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00:00:00Real quick, you have not been spoiled by the thumbnail.
00:00:03I made it yesterday before I saw the movie.
00:00:05That being said, this is your final warning.
00:00:07Spoilers for the Super Mario Galaxy movie ahead.
00:00:10The Super Mario Galaxy movie has officially released, and...
00:00:13What?
00:00:14How is this video so early?
00:00:15Well, you see...
00:00:18Yes, I went to the midnight release of the movie, and gosh, it was such a really weird
00:00:22experience.
00:00:23I originally wanted to film much more than I did, but it was really hard because there
00:00:26were a bunch of people, and it's harder to do than you think, okay?
00:00:29So instead, here's a picture of a $10 water bottle and me standing there.
00:00:33And what did I have to say when the movie was finished?
00:00:35Yep, he certainly saved the galaxy.
00:00:37That was spot on with that prediction.
00:00:41There is a lot to talk about, though.
00:00:43What actually happened in the movie?
00:00:44Is it building towards something much bigger?
00:00:46How is Star Fox in the movie?
00:00:48And what's with the negative reviews?
00:00:50Are they justified?
00:00:51My name is SpookyDude.
00:00:52Make sure to like and subscribe.
00:00:53Now let's discuss.
00:00:56To start off, we need to go over what actually happened in the movie.
00:00:58Don't worry, this isn't going to take too long.
00:01:01Really quick before we get into it, too, unlike the previous All Lore Explained videos that
00:01:06I've done, I don't actually have footage of the movie.
00:01:08That would get this video taken down by Nintendo.
00:01:10So you'll have to deal with whatever was released in trailers, terrible MS Paint drawings,
00:01:14and random PNGs moving around.
00:01:16Sorry about that.
00:01:17We begin zooming through the cosmos, landing on the Comet Observatory.
00:01:21Rosalina is here and calls the Lumas to come read a story before bedtime.
00:01:24The Lumas, like the one in the first film, are all basically children.
00:01:28They act like kids, and they talk like kids, and Rosalina frequently refers to them as
00:01:32her kids.
00:01:33I want to pause and interject real quick.
00:01:35There's a very obviously placed moment where the door in the Comet Observatory opens, and
00:01:39Rosalina is standing there.
00:01:41Proudly.
00:01:41There's enough of a pause for applause or cheers, but my theater was dead silent.
00:01:47Like, not just for Rosalina, the entire movie.
00:01:50They never cheered at all.
00:01:51They like lightly chuckled at a joke or two, but that was it.
00:01:54Nearly packed theater.
00:01:56It's midnight.
00:01:57These people went to the midnight release, and nobody said anything.
00:02:00You know, at first I was kind of concerned that it would be annoying to hear all these
00:02:02people screaming, but I would have preferred that over nothing.
00:02:05It felt depressing.
00:02:07Anyway, anyway, Rosalina goes to her bookshelf to choose a book for the Lumas, and I will
00:02:12mention that in this scene, if you look at the books she can pick from, one of the books
00:02:16has Tippi from Super Paper Mario on the spine.
00:02:19However, because Rosalina has no taste apparently, she picks the one about Princess Peach, but
00:02:24the 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're excited for Rosalina to tell the story, but before she can, a huge slam shakes
00:02:33the room.
00:02:34Rosalina leaves the Lumas, telling them to go to bed, only to be faced with Megaleg from
00:02:39Mario Galaxy.
00:02:40Rosalina summons her powerful wand to actually fight Megaleg, and she's pretty much winning
00:02:44most of the fight.
00:02:45She blasts it with lasers, is able to dodge all of its attacks extremely fast, and actually
00:02:50knocks it over.
00:02:51It's only when one of the Lumas shows up to see what's going on that the pilot of Megalegs
00:02:55figures out Rosalina's weak point, and fires bullet bills at the room the Lumas are in.
00:03:00Rosalina obviously protects them, but in doing so, she is captured.
00:03:04Inside the robot, as expected, is Bowser Jr., who's trying to bring back respect to the
00:03:08Bowser name.
00:03:09Alongside him is Kamek, who is yet again a disliked henchman who keeps getting in Bowser
00:03:14Jr.'s way.
00:03:15Aluma 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.
00:03:30Mario and Luigi are in the Toasterina kingdom, and the residents are asking for help with
00:03:33a scary sound coming from the pyramid.
00:03:35Mario and Luigi go inside to explore.
00:03:37They eventually find a pipe, and inside the pipe is Yoshi.
00:03:41A cute, silly rendition of Yoshi, who's like, I don't know, I don't want to say he's
00:03:46super different than the games, but there's also this aspect to him that's kind of a bit
00:03:50odd in my opinion.
00:03:51He functions exactly like any other character would, and seems to have the same level of
00:03:55cognitive awareness, he just can't speak except for saying the word Yoshi.
00:04:00Either way, there's a pretty funny sequence showing how Yoshi got into the warp pipe in the
00:04:04first place.
00:04:05We see him hatching in the sewers from the post-credits scene of the first movie, while he then walks
00:04:10around
00:04:10Brooklyn.
00:04:11He eventually knocks over a T-Rex skeleton at the museum, and is chased into the sewers
00:04:15and through the warp pipe by the police.
00:04:17It is in this sequence, by the way, that we actually see a whole bunch of characters from
00:04:20the first movie.
00:04:21Spike, the dog from the first one, and Donkey Kong, and this is the only time these characters
00:04:26appear in this film.
00:04:27Anyway, we cut back to Rosalina, stuck in Bowser Jr.'s massive UFO.
00:04:30Rosalina asks where Bowser Jr. is taking her, and he shows her a massive, scary, Bowser-y
00:04:35planet, designed entirely like Bowser itself.
00:04:38It has lava, and the planet has like a big scary Bowser mouth.
00:04:41And there's spikes, and rollercoaster rides, and Bowser and Bowser Jr.'s face is carved
00:04:45into a mountain, and lava everywhere.
00:04:48All 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
00:04:54the universe.
00:04:55However, after tugging too hard on the chains used to hold the luma, Rosalina gets upset
00:05:00with Bowser Jr. shouting, no one hurts my kids.
00:05:02She breaks out of her chains and starts to fight with Jr.'s minions.
00:05:06The luma goes free and escapes.
00:05:08Bowser Jr., however, uses the paintbrush from Sunshine to create a goopy piranha plant that
00:05:12helps recapture Rosalina, locking her up in a chair where Jr. can start to sap her powers.
00:05:17Now back in the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi gear up for Princess Peach's birthday
00:05:21party.
00:05:22Mario has a present for Peach and asks if Luigi thinks she'll like it.
00:05:25The movie has a repeating joke that starts here, where Mario is in love with Peach.
00:05:30It's not really a joke, but Luigi teases him about it, and Mario shyly brushes him off,
00:05:35and this kinda happens multiple times throughout the film.
00:05:38The three heroes go to Peach's party, and Mario finds her sitting alone on the roof.
00:05:42Peach admits she doesn't like birthdays.
00:05:45This isn't even her real birthday.
00:05:46This is just the day they celebrate, because it's when the Toads found her for the first
00:05:49time.
00:05:50Peach says she never knew her family.
00:05:52She's spent her entire life wondering where they are.
00:05:55Mario offers her support and gives her the birthday present.
00:05:58It turns out to be Peach's famous umbrella, the one she uses in many of the games.
00:06:03Suddenly, star bits start falling from the sky.
00:06:05Everyone looks up in awe, only to see a massive shooting star crash nearby.
00:06:09Mario, Peach, Luigi, and Yoshi investigate, and it turns out to be the Luma that had been
00:06:13captured with Rosalina.
00:06:15Peach takes the Luma up to her room, and the Luma explains that Rosalina has always told
00:06:19stories about Peach, and said that if she was ever in danger, that they need to find
00:06:23her.
00:06:24Luma tells Peach that a giant robot took Rosalina to a scary planet out beyond the Gateway Galaxy.
00:06:30Peach, while encouraged by the worried Toads to stay, decides to go alongside the main Toad,
00:06:35leaving a note from Mario and Luigi saying that they're responsible for protecting the
00:06:38Mushroom Kingdom until she gets back.
00:06:40Montage of Mario and Luigi fighting enemies from the games and using power-ups.
00:06:44This ends with the scene from the first trailer.
00:06:46Bowser is tiny and claims to be rehabilitated, so he wants to be freed and turned big again.
00:06:51However, Mario sends him into frequent rages that cause him to reveal his true villainous
00:06:55side underneath.
00:06:56Suddenly the ground in the castle begins to shake.
00:06:59Bowser Jr. has arrived with his UFO and has begun sucking up Peach's castle, as he knows
00:07:04Bowser is inside.
00:07:05Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi evacuate the Toads and face Bowser Jr.
00:07:09He asks for Bowser to be handed over, but Mario refuses and they have a really cool visually
00:07:13impressive fight in which Junior uses the paintbrush to turn him into cool, purple-y powered-up forms.
00:07:18Just when it looks like Mario's got the upper hand, Mega Legs descends on them with Kamek
00:07:22piloting, trying to assist Junior.
00:07:24Yoshi, however, eats Kamek and turns him into an egg, jumping into the pilot's seat and
00:07:28taking over.
00:07:29Chaos ensues and ultimately Bowser Jr., Kamek, and Mega Legs are sent back up to the UFO.
