of the

00:55:20film

00:55:20Mario and Luigi

00:55:21are the exact

00:55:22same at the

00:55:22end as they

00:55:22are at the

00:55:23beginning

00:55:24so how do

00:55:25you do it

00:55:25how do you

00:55:26do it

00:55:26how do you

00:55:26give Mario

00:55:27a flaw

00:55:27that ties

00:55:28into the

00:55:29core

00:55:30narrative

00:55:30and makes

00:55:32it so that

00:55:33he has to

00:55:33change by

00:55:33the end

00:55:34of the

00:55:34film

00:55:35you don't

00:55:35I think

00:55:36that you'll

00:55:37have a very

00:55:37hard time

00:55:37thinking of

00:55:38one

00:55:38I'd like to

00:55:38see you

00:55:39think of

00:55:39one

00:55:39genuinely

00:55:41my favorite

00:55:42kind of

00:55:42comments

00:55:43are the ones

00:55:43in videos

00:55:43like this

00:55:44where it's

00:55:44like give

00:55:44me your

00:55:45pitch

00:55:45for something

00:55:47unique

00:55:47that's

00:55:48creative

00:55:49it's like

00:55:49creative

00:55:49writing

00:55:49it's fun

00:55:51and so

00:55:52yeah I mean

00:55:53if you could

00:55:53think of a good

00:55:54central flaw

00:55:54to give Mario

00:55:55go for it

00:55:56tell me

00:55:57please

00:55:58but I think

00:55:59instead

00:56:00it's

00:56:02more interesting

00:56:02to think of

00:56:03what else

00:56:03you can do

00:56:04all of these

00:56:05videos that say

00:56:06that Sonic is

00:56:06good and Mario

00:56:06is bad

00:56:07because Sonic

00:56:08goes through

00:56:08an arc

00:56:09and Mario

00:56:09doesn't

00:56:09they're missing

00:56:10the fact

00:56:10that you

00:56:11don't actually

00:56:11have to go

00:56:12through an arc

00:56:12to have a

00:56:12very good

00:56:13character

00:56:13or a very

00:56:14good film

00:56:16one of the

00:56:16best films

00:56:17of all time

00:56:17a film

00:56:18that my

00:56:18film professor

00:56:19in high school

00:56:21called

00:56:21a perfect film

00:56:22capital P

00:56:23perfect film

00:56:24that I personally

00:56:24agree with

00:56:25is Back to the Future

00:56:26it is an

00:56:27incredible film

00:56:28and its character

00:56:29is completely

00:56:29passive

00:56:30and does not

00:56:30go through an arc

00:56:31he does not

00:56:32in the first movie

00:56:33in the first movie

00:56:35he does not change

00:56:36he is

00:56:37his sort of

00:56:38rebellious attitude

00:56:39that he has

00:56:40in the beginning

00:56:40of the film

00:56:40is what he carries

00:56:41with him

00:56:42into the ending

00:56:42of the film

00:56:43and even though

00:56:43you could argue

00:56:44that he got more

00:56:45he was mature

00:56:46no not really

00:56:47he's the same

00:56:48character in the end

00:56:48as he was in the beginning

00:56:50Back to the Future

00:56:50is about a kid

00:56:52Marty McFly

00:56:53who is in high school

00:56:54his crazy scientist

00:56:56pal Doc

00:56:56Doc Brown

00:56:57he invented this

00:56:58time machine

00:56:59and it goes wrong

00:57:01Doc dies

00:57:02and Marty escaping

00:57:02the people that shot Doc

00:57:04accidentally goes back

00:57:05all the way to

00:57:06I forget the specific year

00:57:07back when his mother

00:57:08and father were in high school

00:57:09and he needs Doc's help

00:57:11to get back to the future

00:57:12so what happens

00:57:13is there time travel

00:57:14shenanigans

00:57:15is there all kinds of

00:57:17crazy mix ups

00:57:18no

00:57:19the story is about

00:57:20Marty getting his parents

00:57:21back together

00:57:22because the real character

00:57:23in Back to the Future

00:57:24is not Marty

00:57:26it's Marty's father

00:57:27George McFly

