The Super Mario Galaxy Full Movie 2026

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00:00:00Real quick, you have not been spoiled by the thumbnail. I made it yesterday before I saw the movie.

00:00:05That being said, this is your final warning. Spoilers for the Super Mario Galaxy movie ahead.

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

00:00:13What? How is this video so early? Well, you see...

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

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

00:00:26of people,

00:00:27and it's harder to do than you think, okay? So instead, here's a picture of a $10 water bottle and

00:00:31me standing there.

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

00:00:35Yep, he certainly saved the galaxy. That was spot on with that prediction.

00:00:41There's a lot to talk about, though. What actually happened in the movie? Is it building towards something much bigger?

00:00:46How is Star Fox in the movie? And what's with the negative reviews? Are they justified?

00:00:51My name is Spooky Dude. Make sure to like and subscribe. Now let's discuss.

00:00:55To start off, we need to go over what actually happened in the movie. Don't worry, this isn't going to

00:01:00take too long.

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

00:01:06I don't actually have footage of the movie. That 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, and 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.

00:01:25The 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 her 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 Rosalina is standing there.

00:01:41Proudly. There'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. They never cheered at all.

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

00:01:54Nearly packed theater. It's midnight. These 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 people screaming,

00:02:02but I would have preferred that over nothing. It felt depressing.

00:02:07Anyway, anyway.

00:02:08Rosalina goes to her bookshelf to choose a book for the Lumas,

00:02:11and I will mention that in this scene, if you look at the books she can pick from,

00:02:15one of the books has Tippi from Super Paper Mario on the spine.

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

00:02:23but the Lumas 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 the room.

00:02:34Rosalina leaves the Lumas, telling them to go to bed, only to be faced with Mega Leg from Mario Galaxy.

00:02:40Rosalina summons her powerful wand to actually fight Mega Leg, and she's pretty much winning most of the fight.

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

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

00:02:55figures out Rosalina's weak point,

00:02:57and 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 Bowser name.

00:03:09Alongside him is Kamek, who is yet again a disliked henchman who keeps getting in Bowser Jr.'s way.

00:03:15A luma 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 scary sound

00:03:34coming 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 he's super different than

00:03:46the games,

00:03:47but there's also this aspect to him that's kind 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 cognitive 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 first place.

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

00:04:10around Brooklyn.

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

00:04:15warp pipe by the police.

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

00:04:20movie.

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

00:04:26this 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, Bowser-y planet, designed entirely

00:04:36like 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 face is carved into a mountain, and lava everywhere.

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

00:04:51Jr. gives a speech to his henchmen about how, with Rosalina's powers, they will destroy the universe.

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

00:05:01no one hurts my kids.

00:05:02She breaks out of her chains and starts to fight with Junior'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 helps recapture Rosalina,

00:05:13locking her up in a chair where Junior 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 party.

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 kind of 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 time.

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 captured with Rosalina.

00:06:15Peach takes the Luma up to her room, and the Luma explains that Rosalina has always told stories about Peach,

00:06:20and 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 the 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 side 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 Bowser 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 impressive fight,

00:07:14in which Jr. uses the paintbrush to turn him into cool, purply-powered-up forms.

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

00:07:23assist Jr.

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

00:07:43him.

00:07:44Bowser finds out, though, that everything that just happened was because Jr. was looking for him, and Bowser is shocked.

00:07:49He says that he was a bad father, and it's surprised that Jr. 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,

00:08:00filled with crazy 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, and more.

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

00:08:16holding 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.

00:08:23Ukiki, the monkey, takes Toad's bag, and he and the princess give chase,

00:08:26eventually finding themselves in a massive, seedy underbelly of the Gateway Galaxy.

00:08:31Basically, the Mos Eisley Cantina of the Mario universe, I guess.

00:08:34We then see that Bowser Jr. is still searching for Bowser,

00:08:37while meanwhile, he taunts Mario into finally punching him to turn him big again,

00:08:41by calling him a tiny, pathetic failure of 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,

00:08:55where all the walls 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,

00:09:09they ended up getting 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?

00:09:16They 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,

00:09:25and then they get to the place, and it turns out that they know the information.

00:09:27They just so happen to need, and it'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.

00:09:44When the castle crash-landed after the Bowser Jr. UFO let it go,

00:09:49it destroyed flower fields, and the Queen wants them imprisoned to work off the damage they did,

00:09:53but Bowser volunteers himself instead, truly expecting to do the work, no tricks up his sleeve.

00:09:59Mario tells him that he might not be as bad as he thought.

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

00:10:04We cut to Bowser working in the mines, hacking away at stones with the other bees,

00:10:07only to be 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 own planet,

00:10:17called Planet Bowser, and it would have a universe-destroying canon,

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

00:10:25This bedtime story, by the way, was told through puppets,

00:10:29which was super fun because it's animated characters doing the puppets,

00:10:33so it's animated Bowser with a puppet on his hand doing the puppet show.

00:10:38I don't know, maybe it's just, like, a me thing, but I thought it was just such a fun concept.

00:10:43It'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 Planet Bowser.

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

00:10:55who is remarkably slow and a pretty funny gag,

00:10:57and are led to the shipyard, where we see Pikmin exit a tiny little ship,

00:11:02and we also meet Fox McCloud.

00:11:04There's this great bit where Fox explains who he is,

00:11:07and we see him and the other Star Fox 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 time,

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

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

00:11:20He agrees to help fly the Princess and Toad to Space Junk Galaxy,

00:11:23where Planet Bowser is, in 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,

00:11:31while Star Fox music plays and are ambushed by Bowser Jr.'s ship.

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

00:11:38however, inside the ship, Jr. has his own weapons cabinet.

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

00:11:45Jr. takes out a massive bazooka,

00:11:47but Bowser, however, is cautious and asks Jr. not to kill 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 him the stories about,

00:11:57but he was truly starting to like Mario and Luigi,

00:11:59and wants to be their friend to some extent.

00:12:01Jr. decides not to kill them for his dad,

00:12:04and 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,

00:12:11and 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,

00:12:18Toad and Yoshi try to get the super scope,

00:12:20and turn Mario and Luigi into adults again,

00:12:22but are attacked by a massive actual T-Rex,

00:12:24and have a big chase sequence.

00:12:26Finally, Yoshi manages to turn the babies back into adults,

00:12:29and the T-Rex back into a baby,

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

00:12:33Feeling hopeless,

00:12:34Luigi jokingly calls for help using Fox's radio and a trucker voice,

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

00:12:40Meanwhile, Jr. tells Bowser that he's meant to be a bad guy,

00:12:43not friends with Mario and Luigi.

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,

00:12:52as the Comet Observatory arrives,

00:12:54giving the heroes a viable ship to fly to planet Bowser.

00:12:58Peach goes to the library,

00:13:00and reads the book about her from the beginning of the movie.

00:13:03The book reads,

00:13:04Once upon a time,

00:13:05there was a brave and noble princess named Peach.

00:13:07Her story begins many years ago,

00:13:09when 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.

00:13:20We see, visually,

00:13:21a baby Princess Peach touch hands with a young Rosalina,

00:13:23and have a sort of cosmic connection,

00:13:25summoning grass on a barren planet.

00:13:27The story continues,

00:13:29but evil force is one of the power for themselves.

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

00:13:35The toads raised and protected her

00:13:36until she grew strong enough to protect them.

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

00:13:43Back at planet Bowser,

00:13:44Junior shows Bowser everything.

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

00:13:48to power up their big universe-destroying cannon

00:13:51that they're going to use to destroy the Mushroom Kingdom.

00:13:53Bowser is impressed,

00:13:54and fully commits to siding with Junior and being evil.

00:13:57He gives a rousing speech to his minions,

00:14:00and the final action sequence begins.

00:14:02Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Yoshi

00:14:03jump from the Comet Observatory

00:14:05and chase after Bowser and Junior in Planet Bowser.

00:14:08At one point, Mario and Peach fall into a pit,

00:14:10and we see Bowser Jr.'s advanced security system

00:14:12try and take them out.

00:14:14But from Bowser Jr.'s perspective,

00:14:15it's like an NES-style graphical interface

00:14:18showing 8-bit Mario and Peach

00:14:20jumping around a regular Mario level.

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

00:14:24Same thing from the first movie,

00:14:25with all the little references and gags.

00:14:27After escaping Bowser Jr.'s trials,

00:14:29Mario and Peach make it to a big bridge,

00:14:31like in the original Super Mario Bros.

00:14:33Bowser appears and fights them,

00:14:35throwing axes and shooting fire,

00:14:36with Mario finally using one of the axes

00:14:38to cut down the bridge

00:14:39and send Bowser into the lava pit below.

00:14:42Jr. comes out, distraught,

00:14:43only for Bowser to re-emerge as Dry-Bones Bowser.

00:14:46Mario and Peach run towards Rosalina,

00:14:49with Mario closing the gate behind Peach,

00:14:51locking him and the two Bowsers outside,

00:14:53to let Peach have the best chance at getting Rosalina.

00:14:56Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi fight with Dry Bowser,

00:14:58and Bowser Jr. in, you guessed it,

00:15:00a visually impressive fight

00:15:01with lots of fun gags and references.

00:15:04The highlight of the fight

00:15:04is when Luigi gets a hold of Bowser Jr.'s paintbrush

00:15:07and uses it to draw Mr. Game & Watch,

00:15:09but says,

00:15:10what, you know,

00:15:11I 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

00:15:18on behalf of Luigi,

00:15:19before getting cut in half.

00:15:21Jr. uses his brush to create the dragon from Odyssey

00:15:23as his big final attack,

00:15:25which, for some reason,

00:15:27immediately tries eating him instead of Mario.

00:15:30Bowser's terrified,

00:15:31and Mario grabs the red star that makes you fly from Galaxy,

00:15:34and uses it to fly into the dragon, destroying him.

00:15:37The fight with the Bowsers is over,

00:15:39as Mario is now saved, Bowser Jr.

00:15:43Meanwhile, Peach makes her way to Rosalina,

00:15:45and breaks her out of the generator

00:15:46by touching hands like from before.

00:15:49Rosalina breaks free,

00:15:50and planet Bowser reforms into a grassy, nice planet instead.

00:15:54The Lumas asks to visit the Mushroom Kingdom,

00:15:56and say they want to see the castle,

00:15:57only to cut to the empty hole in the ground

00:15:59where the castle was.

00:16:00They all decide they'll build another castle,

00:16:02in a fun 2D sprite cutscene using 8-bit graphics,

00:16:05and Mario finishes it off by using the cape,

00:16:08flying to the top, and planting the flag.

00:16:10Credits.

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

00:16:14The first shows Fox,

00:16:15who says that the princess has fixed his warp drive,

00:16:17and he's going back to his home.

00:16:18Dry Bowser and Jr. are locked in prison together,

00:16:21with a Luma guard who jokingly threatens them.

00:16:24The second post-credits scene shows someone else

00:16:26getting robbed by Ukiki,

00:16:28only for none other than Daisy to show up,

00:16:31punch him, and save the day.

00:16:32The end.

00:16:34You know, I feel like that was a lot,

00:16:37but 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.

00:16:45This is probably the shortest plot summary

00:16:48in any of these all lore explained videos.

00:16:50What did I leave out?

00:16:51Nothing.

00:16:52Like, this was it.

00:16:55I want to save criticism for a little bit longer,

00:16:59but it is true that these characters in these movies

00:17:02are very passive, are very reactive,

00:17:05and a lot of, in both Mario movies,

00:17:07it's something happens,

00:17:09and 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,

00:17:18who told her to go and find Rosalina.