00:07:34The Mega Legs robot explodes and Peach's castle falls onto the planet below.
00:07:38Bowser is still frustrated with Mario, and yet again asks Mario to return him back to his
00:07:42regular size and free him.
00:07:44Bowser finds out, though, that everything that just happened was because Junior was looking
00:07:47for him, and Bowser is shocked.
00:07:49He says that he was a bad father, and it's surprised that Junior wants to see him.
00:07:53Bowser says that maybe he could reconnect with his son.
00:07:56Cut to Gateway Galaxy, a big sort of traveler's hub connecting all different worlds, filled with
00:08:01crazy different species from all different franchises and Mario games.
00:08:05We see Piantas, these wooden block guys from Galaxy 2, the metal cleaner guys from Galaxy,
00:08:10and more.
00:08:11Peach walks up to a poster of Rosalina, and suddenly has a flashback of when she was very
00:08:15young and holding onto a younger Rosalina's hand.
00:08:18Rosalina, however, let her go.
00:08:20Before she can figure out what this means, Toad is robbed.
00:08:23Ukiki, the monkey, takes Toad's bag, and he and the princess give chase, eventually finding
00:08:27themselves in a massive, seedy underbelly of the Gateway Galaxy.
00:08:31Basically the Mos Eisley Cantina of the Mario universe, I guess.
00:08:35We then see that Bowser Jr. is still searching for Bowser.
00:08:37Meanwhile, he taunts Mario into finally punching him to turn him big again, by calling him a
00:08:42tiny, 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, they ended up getting info
00:09:10from 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, and then they get to the place,
00:09:26and it turns out that they know the information they just so happen to need, and it's like,
00:09:29whatever.
00:09:29There's a level of that we can accept, but we're not at that point yet.
00:09:33We're not at the criticism point yet.
00:09:36So to continue.
00:09:38Mario and Luigi are cornered by the Queen Bee.
00:09:40As it turns out, this planet is like Honey Hive from Galaxy and ruled by bees.
00:09:45When the castle crash-landed after the Bowser Jr. UFO let it go, it destroyed flower fields,
00:09:50and the Queen wants them imprisoned to work off the damage they did, but Bowser volunteers himself
00:09:55instead, 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.
00:10:10They reunite, and Jr. reveals his full motivation.
00:10:13When 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 cannon, but they'd need the power of a space
00:10:23princess, aka Rosalina, to do so.
00:10:25This bedtime story, by the way, was told through puppets, which was super fun because it's animated
00:10:31characters doing the puppets, so 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, who is remarkably slow and a pretty
00:10:57funny gag, and are led to the shipyard where we see Pikmin exit a tiny little ship.
00:11:02And we also meet Fox McCloud. There'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. He's trying to find a way to go home.
00:11:19He agrees to help fly the Princess and Toad to Space Junk Galaxy, where Planet Bowser is,
00:11:24in exchange for some money. Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi finally arrive and meet up with Peach,
00:11:28Toad, and Fox. The six-person team then fly in an R-Wing, while Star Fox music plays,
00:11:33and are ambushed by Bowser Jr.'s ship. Fox blows up the turrets on the underside of Jr.'s ship,
00:11:38however, inside the ship, Jr. has his own weapons cabinet. Inside of that, by the way, we see both
00:11:43Flood and the Poltergust. Jr. takes out a massive bazooka, but Bowser, however, is cautious,
00:11:49and asks Jr. not to kill Mario and Luigi. You can see that Bowser is conflicted. He loves his son,
00:11:54he wants to give him the life he told them the stories about, but he was truly starting to like
00:11:58Mario and Luigi, and wants to be their friend to some extent. Jr. decides not to kill them for his
00:12:04dad, and instead shoots them with the super scope, turning them into babies. No explanation is provided
00:12:09as to why this happens. Jr. drops the scope, and it flies down and crash lands with the R-Wing
00:12:13carrying our heroes. As Fox and Peach now on this new planet try to repair the ship, Toad and Yoshi
00:12:18try to get the super scope and turn Mario and Luigi into adults again, but are attacked by a massive,
00:12:23actual T-Rex, and have a big chase sequence. Finally, Yoshi manages to turn the babies back into
00:12:28adults, and the T-Rex back into a baby, and they meet up with Fox and Peach. Feeling hopeless,
00:12:34Luigi jokingly calls for help using Fox's radio and a trucker voice, and the Lumas from the Comet
00:12:38Observatory hears it. Meanwhile, Jr. tells Bowser that he's meant to be a bad guy, not friends with
00:12:44Mario and Luigi. Friends will just stab you in the back. They arrive at planet Bowser, and Bowser is
00:12:49awestruck. Cut back to Fox and the gang, as the Comet Observatory arrives, giving the heroes a viable
00:12:56ship to fly to planet Bowser. Peach goes to the library and reads the book about her from the beginning
00:13:02of the movie. The book reads, Once upon a time, there was a brave and noble princess named Peach.
00:13:07Her story begins many years ago, when she lived on a small planet with her sister Rosalina.
00:13:12The two sisters were made of stardust. Their love burned as brightly as the stars themselves.
00:13:17Together, they could summon the power of the cosmos. We see, visually, a baby princess Peach touch hands
00:13:22with a young Rosalina, and have a sort of cosmic connection, summoning grass on a barren planet.
00:13:28The story continues. But evil forces wanted the power for themselves. Rosalina had to send Peach
00:13:33away, to safety. The toads raised and protected her until she grew strong enough to protect
00:13:38them. Peach realizes that Rosalina is actually her sister. Back at planet Bowser, Junior shows
00:13:44Bowser everything. They begin to absorb Rosalina's power in a massive generator to power up their big
00:13:49universe-destroying cannon that they're going to use to destroy the Mushroom Kingdom.
00:13:53Bowser is impressed, and fully commits to siding with Junior and being evil. He gives a rousing speech
00:13:59to his minions, and the final action sequence begins. Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Yoshi jump from
00:14:04the Comet Observatory, and chase after Bowser and Junior in Planet Bowser. At one point, Mario and Peach
00:14:09fall into a pit, and we see Bowser Jr.'s advanced security system try and take them out. But from
00:14:14Bowser Jr.'s perspective, it's like an NES-style graphical interface showing 8-bit Mario and Peach
00:14:20jumping around a regular Mario level. It's super fun, that kind of thing. Same thing from the first movie,
00:14:25with all the little references and gags. After escaping Bowser Jr.'s trials, Mario and Peach
00:14:30make it to a big bridge, like in the original Super Mario Bros. Bowser appears and fights them,
00:14:35throwing axes and shooting fire, with Mario finally using one of the axes to cut down the bridge and
00:14:39send Bowser into the lava pit below. Junior comes out, distraught, only for Bowser to re-emerge as Dry
00:14:45Bones Bowser. Mario and Peach run towards Rosalina, with Mario closing the gate behind Peach, locking him
00:14:52and the two Bowsers outside, to let Peach have the best chance at getting Rosalina. Mario, Luigi,
00:14:57and Yoshi fight with Dry Bowser and Bowser Jr. in, you guessed it, a visually impressive fight with
00:15:02lots of fun gags and references. The highlight of the fight is when Luigi gets a hold of Bowser Jr.'s
00:15:06paintbrush and uses it to draw Mr. Game & Watch, but says, what? You know, I never learned how to
00:15:11draw,
00:15:12it's a funny way to have Mr. Game & Watch show up. Mr. Game & Watch then actually fights with
00:15:18Bowser
00:15:18on behalf of Luigi before getting cut in half. Junior uses his brush to create the dragon from
00:15:23Odyssey as his big final attack, which, for some reason, immediately tries eating him instead of
00:15:29Mario. Bowser's terrified, and Mario grabs the red star that makes you fly from Galaxy,
00:15:34and uses it to fly into the dragon, destroying him. The fight with the Bowsers is over, as Mario is
00:15:40now
00:15:40saved Bowser Jr. Meanwhile, Peach makes her way to Rosalina and breaks her out of the generator by
00:15:46touching hands like from before. Rosalina breaks free, and planet Bowser reforms into a grassy,
00:15:52nice planet instead. The Lumas asks to visit the Mushroom Kingdom and say they want to see the castle,
00:15:57only to cut to the empty hole in the ground where the castle was. They all decide they'll build another
00:16:02castle, in a fun 2D sprite cutscene using 8-bit graphics, and Mario finishes it off by using the
00:16:08cape flying to the top and planting the flag. Credits. There are two post-credits scenes. The first
00:16:14shows Fox, who says that the princess has fixed his warp drive, and he's going back to his home.
00:16:19Dry Bowser and Junior are locked in prison together, with a Luma guard who jokingly threatens them.
00:16:24The second post-credits scene shows someone else getting robbed by Ukiki,
00:16:28only for none other than Daisy to show up, punch him, and save the day. The end.
00:16:35You know, I feel like that was a lot, but in reality, the plot was very simple.
00:16:40This was not a very complex movie. I'm sure you're wondering what I left out. This is probably the
00:16:46the shortest plot summary in any of these all lore explained videos. What did I leave out?