00:57:28and in the beginning

00:57:29of Back to the Future

00:57:30we see that George McFly

00:57:31is a loser

00:57:32Marty's father

00:57:32is a total loser

00:57:33and he's bullied

00:57:34by Biff Tannen

00:57:36the um

00:57:37I forget what job he has

00:57:38he's like a mechanic

00:57:39or something

00:57:39in the modern day

00:57:40or I forget

00:57:42but he's sort of

00:57:43just bullied by Biff

00:57:44and taken advantage of

00:57:45and George is a loser

00:57:45and Marty

00:57:46you know

00:57:46feels bad for his father

00:57:48so then when Marty

00:57:49goes back in time

00:57:50he has the chance

00:57:51to

00:57:51he sees that

00:57:52on a family photo

00:57:53he's disappearing

00:57:54because whatever he did

00:57:55made it so that his parents

00:57:56will never meet

00:57:57so now Marty

00:57:58has to get his parents

00:57:59to meet

00:57:59before he can go back

00:58:00to the future

00:58:01or else

00:58:02he'll never exist

00:58:03and so

00:58:04in doing so

00:58:05Marty helps George

00:58:06confront

00:58:07all the things

00:58:08that make him a loser

00:58:08and a weird nerd

00:58:09and in the ending

00:58:10of the film

00:58:11we see George McFly

00:58:12actually confront

00:58:13and punch Biff

00:58:14in the face

00:58:15and it is such

00:58:16a satisfying moment

00:58:18despite the fact

00:58:19that George

00:58:19isn't actually

00:58:20the protagonist

00:58:20it's Marty

00:58:21and so

00:58:22what's going on here

00:58:23well

00:58:24you don't have to have

00:58:25your main character

00:58:25go through an arc

00:58:26you can have a secondary

00:58:27character be influenced

00:58:28by your main character

00:58:29if your main character

00:58:30is going to be deemed

00:58:31perfect in the eyes

00:58:32of the world

00:58:33of the film

00:58:33you can have a secondary

00:58:35character be influenced

00:58:36by them

00:58:36and have it just as effective

00:58:38as if it was a main character

00:58:39going through the arc

00:58:39look at Elf

00:58:40or

00:58:41or

00:58:41I guess

00:58:42like I said

00:58:43back to the future

00:58:43Elf is a movie

00:58:44where Buddy the Elf

00:58:45is never in the wrong

00:58:46well he isn't in the wrong

00:58:47when you know

00:58:49he's creeping in the

00:58:49women's bathroom

00:58:50but

00:58:51in terms of the film

00:58:52Buddy the Elf

00:58:53is never wrong

00:58:54they never criticize him

00:58:55they never say

00:58:55you have to be less

00:58:56elf-like

00:58:57they just say

00:58:58you know

00:58:59people think he's weird

00:59:00that's the worst

00:59:01that

00:59:01the worst slap on the wrist

00:59:03Buddy gets

00:59:03Buddy doesn't change

00:59:05in the film

00:59:05Buddy doesn't have to change

00:59:06as a matter of fact

00:59:07when he's so depressed

00:59:09because he thinks

00:59:09he's been doing

00:59:10everything wrong

00:59:10he is reaffirmed by Santa

00:59:12and told

00:59:13no you've been doing

00:59:14everything right

00:59:15it's actually

00:59:16Buddy's father

00:59:17Walter Hobbs

00:59:19who has to change

00:59:20who goes from being

00:59:21stuck up

00:59:22and you know

00:59:23you've seen the film

00:59:24probably

00:59:24and then by the end

00:59:25of the film

00:59:26he's fun

00:59:27and jolly

00:59:28and a family man

00:59:29all because of

00:59:30Buddy's Christmas spirit

00:59:32that's an example

00:59:33of how you could

00:59:34also do it

00:59:34have your main character

00:59:36be the perfect example

00:59:38of a person

00:59:38in the world

00:59:39of your film

00:59:40and then have a

00:59:41secondary character

00:59:41who is completely not