00:17:20So she goes to the Gateway Galaxy,

00:17:22and there she reacts to Toad getting robbed

00:17:25and chases after Ukiki,

00:17:27which leads her to Wart,

00:17:29and Wart openly mentions

00:17:31knowing something about Rosalina,

00:17:33which then makes Princess Peach

00:17:34want him to tell her what he knows,

00:17:36and that leads Princess Peach

00:17:38to go and find Star Fox,

00:17:40who, and 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

00:17:50they end up getting to Peach

00:17:51is because the things happened to them.

00:17:54You know, the old Bowser Jr.

00:17:56sucked up the castle

00:17:57and dropped it on a planet,

00:17:58which just so happened to have a bee

00:18:00with a bug that would take them

00:18:01to the Gateway Galaxy.

00:18:02Boom.

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

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

00:18:09I had so much more to say, for example,

00:18:11with something like

00:18:11The Amazing Digital Circus,

00:18:12when I did...

00:18:13I think that was the last

00:18:14All Lore Explained video I did,

00:18:15because The Amazing Digital Circus

00:18:17is filled with these, you know,

00:18:20dialogue moments

00:18:20and conversations

00:18:21and introspective shots.

00:18:23And, you know,

00:18:24you could take something like,

00:18:25oh, I mean,

00:18:26I don't know how many of you

00:18:27have watched The Digital Circus,

00:18:28but if there was a scene

00:18:29where, you know,

00:18:31Pomni said something

00:18:32about her previous life

00:18:33to Jax

00:18:34and Jax reacted weird,

00:18:35you could take that

00:18:36and sort of analyze it

00:18:38from so many different angles.

00:18:39You could, you know,

00:18:39the literal angle,

00:18:40what did Pomni actually say?

00:18:42What did Jax actually say?

00:18:43And then, oh, well,

00:18:44what does this say

00:18:44about the mischaracters?

00:18:45The Mario movie

00:18:46isn't like that.

00:18:48You know,

00:18:48I think that

00:18:49something that surprised me

00:18:51is that I,

00:18:52as I wrote the script,

00:18:53I remembered,

00:18:54oh, yeah,

00:18:54Donkey Kong was in

00:18:55one of the flashback scenes

00:18:56when the little Yoshi segment

00:18:58where we saw a silly

00:19:00explanation as to how

00:19:01Yoshi ended up on the pipe,

00:19:02Donkey Kong showed up.

00:19:03And I remembered,

00:19:04oh, yeah,

00:19:05and then he showed up later,

00:19:06right?

00:19:07Wasn't he around?

00:19:09And I realized,

00:19:09no,

00:19:10Donkey Kong wasn't in this movie

00:19:11at all,

00:19:12except for one little cameo.

00:19:14And so that's the thing.

00:19:16Like,

00:19:16could you say

00:19:17that he was missed,

00:19:18that his character,

00:19:19you know,

00:19:20not having him in this film

00:19:21deeply affected it?

00:19:23No.

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

00:19:24And so I,

00:19:25when you're,

00:19:25when you're listening to this

00:19:26and thinking like,

00:19:27well, wait,

00:19:27what was the story?

00:19:28The only real story

00:19:31outside of,

00:19:32of action happening

00:19:35because it has to happen

00:19:36is that Princess Peach

00:19:38was sad

00:19:38because she didn't know

00:19:39her family

00:19:39and then it turns out

00:19:40that her family

00:19:41was Rosalina

00:19:42and they had this

00:19:44sort of cosmic backstory

00:19:45that she didn't know about

00:19:46so she wants to save Rosalina

00:19:47and she does.

00:19:48That's it.

00:19:50There is no stakes

00:19:52outside of Rosalina's safety

00:19:54and,

00:19:55I mean,

00:19:55there are in the sense

00:19:56that Bowser Jr.

00:19:57is going to use Rosalina

00:19:58to power the cannon

00:20:00that can destroy planets,

00:20:01but,

00:20:02I mean,

00:20:02that's just like a,

00:20:04like a big third act

00:20:05final reason

00:20:07that you have to stop Bowser

00:20:09and not much more

00:20:10and so

00:20:11throughout this whole movie,

00:20:13like,

00:20:16there's,

00:20:16there's not much to say.

00:20:17There's not much to say

00:20:18about the characters.

00:20:19There's not much to say

00:20:19about the story.

00:20:20That was it.

00:20:23I want to talk more lore though

00:20:25and this is important

00:20:26because

00:20:28I don't really think

00:20:29this movie has any.

00:20:30Yes,

00:20:30you heard me right.

00:20:31I know that's either obvious

00:20:32or obviously wrong

00:20:33based on who you are.

00:20:35You might be saying,

00:20:35yeah,

00:20:36of course the Mario movie

00:20:37wouldn't have any lore dummy.

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

00:20:39It's probably something,

00:20:40I think,

00:20:41that's something

00:20:42that a lot of you

00:20:42would say to me.

00:20:43But others would probably

00:20:44scoff at me and say,

00:20:45we just saw Piantas,

00:20:47Pikmin,

00:20:47Star Fox,

00:20:48Rob,

00:20:48and Mr. Game & Watch

00:20:50all at once.

00:20:51Here's my thought.

00:20:53When Fox talked about

00:20:54how he's from another universe

00:20:56and we see him actually

00:20:57animated in 2D,

00:20:58I sort of thought,

00:20:59okay,

00:20:59this makes sense

00:21:01if they're actually doing it.

00:21:02They're setting up

00:21:03for a Smash Bros. movie.

00:21:05Fox is from another universe,

00:21:07meaning that there are

00:21:08multiple Nintendo universes.

00:21:10Any character

00:21:10that doesn't make sense

00:21:11to be in the Mario universe

00:21:13can potentially join

00:21:14the Smash Bros. movie

00:21:15if they're in

00:21:16a different universe

00:21:17from Mario

00:21:18and get there like Fox did.

00:21:19I almost felt like perhaps

00:21:21showing us this little glimpse

00:21:23of Fox was like teasing more.

00:21:25There could be a story

00:21:27in this other universe.

00:21:28However,

00:21:29I think this is kind of

00:21:29quickly thrown out the window.

00:21:31Mr. Game & Watch,

00:21:32Rob,

00:21:32and Pikmin

00:21:33are not at all tied

00:21:34to the idea

00:21:34of being anything

00:21:35other than fan service.

00:21:36There is no establishing

00:21:38these characters.

00:21:39Mr. Game & Watch

00:21:40is even a stick figure drawing

00:21:41who gets torn in half

00:21:42rather than a video game character.

00:21:44There is no indication

00:21:45that Star Fox

00:21:46has any plans

00:21:47to join back up with Mario

00:21:48or re-enter the Mario universe.

00:21:50I saw plenty of people

00:21:51saying that the reason

00:21:52they had all these crossovers

00:21:53and the reason

00:21:54they did Galaxy

00:21:55in the first place

00:21:56is to cast a wide net,

00:21:57so to speak,

00:21:58introduce as many characters

00:21:59as they can,

00:22:00grow the Mario universe

00:22:01as fast as they can,

00:22:02and build towards

00:22:03that Smash movie.

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

00:22:06I don't think that's why

00:22:07they did Mario Galaxy

00:22:08and I think that

00:22:09that's not happening.

00:22:10On top of the recent

00:22:11Miyamoto comments,

00:22:12which admittedly

00:22:14are sort of being taken

00:22:15out of context,

00:22:16he said that

00:22:17in terms of the Mario movie,

00:22:19it's not a Super Smash Bros. movie

00:22:21and so you can't be expecting

00:22:22a Mario movie

00:22:23where all the Nintendo characters appear.

00:22:25However, he does like

00:22:26doing things like

00:22:27putting the Pikmin in the movies.

00:22:29However, the way he said it,

00:22:31I mean,

00:22:32I don't think there's going

00:22:33to be a Smash Bros. movie

00:22:34anytime soon.

00:22:36They didn't grow

00:22:37the Mario universe itself

00:22:38with this movie whatsoever.

00:22:40We see that Wart and his gang appear,

00:22:42sure, that's cool,

00:22:43but outside of that,

00:22:43I wouldn't say that

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

00:22:46Sure, the Pikmin could appear

00:22:48in the future,

00:22:49but it's not like

00:22:49they were anything other

00:22:50than a little gag reference

00:22:52for fans.

00:22:53Or take, for example,

00:22:54Rosalina.

00:22:55There was a good amount

00:22:56that you could have done

00:22:57with Rosalina

00:22:57that was simply chosen

00:22:59not to be done.

00:23:00Rosalina's backstory,

00:23:01for example,

00:23:02was not only rewritten

00:23:03with the Peach Sister twist,

00:23:04but everything from the original

00:23:05book and galaxy

00:23:06was discarded.

00:23:08Rosalina does nothing,

00:23:09serves no other purpose

00:23:10than to be saved.

00:23:11Going into the next Mario movie,

00:23:12we're not in some enlightened age

00:23:14of Mario where,

00:23:15oh, after Galaxy,

00:23:17now we have all these things

00:23:18established we can work with.

00:23:20We have just as much

00:23:21as the first movie.

00:23:22I'll get into why I think

00:23:24this is later,

00:23:24but I think it's going to be

00:23:25more of the same.

00:23:26Maybe the next one will be

00:23:27called Mario Sunshine,

00:23:29or Super Mario

00:23:30and the Rise of Bowser,

00:23:31or something like that,

00:23:32and it'll be another generic adventure

00:23:34with Mario and his friends,

00:23:35and possibly a Nintendo icon

00:23:36who shows up

00:23:37as a helpful side character.

00:23:39Maybe next time,

00:23:40who knows,

00:23:41it'll be Kirby or Ness.

00:23:42For everything that could

00:23:43theoretically be spoken about here,

00:23:45there's nothing to actually

00:23:46say about it.

00:23:47What did you think

00:23:48of the inclusion

00:23:48of the Mario 2 characters?

00:23:50What could that mean

00:23:51for the further development

00:23:51of this franchise?

00:23:53Nothing, really.

00:23:54They were simple goons

00:23:55who served as obstacles

00:23:56for less than three minutes.

00:23:57They don't have backstory,

00:23:58and they weren't written

00:23:59in a way that makes you think

00:24:00they'll be back for more.

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

00:24:03Well, I don't know, man,

00:24:04but based on Rosalina's

00:24:05five to ten minutes

00:24:06of screen time max,

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

00:24:10Yoshi, too.

00:24:11For as much fun

00:24:11as I think he was

00:24:12as a character,

00:24:13there's nothing

00:24:14to actually say about him.

00:24:15If this was the first movie,

00:24:17I'd have more to say

00:24:17about the actual deep lore.

00:24:19I'd be able to talk

00:24:19about the way that Brooklyn

00:24:20and the Mushroom Kingdom

00:24:21are separated.

00:24:22I'd question exactly

00:24:23how the warp pipes work

00:24:24and who built them.

00:24:25I'd try and nail down

00:24:26exactly what kind of world

00:24:27the film was building.

00:24:29But even compared

00:24:30to the first one,

00:24:31which is by no means

00:24:32a good movie,

00:24:33I don't think this one

00:24:34does any of that,

00:24:36even a little.

00:24:36We're taken to space

00:24:38not as a way

00:24:39to expand the Mario universe,

00:24:41but as an excuse

00:24:41to completely change

00:24:42the scenery

00:24:43as fast as humanly possible

00:24:44and to put whatever

00:24:45they want in front

00:24:46of our faces.

00:24:47I can't ask a question

00:24:48like where might

00:24:49the Pikmin have come from

00:24:50because that race

00:24:51is annoying questions.

00:24:52We haven't seen

00:24:53any environment

00:24:54in these movies

00:24:55in which the Pikmin

00:24:55would be suited

00:24:56as they're so tiny.

00:24:58So the answer is

00:24:59either they're landing

00:25:00on regular planets

00:25:01like the ones we've seen

00:25:02and are blending in

00:25:02because they're so small,

00:25:03or there are specific

00:25:05tiny planets meant for them.