00:16:51Nothing. Like, this was it. They... I want to save criticism for a little bit longer,
00:16:59but it is true that these characters in these movies are very passive, are very reactive,
00:17:04and a lot of... In both Mario movies, it's something happens, and the characters then react. And that's
00:17:11the same in this movie. Like, Princess Peach, what did she do? Princess Peach got the Luma,
00:17:18who told her to go and find Rosalina. So she goes to the Gateway Galaxy, and there she reacts to
00:17:24Toad
00:17:24getting robbed and chases after Ukiki, which leads her to Wart, and Wart openly mentions knowing
00:17:32something about Rosalina, which then makes Princess Peach want him to tell her what he knows. And that
00:17:37leads Princess Peach to go and find Star Fox, who... And it's like that kind of thing. I just keep
00:17:43going,
00:17:43going, going, going. I could keep going, you know, forever. But it's very reactive. You know what I'm
00:17:48saying? Mario and Luigi, the reason... The only reason they end up getting to Peach is because
00:17:52the things happened to them. You know, the old Bowser Jr. sucked up the castle and dropped it on a
00:17:58planet,
00:17:58which just so happened to have a bee with a bug that would take them to the Gateway Galaxy.
00:18:02Boom. And that is how the plot is. There is very little... I had so much more to say,
00:18:10for example, with something like The Amazing Digital Circus, when I did... I think that was the last
00:18:14All Lore Explained video I did, because The Amazing Digital Circus is filled with these, you know,
00:18:20dialogue moments and conversations and introspective shots. And, you know, you could take something like,
00:18:25oh, I mean, I don't know how many of you have watched The Digital Circus, but if there was a
00:18:29scene where, you know, Pomni said something about her previous life to Jax and Jax reacted weird,
00:18:35you could take that and sort of analyze it from so many different angles. You could, you know,
00:18:40the literal angle, what did Pomni actually say? What did Jax actually say? And then, oh, well,
00:18:44what does this say about the mischaracters? The Mario movie isn't like that. You know, I think that
00:18:49something that surprised me is that I, as I wrote the script, I remembered, oh yeah, Donkey Kong was
00:18:55in one of the flashback scenes, when the little Yoshi segment where we saw a silly explanation as to
00:19:01how Yoshi ended up on the pipe, Donkey Kong showed up. And I remembered, oh yeah, and then he showed
00:19:05up
00:19:05later, right? Wasn't, wasn't he around? And I realized, no, Donkey Kong wasn't in this movie at all,
00:19:12except for one little cameo. And so that's the thing, like, could you say that he was missed,
00:19:18that his character, you know, not having him in this film deeply affected it? No. You know what
00:19:24I'm saying? And so I, I, when you're, when you're listening to this and thinking like, well, wait,
00:19:27what was the story? The only real story outside of, of action happening because it has to happen
00:19:36is that Princess Peach was sad because she didn't know her family. And then it turns out that her
00:19:41family was Rosalina and they had this sort of cosmic backstory that she didn't know about.
00:19:46So she wants to save Rosalina and she does. That's it. There is no stakes outside of Rosalina's safety.
00:19:54And I mean, there are in the sense that Bowser Jr. is going to use Rosalina to power the cannon
00:20:00that
00:20:00can destroy planets. But I mean, that's just like a, like a big third act final reason that you have
00:20:07to stop Bowser, um, and not much more. And so throughout this whole movie, like,
00:20:16there's, there's not much to say there. There's not much to say about the characters. There's not
00:20:19much to say about the story. That was it. I want to talk more lore though. And this is important
00:20:26because
00:20:28I don't really think this movie has any. Yes, you heard me right. I know that's either obvious or
00:20:33obviously wrong based on who you are. You might be saying, yeah, of course the Mario movie wouldn't
00:20:37have any lore dummy. It's the Mario movie. It's probably something I think that's, that's something
00:20:42that a lot of you would say to me, but others would probably scoff at me and say, we just
00:20:46saw
00:20:46Piantas, Pikmin, Star Fox, Rob, and Mr. Game and Watch all at once. Here's my thought.
00:20:53When Fox talked about how he's from another universe, and we see him actually animated in 2D,
00:20:58I sort of thought, okay, this makes sense if they're actually doing it. They're setting up for
00:21:04a Smash Bros. movie. Fox is from another universe, meaning that there are multiple Nintendo universes.
00:21:10Any character that doesn't make sense to be in the Mario universe can potentially join the Smash Bros.
00:21:15movie if they're in a different universe from Mario and get there like Fox did. I almost felt like
00:21:21perhaps showing us this little glimpse of Fox was like teasing more. There could be a story in this other
00:21:27universe. However, I think this is kind of quickly thrown out the window. Mr. Game and Watch, Rob,
00:21:32and Pikmin are not at all tied to the idea of being anything other than fanservice. There is no
00:21:37establishing these characters. Mr. Game and Watch is even a stick figure drawing who gets torn in half
00:21:42rather than a video game character. There is no indication that Star Fox has any plans to join back
00:21:47up with Mario or re-enter the Mario universe. I saw plenty of people saying that the reason they had
00:21:53all
00:21:53these crossovers and the reason they did Galaxy in the first place is to cast a wide net, so to
00:21:58speak,
00:21:58introduce as many characters as they can, grow the Mario universe as fast as they can, and build
00:22:03towards that Smash movie. I think that's false. I don't think that's why they did Mario Galaxy,
00:22:08and I think that that's not happening. On top of the recent Miyamoto comments, which admittedly are
00:22:14sort of being taken out of context, he said that in terms of the Mario movie, it's not a Super
00:22:20Smash
00:22:20Bros. movie, and so you can't be expecting a Mario movie where all the Nintendo characters appear.
00:22:25However, he does like doing things like putting the Pikmin in the movies. However, the way he said
00:22:31it, I mean, I don't think there's going to be a Smash Bros. movie anytime soon. They didn't grow the
00:22:37Mario universe itself with this movie whatsoever. We see that Wart and his gang appear, sure, that's cool,
00:22:43but outside of that, I wouldn't say that that counts as growing a universe. Sure, the Pikmin could appear in
00:22:48the future, but it's not like they were anything other than a little gag reference for fans.
00:22:53Or take, for example, Rosalina. There was a good amount that you could have done with Rosalina that
00:22:58was simply chosen not to be done. Rosalina's backstory, for example, was not only rewritten
00:23:03with the Peach Sister twist, but everything from the original book in Galaxy was discarded.
00:23:08Rosalina does nothing, serves no other purpose than to be saved. Going into the next Mario movie,
00:23:13we're not in some enlightened age of Mario where, oh, after Galaxy, now we have all these things
00:23:18established we can work with. We have just as much as the first movie. I'll get into why I think
00:23:24this
00:23:24is later, but I think it's going to be more of the same. Maybe the next one will be called
00:23:28Mario
00:23:28Sunshine, or Super Mario and the Rise of Bowser, or something like that, and it'll be another generic
00:23:33adventure with Mario and his friends, and possibly a Nintendo icon who shows up as a helpful side
00:23:38character. Maybe next time, who knows, it'll be Kirby or Ness. For everything that could theoretically
00:23:44be spoken about here, there's nothing to actually say about it. What did you think of the inclusion
00:23:48of the Mario 2 characters? What could that mean for the further development of this franchise?
00:23:53Nothing, really. They were simple goons who served as obstacles for less than three minutes.
00:23:58They don't have backstory, and they weren't written in a way that makes you think they'll be back for
00:24:01more. What's up with Daisy? Well, I don't know, man, but based on Rosalina's five to ten minutes of
00:24:06screen time max, I doubt much is up with Daisy. Yoshi too, for as much fun as I think he
00:24:12was as a
00:24:12character, there's nothing to actually say about him. If this was the first movie, I'd have more to
00:24:17say about the actual deep lore. I'd be able to talk about the way that Brooklyn and the Mushroom
00:24:21Kingdom are separated. I'd question exactly how the warp pipes work and who built them. I'd try and
00:24:26nail down exactly what kind of world the film was building. But even compared to the first one,
00:24:31which is by no means a good movie, I don't think this one does any of that, even a little.
00:24:37We're
00:24:37taken to space not as a way to expand the Mario universe, but as an excuse to completely change
00:24:42the scenery as fast as humanly possible, and to put whatever they want in front of our faces.
00:24:47I can't ask a question like, where might the Pikmin have come from? Because that raises annoying
00:24:52questions. We haven't seen any environment in these movies in which the Pikmin would be suited as
00:24:56they're so tiny. So the answer is either they're landing on regular planets like the ones we've
00:25:02seen and are blending in because they're so small, or there are specific tiny planets meant for them.
00:25:07The existence of the Pikmin and Olimar at Gateway Galaxy implies that they're aware of their size
00:25:11being much smaller than everyone else in the world. But the problem I'm having here is that this is a
00:25:15pointless question. There is no answer to this. Pikmin showed up because it's a Pikmin reference.
00:25:21That's it. Fox was very cool. I do hope we get either a standalone 2D or 3D movie. The brief
00:25:28introduction to Fox was probably the only really great part of the entire movie. They cut to an
00:25:34actual photo of Slippy, like the Slippy UI screen from Star Fox 64, and it was the only part of
00:25:40the
00:25:40movie to get an actual, vocal, you-could-hear-it laugh out of me. But I wouldn't say that Fox
00:25:45is gearing up
00:25:46to return to this universe anytime soon. The Mario movies, in my opinion, are like Nintendo's show
00:25:51floor, to utilize whatever characters they want in whatever ways they want, allowing you to test
00:25:55drive them around for a little while before whisking them backstage where you'll possibly never see
00:25:59them again. But that doesn't matter because they've already made their money on this project, and next
00:26:03time they'll have even more enticing characters show up. I view these movies as sort of singular things.