00:59:42who gets affected

00:59:43by that main character

00:59:44and so

00:59:46again we run

00:59:47into some problems

00:59:48how would you do

00:59:49this with Mario

00:59:50would you have

00:59:51Mario have some flaw

00:59:52that allows him

00:59:53to go through

00:59:53an arc and change

00:59:54would you have

00:59:54some secondary character

00:59:55from Mario

00:59:56who is deeply flawed

00:59:58and has to be

00:59:58influenced by Mario

00:59:59what is Mario's

01:00:01unique attitude

01:00:02that makes him

01:00:02perfect in the eyes

01:00:03of the world

01:00:04and this is where

01:00:05you come down

01:00:06to the real problem

01:00:07which is that

01:00:08the games they're

01:00:09based off of

01:00:09don't provide this

01:00:10you know

01:00:11I've seen a ton

01:00:12of people

01:00:12talking about

01:00:13how Galaxy

01:00:13should have taken

01:00:14the Rosalina backstory

01:00:15and the ending

01:00:16of Galaxy

01:00:17I've seen so many

01:00:18people online

01:00:19on Twitter

01:00:19over the last few

01:00:20days saying

01:00:21I'm so disappointed

01:00:22I guess it's

01:00:23over the last day

01:00:24that I'm so disappointed

01:00:26that they didn't adapt

01:00:27to the ending

01:00:27of Galaxy

01:00:28now if you don't know

01:00:29in the ending

01:00:30of Mario Galaxy

01:00:31Mario sort of

01:00:32reshapes the entire

01:00:33universe

01:00:34like the universe

01:00:34is reborn

01:00:35and it's sort of weird

01:00:38and at least

01:00:38when I played it

01:00:39I thought it was

01:00:39confusing

01:00:40and a little abstract

01:00:41but basically

01:00:42Mario helps the universe

01:00:44become reborn

01:00:45and the Rosalina backstory

01:00:47involved Rosalina

01:00:48and her parents

01:00:49and how Rosalina

01:00:50was alone

01:00:51with the Lumas

01:00:52and blah blah blah

01:00:53it's like 11 pages

01:00:54or it's like a billion pages

01:00:57the problem with adapting

01:00:58either of these things

01:00:59is that I don't think

01:00:59they'd work

01:01:00for the film

01:01:01I don't think

01:01:02that the rebirth

01:01:03of the universe

01:01:03makes any sense

01:01:04for this film

01:01:04for a kid's film

01:01:06for something that

01:01:07has to lead

01:01:08into a potential sequel

01:01:09it just doesn't make sense

01:01:09to do

01:01:11it also wouldn't feel

01:01:12very effective

01:01:12you know

01:01:14there's a difference

01:01:14between the Mario Galaxy movie

01:01:16and the actual

01:01:16Mario Galaxy game

01:01:17if the world was reborn

01:01:20in the end of

01:01:20Mario Galaxy the movie

01:01:22first of all

01:01:22how weird would it be

01:01:23if the world was reborn

01:01:24and reshaped

01:01:25like that's just

01:01:26confusing and strange

01:01:27second of all

01:01:30it wouldn't be

01:01:30emotionally resonant

01:01:31whatsoever

01:01:32with what we have just seen

01:01:33the Mario movies

01:01:34are action packed

01:01:35there is no

01:01:36you know

01:01:37the quiet sadness

01:01:38of Mario Galaxy

01:01:39there was no quiet sadness

01:01:41in the Mario Galaxy movie

01:01:42okay

01:01:43and as far as

01:01:44the Rosalina story goes

01:01:47how could you have

01:01:48adapted that

01:01:49into the film

01:01:50and made it mean something

01:01:51how could you

01:01:52you would have needed

01:01:53Rosalina to be

01:01:54a main character

01:01:55you would have needed

01:01:56a way

01:01:56a natural way

01:01:57to dump

01:01:57all of this

01:01:59exposition

01:02:00about her backstory

01:02:01into her character

01:02:02and you would have

01:02:03needed to make it