00:25:07The existence of the Pikmin

00:25:08and Olimar

00:25:09at Gateway Galaxy

00:25:10implies that they're aware

00:25:10of their size being

00:25:11much smaller

00:25:12than everyone else

00:25:13in the world.

00:25:13But the problem

00:25:14I'm having here

00:25:15is that this is

00:25:15a pointless question.

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

00:25:19Pikmin showed up

00:25:19because it's a Pikmin reference.

00:25:21That's it.

00:25:23Fox was very cool.

00:25:24I do hope we get

00:25:25either a standalone

00:25:262D or 3D movie.

00:25:28The brief introduction

00:25:29to Fox

00:25:29was probably the only

00:25:30really great part

00:25:32of the entire movie.

00:25:33They cut to an actual

00:25:34photo of Slippy,

00:25:35like the Slippy UI screen

00:25:37from Star Fox 64,

00:25:39and it was the only part

00:25:40of the movie

00:25:40to get an actual

00:25:41vocal,

00:25:42you could hear it,

00:25:43laugh out of me.

00:25:44But I wouldn't say

00:25:45that Fox is gearing up

00:25:46to return to this universe

00:25:47anytime soon.

00:25:48The Mario movies,

00:25:49in my opinion,

00:25:50are like Nintendo's

00:25:51show floor,

00:25:52to utilize whatever

00:25:52characters they want

00:25:53in whatever ways they want,

00:25:54allowing you to test drive

00:25:55them around for a little while

00:25:56before whisking them backstage

00:25:58where you'll possibly

00:25:58never see them again.

00:25:59But that doesn't matter

00:26:00because they've already

00:26:01made their money

00:26:02on this project

00:26:03and next time

00:26:03they'll have even more

00:26:04enticing characters show up.

00:26:06I view these movies

00:26:07as sort of singular things.

00:26:09It's not so much that,

00:26:10you know,

00:26:11I've told this story before,

00:26:12I think.

00:26:13Actually, I'm not sure,

00:26:14but in Halloween Horror Nights,

00:26:16I was at Halloween Horror Nights

00:26:17at Universal Studios

00:26:18online for Haunted House

00:26:19and like a couple guys

00:26:21in front of me

00:26:22were these two guys

00:26:22and they were,

00:26:23I think they were

00:26:24a little bit older than me

00:26:25and they were talking

00:26:26about the Mario movie

00:26:27and they said,

00:26:27oh dude,

00:26:28did you hear that

00:26:28Mario Galaxy was announced?

00:26:30That's crazy.

00:26:31And the guy was like,

00:26:32yeah, what?

00:26:33How could they do that already?

00:26:35And I was so confused

00:26:37because then the next guy

00:26:39said in response,

00:26:40which is even better,

00:26:41I don't know how

00:26:41they're doing Galaxy already.

00:26:43They haven't even

00:26:43introduced Yoshi.

00:26:45Now, you can say

00:26:46that this is like

00:26:47fake people I've made up.

00:26:48I promise you

00:26:48they were real.

00:26:49And I mean,

00:26:50all power to them

00:26:51for liking that kind of thing

00:26:52and for talking like that.

00:26:53But in my opinion,

00:26:54I remember thinking like,

00:26:56what?

00:26:56Like, how could you?

00:26:58They don't,

00:26:59there's nothing to introduce

00:27:01that you don't have to explain Yoshi

00:27:03before you get to Galaxy.

00:27:04The amount of people

00:27:05that I've seen

00:27:05that were like,

00:27:06man,

00:27:06I would have liked them

00:27:07to take the Mario universe

00:27:08a little slower.

00:27:09I don't want to jump

00:27:10right into Galaxy.

00:27:11I wish we had gotten

00:27:12Mario 2,

00:27:133,

00:27:13World as movies first.

00:27:15What?

00:27:16Where's the movie in that?

00:27:18Where's the movie

00:27:19in Mario World?

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

00:27:22Oh, well,

00:27:23we could have done

00:27:23the story where Mario

00:27:25has to fight the Koopalings

00:27:28or something.

00:27:29Like,

00:27:29all of these Mario games

00:27:30are,

00:27:31there's a good guy

00:27:32who is objectively good,

00:27:33will never,

00:27:34ever ask anything

00:27:35about his character

00:27:36because he's Super Mario

00:27:37and you're playing as him.

00:27:38And there's a bad guy

00:27:39named Bowser

00:27:40who's captured the princess.

00:27:42If you want to do

00:27:42Mario 3,

00:27:44Mario World,

00:27:46Super Mario,

00:27:48any of them like that,

00:27:50the movie would be

00:27:51pretty darn simple

00:27:52and pretty darn similar

00:27:53to the first one.

00:27:55You know?

00:27:55Like,

00:27:55that first one was

00:27:56all of those classic

00:27:57Marios in one.

00:27:59It wasn't the first

00:28:00Mario Brothers game.

00:28:01You know what I'm saying?

00:28:02And that's just this thing

00:28:04that I think is weird

00:28:05where people were like,

00:28:07oh,

00:28:07it's the Galaxy movie,

00:28:08so they're adapting

00:28:09the story of Galaxy.

00:28:10When it was clear,

00:28:11at least to me

00:28:11from the beginning,

00:28:12they were never going

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

00:28:14This is the concept

00:28:15of Mario Galaxy.

00:28:17It's very much like

00:28:18how Nintendo operates

00:28:19with their games.

00:28:20You know how

00:28:20every Nintendo game

00:28:21now has to have

00:28:22some big gimmick

00:28:23that is sold to people

00:28:24even though it's

00:28:25a small part of the game.

00:28:26You know,

00:28:27I,

00:28:28to be honest with you,

00:28:29I have kind of been

00:28:30disappointed with Nintendo

00:28:31recently,

00:28:31so I can't even think

00:28:32of a good example.

00:28:33Oh,

00:28:33no,

00:28:33I can.

00:28:34Metroid Prime 4

00:28:35had the motorcycle.

00:28:36Did you play

00:28:36Metroid Prime 4?

00:28:37Did you know

00:28:38that the worst part

00:28:39of the gosh darn game

00:28:40is the motorcycle?

00:28:41And yet,

00:28:41that was the big

00:28:42selling point.

00:28:43If they could have

00:28:45called it Metroid Prime 4,

00:28:47too fast,

00:28:47too furious,

00:28:48to Metroids,

00:28:49they would have.

00:28:50They loved that darn

00:28:51motorcycle so much.

00:28:52There was an amiibo

00:28:53of the motorcycle.

00:28:54Are you kidding me?

00:28:55And like,

00:28:56if you remember

00:28:56any of the Mario Tennis ones,

00:28:58like Mario Tennis

00:28:58Ultra Smash,

00:29:00the whole game

00:29:01is sold on the concept

00:29:02of the Ultra Smash.

00:29:04Meanwhile,

00:29:04the Ultra Smash

00:29:05is just,

00:29:06yeah,

00:29:06you know,

00:29:07you can charge up

00:29:08a special move.

00:29:09That's how I view

00:29:10the Mario Galaxy movie.

00:29:12It is not,

00:29:13nobody sat in a room

00:29:14and said,

00:29:15you know guys,

00:29:15we should adapt

00:29:17the story of Galaxy.

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

00:29:20Nobody says that.

00:29:21They say,

00:29:21okay,

00:29:21we need to repackage

00:29:23the movie we've already

00:29:25basically made.

00:29:26We want to make

00:29:26another Mario movie

00:29:27and we want to have

00:29:29similar beats,

00:29:31similar,

00:29:31you know,

00:29:32ideas,

00:29:32but we want to put in

00:29:34characters that people,

00:29:35you know,

00:29:35like different characters.

00:29:36We want to put in,

00:29:37you know,

00:29:37how can we sell

00:29:38another movie?

00:29:39How can we make people

00:29:40go back and basically

00:29:41watch the same movie?

00:29:42And I'm not saying this

00:29:43in like a malicious way.

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

00:29:45It is very rare

00:29:47that the sequel

00:29:47of a movie

00:29:48is uniquely different.

00:29:50Like Terminator 2

00:29:51is like the internet

00:29:53YouTube film bro answer

00:29:55for what a good sequel is

00:29:56and it's true

00:29:57because it's so different.

00:29:59It completely twists everything.

00:30:00With something like Mario

00:30:01or Home Alone

00:30:02or,

00:30:04boy,

00:30:05I don't know,

00:30:05Sonic the Hedgehog,

00:30:06there's only so much

00:30:07you can do

00:30:08to convince people

00:30:09that this new movie

00:30:09is different enough

00:30:10from the first

00:30:11to be worth seeing.

00:30:13And one of those things

00:30:14is like what Mario does.

00:30:16This isn't Mario.

00:30:18This is the Mario Galaxy movie.

00:30:20We're going to have

00:30:20Brie Larson as Rosalina

00:30:22and we're going to have,

00:30:23and yes,

00:30:23they obviously pull

00:30:24from the game,

00:30:25but the galaxy theming,

00:30:28the space theming,

00:30:29it's not so much

00:30:30because they want

00:30:30to tell that story.

00:30:31It's because they need

00:30:33some aesthetic

00:30:34to package the movie with

00:30:36to sell it as a sequel.

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

00:30:38That's why Galaxy exists

00:30:40as it does

00:30:41and that's why

00:30:42I see something like,

00:30:43you know,

00:30:44I want to see this

00:30:45like some other people do.

00:30:46I want to see this

00:30:47like the guys online

00:30:48at Universal did.

00:30:49I want to be able

00:30:50to go home

00:30:50and talk to my friends

00:30:51and say like,

00:30:52oh my gosh, guys,

00:30:53how are they going

00:30:53to do Daisy?

00:30:54Like, what are they

00:30:54going to do with Daisy?

00:30:56I think the answer is

00:30:58they're looking for celebrities

00:30:59and they're eventually

00:31:00going to find one

00:31:01and they'll do

00:31:02either something

00:31:03where it's just

00:31:04part of the team

00:31:05or nothing,

00:31:06you know,

00:31:07like Rosalina.

00:31:08Um, I will say

00:31:09as far as the voice

00:31:10casting goes

00:31:11because, I mean,

00:31:12it's kind of getting

00:31:12away from me.

00:31:13The cynicism,

00:31:14the negativity,

00:31:15it's escaping.

00:31:17But so before I get there,

00:31:18I will say that

00:31:18the voices were fine.

00:31:20I didn't have a problem

00:31:21with Chris Pratt Mario.

00:31:22Sorry, guys.

00:31:23I thought I was fine.

00:31:23Um, I actually really

00:31:25liked Charlie DeLuigi.

00:31:27Um, Brie Larson

00:31:29was really good

00:31:29as Rosalina.

00:31:30I wish she had

00:31:31more lines.

00:31:32I have no problem

00:31:33with Brie Larson

00:31:33whatsoever.

00:31:34Um, no,

00:31:35I'm not one of those

00:31:36YouTubers, guys.

00:31:37Um, I thought she was

00:31:38great.

00:31:38I thought leading

00:31:39into the movie,

00:31:40I actually really

00:31:41enjoyed seeing how much

00:31:41she loved Mario

00:31:42and Galaxy

00:31:43and like that was

00:31:44like a cool thing.

00:31:44Like, oh,

00:31:45that's a perfect,

00:31:47perfect actor

00:31:48for Rosalina.

00:31:49You, you've got it

00:31:49right there.

00:31:50And then when I saw

00:31:51the movie and,

00:31:52and she was so

00:31:53underutilized,

00:31:54I was like,

00:31:55boy, what was

00:31:56the point of that?

00:31:57And I actually think

00:31:58it's funny because I,

00:31:58I think I know

00:31:59the point of that.

00:32:00Um, and it's the same

00:32:01reason that Donald Glover

00:32:02was cast as Yoshi.

00:32:03I love Donald Glover.