00:26:09It's not so much that, you know, I've told this story before, I think. Actually, I'm not sure,
00:26:14but on Halloween Horror Nights, I was at Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios online for Haunted
00:26:19House, and like a couple guys in front of me were these two guys, and they were, I think they
00:26:24were
00:26:24a little bit older than me, and they were talking about the Mario movie, and they said, oh dude, did
00:26:28you
00:26:28hear that Mario Galaxy was announced? That's crazy. And the guy was like, yeah, what? How could they do that
00:26:34already? And I was, I was so confused, because the next guy said in response, which is even better,
00:26:41I don't know how they're doing Galaxy already. They haven't even introduced Yoshi. Now, you can
00:26:46say that this is like fake people I've made up. I promise you they were real. And I mean, all
00:26:50power
00:26:51to them for liking that kind of thing and for talking like that. But in my opinion, I remember thinking
00:26:55like, what? Like, how could you, they don't, there's nothing to introduce, that you don't have to
00:27:02explain Yoshi before you get to Galaxy. The amount of people that I've seen that were like, man,
00:27:06I would have liked them to take the Mario universe a little slower. I don't want to jump right into
00:27:11Galaxy. I wish we had gotten Mario 2, 3, World as movies first. What? Where's the movie in that?
00:27:18Where's the movie in Mario World? You know what I'm saying? What? Oh, well, we could have done the
00:27:24story where Mario has to fight the Koopalings or something. Like all of these Mario games are,
00:27:31there's a good guy who is objectively good, will never ever ask anything about his character because
00:27:36he's Super Mario and you're playing as him. And there's a bad guy named Bowser who's captured
00:27:40the princess. If you want to do Mario 3, Mario World, Super Mario, any of them like that,
00:27:50the movie would be pretty darn simple and pretty darn similar to the first one.
00:27:55You know, like that first one was all of those classic Marios in one. It wasn't the first Mario
00:28:00Brothers game. You know what I'm saying? And that's just this thing that I think is weird,
00:28:06where people were like, oh, it's the Galaxy movie, so they're adapting the story of Galaxy.
00:28:10When it was clear, at least to me from the beginning, they were never going to adapt the story of
00:28:14Galaxy.
00:28:14This is the concept of Mario Galaxy. It's, it's very much like how Nintendo operates with their
00:28:19games. You know how every Nintendo game now has to have some big gimmick that is sold to people,
00:28:24even though it's, it's a small part of the game. You know, I, to be honest with you,
00:28:29I have kind of been disappointed with Nintendo recently, so I can't even think of a good example.
00:28:33Oh, no, I can. Metroid Prime 4 had the motorcycle. Did you play Metroid Prime 4? Did you know that
00:28:38the worst part of the gosh darn game is the motorcycle? And yet that was the big selling point.
00:28:43They, if they had, if they could have called it Metroid Prime 4, too fast, too furious,
00:28:49two Metroids, they would have. Uh, they loved that darn motorcycle so much. There was an amiibo
00:28:53of the motorcycle. Are you kidding me? Um, and like, if you remember any of the Mario Tennis ones,
00:28:58like Mario Tennis Ultra Smash, the whole game is sold on the concept of the Ultra Smash.
00:29:04Meanwhile, the Ultra Smash is just, yeah, you know, you can charge up a special move.
00:29:09That's how I view the Mario Galaxy movie. It is not, nobody sat in a room and said, you know,
00:29:15guys,
00:29:15we should adapt the story of Galaxy. I think there's a lot there. Nobody says that. They say,
00:29:21okay, we need to repackage the movie we've already basically made. We want to make another Mario movie,
00:29:27and we want to have, have similar beats, similar, you know, ideas, but we want to put in characters
00:29:34that people, you know, like different characters. We want to put in, you know, how can we sell another
00:29:39movie? How can we make people go back and basically watch the same movie? And I'm not saying this in
00:29:43like a malicious way. This is kind of all movies. It is very rare that the sequel of a movie
00:29:48is
00:29:49uniquely different. Like Terminator 2 is like the, the, the internet YouTube film bro answer for what a
00:29:55good sequel is. And it's true because it's so different. It completely twists everything with
00:30:00something like Mario or home alone or, um, boy, I don't know, Sonic the Hedgehog. There's only so
00:30:07much you can do to convince people that this new movie is different enough from the first to be
00:30:11worth seeing. Um, and one of those things is, is like what Mario does. This isn't Mario. This is
00:30:18the Mario Galaxy movie. We're going to have Brie Larson as Rosalina, and we're going to have,
00:30:23and yes, they obviously pull from the game, but the galaxy theming, the space theming,
00:30:29it's not so much because they want to tell that story. It's because they need
00:30:33some aesthetic to, to package the movie with, to sell it as a sequel. And that's what they do.
00:30:38That's why Galaxy exists as it does. And that's why I see something like, you know, I want to see
00:30:45this
00:30:45like some other people do. I want to see this like the guys online at Universal did. I want to
00:30:49be able to
00:30:50go home and talk to my friends and say like, oh my gosh, guys, how are they going to do
00:30:53Daisy?
00:30:54Like, what are they going to do with Daisy? I think the answer is they'll, they're looking for
00:30:59celebrities and they're eventually going to find one and they'll do either something where it's just
00:31:04part of the team or, or nothing, you know, like Rosalina. Um, I will say as far as the voice
00:31:10casting
00:31:11goes, because I mean, it's, it's kind of getting away from me. The, the cynicism, the negativity,
00:31:15it's, it's escaping. Um, but so before I get there, I will say that the voices were fine.
00:31:20I didn't have a problem with Chris Pratt Mario. Sorry guys. I thought it was fine.
00:31:24Um, I actually really liked Charlie DeLuigi. Um, Brie Larson was really good as Rosalina.
00:31:30I wish she had more lines. I have no problem with Brie Larson whatsoever. Um, no, I'm not one of
00:31:36those
00:31:36YouTubers guys. Um, I thought she was great. I thought leading into the movie, I actually really
00:31:41enjoyed seeing how much she loved Mario and Galaxy. And like, that was like a cool thing. Like,
00:31:45oh, that's a perfect, perfect actor for Rosalina. You, you've got it right there. And then when I
00:31:51saw the movie and, and she was so underutilized, I was like, boy, what was the point of that?
00:31:57And I actually think it's funny cause I, I think I know the point of that. Um, and it's the
00:32:01same
00:32:01reason that Donald Glover was cast as Yoshi. I love Donald Glover. Um, this is probably the lamest,
00:32:08most mainstream example, but I love community. It's, it's a very good show. Okay. I'm sorry.
00:32:14I know that's mainstream. Um, I think he's a great actor. I think he's, he's fantastic.
00:32:20Um, he said the word Yoshi, the whole film. Okay. I'm not going to pretend like he would
00:32:24give a standout performance here. Um, and I think the interesting question is why cast him as Yoshi?
00:32:30And I know that you might be saying, oh, well, yeah, they, they cast everybody as, as celebrities,
00:32:34but why cast Donald Glover as Yoshi? Why cast him as Yoshi? And the answer in my opinion is because
00:32:41they're saying to themselves, okay, we're going to have a creature that only says Yoshi,
00:32:45the whole film. It doesn't matter who the voice is because we have enough. We have other voices
00:32:50that we're bringing on. In my opinion, it comes from a place of what if we could get Donald Glover
00:32:57fans or people that like him or might like him to watch the Mario galaxy movie to, to cast a
00:33:03wider net.
00:33:04And, and, uh, the way I see it, you know, Donald Glover was on the press tour for the Mario
00:33:09galaxy
00:33:09movie. If you watch any, you know, promotional Jimmy Fallon podcast, you know, news, any of those
00:33:19things, or it's a good morning America where it's like the, the stars of Mario talk about the movie.
00:33:22He's there. And I mean, he, he should be there. He's a, he's a main character, but I think in
00:33:27my
00:33:27opinion, that's Nintendo's point of hiring him. It's to get another face out there to potentially sell
00:33:32it to more people who might not like Chris Pratt or Charlie Day or who, you know, the people that
00:33:37didn't see the first one that weren't convinced here's new people. And maybe you'll be convinced
00:33:41to see the second one. I wouldn't be surprised if the third one's got a whole bunch of other,
00:33:45other, other well-known actors in, in very minor roles. As far as the actual deep lore of the movie
00:33:51goes, the only thing that I'd say is a mystery or worth theorizing about is when in Rosalina's story
00:33:58about Peach as a girl, there were evil forces that wanted Peach and Rosalina's power for themselves.
00:34:05What does that mean? Who were the evil forces? It presumably wasn't Bowser, so could we be
00:34:10actually secretly hinting towards a bigger bad in the Mario universe? Or will this never be brought
00:34:15up again? Also worth mentioning, it's confirmed that Rosalina and Peach are literally made of
00:34:19stardust. What does that mean for them? Again, I kind of think nothing really. Um, another thing I think
00:34:26that is worth talking about because I know I just got done saying this. No, there's no development.