01:02:05mean something

01:02:06in the long run

01:02:06for her character

01:02:07the ending of her

01:02:08her character's story

01:02:09would have had to

01:02:10tie into it

01:02:12and they don't have that

01:02:13so they didn't do it

01:02:14and they can't do it

01:02:17and I think that

01:02:17a lot of people

01:02:18a lot of people

01:02:18don't get it

01:02:19like this is why

01:02:20I said earlier

01:02:20that what people want

01:02:21is an encyclopedia

01:02:22a visual encyclopedia

01:02:24of things they know

01:02:24if Mario Galaxy

01:02:25was like a loose

01:02:26adaptation of the

01:02:27Galaxy story

01:02:28there was no real

01:02:30meat to it

01:02:31it was just

01:02:31stuff from Galaxy

01:02:33repurposed

01:02:33and Mario

01:02:34was on the

01:02:34comet observatory

01:02:36and Mario

01:02:37read the book

01:02:38about Rosalina

01:02:39people would be like

01:02:40oh that was awesome

01:02:41but it wouldn't make

01:02:42anywhere near as much money

01:02:43so they'd never do

01:02:44something like that

01:02:47so I don't know

01:02:47personally

01:02:48to get back

01:02:49to the original point

01:02:49I don't know

01:02:50how I would fix

01:02:51this issue

01:02:51I don't know

01:02:52what I would say

01:02:53I don't know

01:02:54a fatal flaw

01:02:55I could give to Mario

01:02:56I don't know

01:02:57a big flaw

01:02:57that I could give

01:02:58to another character

01:02:59I don't know

01:02:59what I'd say

01:02:59about Mario

01:03:00that makes him

01:03:02above others

01:03:03in terms of

01:03:03the Mario world

01:03:07the games

01:03:07are not as deep

01:03:08they don't have

01:03:09story that people

01:03:10could make a film

01:03:11off of

01:03:11not at all

01:03:12I'm sorry

01:03:13I'm sorry to say

01:03:14and that's not me

01:03:15saying oh

01:03:15what did you expect

01:03:16from a Mario movie

01:03:17they're not that deep

01:03:17of course not

01:03:18I'm saying the films

01:03:19don't have the stuff

01:03:19to make a film

01:03:20I'm sorry

01:03:21the games don't have

01:03:21enough content

01:03:22in the story

01:03:23to make a film

01:03:23so you have to

01:03:25write the film

01:03:25like if you want

01:03:26to make a good movie

01:03:27you write the film

01:03:28itself

01:03:29you don't take

01:03:30it off in the game

01:03:32I feel like I'm just

01:03:33talking in circles

01:03:34but ultimately

01:03:34at the end of the day

01:03:35what it comes down to

01:03:36is the fact that

01:03:39Nintendo is making

01:03:40so much money

01:03:40from this

01:03:41and fans are sort of

01:03:42like scattershot

01:03:44scatterbrained

01:03:44not fully sure

01:03:46if it's good

01:03:48or it's bad

01:03:49or you know

01:03:50you can't have

01:03:50a good Mario movie

01:03:51or you can't have

01:03:52a good Mario movie

01:03:53or if it should have

01:03:54deep themes

01:03:54or if Mario

01:03:55should go through

01:03:56an arc

01:03:56and like I'm sitting

01:03:57here laying down

01:03:58my thoughts

01:03:59I ended up talking

01:04:00about this for way

01:04:01longer than I thought

01:04:02I would

01:04:04and it's like man

01:04:06to some extent

01:04:06here I am saying

01:04:07like you could have

01:04:08Mario go through an arc

01:04:09you could have

01:04:09another character

01:04:10go through an arc

01:04:10and get affected

01:04:11by Mario

01:04:12does it matter

01:04:14you know

01:04:15does it matter

01:04:16I think Mario

01:04:18is sort of

01:04:20you know

01:04:21the book

01:04:22Save the Cat

01:04:22which I reference

01:04:23very frequently

01:04:24it's sort of like

01:04:25a baby's first