00:32:04Um, this is probably

00:32:07the lamest,

00:32:08most mainstream

00:32:10example,

00:32:10but I love Community.

00:32:12It's, it's a very

00:32:13good show.

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

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

00:32:16Um, I think he's

00:32:17a great actor.

00:32:18I think he's,

00:32:18he's fantastic.

00:32:20Um,

00:32:20he said the word

00:32:21Yoshi the whole film.

00:32:22Okay, I'm not going

00:32:23to pretend like he

00:32:24would give a standout

00:32:24performance here.

00:32:25Um, and I think

00:32:26the interesting question

00:32:27is why cast him

00:32:29as Yoshi?

00:32:30And I know that

00:32:31you might be saying,

00:32:32oh, well, yeah,

00:32:32they, they cast

00:32:33everybody as, as

00:32:33celebrities, but

00:32:35why cast Donald Glover

00:32:37as Yoshi?

00:32:37Why cast him as Yoshi?

00:32:39And the answer,

00:32:40in my opinion,

00:32:40is because they're

00:32:41saying to themselves,

00:32:42okay, we're going

00:32:43to have a creature

00:32:44that only says Yoshi

00:32:45the whole film.

00:32:46It doesn't matter

00:32:47who the voice is

00:32:48because we have enough,

00:32:49we have other voices

00:32:50that we're bringing

00:32:50on, in my opinion.

00:32:52It comes from a place

00:32:53of, what if we could

00:32:55get Donald Glover fans

00:32:57or people that like him

00:32:58or might like him

00:32:59to watch the Mario

00:33:01Galaxy movie,

00:33:02to, to cast a wider

00:33:03net?

00:33:04And, uh, the way I see

00:33:05it, you know,

00:33:06Donald Glover was on

00:33:07the press tour for the

00:33:08Mario Galaxy movie.

00:33:09If you watch any,

00:33:10you know, promotional

00:33:12Jimmy Fallon podcast,

00:33:15you know, news,

00:33:18any of those things,

00:33:19or it's like Good

00:33:19Morning America,

00:33:20where it's like,

00:33:20the stars of Mario

00:33:21talk about the movie.

00:33:22He's there.

00:33:23And, I mean,

00:33:24he should be there.

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

00:33:26but I think,

00:33:27in my opinion,

00:33:28that's Nintendo's

00:33:28point of hiring him.

00:33:29It's to get another

00:33:31face out there

00:33:32to potentially sell it

00:33:32to more people

00:33:33who might not like

00:33:35Chris Pratt or Charlie

00:33:36Day or who,

00:33:37you know,

00:33:37the people that didn't

00:33:37see the first one

00:33:38that weren't convinced.

00:33:39Here's new people,

00:33:40and maybe you'll be

00:33:41convinced to see

00:33:41the second one.

00:33:42I wouldn't be surprised

00:33:43if the third one's got

00:33:43a whole bunch of other,

00:33:45other, other well-known

00:33:46actors in,

00:33:46in very minor roles.

00:33:49As far as the actual

00:33:50deep lore of the movie

00:33:51goes,

00:33:51the only thing that I'd say

00:33:52is a mystery

00:33:53or worth theorizing about

00:33:56is when in Rosalina's

00:33:58story about Peach

00:33:59as a girl,

00:34:00there were evil forces

00:34:01that wanted Peach

00:34:02and Rosalina's power

00:34:03for themselves.

00:34:05What does that mean?

00:34:06Who were the evil forces?

00:34:08It presumably wasn't

00:34:09Bowser,

00:34:09so could we be

00:34:10actually secretly

00:34:11hinting towards

00:34:11a bigger bad

00:34:12in the Mario universe?

00:34:13Or will this never

00:34:14be brought up again?

00:34:15Also worth mentioning,

00:34:17it's confirmed that

00:34:17Rosalina and Peach

00:34:18are literally made

00:34:19of stardust.

00:34:20What does that mean

00:34:20for them?

00:34:21Again,

00:34:22I kind of think

00:34:22nothing really.

00:34:25Another thing I think

00:34:26that is worth talking

00:34:26about,

00:34:27because I know

00:34:27I just got done

00:34:28saying this is,

00:34:29no,

00:34:30there's no development,

00:34:31there's no characters,

00:34:32there's no lore,

00:34:32there's no deepness,

00:34:33you're not supposed

00:34:33to think about anything.

00:34:35But I will say

00:34:36it definitely seemed

00:34:37like they were

00:34:38trying to make

00:34:38the audience think

00:34:39that Bowser was,

00:34:40you know,

00:34:41conflicted.

00:34:41He wanted to be

00:34:42a good guy.

00:34:42Like,

00:34:43in the beginning,

00:34:44when Mario turns

00:34:44him big again,

00:34:45you think that

00:34:45Bowser's going

00:34:46to immediately flip.

00:34:47But he doesn't.

00:34:48He actually helps

00:34:49them out,

00:34:49and he genuinely

00:34:50makes the suggestion

00:34:51of becoming,

00:34:53you know,

00:34:54a worker in the mines

00:34:55for these bees,

00:34:56just so that Mario

00:34:57and Luigi can go

00:34:58save Rosalina.

00:34:59And it's like,

00:34:59okay,

00:35:00well,

00:35:00hold on.

00:35:01Maybe Bowser's

00:35:02kind of not

00:35:03totally evil,

00:35:04and then he's

00:35:05upset when Bowser

00:35:06Jr.'s,

00:35:06you know,

00:35:07trying to kill

00:35:07them.

00:35:07And it's like,

00:35:08you know,

00:35:10I kind of think

00:35:11Nintendo's doing

00:35:12a thing here

00:35:12where they're

00:35:13building towards

00:35:14Bowser being a

00:35:14friend of Mario

00:35:15and Luigi.

00:35:16But then they go

00:35:16back on that

00:35:17and they do a thing

00:35:18where Bowser's like,

00:35:20you know,

00:35:20he's angry

00:35:21and he's like,

00:35:22you know,

00:35:22you humiliate me

00:35:23and turn me small.

00:35:24And it's like,

00:35:25it was hard for me

00:35:26to determine as an

00:35:27audience member

00:35:28where exactly

00:35:30it was meant

00:35:31to be going,

00:35:31like,

00:35:33emotionally,

00:35:34I guess.

00:35:35Like,

00:35:36when you do

00:35:36something like that

00:35:37in a film,

00:35:38right,

00:35:38when you have a

00:35:38character,

00:35:39potential good,

00:35:40potential bad,

00:35:40and you have a

00:35:41character like,

00:35:42like Bowser,

00:35:43let's just use

00:35:44Bowser for an

00:35:44example,

00:35:45you sort of show

00:35:46that he's got a

00:35:46soft side to him

00:35:47and he actually

00:35:48likes Mario and

00:35:48Luigi and then,

00:35:49you know,

00:35:49obviously he is

00:35:50Bowser and you

00:35:51sort of show that

00:35:51he's battling

00:35:52with it internally.

00:35:54And when he's

00:35:55with Junior on

00:35:55the ship and

00:35:56he's like,

00:35:56oh,

00:35:56I don't want

00:35:57you to kill

00:35:58Mario and

00:35:58Luigi.

00:35:59You're sort of

00:35:59doing a thing

00:36:00where you are

00:36:02showing that it's

00:36:03conflicting and

00:36:04is Bowser going

00:36:05to go to the

00:36:07bad side or

00:36:07the good side?

00:36:08Is Bowser going

00:36:09to fully align

00:36:10with Junior or

00:36:11is Bowser going

00:36:11to instead,

00:36:12you know,

00:36:13end up saving

00:36:14the day and

00:36:15stopping Junior

00:36:15because he

00:36:17says,

00:36:17I've been a

00:36:18bad father.

00:36:19I never meant

00:36:20to do this.

00:36:21I never meant

00:36:22to make you

00:36:22think that friends

00:36:23backstab you,

00:36:24Junior.

00:36:25I,

00:36:26I,

00:36:26you know,

00:36:28you gotta,

00:36:29if you are

00:36:29mean,

00:36:30then there's

00:36:30nobody in

00:36:30your life,

00:36:31you know,

00:36:31something like

00:36:32that.

00:36:33Which,

00:36:33I mean,

00:36:34I guess Nintendo's

00:36:35allergic to something

00:36:36like that because

00:36:36that would involve a

00:36:37character going

00:36:37through an arc and

00:36:38coming out differently

00:36:39at the end of the

00:36:40tunnel.

00:36:41But,

00:36:41I'm joking.

00:36:42but,

00:36:43you know,

00:36:44instead what they do

00:36:45is sort of,

00:36:46they have their cake

00:36:47and eat it too.

00:36:48They have Bowser

00:36:48sort of conflicted

00:36:49and then he fully

00:36:50sides with Junior

00:36:51but then there's

00:36:51still a side of him

00:36:52that's not

00:36:52and then at the

00:36:53end of the movie

00:36:53Mario helps him

00:36:55and saves Junior's

00:36:56life and there's

00:36:57clearly like an

00:36:58emotional level

00:36:59to Bowser

00:37:01but it doesn't

00:37:02really change

00:37:02anything and he's

00:37:03still in the same

00:37:03spot he's in

00:37:04in the first movie.

00:37:04So is it worth,

00:37:06you know,

00:37:07opening Bowser up

00:37:08to potential,

00:37:09you know,

00:37:10with Mario and

00:37:11Luigi if all you're

00:37:12going to do is

00:37:13close it back down

00:37:14and say like,

00:37:14yeah,

00:37:15you know,

00:37:15I guess he could

00:37:16like Mario and

00:37:16Luigi in some

00:37:17theoretical universe

00:37:18but he's Bowser

00:37:19so he's going to

00:37:20be the villain

00:37:20of the next one.

00:37:20Like,

00:37:21why do that?

00:37:22You know?

00:37:22I actually think

00:37:23that just the

00:37:24little thing I've

00:37:24suggested here,

00:37:26make Bowser

00:37:28turn,

00:37:29make Bowser in

00:37:30the end of this

00:37:30movie decide

00:37:31not to kill

00:37:32Mario and Luigi

00:37:33and say like,

00:37:33Junior,

00:37:34no,

00:37:35you know,

00:37:35you could have

00:37:35had the emotional

00:37:38arc,

00:37:38you have

00:37:38Bowser,

00:37:39I mean,

00:37:41I'm sorry,

00:37:42I sound crazy,

00:37:43but you've got

00:37:46a character

00:37:46who has a clear

00:37:48flaw and you

00:37:50have the potential

00:37:51to make them go

00:37:52through a narrative

00:37:53arc in which they

00:37:53realize that they're

00:37:54wrong and come

00:37:55out better.

00:37:56I know this ties

00:37:58into two more

00:37:58of my opinions.

00:38:02I'll get to it

00:38:03in a minute.

00:38:04Making Rosalina

00:38:05and Peach

00:38:05Sisters destroys

00:38:06the Mario canon.

00:38:07No,

00:38:08I'm joking.

00:38:08But for real,

00:38:09I do think

00:38:10it's indicative

00:38:10of Rosalina

00:38:11not having

00:38:11anything to do

00:38:12in this movie.

00:38:13So to try

00:38:13and glue her

00:38:14back into the

00:38:14main plot,

00:38:15they add

00:38:15this random

00:38:15twist.

00:38:16I think it's

00:38:17also because

00:38:18Nintendo is

00:38:18allergic to

00:38:19expanding their

00:38:20franchises.

00:38:21When they

00:38:21have the

00:38:21key brand

00:38:22icons locked

00:38:22in,

00:38:23there is

00:38:23no going

00:38:23back.

00:38:24Quick,

00:38:25I want you

00:38:25to do

00:38:25something for

00:38:25me.

00:38:26Are you

00:38:26ready?

00:38:26Think of

00:38:27Super Mario

00:38:28Birthday

00:38:28Decorations.