00:34:31There's no characters. There's no lore. There's no deepness. You're not supposed to think about
00:34:34anything. Um, but I will say it definitely seemed like they were trying to make the audience think
00:34:39that Bowser was, you know, conflicted. He wanted to be a good guy. Like in the beginning, when Mario
00:34:44turns him big again, you think that Bowser's going to immediately flip, but he doesn't. He actually helps
00:34:51the suggestion of becoming, you know, a worker in the mines for these bees just so that Mario and
00:34:58Luigi can go save Rosalina. And it's like, okay, well, hold on. Maybe Bowser's kind of not totally
00:35:03evil. And then he's upset when Bowser Jr.'s, you know, trying to kill them. And it's like, you know,
00:35:10I kind of think Nintendo's doing a thing here where they were there where they're building towards
00:35:14Bowser being a friend of Mario and Luigi. But then they go back on that and they and they do
00:35:18a thing
00:35:18where Bowser's like, you know, he's angry and he's like, you know, you humiliate me and turn
00:35:24me small. And it's like, it was hard for me to determine as an audience member where exactly
00:35:30it was meant to be going like emotionally, I guess. Like when you do something like that in a film,
00:35:38right? When you, when you have a character, potential good, potential bad, and you have a
00:35:41character like, um, like Bowser, let's just use Bowser for an example. Um, you sort of show that he's got
00:35:46a soft side to him and he actually likes Mario and Luigi. And then, you know, obviously he is Bowser
00:35:50and you sort of show that he's battling with it internally. Um, and when he's with Junior on the
00:35:56ship and he's like, oh, I don't want you to kill Mario and Luigi. You're sort of doing a thing
00:36:00where
00:36:00you are showing that it's conflicting and, and is Bowser going to turn, is Bowser going to go to the
00:36:07bad side or the good side? And is Bowser going to fully align with Junior or is Bowser going to
00:36:11instead, you know, end up saving the day and stopping Junior because, uh, he, he says like,
00:36:17I've been a bad father. I never meant to do this. I, I never meant to make you think that
00:36:23friends
00:36:23backstab you, Junior. I, I, you know, you gotta, if you are mean, then there's nobody in your life,
00:36:31you know, something like that, which, I mean, I guess Nintendo's allergic to something like that
00:36:36because that would involve a character going through an arc and coming out differently at the end
00:36:40of the tunnel. But, um, I'm joking, but, you know, instead what they do is sort of,
00:36:46they have their cake and eat it too. They have Bowser sort of conflicted and then he fully sides
00:36:50with Junior, but then there's still a side of him that's not. And then at the end of the movie,
00:36:53Mario helps him and, and saves Junior's life. And, and there's clearly like an emotional level to
00:37:00Bowser, but it doesn't really change anything. And he's still in the same spot he's in in the first
00:37:04movie. So is it worth, you know, opening Bowser up to potential, you know, sincerity with Mario and
00:37:11Luigi? If all you're going to do is, is close it back down and say like, yeah, you know, I,
00:37:15I guess
00:37:15he could like Mario and Luigi in some theoretical universe, but he's Bowser. So he's going to be
00:37:20the villain of the next one. Like why do that? You know, I actually think that just the little
00:37:24thing I've suggested here, um, make Bowser turn, make Bowser in the end of this movie decide
00:37:31not to kill Mario and Luigi and say like, Junior, no, you know, you could have had the, the, the
00:37:37emotional arc. You, you have Bowser. I mean, I'm sorry. I sound crazy, but you've got a character
00:37:47who has a clear flaw and you have the potential to make them go through a narrative arc in which
00:37:53they
00:37:53realize that they're wrong and come out better. Wait, I know this ties into two more of my opinions.
00:38:02I'll get to it in a minute. Making Rosalina and Peach sisters destroys the Mario canon.
00:38:07No, I'm joking. But for real, I do think it's indicative of Rosalina not having anything to do
00:38:12in this movie. So to try and glue her back into the main plot, they add this random twist. I
00:38:17think
00:38:17it's also because Nintendo is allergic to expanding their franchises. When they have the key brand icons
00:38:22locked in, there is no going back. Quick, I want you to do something for me. Are you ready? Think
00:38:27of
00:38:27Super Mario birthday decorations. Did you think of the new Super Mario Bros. style? Of that one Monty
00:38:33Mole render on like a happy birthday sign? Of Bowser with his arms crossed? That's what I'm talking about.
00:38:40Mario games will only ever have Bowser as the main villain. The plot will only ever revolve around
00:38:45rescuing Peach. And it will go on like that forever and ever. This is, in my opinion, an example of
00:38:51that.
00:38:51You can't have some random unknown character showing up and being all important. Rosalina needs to be
00:38:57tied to Peach in the eyes of Nintendo. Somehow make them related so that she feels more like an
00:39:01extension of Princess Peach than her own character. This is sort of bleeding into my own thoughts on
00:39:06the film, so I don't think I need to hide it anymore. I was not the biggest fan of this
00:39:10film.
00:39:11The thing is, it wasn't as insulting as people are claiming. It's just not really a movie. When the first
00:39:17FNAF came out, the FNAF movie, I should say, I specifically criticized the way that fans just
00:39:22watch to see things they like on the screen. No nuance, no interesting takes on the source material,
00:39:27just things they know. They want to see it presented. I said specifically they want, basically,
00:39:33visual encyclopedias. That is very much still true, and to an extent, I think this movie checks that
00:39:38box. Warp, Birdo, Mr. Game & Watch, Rob the Robot, Fox McCloud, Bowser Jr., Mega Legs, and then they
00:39:46all jump and fly and fight like action figures. The obvious problem that everyone has said already
00:39:51is that there's no story. This is, in my opinion, a Pandora's box-like statement, as I think it goes
00:39:58so much deeper than a statement as simple as, it needs a better story. So, let's finally talk about
00:40:05this. Okay, you've seen the Rotten Tomatoes scores. They're very bad. Is the Mario movie bad? Is the
00:40:10Mario Galaxy movie bad? What is the problem, and what does it mean to have a bad story? I think
00:40:16that
00:40:16there are two central problems that go hand in hand. Okay, first of all, by the way, to answer your
00:40:19question, yeah, the Mario movie's bad. The Mario Galaxy movie is also bad, and the reason I say the
00:40:24word bad is because I'm not the kind of person to say, like, oh, it's okay. Oh, that's okay. I
00:40:30feel firmly.
00:40:32I'm sorry about that, but I feel firmly. And as much as I didn't hate the Mario Galaxy movie,
00:40:39I wouldn't tell anyone with a straight face it was a good movie.
00:40:45Here's the thing. There are two words that are used very frequently, one of which is obviously
00:40:50story, and the other of which is pacing. To talk about pacing very quickly, I think that the biggest
00:40:55problem with the first Mario movie was probably the pacing. And I think pacing is a bad word to
00:41:01use, because nobody really knows what they're talking about. I saw someone say, right before
00:41:06the movie came out, like it was a review of Galaxy, this was like yesterday, one of the reviewers said,
00:41:10like, oh, you know, this was breakneck speed, things just happened so fast, and nobody was properly
00:41:16introduced, and, you know, we never have time to emotionally sit with any B, and there was no
00:41:23underlying narrative that tied these things together. Things just kept happening. And one of the comments was
00:41:29from, like, Super Mario Evan number one Mario fan 11, who said, like, so is the pacing bad this time,
00:41:36do you think, or no? And it's like, I'm sorry, but people are using the term pacing without really
00:41:43understanding. They're seeing that the common trend is, you know, in fandom Twitter, in Mario fandom,
00:41:49oh, the pacing of the Mario movie was bad. And in my opinion, I think the problem is the word
00:41:57pacing itself. I think a better word for pacing, because pacing implies speed, how fast things are
00:42:03happening. But I don't think that that is a valid way to judge the pacing of a movie. Like,
00:42:10I can think of movies with lots of things happening very fast, you know. I could describe movies that
00:42:15feel slow and feel fast, and I could make them feel the opposite way by the way I described the
00:42:20plot.
00:42:21Like, you know, I'm trying to think of an example at the top of my head. I'm never good at
00:42:25that. I'm
00:42:26never good at that. I think you could take a movie like Bullet Train, and you could say, Bullet Train
00:42:32has
00:42:33this happened, and this happened, and this happened, and this happened, and this happened,
00:42:36therefore it's bad pacing. But I think the pacing is fine, because I think that you have time to sit
00:42:40with everything. There is no thing has to happen, you barely introduce anything before it happens.
00:42:47You have time to sit with everything, and that's why I love that movie so much.