01:04:26screenwriting book

01:04:27if you were

01:04:28not a literal baby

01:04:29if you were

01:04:30if you were starting

01:04:30screenwriting

01:04:31that is always

01:04:31the book I'd recommend

01:04:32first

01:04:33that's the book

01:04:33I see tons of people

01:04:34recommending first

01:04:34it's one of those books

01:04:36where a lot of people

01:04:36will be like

01:04:37actually you shouldn't

01:04:37read that

01:04:38but that seems to be

01:04:38the contrarian opinion

01:04:40not the actual opinion

01:04:41because the actual book

01:04:42is super super

01:04:44knowledgeable

01:04:45and helpful

01:04:45and it basically

01:04:46details the

01:04:47three act structure

01:04:48and the hero's journey

01:04:50that everyone follows

01:04:52and

01:04:54the Mario movie

01:04:55doesn't follow that

01:04:56the Mario movie

01:04:57doesn't follow that

01:04:57at all

01:04:58and one of the things

01:04:59that it says too

01:05:00is like there's a genre

01:05:01in a movie called

01:05:02the superhero genre

01:05:03where it breaks down

01:05:04the basic genres

01:05:04of what a movie could be

01:05:05and

01:05:07I don't even know

01:05:08where I'm going with this

01:05:09the Mario movie

01:05:09fits into the category

01:05:11of what it claims

01:05:12is a superhero genre

01:05:13which is that there is

01:05:13one or more individuals

01:05:15who are

01:05:16you know

01:05:16elite

01:05:17or above

01:05:18the others

01:05:18in the world

01:05:19and they use that power

01:05:21to you know

01:05:22make the movie

01:05:23that's why the movie

01:05:23is interesting

01:05:24because there's someone

01:05:24with extraordinary abilities

01:05:27but

01:05:30they don't

01:05:30like

01:05:32I don't know

01:05:32how to explain it

01:05:33I don't know

01:05:33how to explain it

01:05:34the Mario movie

01:05:35theoretically

01:05:36every single little thing

01:05:37where you're like

01:05:38okay well let's give it

01:05:39a little leg room here

01:05:39let's give it a little

01:05:40little bit of room

01:05:42to stand on

01:05:42you know

01:05:44there's nothing

01:05:45the story

01:05:47is nothing

01:05:48it's empty

01:05:49there was no story in this

01:05:50there was just characters

01:05:51doing things

01:05:52because they have to go do things

01:05:53the characters

01:05:53the interaction

01:05:54okay well you know

01:05:55whatever

01:05:55no big deal

01:05:56no good story

01:05:56that's fine

01:05:57what about the interactions

01:05:58between the characters

01:05:59is there fun

01:05:59character interactions

01:06:00no there's nothing

01:06:01there's not even a little bit

01:06:02okay well what

01:06:03what about some arcs

01:06:04do characters go through arcs

01:06:05do characters influence

01:06:06others to go through arcs

01:06:07no

01:06:07there is nothing

01:06:08okay well

01:06:09maybe it fits into

01:06:10the stereotype genre

01:06:11of superhero movie

01:06:13where Mario

01:06:13is an exceptional

01:06:14you know

01:06:15whatever whatever

01:06:16superpowered individual

01:06:17no it's not

01:06:18because everyone

01:06:19in the Mario movie

01:06:20has superpowers

01:06:20and Mario isn't really

01:06:21that special

01:06:22whatsoever

01:06:23like

01:06:26it really is

01:06:27like

01:06:28there is no difference

01:06:30between the Mario Galaxy movie

01:06:31and the picture

01:06:32of the Mario Galaxy movie

01:06:33on the side of a box

01:06:34of a Happy Meal

01:06:35it does the same thing

01:06:37it sells you Mario

01:06:39you know

01:06:40I have such

01:06:42deep

01:06:43dark

01:06:45depressing thoughts