00:38:30Did you

00:38:30think of the

00:38:31new Super

00:38:31Mario Bros

00:38:32style?

00:38:32Of

00:38:33that one

00:38:33Monty Mole

00:38:34render on

00:38:34like a

00:38:35happy birthday

00:38:35sign?

00:38:36Of Bowser

00:38:37with his

00:38:37arms crossed?

00:38:38That's what I'm

00:38:39talking about.

00:38:40Mario games will

00:38:41only ever have

00:38:42Bowser as the

00:38:42main villain.

00:38:43The plot will

00:38:44only ever revolve

00:38:45around rescuing

00:38:45Peach, and it

00:38:46will go on like

00:38:47that forever and

00:38:48ever.

00:38:48This is, in my

00:38:49opinion, an

00:38:50example of that.

00:38:51You can't have

00:38:52some random,

00:38:52unknown character

00:38:53showing up and

00:38:54being all-important.

00:38:55Rosalina needs

00:38:56to be tied to

00:38:57Peach in the

00:38:57eyes of Nintendo,

00:38:58somehow make them

00:38:59related so that

00:39:00she feels more

00:39:00like an extension

00:39:01of Princess Peach

00:39:02than her own

00:39:03character.

00:39:04This is sort of

00:39:05bleeding into my

00:39:05own thoughts on

00:39:06the film, so I

00:39:07don't think I

00:39:07need to hide it

00:39:08anymore.

00:39:09I was not the

00:39:10biggest fan of

00:39:10this film.

00:39:11The thing is, it

00:39:12wasn't as

00:39:12insulting as

00:39:13people are

00:39:14claiming.

00:39:14It's just not

00:39:15really a movie.

00:39:17When the first

00:39:17FNAF came out,

00:39:18the FNAF movie,

00:39:19I should say, I

00:39:20specifically criticized

00:39:21the way that fans

00:39:22just want to see

00:39:22things they like

00:39:23on the screen.

00:39:24No nuance, no

00:39:25interesting takes on

00:39:26the source material,

00:39:27just things they

00:39:28know, they want to

00:39:29see it presented.

00:39:31I said specifically

00:39:32they want basically

00:39:33visual encyclopedias.

00:39:34That is very much

00:39:35still true, and to

00:39:37an extent, I think

00:39:37this movie checks

00:39:38that box.

00:39:39Warp, Birdo, Mr.

00:39:41Game & Watch, Rob

00:39:42the Robot, Fox

00:39:43McCloud, Bowser

00:39:44Jr., Megalags, and

00:39:45then they all jump

00:39:46and fly and fight

00:39:47like action figures.

00:39:48The obvious problem

00:39:50that everyone has

00:39:51said already is that

00:39:52there's no story.

00:39:53This is, in my

00:39:54opinion, a Pandora's

00:39:56box-like statement,

00:39:56as I think it goes

00:39:57so much deeper than

00:39:58in a statement, as

00:40:00simple as, it needs

00:40:02a better story.

00:40:03So, let's finally

00:40:04talk about this,

00:40:05okay?

00:40:05You've seen the

00:40:06Rotten Tomatoes

00:40:06scores, they're very

00:40:07bad.

00:40:08Is the Mario movie

00:40:09bad?

00:40:09Is the Mario

00:40:10Galaxy movie bad?

00:40:11What is the problem

00:40:12and what does it

00:40:13mean to have a bad

00:40:14story?

00:40:15I think that there are

00:40:16two central problems

00:40:17that go hand-in-hand.

00:40:18Okay, first of all,

00:40:19by the way, to answer

00:40:19your question, yeah,

00:40:20the Mario movie's

00:40:20bad, the Mario

00:40:21Galaxy movie is

00:40:22also bad, and the

00:40:23reason I say the

00:40:24word bad is because

00:40:25I'm not the kind

00:40:26of person to say

00:40:27like, oh, it's

00:40:27okay, oh, that's

00:40:29okay, I feel

00:40:31firmly.

00:40:32I'm sorry about

00:40:33that, but I feel

00:40:34firmly.

00:40:36And as much as I

00:40:37didn't hate the

00:40:38Mario Galaxy movie,

00:40:39I wouldn't tell

00:40:40anyone with a

00:40:41straight face it

00:40:41was a good movie.

00:40:45Here's the thing.

00:40:46There are two words

00:40:48that are used very

00:40:49frequently, one of

00:40:49which is obviously

00:40:50story, and the

00:40:51other of which is

00:40:51pacing.

00:40:52To talk about

00:40:53pacing very quickly,

00:40:54I think that the

00:40:55biggest problem with

00:40:56the first Mario movie

00:40:58was probably the

00:40:59pacing, and I

00:41:00think pacing is a

00:41:01bad word to use

00:41:02because nobody

00:41:02really knows what

00:41:03they're talking

00:41:03about.

00:41:04I saw someone say

00:41:05right before the

00:41:06movie came out, like

00:41:07it was a review of

00:41:08Galaxy, this was

00:41:08like yesterday, one

00:41:09of the reviewers

00:41:09said like, oh, you

00:41:11know, this was

00:41:11breakneck speed,

00:41:13things just happened

00:41:14so fast, and nobody

00:41:15was properly

00:41:16introduced, and,

00:41:18you know, we never

00:41:19have time to

00:41:20emotionally sit with

00:41:21any B, and there

00:41:22was no underlying

00:41:24narrative that tied

00:41:25these things together,

00:41:26things just kept

00:41:26happening.

00:41:27And one of the

00:41:28comments was from

00:41:29like, Super Mario

00:41:30Evan, number one

00:41:32Mario fan 11, who

00:41:33said like, so is

00:41:35the pacing bad this

00:41:36time, do you think,

00:41:36or no?

00:41:37And it's like, I'm

00:41:38sorry, but people are

00:41:40using the term pacing

00:41:42without really

00:41:43understanding, they're

00:41:44seeing that the

00:41:45common trend is, you

00:41:46know, in fandom

00:41:48Twitter, in Mario

00:41:49fandom, oh, the

00:41:50pacing of the Mario

00:41:50movie was bad.

00:41:52And in my opinion, I

00:41:54think the problem is

00:41:55is the word pacing

00:41:57itself.

00:41:58I think a better

00:41:59word for pacing,

00:42:00because pacing

00:42:00implies speed, how

00:42:02fast things are

00:42:03happening, but I

00:42:03don't think that

00:42:04that is a valid

00:42:07way to judge the

00:42:09pacing of a movie.

00:42:10Like, I can think

00:42:10of movies with

00:42:11lots of things

00:42:11happening very

00:42:12fast, you know.

00:42:13I could describe

00:42:14movies that feel

00:42:16slow and feel

00:42:16fast, and I

00:42:18could make them

00:42:18feel the opposite

00:42:19way by the way I

00:42:20described the plot.

00:42:21Like, you know, I'm

00:42:23trying to think of

00:42:23an example off the

00:42:24top of my head.

00:42:24I'm never good at

00:42:25that.

00:42:25I'm never good at

00:42:26that.

00:42:27I think you could

00:42:28take a movie like

00:42:29Bullet Train, and

00:42:30you could say, Bullet

00:42:31Train has this

00:42:33happened, and this

00:42:34happened, and this

00:42:35happened, and this

00:42:36happened, therefore

00:42:36it's bad pacing.

00:42:37But I think the

00:42:38pacing is fine, because

00:42:39I think that you

00:42:40have time to sit

00:42:40with everything.

00:42:41There is no thing

00:42:44has to happen, you

00:42:45barely introduce

00:42:46anything before it

00:42:47happens.

00:42:47You have time to

00:42:48sit with everything,

00:42:49and that's why I

00:42:50love that movie

00:42:51so much.

00:42:52In the case of

00:42:54this discussion, I

00:42:55think that it would

00:42:56be better to not

00:42:57use the word

00:42:57pacing.

00:42:58I think it would

00:42:58be better to use

00:42:59the word digestion,

00:43:00which is a gross

00:43:01word to say about

00:43:02movie facts, about

00:43:04how good a movie

00:43:04is, but I do

00:43:06think digestion is

00:43:07a better term,

00:43:08because the

00:43:09problem isn't so

00:43:10much that things

00:43:10have to happen

00:43:11fast, the problem

00:43:12is how long you

00:43:13have, and how

00:43:15well you digest

00:43:16everything that

00:43:17happens in the

00:43:18movie.

00:43:18You know, I

00:43:19re-watched the

00:43:20Mario movie the

00:43:20other day to

00:43:21get a good idea

00:43:22of just, you

00:43:23know, what to

00:43:23expect for the

00:43:24galaxy movie, and

00:43:25the thing that

00:43:26shocked me the

00:43:27most was that I

00:43:27think it was

00:43:28like the third,

00:43:29Peach and Mario's

00:43:30first conversation

00:43:30was just so

00:43:31awkward, right?

00:43:32Mario shows up,

00:43:33and Peach says,

00:43:35what?

00:43:36You're a human?

00:43:37Oh my gosh,

00:43:37where did you

00:43:38come from?

00:43:39And Mario says,

00:43:40me and my

00:43:40brother came from

00:43:41Brooklyn, and

00:43:42then I fell in

00:43:43this pipe, and

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

00:43:44and he's in the

00:43:47Darklands, or

00:43:48whatever, and

00:43:48Peach goes, oh

00:43:50my, if he's in

00:43:51the Darklands, it

00:43:51might already be

00:43:52too late, Bowser's

00:43:53gonna kill him, and

00:43:54Mario goes, what?

00:43:55How can we stop

00:43:56him?

00:43:56And Peach says, let's

00:43:56go see what you've

00:43:57got, and then takes

00:43:58him to the obstacle

00:43:58course, and it's

00:43:59like, slow down,

00:44:01like, these are two

00:44:01characters meeting for

00:44:03the first time.

00:44:04You need to have

00:44:06Mario introduce

00:44:07himself, you need

00:44:08to have these

00:44:09characters, like, the

00:44:10third thing Peach

00:44:11says is, okay, let's

00:44:12go see what you're

00:44:12made of, let's go to

00:44:13the obstacle course.

00:44:14Like, who are

00:44:16these characters to

00:44:17each other?

00:44:17You know what I

00:44:18mean?

00:44:19I think that the

00:44:22problem is digestion.

00:44:23We don't have the

00:44:24time, I'm gonna use

00:44:24Bullet Train for

00:44:25example, okay, here's

00:44:26Bullet Train.

00:44:27We have to establish

00:44:28two assassins, and

00:44:30we have to establish

00:44:31how they're different

00:44:32from each other, what

00:44:33their personalities

00:44:34are, and also who

00:44:34they are as a group.

00:44:36And so within a few

00:44:37minutes of each

00:44:38other, of itself, we

00:44:39get a scene where we

00:44:40see them argue about

00:44:43their, how many

00:44:44kills they got on

00:44:45their last assassination

00:44:46mission, and it's

00:44:50funny because you see

00:44:51their personalities in

00:44:52the argument, and

00:44:53then they cut back to

00:44:54show you what the

00:44:55actual truth was as

00:44:57they go through the

00:44:58assassination mission

00:44:59and they show how

00:45:00many people they

00:45:00killed, and then we

00:45:02cut back and we

00:45:03then see that the

00:45:04one assassin is a

00:45:06big fan of Thomas

00:45:06the Tank Engine

00:45:07and uses Thomas the

00:45:08Tank Engine

00:45:09stickers to describe

00:45:10people, and it's

00:45:11just, like, this is

00:45:12not anything crazy.

00:45:14I'm not saying,

00:45:15like, listen how

00:45:16good this is.

00:45:16It's just, hey, look,

00:45:18they had two

00:45:18characters, and in

00:45:19order to make them

00:45:19unique and interesting

00:45:20and different than

00:45:21the other characters

00:45:22and also different

00:45:23than each other, they

00:45:23had unique personality

00:45:25traits.