00:42:53In the case of this discussion, I think that it would be better to not use the word pacing. I
00:42:58think
00:42:58it would be better to use the word digestion, which is a gross word to say about movie facts,
00:43:03about how good a movie is. But I do think digestion is a better term, because the problem isn't so
00:43:10much
00:43:10that things have to happen fast. The problem is how long you have, and how well you digest every
00:43:17thing that happens in the movie. I re-watched the Mario movie the other day to get a good idea
00:43:22of just what to expect for the Galaxy movie. And the thing that shocked me the most was that I
00:43:27think
00:43:28it was like the third... Peach and Mario's first conversation was just so awkward, right? Mario shows
00:43:33up, and Peach says, what? You're a human? Oh my gosh, where did you come from? And Mario says,
00:43:40me and my brother came from Brooklyn, and then I fell in this pipe, and he's in the pipe, and
00:43:45he's in
00:43:47the Darklands or whatever. And Peach goes, oh my, if he's in the Darklands, it might already be too
00:43:52late. Bowser's gonna kill him. And Mario goes, what? How can we stop him? And Peach says, let's go see
00:43:57what you've got, and then takes him to the obstacle course. And it's like, slow down. Like, these are
00:44:01two characters meeting for the first time. You need to have Mario introduce himself. You need to
00:44:08have these characters... Like, the third thing Peach says is, okay, let's go see what you're made of.
00:44:13Let's go to the obstacle course. Like, who are these characters to each other? You know what I mean?
00:44:20I think that the problem is digestion. We don't have the... I'm gonna use Bullet Train for example,
00:44:25okay? Here's Bullet Train. We have to establish two assassins, and we have to establish how they're
00:44:32different from each other, what their personalities are, and also who they are as a group. And so within
00:44:37a few minutes of each other, of itself, we get a scene where we see them argue about their... how
00:44:44many kills they got on their last assassination mission. And it's funny because you see their
00:44:51personalities in the argument, and then they cut back to show you that argue... what the actual truth
00:44:56was as they go through the assassination mission, and they show how many people they killed. And then
00:45:01we cut back, and we then see that the one assassin is a big fan of Thomas the Tank Engine,
00:45:07and uses
00:45:08Thomas the Tank Engine stickers to describe people. And it's just, like, this is not anything crazy.
00:45:14I'm not saying, like, listen how good this is. It's just, hey, look, they had two characters. In order
00:45:19to make them unique and interesting and different than the other characters, and also different than
00:45:23each other, they had unique personality traits. They had... they just had them talk to each other.
00:45:28You know, they had them talk to each other. They didn't do that in the Mario movie. Mario
00:45:33barely has time to talk to anyone. Like, 90% of conversations in the first Mario movie is Mario
00:45:37going, hey, what? Hey, wait a minute. Wait, where are you going? Hey, wait a minute. Hey, wait a minute.
00:45:41And it's like, like, Toad meets him. He's like, oh, hey, Mario. All right, come on. Let's go. Mushroom Kingdom.
00:45:46And Mario's like, hey, wait a minute. That's the whole thing. And then...
00:45:54I think that, you know, a lot of people said, oh, I saw this post on Twitter that was like,
00:45:59the scene on the Rainbow Road from the first movie where Mario and Peach are sort of, like,
00:46:03being flirty and talking back and forth, and Donkey Kong comes and makes fun of Mario. That's so good.
00:46:07They should include more scenes like that. And yeah, they should, because that's, like,
00:46:10the first time that any of these characters have actual characterization in the film that's, like,
00:46:17I think pacing is a potential issue. I don't know how bad I thought the pacing was in this film.
00:46:24And that really comes down to the second thing, which is the story. Your characters need to be
00:46:31something. I said earlier that Donkey Kong wasn't in this film and that I wasn't, I didn't realize it
00:46:37until after the fact. And I think that that's a very bad thing, because if all of your characters are
00:46:42replaceable with other characters, if none of your characters have any element of uniqueness that
00:46:47makes them who they are, that's bad. Like, when you're writing a story, very rarely is it, hey,
00:46:55let me come up with a fun world. Let me come up with a crazy character. Let me come up
00:47:00with a ridiculous
00:47:01villain. Let me come up with a whole society and a weird, unique system. Oh, shoot, now I guess I
00:47:07gotta come up with a theme for all this and some story stuff, don't I? That's not how it works,
00:47:11right? When you are, you know, John Pixar, you come up with a, I'd like to make a movie about
00:47:17environmental stuff and, um, you know, this and that. And then you make WALL-E based off of that.
00:47:24Or you say, oh, I'd like to make a movie about, you know, um, I, I don't know. I don't
00:47:30know. I can't
00:47:30think of the, gosh darn. I want to make a movie about the, the, I can't think of an example
00:47:35I am. I hate
00:47:36coming up with examples. But in a case like this, like all your characters need to do something for
00:47:42the main story, okay? They all need to tie in. I think that there is a good children's animated
00:47:47film that has a good story that is enjoyable for adults. That is a children's film that does
00:47:55not have a very deep story and yet it manages to be extremely enjoyable because it does everything
00:48:00right. And I think it's Despicable Me, which is probably not the movie you'd think I'd say.
00:48:05You think I'd give you something like Toy Story or Monsters, Inc., but those are too easy and too
00:48:09actually great to, to really use as an example. They're too easy to say, yeah, well, those are
00:48:14perfect. Mario movie is not going to be a Toy Story. I think it could be very much better than
00:48:18a Despicable Me. Despicable Me is a very fun movie because it's fun to see the characters.
00:48:24You are immediately introduced to, to a very unique character you've never seen before,
00:48:27who is, is Gru and he's a villain. And he's not just a villain in the, in the super villain
00:48:31sense.
00:48:32He's a villain in society and he, and he freezes people to get ahead on the, on the coffee shop
00:48:36line. And that's enjoyable to watch as someone who will never do that. You know, you're not going
00:48:41to do that. And it's enjoyable to see him do these things that you kind of wish you could do.
00:48:45And so that's fun. And then you see the three girls who are, you know, they're, they're orphans and
00:48:51they're sort of really badly mistreated in their adoption home and you sort of feel very bad for them.
00:48:56So when they go to Gru and Gru starts to like destroy the world for them, that's extremely
00:49:03satisfying. Um, with the scene where Gru wins, what's her name? The doll, the, the, the unicorn,
00:49:09because he, he destroys the carnival game that the guy was like being a jerk with. Like that's
00:49:15really satisfying to watch. And it's also fun to see Gru talk with the girls because those characters,
00:49:20you know, bounce off each other really well. And on top of the characters, there's also a good
00:49:26story as a whole. There's also, you know, like the plot is very interesting. If Gru wants to steal the
00:49:32moon, you see through the plot who Gru is, you see as when he, when he, you know, when the
00:49:37bank chooses
00:49:37not to fund him and instead gives the money to Vector, you could see that he, he sort of still
00:49:42powers
00:49:42through with the help from the minions. And like, you get a full sense of who Gru is as a
00:49:47character.
00:49:47And then you watch his arc, you watch that change go through, you watch him become a better person
00:49:53and like a father through the course of Despicable Me. And whatever you think about it being probably
00:49:59like, oh, it's a stupid movie. It's, it's really good for that reason. The Mario movie doesn't have
00:50:04any of that. And I think that the biggest thing that upsets me is that it doesn't even need all
00:50:09of it. It just needs one, right? Like I personally would be more inclined to share a clip as much
00:50:16as I
00:50:16love the amazing digital circus, as much as I love it, I totally love it. I would be more inclined
00:50:20to
00:50:20share a clip online with friends of the amazing world of gumball than the digital circus, a funny scene
00:50:26from the amazing world of gumball, because the characters are so well written, because the, the
00:50:31dialogue is so fun and, and feels realistic. And all of those characters are, are they, they're so
00:50:38unique and, and it's so enjoyable to see the things they say. They have a, and the show has a
00:50:42unique
00:50:42tone of voice. Like because of that, the amazing world of gumball is not something that I would be
00:50:47ever be embarrassed about finding enjoyable as an adult. If I saw a YouTube short of a clip from gumball
00:50:52and said, oh, that's super funny. I'd never feel like, oh, that's stupid. I, here I am watching a
00:50:56stupid kids show because it doesn't matter if it's intended for kids or not. What matters is
00:51:02if it's good, you know? And so with something like gumball, okay, there's, there's a good example of,
00:51:08you know, maybe every episode doesn't have like some kind of central arc or a theme or a great story,
00:51:12but the character interactions alone are enough to make it enjoyable. The Mario movie does not have
00:51:16that. There is no really enjoyable character interactions. Everybody's generally positive and
00:51:21pleasant. Jack Black is the closest you get to anything like that in either film, but he falls
00:51:28short because there's nobody really to bounce off of. Like Bowser and Mario don't have the sort of
00:51:37dialogue exchange I would hope that a film version of Bowser and Mario would have.
00:51:44I think that, um, you could also do, do, you know, a lot of people are saying that the big
00:51:51problem is
00:51:52that Mario doesn't change. I've seen so many people say, oh, the Sonic movies are better than the Mario
00:51:56movies because Sonic and the central characters in the Sonic movies go through a central arc. They
00:52:01change. And the Mario movie, the characters in Mario do not. And I think that this is one of the
00:52:08biggest
00:52:08missteps when like critiquing these films, because yes, it is true that typically, if you're writing
00:52:16a film, you would be advised to make your main character go through a sort of central arc in
00:52:20which they change from A to B. Obviously that, that is, that is film 101, film 100.5, even before
00:52:27101,
00:52:28you, you, you learn that. And that's totally fair. And there is, however, a problem, which is that
00:52:36Nintendo would never do this. Here's the deal. In any movie, you could name, or in most movies,
00:52:42you know, you could name a character who goes through a central arc, who, who starts as A,
00:52:45and that is bad, and then learns to be B, right? Michael, the, the, the, the gruff cop who, who
00:52:54lost
00:52:54his partner years ago, doesn't trust anyone and he has to learn to trust again. There's A to B,
00:52:59and there you go. Stuff like that. You know, every, every kid's movie typically has it. Um, you know,
00:53:04Gru goes from being, you know, a selfish villain to, to a good father, even though he keeps that
00:53:10villainous attitude. And, um, that, that's what most of these movies have. And that, that's fair.