01:06:45about the way

01:06:46that it works

01:06:47and the fact that like

01:06:48nothing that I've said

01:06:50is really going to matter

01:06:51in the long run

01:06:51or people aren't going to

01:06:53take this and say like

01:06:53you know what

01:06:54the Mario movies

01:06:55are actually no good

01:06:56you know

01:06:57everybody's sort of

01:06:58realizing that

01:06:59same with the FNAF movie

01:07:00but it's too late

01:07:00like you've let the cat

01:07:02out of the bag

01:07:03like

01:07:04I personally think

01:07:05and now this is going off the rails

01:07:06and this is where I'm going to stop

01:07:07I'm not going to get into this

01:07:08because this is like

01:07:10truly dark territory

01:07:11I think the problem is fandom

01:07:12I think the problem is fandom

01:07:14because in order for fandom to exist

01:07:16it requires

01:07:19inherently positive viewpoints

01:07:20you know

01:07:21if a fandom exists

01:07:22let's just say

01:07:23Five Nights at Freddy's

01:07:23for example

01:07:24the fandom has to be

01:07:26inherently positive

01:07:26they have to like the thing

01:07:28they can't say

01:07:28the thing is bad

01:07:31otherwise

01:07:32what are they fans of

01:07:33like

01:07:34when I

01:07:34when Security Breach came out

01:07:36I remember

01:07:36it felt like

01:07:37we were at this sort of

01:07:37weird tipping point

01:07:38where

01:07:38so many people were like

01:07:40this is terrible

01:07:40and then all of a sudden

01:07:41there was just this

01:07:42massive group of people

01:07:43that were like

01:07:43you know what

01:07:43Five Nights at Freddy's

01:07:44Security Breach is great

01:07:46and it's like

01:07:47man

01:07:48there's this sort of

01:07:49inherent positivity

01:07:50that's required

01:07:51with any fanbase

01:07:52and I think that's why

01:07:53something like the

01:07:54FNAF movie can succeed

01:07:55that's something like

01:07:55why the first Mario

01:07:56the first Mario movie

01:07:58could succeed

01:07:59and it's because

01:08:00it has to

01:08:01it has to

01:08:02for the fanbase

01:08:03to exist

01:08:05and then when something

01:08:05like this happens

01:08:06where it's like

01:08:06hey

01:08:07this is bad

01:08:08and the fanbase

01:08:08has almost shifted

01:08:09to being a fanbase

01:08:10of hating on it

01:08:12it's like

01:08:12that's too late

01:08:13like the discussion

01:08:14has

01:08:16I don't know

01:08:17I don't know

01:08:18I have already seen

01:08:20reviews of people saying

01:08:21what did you expect

01:08:21from a Mario movie

01:08:22bro

01:08:22I saw all the things

01:08:23I like in it

01:08:24and that's fine

01:08:25that's fine

01:08:26if you see the things

01:08:26you like

01:08:27I highly recommend

01:08:29like the Star Wars

01:08:30visual encyclopedia

01:08:31the Five Nights at Freddy's

01:08:32visual encyclopedia

01:08:33the Super Mario

01:08:34visual encyclopedia

01:08:35you'll see characters

01:08:37you like

01:08:37you'll see things

01:08:38you like

01:08:38you can read about

01:08:39events that happen

01:08:39that you like

01:08:40to hear about

01:08:40it's fantastic

01:08:42it's really really great

01:08:44at the end of the day

01:08:45I thought the Mario Galaxy

01:08:46was subpar at best

01:08:47and that's at best

01:08:48I thought that

01:08:51I had more emotion

01:08:54watching the

01:08:55Paw Patrol trailer

01:08:57beforehand

01:08:59for some new

01:09:00Paw Patrol movie

01:09:00even though that

01:09:01emotion that I felt

01:09:03was sort of

01:09:04embarrassment and

01:09:05disgust that I was

01:09:06being shown this