00:45:26They had, they just

00:45:26had them talk to

00:45:27each other.

00:45:28You know, they had

00:45:28them talk to each

00:45:29other.

00:45:30They didn't do that

00:45:31in the Mario movie.

00:45:33Mario barely has

00:45:33time to talk to

00:45:34anyone.

00:45:34Like, 90% of

00:45:35conversations in the

00:45:36first Mario movie is

00:45:37Mario going, hey, what?

00:45:38Hey, wait a minute.

00:45:39Wait, where are you

00:45:39going?

00:45:40Hey, wait a minute.

00:45:41And it's like, like,

00:45:42Toad meets him.

00:45:43He's like, oh, hey,

00:45:43Mario.

00:45:44All right, come on.

00:45:45Let's go.

00:45:45Mushroom King of

00:45:45Man.

00:45:46Mario's like, hey,

00:45:46wait a minute.

00:45:47That's the whole

00:45:48thing.

00:45:49And then, um, I

00:45:54think that, you

00:45:55know, a lot of

00:45:56people said, oh, I

00:45:57saw this post on

00:45:58Twitter that was

00:45:58like the scene on

00:45:59the Rainbow Road

00:46:00from the first movie

00:46:00where Mario and

00:46:01Peach are sort of

00:46:02like being flirty and

00:46:03talking back and

00:46:04forth and Donkey Kong

00:46:05comes and makes fun

00:46:05of Mario.

00:46:06That's so good.

00:46:07They should include

00:46:07more scenes like

00:46:08that.

00:46:08And yeah, they

00:46:09should because that's

00:46:10like the first time

00:46:11that any of these

00:46:11characters have actual

00:46:12characterization in the

00:46:14film that's like done

00:46:15properly.

00:46:16So yeah, I think

00:46:17pacing is a potential

00:46:18issue.

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

00:46:22thought the pacing was

00:46:22in this film.

00:46:24And that really comes

00:46:25down to the second

00:46:26thing, which is the

00:46:27story.

00:46:28Your characters need

00:46:29to be something.

00:46:32I said earlier that

00:46:33Donkey Kong wasn't in

00:46:34this film and that I

00:46:35wasn't, I didn't

00:46:36realize it until after

00:46:37the fact.

00:46:38And I think that

00:46:39that's a very bad

00:46:40thing because if all

00:46:42of your characters are

00:46:42replaceable with other

00:46:43characters, if none of

00:46:44your characters have any

00:46:45element of uniqueness

00:46:47that makes them who

00:46:48they are, that's bad.

00:46:50Like when you're

00:46:51writing a story, very

00:46:53rarely is it, hey, let

00:46:55me come up with a fun

00:46:56world.

00:46:57Let me come up with a

00:46:58crazy character.

00:46:59Let me come up with a

00:47:00ridiculous villain.

00:47:01Let me come up with a

00:47:03whole society and a

00:47:04weird, unique system.

00:47:06Oh shoot, now I guess

00:47:07I gotta come up with a

00:47:08theme for all this and

00:47:09some story stuff, don't

00:47:10I?

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

00:47:11right?

00:47:12When you are, you know,

00:47:13John Pixar, you come

00:47:14up with, yeah, I'd like

00:47:15to make a movie about

00:47:17environmental stuff and

00:47:19you know, this and

00:47:21that.

00:47:21And then you make

00:47:22WALL-E based off of

00:47:23that.

00:47:24Or you say, oh, I'd

00:47:25like to make a movie

00:47:26about, you know, I

00:47:29don't know, I don't

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

00:47:30the, gosh darn, I want

00:47:32to make a movie about

00:47:33the, I can't think of

00:47:35the example I am, I

00:47:35hate coming up with

00:47:36examples.

00:47:38But in a case like

00:47:39this, like, all your

00:47:41characters need to do

00:47:42something for the main

00:47:42story, okay?

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

00:47:45I think that there is a

00:47:46good children's animated

00:47:47film that has a good

00:47:48story that is enjoyable

00:47:51for adults, that is a

00:47:52children's film that does

00:47:54not have a very deep

00:47:55story, and yet it

00:47:56manages to be extremely

00:47:58enjoyable, because it

00:47:59does everything right.

00:48:00And I think it's

00:48:01Despicable Me, which is

00:48:03probably not the movie

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

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

00:48:06you something like

00:48:06Toy Story or Monsters

00:48:07Inc., but those are

00:48:07too easy and too

00:48:09actually great to really

00:48:12use as an example.

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

00:48:14yeah, well, those are

00:48:14perfect.

00:48:14Mario movie's not

00:48:15going to be a Toy

00:48:16Story.

00:48:16I think it could be

00:48:17very much better than

00:48:18a Despicable Me.

00:48:20Despicable Me is a very

00:48:21fun movie, because it's

00:48:22fun to see the

00:48:23characters.

00:48:24You are immediately

00:48:25introduced to a very

00:48:26unique character you've

00:48:27never seen before, who

00:48:28is Gru, and he's a

00:48:29villain.

00:48:29And he's not just a

00:48:30villain in the super

00:48:31villain sense.

00:48:32He's a villain in

00:48:33society, and he freezes

00:48:34people to get ahead on

00:48:35the coffee shop line,

00:48:36and that's enjoyable to

00:48:37watch as someone who

00:48:38will never do that.

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

00:48:41that, and it's enjoyable

00:48:42to see him do these

00:48:43things that you kind of

00:48:43wish you could do.

00:48:44And so that's fun.

00:48:46And then you see the

00:48:48three girls who are,

00:48:49you know, they're

00:48:50orphans, and they're sort

00:48:52of really badly

00:48:52mistreated in their

00:48:53adoption home, and you

00:48:55sort of feel very bad

00:48:55for them.

00:48:56So when they go to

00:48:57Gru, and Gru starts to

00:48:59like destroy the world

00:49:01for them, that's

00:49:02extremely satisfying.

00:49:04With the scene where

00:49:05Gru wins, what's her

00:49:07name, the doll, the

00:49:08unicorn, because he

00:49:11destroys the carnival game

00:49:12that the guy was like

00:49:13being a jerk with, like

00:49:15that's really satisfying

00:49:16to watch.

00:49:16And it's also fun to

00:49:17see Gru talk with the

00:49:18girls, because those

00:49:19characters, you know,

00:49:21bounce off each other

00:49:21really well.

00:49:23And on top of the

00:49:24characters, there's

00:49:25also a good story as

00:49:27a whole.

00:49:28There's also, you know,

00:49:29like the plot is very

00:49:30interesting.

00:49:31Gru wants to steal the

00:49:32moon, and you see

00:49:33through the plot who

00:49:34Gru is.

00:49:35You see as when he,

00:49:36you know, when the bank

00:49:37chooses not to fund him

00:49:38and instead gives the

00:49:39money to Vector, you

00:49:40could see that he sort

00:49:41of still powers through

00:49:43with the help from the

00:49:44minions, and like you

00:49:45get a full sense of who

00:49:46Gru is as a character.

00:49:47And then you watch his

00:49:49arc, you watch that

00:49:50change go through, you

00:49:51watch him become a

00:49:53better person and like a

00:49:54father through the

00:49:55course of Despicable

00:49:56Me.

00:49:56And whatever you think

00:49:57about it, being probably

00:49:58like, oh, it's a stupid

00:49:59movie, it's really good

00:50:01for that reason.

00:50:02The Mario movie doesn't

00:50:04have any of that, and I

00:50:05think that the biggest

00:50:07thing that upsets me is

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

00:50:09all of it, it just needs

00:50:10one, right?

00:50:11Like, I personally would

00:50:13be more inclined to share

00:50:15a clip, as much as I love

00:50:16the Amazing Digital

00:50:17Circus,

00:50:17as much as I love it,

00:50:18I totally love it, I

00:50:19would be more inclined to

00:50:20share a clip online with

00:50:22friends of the Amazing

00:50:23World of Gumball than the

00:50:25Digital Circus, a funny

00:50:26scene from the Amazing

00:50:27World of Gumball.

00:50:27Because the characters

00:50:29are so well written,

00:50:30because the dialogue is

00:50:32so fun and feels

00:50:34realistic, and all of

00:50:35those characters are

00:50:36so unique, and it's so

00:50:39enjoyable to see the

00:50:40things they say, and the

00:50:42show has a unique tone

00:50:42of voice.

00:50:43Like, because of that,

00:50:45the Amazing World of

00:50:45Gumball is not something

00:50:46that I would ever be

00:50:47embarrassed about finding

00:50:48enjoyable as an adult.

00:50:50If I saw a YouTube short

00:50:51of a clip from Gumball and

00:50:52said, oh, that's super

00:50:53funny, I'd never feel like,

00:50:54oh, that's stupid.

00:50:54Here I am watching a stupid

00:50:56kid's show.

00:50:57Because it doesn't matter if

00:50:59it's intended for kids or

00:51:00not.

00:51:01What matters is if it's

00:51:02good, you know?

00:51:04And so, with something like

00:51:06Gumball, okay, there's a good

00:51:07example of, you know, maybe

00:51:08every episode doesn't have

00:51:09some kind of central arc or a

00:51:11theme or a great story, but

00:51:12the character interactions

00:51:13alone are enough to make it

00:51:14enjoyable.

00:51:15The Mario movie does not

00:51:16have that.

00:51:16There is no really enjoyable

00:51:18character interactions.

00:51:19Everybody's generally

00:51:20positive and pleasant.

00:51:22Jack Black is the closest

00:51:24you get to anything like

00:51:26that in either film, but he

00:51:28falls short because there's

00:51:29nobody really to bounce off

00:51:31of.

00:51:31Like, Bowser and Mario

00:51:33don't have the sort of

00:51:37dialogue exchange I would

00:51:38hope that a film version of

00:51:40Bowser and Mario would have.

00:51:44I think that you could also

00:51:47do, you know, a lot of people

00:51:50are saying that the big

00:51:51problem is that Mario doesn't

00:51:52change.

00:51:53I've seen so many people say,

00:51:55oh, the Sonic movies are better

00:51:56than the Mario movies because

00:51:57Sonic and the central characters

00:51:58in the Sonic movies go through a

00:52:00central arc.

00:52:01They change.

00:52:02And the Mario movie, the

00:52:04characters in Mario do not.

00:52:06And I think that this is one of

00:52:08the biggest missteps when,

00:52:09like, critiquing these films

00:52:11because, yes, it is true that

00:52:15typically, if you're writing a

00:52:16film, you would be advised to

00:52:17make your main character go

00:52:18through a sort of central arc in

00:52:19which they change from A to B.

00:52:21Obviously.

00:52:22That is film 101, film 100.5.

00:52:26Even before 101, you learn that.

00:52:30And that's totally fair.

00:52:31And there is, however, a problem,

00:52:34which is that Nintendo would

00:52:37never do this.

00:52:39Here's the deal.

00:52:39In any movie, you could name,

00:52:41or in most movies, you could

00:52:43name a character who goes through

00:52:43a central arc who starts as A

00:52:45and that is bad and then learns

00:52:47to be B, right?

00:52:51Michael, the gruff cop who lost

00:52:54his partner years ago, doesn't

00:52:56trust anyone and he has to learn

00:52:57to trust again.

00:52:58There's A to B.

00:52:59There you go.

00:53:00Stuff like that.

00:53:01You know, every kid's movie

00:53:02typically has it.

00:53:04You know, Gru goes from being,

00:53:06you know, a selfish villain to

00:53:08a good father, even though he

00:53:09keeps that villainous attitude.

00:53:12And that's what most of these

00:53:13movies have.

00:53:14And that's fair.

00:53:16The problem is that you have to

00:53:18have a character with a flaw

00:53:19then.

00:53:20And you'd have to potentially

00:53:21bounce that flaw off of the

00:53:24villain or another mentor

00:53:25character who sees the right way

00:53:28to go about it.