00:53:16The problem is that you have to have a character with a flaw then, and you'd have to potentially
00:53:21bounce that flaw off of the villain where, or, or another mentor character who, who sees the, the
00:53:28right way to go about it. And so it all has to be based around some central flaw of your
00:53:33main character.
00:53:34And the problem here is that you would never catch Nintendo dead, giving Mario a flaw. There
00:53:42will never be a flaw that they would say, yeah, Mario, you know what? He's greedy. Or he's not
00:53:47brave. Mario is the Mickey Mouse of video games. Mickey Mouse has no flaws. He's not,
00:53:55he can be mischievous sometimes, but that's not a flaw. That, that's played for comedy typically.
00:54:00In the same way, Mario never has a flaw. Mario never has to get over anything. I think that one
00:54:06of the reasons I really like the ending of the original Luigi's Mansion, despite the fact that
00:54:09it's very, very simple, is because Luigi cries after saving his brother. Going through, like,
00:54:16something that you can tell is, is very clearly difficult for him because he's scared. And as
00:54:20simple as that is as a story, you know, I'm not pretending that that's a great story or anything,
00:54:23it works for me. Whereas Mario has never had to struggle with anything. And, you know,
00:54:31I've seen people say, oh, no, no, no, you don't understand. You know, Mario had to learn that he
00:54:37was enough. That, that's like the only, I saw a post on Twitter the other day that says something
00:54:42like that. Luigi had to learn to be brave and Mario had to learn that his attitude was the right
00:54:48one to
00:54:48have and that he was doing the right thing, which is like, that's no. That's like saying my A to
00:54:55B
00:54:55was learning that I had to go from A to A. Like, no, that's not an arc. An arc is
00:55:01not, hey, you know,
00:55:02I have this attitude towards life. You know what? I think that's the right one to have. That's not an
00:55:08arc. And, and Luigi becoming more brave, we didn't see that. We didn't see that at all, you know?
00:55:14And so in Galaxy, we have the same problem. There are no central arcs. There are no characters that
00:55:19change over the course of the film. Mario and Luigi are, are the exact same at the end as they
00:55:23are at the beginning. Um, so how do you do it? How do you do it? How do you give
00:55:27Mario a flaw
00:55:28that ties into the core narrative and, and makes it so that he has to change by the end of
00:55:34the film?
00:55:35You don't. I think that you'll have a very hard time thinking of one. I'd like to see you think
00:55:39of
00:55:39one. Genuinely, genuinely. My favorite kind of comments are the ones in videos like this where
00:55:44it's like, give me your pitch for something unique that that's, because it's creative. It's like
00:55:49creative writing. It's fun. Um, and so, yeah, I mean, if you could think of a good central flaw to
00:55:55give Mario, go for it. Tell me, please. Um, but I think instead it's more interesting to think of what
00:56:03else you can do. All of these videos that say that Sonic is good and Mario is bad because is
00:56:07Sonic goes
00:56:08through an arc and Mario doesn't, they're missing the fact that you don't actually have to go
00:56:12through an arc to have a very good character or a very good film. Um, one of the best films
00:56:17of all
00:56:17time, a film that my, my film professor in high school called a perfect film, capital P perfect
00:56:23film that I personally agree with is Back to the Future. It is an, an incredible film and its
00:56:28character is completely passive and does not go through an arc. He does not, in the first movie,
00:56:33in the first movie, the first movie, he does not change. He is, he is, his sort of rebellious
00:56:39attitude that he has in the beginning of the film is what he carries with him into the ending of
00:56:43the
00:56:43film. And even though you could argue that he got more, you know, he was mature. No, not really.
00:56:47He's the same character in the end as he was in the beginning. Back to the Future is about a
00:56:52kid,
00:56:52Marty McFly, who is in high school. His, his crazy scientist pal, Doc, Doc Brown, he invented this
00:56:58time machine and it, um, it goes wrong. Doc dies and Marty escaping the people that shot Doc
00:57:04accidentally goes back all the way to, I forget the specific year, back when his mother and father
00:57:09were in high school and, uh, he needs Doc's help to get back to the future. So what happens? Are
00:57:13there, is there time travel shenanigans? Is there all kinds of, you have crazy mix-ups? No. Um, the story
00:57:20is about Marty getting his parents back together because the real character in Back to the Future
00:57:25is not Marty. It's Marty's father, George McFly. And in the beginning of Back to the Future,
00:57:30we see that George McFly is a loser. Marty's father is a total loser and he's bullied by,
00:57:35by Biff Tannen, the, um, I forget what job he has. He's like a mechanic or something in the modern
00:57:40day,
00:57:40or I forget. Um, but he, he's sort of just bullied by Biff and taken advantage of and George is
00:57:45a loser
00:57:45and Marty, you know, it feels bad for his father. So then when Marty goes back in time, he has
00:57:50the chance
00:57:51to, he, he sees that on a family photo, he's disappearing because whatever he did made it so
00:57:56that his parents will never meet. So now Marty has to get his parents to meet before he can go
00:58:00back
00:58:00to the future or else he'll never exist. And so in doing so, Marty helps George confront all the
00:58:08things that make him a loser and a weird nerd. And in the ending of the film, we see George
00:58:12McFly
00:58:13actually confront and punch Biff in the face. And it is such a satisfying moment. Despite the fact
00:58:19that George isn't actually the protagonist, it's Marty. And so what's going on here? Well,
00:58:24you don't have to have your main character go through an arc. You can have a secondary character
00:58:28be influenced by your main character. If your main character is going to be deemed perfect in the
00:58:32eyes of the world of the film, you can have a secondary character be influenced by them and
00:58:37have it just as effective as if it was a main character going through the arc. Look at Elf or,
00:58:41or I guess I said, like I said, back to the future, Elf is a movie where Buddy the Elf
00:58:45is never in the
00:58:46wrong. Well, he isn't in the wrong when he's creeping in the women's bathroom. But in terms
00:58:52of the film, Buddy the Elf is never wrong. They never criticize him. They never say you have to
00:58:56be less elf-like. They just say, you know, people think he's weird. That's the worst slap on the
00:59:03wrist Buddy gets. Buddy doesn't change in the film. Buddy doesn't have to change. As a matter of fact,
00:59:07when he's so depressed because he thinks he's been doing everything wrong, he is reaffirmed by Santa
00:59:12and told, no, you've been doing everything right. It's actually Buddy's father, Walter Hobbs, who has
00:59:19to change, who goes from being stuck up and, you know, you've seen the film probably. And then by
00:59:25the end of the film, he's fun and jolly and a family man, all because of Buddy's Christmas spirit.
00:59:32That's an example of how you could also do it. Have your main character be the perfect example of a
00:59:38person in the world of your film and then have a secondary character who is completely not who
00:59:43gets affected by that main character. And so again, we run into some problems. How would you do this
00:59:49with Mario? Would you have Mario have some flaw that allows him to go through an arc and change?
00:59:54Would you have some secondary character from Mario who is deeply flawed and has to be influenced by
00:59:59Mario? What is Mario's unique attitude that makes him perfect in the eyes of the world? And this is
01:00:05where you come down to the real problem, which is that the games they're based off of don't provide
01:00:10this. You know, I've seen a ton of people talking about how Galaxy should have taken the Rosalina
01:00:15backstory and the ending of Galaxy. I've seen so many people online on Twitter over the last few days
01:00:21saying, I'm so disappointed. I guess it's over the last day that I'm so disappointed that they didn't
01:00:27adapt to the ending of Galaxy. Now, if you don't know, in the ending of Mario Galaxy, Mario sort of
01:00:32reshapes the entire universe, like the universe is reborn. And it's sort of weird. And at least when
01:00:39I played it, I thought it was like confusing and a little abstract. But basically, Mario helps the
01:00:43universe become reborn. And the Rosalina backstory involves Rosalina and her parents and how Rosalina
01:00:50was alone with the Lumas and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's like 11 pages of or it's like a
01:00:56billion
01:00:56pages. The problem with adapting either of these things is that I don't think they'd work for the
01:01:00film. I don't think that the rebirth of the universe makes any sense for this film, for a
01:01:05kid's film, for something that has to lead into a potential sequel. It just doesn't make sense to do.
01:01:11It also wouldn't feel very effective. You know, there's a difference between the Mario Galaxy
01:01:16movie and the actual Mario Galaxy game. If the world was reborn in the end of Mario Galaxy, the movie,
01:01:22first of all, how weird would it be if the world was reborn and reshaped? Like that's just confusing
01:01:27and strange. Second of all, it wouldn't be emotionally resonant whatsoever with what we have
01:01:33just seen. The Mario movies are action-packed. There is no, you know, the quiet sadness of Mario
01:01:39Galaxy. There was no quiet sadness in the Mario Galaxy movie, okay? And as far as the Rosalina story
01:01:45goes, how could you have adapted that into the film and made it mean something? How could you? You would
01:01:53have needed Rosalina to be a main character. You would have needed a way, a natural way to dump
01:01:58all of this exposition about her backstory into her character. And you would have needed to make it
01:02:05mean something in the long run for her character. The ending of her character's story would have had
01:02:10to tie into it. And they don't have that, so they didn't do it. And they can't do it.