01:09:07trailer and I was

01:09:08wondering what it

01:09:08was saying about me

01:09:09a grown man at

01:09:11midnight at the

01:09:11Mario movie

01:09:12preparing to spend

01:09:13my night making a

01:09:13video about it

01:09:15I felt like there

01:09:16was no good story

01:09:17to this

01:09:17there was no story

01:09:18if somebody asked

01:09:19me what was this

01:09:20oh what's the Mario

01:09:20movie about

01:09:21it's about nothing

01:09:22a princess gets

01:09:23kidnapped and all of

01:09:24the Mario characters

01:09:25run around and

01:09:26fight and smash

01:09:27into each other

01:09:27like stupid action

01:09:28figures for hours

01:09:31ironically

01:09:32this is my

01:09:33my one big

01:09:34truest statement

01:09:35if you could

01:09:36take any statement

01:09:36from this video

01:09:37and crystallize it

01:09:38in what I think

01:09:39is pure truth

01:09:40it's this one

01:09:41and it's that

01:09:42this should have

01:09:43been a video game

01:09:45this Mario movie

01:09:46should have been

01:09:47a video game

01:09:48because

01:09:50the story

01:09:51despite being

01:09:52nothing

01:09:52was above

01:09:54the video games

01:09:55on some level

01:09:56I thought that

01:09:57the Bowser Bowser Jr.

01:09:58thing was fun

01:09:59that was the best

01:10:00part of a film

01:10:01in my opinion

01:10:02well second only

01:10:02to Fox

01:10:03but imagine if

01:10:03this was a game

01:10:04imagine if this

01:10:05it looked like this

01:10:06and it had the

01:10:06environments that

01:10:07looked like this

01:10:07and they made a

01:10:08Mario game where

01:10:08it was like

01:10:09oh yeah

01:10:09you know

01:10:11you go to all

01:10:12these different

01:10:12places and you

01:10:12see all these

01:10:13different things

01:10:13and you fight

01:10:14all these different

01:10:14people and you

01:10:15go to this big

01:10:15hub world

01:10:16and the hub world

01:10:17it's got Pikmin

01:10:17and Piantas

01:10:18and Rob the Robot

01:10:19and Star Fox

01:10:20shows up and helps

01:10:20you save the day

01:10:21at the end of the

01:10:21game and Bowser

01:10:22has got this

01:10:22massive planet

01:10:23that's like a

01:10:23theme park

01:10:24that would be the

01:10:25greatest Mario game

01:10:26ever

01:10:26you know

01:10:27we'd all say

01:10:27like that was

01:10:28the coolest

01:10:29Mario game

01:10:31but instead

01:10:31it's a movie

01:10:35it's a movie

01:10:40so this was

01:10:41Super Mario Galaxy

01:10:42all lore explained

01:10:43I also tried the

01:10:44title full story

01:10:45explained

01:10:46I don't know

01:10:46which one is

01:10:46going to get

01:10:47I don't know

01:10:47which one is

01:10:47going to win

01:10:48the A-B testing

01:10:48if it's full story

01:10:50explained

01:10:51I'm sorry

01:10:53I'm sorry

01:10:53that the plot

01:10:54summary itself

01:10:55was very short

01:10:56if you actually

01:10:56wanted a plot

01:10:57summary

01:10:57and were hoping

01:10:58that this was

01:10:58an hour and

01:10:5912 minutes

01:10:59of plot summary

01:11:01I couldn't

01:11:02there's literally

01:11:02I could barely

01:11:03stretch it to

01:11:0420 minutes

01:11:04I skipped

01:11:05nothing

01:11:07I hope you

01:11:08enjoyed the video

01:11:10I had a lot

01:11:11to say clearly

01:11:11a lot that I

01:11:12didn't expect

01:11:12to say

01:11:14please if you

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01:11:18my name is

01:11:19Spooky Dude

01:11:20thank you so

01:11:21much for watching

01:11:21and I will

01:11:22see you next

01:11:23time

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