00:53:29And so it all has to be based

00:53:31around some central flaw of your

00:53:33main character.

00:53:34And the problem here is that you

00:53:36would never catch Nintendo dead

00:53:39giving Mario a flaw.

00:53:42There will never be a flaw that

00:53:43they would say, yeah, Mario, you

00:53:45know what?

00:53:45He's greedy or he's not brave.

00:53:49Mario is the Mickey Mouse of

00:53:51video games.

00:53:52Mickey Mouse has no flaws.

00:53:53He's not.

00:53:55He can be mischievous sometimes,

00:53:57but that's not a flaw that

00:53:58that's played for comedy.

00:53:59Typically in the same way,

00:54:01Mario never has a flaw.

00:54:03Mario never has to get over

00:54:04anything.

00:54:05I think that one of the reasons

00:54:06I really like the ending of the

00:54:07original Luigi's Mansion, despite

00:54:09the fact that it's very, very

00:54:10simple, is because Luigi cries

00:54:12after saving his brother.

00:54:14Going through, like, something

00:54:16that you can tell is very

00:54:17clearly difficult for him

00:54:18because he's scared.

00:54:19And as simple as that is as a

00:54:21story, I'm not pretending that

00:54:22that's a great story or

00:54:23anything, it works for me.

00:54:26Whereas Mario has never had to

00:54:28struggle with anything.

00:54:30And, you know, I've seen people

00:54:31say, oh, no, no, no, you don't

00:54:33understand.

00:54:34You know, Mario had to learn that

00:54:37he was enough.

00:54:39That's like the only...

00:54:40I saw a post on Twitter the other

00:54:41day that said something like

00:54:42that.

00:54:42Luigi had to learn to be brave

00:54:44and Mario had to learn that his

00:54:46attitude was the right one to

00:54:48have and that he was doing the

00:54:51right thing.

00:54:51Which is like, that's...

00:54:53No.

00:54:54That's like saying my A to B was

00:54:56learning that I had to go from A

00:54:57to A.

00:54:57Like, no.

00:54:59That's not an arc.

00:55:00An arc is not, hey, you know, I

00:55:02have this attitude towards life.

00:55:04You know what?

00:55:05I think that's the right one to

00:55:06have.

00:55:07That's not an arc.

00:55:09And Luigi becoming more brave, we

00:55:10didn't see that.

00:55:11We didn't see that at all, you

00:55:13know?

00:55:13And so, in Galaxy, we have the

00:55:16same problem.

00:55:16There are no central arcs.

00:55:18There are no characters that

00:55:19change over the course of the

00:55:20film.

00:55:20Mario and Luigi are the exact same

00:55:22at the end as they are at the

00:55:23beginning.

00:55:24So how do you do it?

00:55:25How do you do it?

00:55:26How do you give Mario a flaw that

00:55:28ties into the core narrative and

00:55:32makes it so that he has to change

00:55:33by the end of the film?

00:55:35You don't.

00:55:35I think that you'll have a very

00:55:37hard time thinking of one.

00:55:38I'd like to see you think of one

00:55:39genuinely, genuinely.

00:55:41My favorite kind of comments are

00:55:43the ones in videos like this where

00:55:44it's like, give me your pitch for

00:55:46something unique that that's

00:55:48because it's creative.

00:55:49It's like creative writing.

00:55:49It's fun.

00:55:51And so, yeah, I mean, if you could

00:55:53think of a good central flaw to

00:55:54give Mario, go for it.

00:55:57Tell me, please.

00:55:58But I think instead, it's more

00:56:02interesting to think of what else

00:56:03you can do.

00:56:04All of these videos that say that

00:56:06Sonic is good and Mario is bad

00:56:07because Sonic goes through an arc

00:56:09and Mario doesn't, they're missing

00:56:10the fact that you don't actually

00:56:11have to go through an arc to have a

00:56:12very good character or a very good

00:56:14film.

00:56:16One of the best films of all time,

00:56:17a film that my film professor in

00:56:20high school called a perfect film,

00:56:22capital P, perfect film, that I

00:56:24personally agree with, is Back to the

00:56:25Future, it is in an incredible film

00:56:28and its character is completely

00:56:29passive and does not go through an

00:56:31arc.

00:56:31He does not, in the first movie,

00:56:33in the first movie, the first

00:56:34movie, he does not change.

00:56:36He is, he is, his sort of

00:56:38rebellious attitude that he has in

00:56:40the beginning of the film is what

00:56:41he carries with him into the

00:56:42ending of the film.

00:56:43And even though you could argue

00:56:44that he got more, he was mature

00:56:46and no, not really.

00:56:47He's the same character in the end

00:56:48as he was in the beginning.

00:56:50Back to the Future is about a kid,

00:56:52Marty McFly, who is in high

00:56:54school.

00:56:54His crazy scientist pal, Doc,

00:56:57Doc Brown, he invented this time

00:56:58machine and it goes wrong.

00:57:01Doc dies and Marty, escaping the

00:57:03people that shot Doc, accidentally

00:57:04goes back all the way to, I forget

00:57:06the specific year, back when his

00:57:08mother and father were in high

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

00:57:12get back to the future.

00:57:12So what happens?

00:57:13Is there time travel shenanigans?

00:57:15Is there all kinds of crazy mix-ups?

00:57:18No.

00:57:19The story is about Marty getting his

00:57:21parents back together.

00:57:22Because the real character in Back to

00:57:24the Future is not Marty.

00:57:26It's Marty's father, George McFly.

00:57:28And in the beginning of Back to the

00:57:30Future, we see that George McFly is a

00:57:31loser.

00:57:32Marty's father is a total loser.

00:57:33And he's bullied by Biff Tannen.

00:57:37I forget what job he has.

00:57:38He's like a mechanic or something in

00:57:40the modern day.

00:57:41I forget.

00:57:42But he's sort of just bullied by Biff

00:57:44and taken advantage of.

00:57:45And George is a loser.

00:57:46And Marty, you know, feels bad for his

00:57:48father.

00:57:48So then when Marty goes back in time,

00:57:50he has the chance to, he sees that on a

00:57:53family photo, he's disappearing.

00:57:54Because whatever he did made it so that

00:57:56his parents will never meet.

00:57:57So now Marty has to get his parents to

00:57:59meet before he can go back to the future

00:58:01or else he'll never exist.

00:58:03And so in doing so, Marty helps George

00:58:06confront all the things that make him a

00:58:08loser and a weird nerd.

00:58:10And in the ending of the film, we see

00:58:12George McFly actually confront and punch

00:58:14Biff in the face.

00:58:15And it is such a satisfying moment.

00:58:18Despite the fact that George isn't

00:58:19actually the protagonist, it's Marty.

00:58:21And so what's going on here?

00:58:23Well, you don't have to have your main

00:58:25character go through an arc.

00:58:26You can have a secondary character be

00:58:28influenced by your main character.

00:58:29If your main character is going to be

00:58:31deemed perfect in the eyes of the world

00:58:33of the film, you can have a secondary

00:58:35character be influenced by them and have

00:58:37it just as effective as if it was a main

00:58:38character going through the arc.

00:58:40Look at Elf or, or I guess I said, like

00:58:43I said, back to the future, Elf is a

00:58:44movie where Buddy the Elf is never in

00:58:46the wrong.

00:58:46Well, he isn't in the wrong when, you

00:58:49know, he's creeping in the women's

00:58:50bathroom.

00:58:50But in terms of the film, Buddy the Elf

00:58:53is never wrong.

00:58:54They never criticize him.

00:58:55They never say you have to be less

00:58:56elf-like.

00:58:57They just say, you know, people think

00:59:00he's weird.

00:59:00That's the worst that, the worst slap

00:59:02on the wrist Buddy gets.

00:59:04Buddy doesn't change in the film.

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

00:59:06As a matter of fact, when, when he's so

00:59:08depressed because he thinks he's been

00:59:09doing everything wrong, he is

00:59:11reaffirmed by Santa and told, no,

00:59:13you've been doing everything right.

00:59:15It's actually Buddy's father, Walter

00:59:18Hobbs, who has to change, who, who goes

00:59:20from being stuck up and, you know,

00:59:23you've seen the film probably.

00:59:24And then by the end of the film, he, he's

00:59:27fun and jolly and a family man, all

00:59:30because of Buddy's Christmas spirit.

00:59:32That's an example of how you could

00:59:34also do it.

00:59:35Have your main character be the perfect

00:59:37example of a person in the world of

00:59:39your film and then have a secondary

00:59:41character who is completely not, who

00:59:43gets affected by that main character.

00:59:45And so, again, we run into some

00:59:48problems.

00:59:48How would you do this with Mario?

00:59:50Would you have Mario have some flaw that

00:59:52allows him to go through an arc and

00:59:53change?

00:59:54Would you have some secondary character

00:59:55from Mario who is deeply flawed and has

00:59:58to be influenced by Mario?

01:00:00What is Mario's unique attitude that

01:00:02makes him perfect in the eyes of the

01:00:04world?

01:00:04And this is where you come down to the

01:00:07real problem, which is that the games

01:00:09they're based off of don't provide

01:00:10this.

01:00:11You know, I've seen a ton of people

01:00:12talking about how Galaxy should have

01:00:14taken the Rosalina backstory and the

01:00:16ending of Galaxy.

01:00:17I've seen so many people online on

01:00:19Twitter over the last few days saying

01:00:21I'm so disappointed.

01:00:23I guess it's over the last day that I'm

01:00:25so disappointed that they didn't adapt

01:00:27to the ending of Galaxy.

01:00:28Now, if you don't know, in the ending of

01:00:30Mario Galaxy, Mario sort of reshapes the

01:00:33entire universe.

01:00:34Like the universe is reborn and it's

01:00:37sort of weird and at least when I played

01:00:39it, I thought it was like confusing and

01:00:41a little abstract.

01:00:41But basically, Mario helps the universe

01:00:44become reborn.

01:00:45And the Rosalina backstory involves

01:00:47Rosalina and her parents and how

01:00:50Rosalina was alone with the Lumas and

01:00:52blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

01:00:53It's like 11 pages of, or it's like a

01:00:55billion pages.

01:00:57The problem with adapting either of

01:00:58these things is that I don't think

01:00:59they'd work for the film.

01:01:01I don't think that the rebirth of the

01:01:03universe makes any sense for this film,

01:01:05for a kid's film, for something that

01:01:07has to lead into a potential sequel.

01:01:09It just doesn't make sense to do.

01:01:11It also wouldn't feel very effective.

01:01:13You know, there's a difference between

01:01:15the Mario Galaxy movie and the actual

01:01:16Mario Galaxy game.

01:01:18If the world was reborn in the end of

01:01:20Mario Galaxy the movie, first of all,

01:01:22how weird would it be if the world was

01:01:24reborn and reshaped?

01:01:26Like, that's just confusing and strange.

01:01:28Second of all, it wouldn't be

01:01:30emotionally resonant whatsoever with

01:01:32what we have just seen.

01:01:33The Mario movies are action-packed.

01:01:36There is no, you know, the quiet sadness

01:01:39of Mario Galaxy.

01:01:40There was no quiet sadness in the Mario

01:01:41Galaxy movie, okay?

01:01:42Um, and as far as the Rosalina story goes,

01:01:47how could you have adapted that into

01:01:49the film and made it mean something?

01:01:52How could you?

01:01:52You would have needed Rosalina to be

01:01:54a main character.

01:01:55You would have needed a way, a natural

01:01:57way to dump all of this exposition

01:02:00about her backstory into her character.

01:02:02And you would have needed to make it

01:02:05mean something in the long run for

01:02:07her character.

01:02:07The ending of her character's story

01:02:09would have had to tie into it.

01:02:11Um, and they don't have that,

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

01:02:14And they can't do it.

01:02:16Um, and I think that a lot of people,

01:02:18a lot of people don't get it.

01:02:19Like, this is why I said earlier that

01:02:21what people want is an encyclopedia,

01:02:23a visual encyclopedia of things they know.

01:02:25If Mario Galaxy was like a loose

01:02:26adaptation of the Galaxy story,

01:02:29there was no real meat to it.

01:02:31It was just stuff from Galaxy repurposed.

01:02:33And Mario was on the Comet Observatory.

01:02:36And Mario, you know, read the book

01:02:38about Rosalina.

01:02:39Like, people would be like,

01:02:40oh, that was awesome.

01:02:41But it wouldn't make anywhere near

01:02:42as much money,

01:02:43so they'd never do something like that.

01:02:46Um, so I don't know personally,

01:02:48to get back to the original point,

01:02:50I don't know how I would fix this issue.

01:02:51I don't know what I would say.

01:02:53I don't know a fatal flaw

01:02:55I could give to Mario.

01:02:56I don't know a big flaw

01:02:58that I could give to another character.

01:02:59I don't know what I'd say about Mario

01:03:00that makes him above others

01:03:03in terms of the Mario world.

01:03:06Um, the games are not as deep.

01:03:09They don't have story

01:03:10that people could make a film off of.

01:03:12Not at all.

01:03:12I'm sorry.

01:03:13Like, I'm sorry to say.

01:03:14And that's not me saying,

01:03:15oh, what did you expect from a Mario movie?

01:03:17They're not that deep.

01:03:17Of course not.

01:03:18I'm saying the films don't have

01:03:19the stuff to make a film.

01:03:20I'm sorry.

01:03:21The games don't have enough content

01:03:22in the story to make a film.

01:03:23So you have to write the film.

01:03:26Like, if you want to make a good movie,

01:03:27you write the film itself.

01:03:29You don't take it off in the game.

01:03:32I feel like I'm just talking in circles,

01:03:34but ultimately, at the end of the day,

01:03:35what it comes down to is the fact that

01:03:39Nintendo's making so much money from this.

01:03:41And fans are sort of, like,

01:03:43scattershot, scatterbrained,

01:03:45not fully sure if it's good or it's bad

01:03:49or, you know, you can't have a good Mario movie

01:03:51or you can't have a good Mario movie

01:03:53or if it should have deep themes

01:03:54or if Mario should go through an arc.

01:03:56And, like, I'm sitting here

01:03:58laying down my thoughts.

01:04:00I ended up talking about this

01:04:01for way longer than I thought I would.

01:04:05And it's like, man, to some extent,

01:04:07here I am saying, like,

01:04:07you could have Mario go through an arc.

01:04:09You could have another character

01:04:10go through an arc and get affected by Mario.

01:04:13Does it matter?

01:04:14You know?

01:04:15Does it matter?

01:04:16I think Mario is sort of, you know,

01:04:21the book Save the Cat,

01:04:23which I reference very frequently.

01:04:25It's sort of like a baby's first screenwriting book.

01:04:28If you were, not a literal baby,

01:04:29if you were starting screenwriting,

01:04:31that is always the book I'd recommend first.

01:04:33That's the book I see tons of people recommending first.

01:04:35It's one of those books

01:04:36where a lot of people will be like,

01:04:37oh, actually, you shouldn't read that.

01:04:38But that seems to be the contrarian opinion,

01:04:40not the actual opinion,

01:04:41because the actual book is super, super knowledgeable

01:04:45and helpful.

01:04:46And it basically details the three-act structure

01:04:48and the hero's journey that everyone follows.

01:04:53And the Mario movie doesn't follow that.

01:04:56The Mario movie doesn't follow that at all.

01:04:59And one of the things that it says, too,

01:05:00is, like, there's a genre of movie

01:05:02called the superhero genre,

01:05:03where it breaks down the basic genres

01:05:04of what a movie could be.

01:05:06And I don't even know where I'm going with this.

01:05:09The Mario movie fits into the category

01:05:11of what it claims is a superhero genre,

01:05:13which is that there is one or more individuals

01:05:15who are, you know, elite or above the others

01:05:19in the world.

01:05:19And they use that power to, you know,

01:05:22make the movie.

01:05:23That's why the movie is interesting,

01:05:24because there's someone with extraordinary abilities.

01:05:29But they don't, like,

01:05:32I don't know how to explain it.

01:05:33I don't know how to explain it.

01:05:34The Mario movie, theoretically,

01:05:36every single little thing where you're like,

01:05:38okay, well, let's give it a little leg room here.

01:05:40Let's give it a little bit of room to stand on.

01:05:42And, you know, there's nothing.

01:05:45There's nothing.

01:05:47The story is nothing.

01:05:49It's empty.

01:05:49There was no story in this.

01:05:50There was just characters doing things

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

01:05:53The characters, the interaction,

01:05:54okay, well, you know, whatever.

01:05:55No big deal.

01:05:56No good story.

01:05:57That's fine.

01:05:57What about the interactions between the characters?

01:05:59Is there fun character interactions?

01:06:00No, there's nothing.

01:06:01There's not even a little bit.

01:06:02Okay, well, what about some arcs?

01:06:04Do characters go through arcs?

01:06:05Do characters influence others to go through arcs?

01:06:07No, there is nothing.

01:06:09Okay, well, maybe it fits into the stereotype genre

01:06:11of superhero movie

01:06:13where Mario is an exceptional,

01:06:14you know, whatever, whatever,

01:06:16super-powered individual.

01:06:17No, it's not

01:06:18because everyone in the Mario movie

01:06:20has superpowers

01:06:20and Mario isn't really that special whatsoever.

01:06:23Like,

01:06:26it really is.

01:06:28Like,

01:06:29there is no difference

01:06:30between the Mario Galaxy movie

01:06:31and the picture of the Mario Galaxy movie

01:06:33on the side of a box of a Happy Meal.

01:06:35It does the same thing.

01:06:37It sells you Mario.

01:06:40You know,

01:06:40I have such deep,

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

01:06:52or people aren't going to take this

01:06:53and say, like,

01:06:54you know what?

01:06:54The Mario movies

01:06:55are actually no good.

01:06:57You know,

01:06:57everybody's sort of realizing that.

01:06:59Same with the FNAF movie,

01:07:00but it's too late.

01:07:01Like,

01:07:01you'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.

01:07:08I'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.

01:07:13I think the problem is fandom

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

01:07:17it requires

01:07:19inherently positive viewpoints.

01:07:21You know?

01:07:21If a fandom exists,

01:07:22let's just say

01:07:23Five Nights at Freddy's,

01:07:24for example,

01:07:24the fandom has to be

01:07:26inherently positive.

01:07:27They have to like the thing.

01:07:28They can't say the thing is bad.

01:07:31Otherwise,

01:07:32what are they fans of?

01:07:34Like,

01:07:34when I,

01:07:35when Security Breach came out,

01:07:36I remember it felt like

01:07:37we were at this sort of

01:07:37weird tipping point

01:07:38where so many people

01:07:39were like,

01:07:40this is terrible.

01:07:40And then all of a sudden

01:07:41there was just this massive

01:07:42group 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 fan base.

01:07:53And I think that's why

01:07:54something like the FNAF movie

01:07:54can succeed.

01:07:55That's something like

01:07:55why the first Mario galop,

01:07:57the first Mario movie

01:07:58could succeed.

01:07:59And it's because

01:08:00it has to.

01:08:02It has to for the fan base

01:08:03to exist.

01:08:05And then when something

01:08:05like this happens

01:08:06where it's like,

01:08:07hey,

01:08:07this is bad

01:08:08and the fan base

01:08:08has almost shifted

01:08:09to being a fan base

01:08:10of hating on it.

01:08:12It's like,

01:08:12well,

01:08:12that's too late.

01:08:14Like,

01:08:14the discussion has,

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?

01:08:23I saw all the things

01:08:23I like in it.

01:08:24And that's fine.

01:08:26That's fine if you see

01:08:26the things you like.

01:08:27I highly recommend

01:08:29the Star Wars

01:08:30visual encyclopedia,

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

01:08:32visual encyclopedia,

01:08:34the Super Mario

01:08:34visual encyclopedia.

01:08:36You'll see characters

01:08:37you like,

01:08:37you'll see things you like,

01:08:38you can read about events

01:08:39that happen that you like

01:08:40to hear about.

01:08:41It's fantastic.

01:08:42It's really,

01:08:43really 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.

01:08:49I 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,

01:09:01even though that

01:09:01emotion that I felt

01:09:03was sort of

01:09:04embarrassment and disgust

01:09:06that I was being

01:09:06shown this trailer.

01:09:07And I was wondering

01:09:08what it was saying

01:09:09about me,

01:09:09a grown man

01:09:10at midnight

01:09:11at the Mario movie,

01:09:12preparing to spend

01:09:13my night making

01:09:13a video about it.

01:09:15I felt like

01:09:16there was no good

01:09:17story to this.

01:09:18There was no story.

01:09:19If somebody asked me,

01:09:20what was this?

01:09:20Oh, what's the Mario

01:09:20movie about?

01:09:21It's about nothing.

01:09:22A princess gets kidnapped

01:09:23and all of the Mario

01:09:24characters run around

01:09:26and fight

01:09:26and smash into each other

01:09:27like stupid action figures

01:09:29for hours.

01:09:31Ironically,

01:09:32this is my one

01:09:34big truest statement.

01:09:35If you could take

01:09:36any statement from

01:09:36this video and

01:09:37crystallize it in

01:09:38what I think is

01:09:40pure truth,

01:09:41it's this one.

01:09:42And it's that

01:09:42this should have been

01:09:43a 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,

01:09:53was above

01:09:54the video games

01:09:55on some level.

01:09:56I thought that

01:09:57the Bowser,

01:09:57Bowser Jr. thing

01:09:58was fun.

01:09:59That was the best

01:10:00part of a film

01:10:01in my opinion.

01:10:02Well, second only

01:10:03to Fox,

01:10:03but imagine if

01:10:03this was a game,

01:10:04like imagine if

01:10:05this,

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

01:10:09it was like,

01:10:09oh yeah,

01:10:10you know,

01:10:11you go to all

01:10:12these different places

01:10:12and you see all

01:10:13these different things

01:10:13and you fight

01:10:14all these different

01:10:14people and you

01:10:15go to this big

01:10:15like hub world

01:10:16and the hub world

01:10:17is,

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 game

01:10:21and Bowser's got

01:10:22this massive planet

01:10:23that's like a theme

01:10:24park,

01:10:24like that would be

01:10:25the greatest

01:10:25Mario game ever.

01:10:27You know,

01:10:27we'd all say like

01:10:27that was the coolest

01:10:29Mario game,

01:10:31but instead it'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 title

01:10:45Full Story Explained.

01:10:46I don't know which one

01:10:46is going to get it.

01:10:47I don't know which one

01:10:47is going to win the A-B

01:10:48testing if it's

01:10:49Full Story Explained.

01:10:51I'm sorry.

01:10:53I'm sorry that the

01:10:54plot summary itself

01:10:55is very short.

01:10:56if you actually wanted

01:10:56a plot summary

01:10:57and were hoping

01:10:58that this was an hour

01:10:59and 12 minutes

01:10:59of plot summary.

01:11:01I couldn't.

01:11:02There's literally,

01:11:03I could barely stretch

01:11:04it to 20 minutes.

01:11:05I skipped nothing.

01:11:07I hope you enjoyed

01:11:09the video.

01:11:10I had a lot to say,

01:11:11clearly,

01:11:11a lot that I didn't

01:11:12expect to say.

01:11:14Please,

01:11:14if you want more

01:11:15all lore explained

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01:11:16make sure to like

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01:11:18My name is Spooky Dude.

01:11:20Thank you so much

01:11:21for watching

01:11:21and I will see you

01:11:23next time.

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