01:02:17And I think that a lot of people, a lot of people don't get it. Like this is why I
01:02:20said earlier that
01:02:21what people want is an encyclopedia, a visual encyclopedia of things they know. If Mario Galaxy
01:02:26was like a loose adaptation of the Galaxy story, there was no real meat to it. It was just stuff
01:02:32from
01:02:32Galaxy repurposed. And Mario was on the Comet Observatory and Mario, you know, read the book about
01:02:38Rosalina. Like people would be like, oh, that was awesome. But it wouldn't make anywhere near as much
01:02:43money. So they'd never do something like that. So I don't know personally, to get back to the
01:02:49original point, I don't know how I would fix this issue. I don't know what I would say. I don't
01:02:54know
01:02:54a fatal flaw I could give to Mario. I don't know a big flaw that I could give to another
01:02:58character.
01:02:59I don't know what I'd say about Mario that makes him above others in terms of the Mario world.
01:03:07The games are not as deep. They don't have story that people could make a film off of. Not at
01:03:12all.
01:03:12I'm sorry. Like, I'm sorry to say. And that's not me saying, oh, what did you expect from a Mario
01:03:17movie? They're not that deep. Of course not. I'm saying the films don't have the stuff to make a
01:03:20film. I'm sorry, the games don't have enough content in the story to make a film. So you have
01:03:25to write the film. Like if you want to make a good movie, you write the film itself. You don't
01:03:30take it
01:03:30off in the game. I feel like I'm just talking in circles. But ultimately, at the end of the day,
01:03:35what it comes down to is the fact that Nintendo's making so much money from this. And fans are sort
01:03:42of like scattershot, scatterbrained, not fully sure if it's good or it's bad or, you know,
01:03:50you can't have a good Mario movie or you can't have a good Mario movie or if it should have
01:03:54deep
01:03:54themes or if Mario should go through an arc. And like, I'm sitting here laying down my thoughts.
01:03:59I ended up talking about this for way longer than I thought I would. And it's like, man,
01:04:06to some extent, here I am saying like, you could have Mario go through an arc. You could have
01:04:09another character go through an arc and get affected by Mario. Does it matter? You know,
01:04:15does it matter? I think Mario is sort of, you know, the book Save the Cat, which I reference
01:04:24very frequently. It's sort of like a baby's first screenwriting book. If you were not a literal
01:04:29baby, if you were, if you were starting screenwriting, that is always the book I'd
01:04:32recommend first. That's the book I see tons of people recommending first. It's one of those
01:04:35books where a lot of people will be like, um, actually you shouldn't read that. But that seems
01:04:38to be the contrarian opinion, not the actual opinion, because the actual book is super, super
01:04:44knowledge, knowledgeable and helpful. And it basically details the three act structure and
01:04:49the hero's journey that everyone follows. And the Mario movie doesn't follow that. The Mario
01:04:57movie doesn't follow that at all. And one of the things that it says too, is like, there's
01:05:01a genre of movie called the superhero genre, where it breaks down the basic genres of what
01:05:05a movie could be. And I don't even know where I'm going with this. The Mario movie fits into
01:05:10the category of what it claims is a superhero genre, which is that there is one or more individuals
01:05:15who are, you know, elite or above the others in the world. And they use that power to, you
01:05:22know, make the movie. That's why the movie is interesting, because there's someone with
01:05:25extraordinary abilities. Um, but they don't like, I don't know how to explain it. I don't
01:05:33know how to explain it. The Mario movie, theoretically, every single little thing where you're like,
01:05:38okay, well, let's give it a little leg room here. Let's give it a little, little bit of
01:05:41room to stand on. You know, there's nothing, there's nothing. The, the story is, is nothing.
01:05:49It's empty. There was no story in this. There was just characters doing things because they
01:05:52have to go do things. The characters, the interaction. Okay, well, you know, whatever.
01:05:55No big deal. No good story. That's fine. What about the interactions between the characters?
01:05:59Is there fun character interactions? No, there's nothing. There's not even a little bit. Okay,
01:06:03well, what, what about some arcs? Do characters go through arcs? Do characters influence others
01:06:06to go through arcs? No, there is nothing. Okay, well, well, maybe it fits into the stereotype
01:06:11genre of superhero movie, where Mario is an exceptional, you know, whatever, whatever,
01:06:16super-powered individual. No, it's not, because everyone in the Mario movie has superpowers,
01:06:21and Mario isn't really that special whatsoever. Like, it really is, like, the, there is no
01:06:30difference between the Mario Galaxy movie and the picture of the Mario Galaxy movie on
01:06:34the side of a box of a Happy Meal. It does the same thing. It sells you Mario. You know,
01:06:40I, I have such deep, dark, depressing thoughts about the way that it works, and the fact that,
01:06:48like, nothing that I've said is really going to matter in the long run, or, or people aren't
01:06:53going to take this and say, like, you know what? The Mario movies are actually no good.
01:06:57You know, everybody's sort of realizing that. Same with the FNAF movie, but it's too late.
01:07:01Like, you, you've let the cat out of the bag. Like, I personally think, and now this is going off
01:07:06the
01:07:06rails, and this is where I'm going to stop. I'm not going to get into this, because this is,
01:07:09like, truly dark territory. I think the problem is fandom. I think the problem is fandom, because
01:07:15in order for fandom to exist, it, it requires inherently positive viewpoints, you know? If,
01:07:21if a fandom exists, let's just say Five Nights at Freddy's, for example, the fandom has to be
01:07:26inherently positive. They have to like the thing. They can't say the thing is bad. Otherwise,
01:07:32what are they fans of? Like, when I, when Security Breach came out, I remember it felt like we were
01:07:37at
01:07:37this sort of weird tipping point where so many people were like, this is terrible. And then all
01:07:41of a sudden, there was just this, this massive group of people that were like, you know what?
01:07:43Five Nights at Freddy's Security Breach is great. And it's like, man, there's this sort of inherent
01:07:50positivity that's required with any fan base. And I think that's why something like the FNAF movie can
01:07:55succeed. That's something like why the first Mario gallop, the first Mario movie could succeed.
01:07:59And it's because it has to, it has to for the fan base to, to, to exist. And then when
01:08:05something
01:08:05like this happens where it's like, Hey, this is bad. And the fan base has almost shifted to being
01:08:10a fan base of hating on it. It's like, well, that's too late. Like the discussion has, I don't know.
01:08:17I don't know. I don't know. I have already seen reviews of people saying, what did you expect from
01:08:22a Mario movie, bro? I saw all the things I like in it. And that's fine. That's fine. If you
01:08:26see the
01:08:26things you like, I highly recommend like the Star Wars visual encyclopedia, the Five Nights at
01:08:32Freddy's visual encyclopedia, the Super Mario visual encyclopedia, you'll see characters you
01:08:37like, you'll see things you like. You could read about events that happen that you like to hear
01:08:40about. It's fantastic. It's really, really great. At the end of the day, I thought the Mario Galaxy
01:08:46was subpar at best. And that's at best. I thought that I had more emotion
01:08:55watching the Paw Patrol trailer beforehand for some new Paw Patrol movie, even though that emotion
01:09:02that I felt was sort of embarrassment and disgust that I was being shown this trailer. And I was
01:09:08wondering what it was saying about me, a grown man at midnight at the Mario movie preparing to spend
01:09:13my night making a video about it. I felt like there was no good story to this. There was no
01:09:18story.
01:09:18If somebody asked me, what was this? Oh, what's the Mario movie about? It's about nothing. A princess
01:09:23gets kidnapped and all of the Mario characters run around and fight and smash into each other
01:09:28like stupid action figures for hours. Ironically, this is my one big truest statement. If you could
01:09:35if you could take any statement from this video and crystallize it in what I think is pure truth,
01:09:41it's this one. And it's that this should have been a video game. This Mario movie should have been a
01:09:47video game because the story despite being nothing was above the video games on some level. I thought
01:09:57that the Bowser Bowser Jr. thing was was fun. That was the best part of a film, in my opinion.
01:10:02Well, second only to Fox, but imagine if this was a game like imagine if this it looked like this
01:10:06and
01:10:06had the environments that looked like this and they made a Mario game where it was like, oh, yeah,
01:10:10you know, you go to all these different places and you see all these different things and you fight all
01:10:14these different people and you go to this big like hub world and the hub world is it's got Pikmin
01:10:18and
01:10:18Piantas and Rob the Robot and Star Fox shows up and helps you save the day at the end of
01:10:21the game
01:10:21and Bowser's got this massive planet that's like a theme park like that would be the greatest Mario
01:10:26game ever. You know, we'd all say like that was the coolest Mario game. But instead, it's a movie.
01:10:35It's a movie.
01:10:40So this was Super Mario Galaxy, all lore explained. I also tried the title Full Story Explained. I
01:10:46don't know which one is going to get it. I don't know which one's going to win the A-B
01:10:48testing if
01:10:49it's Full Story Explained. I'm sorry. I'm sorry that the plot summary itself is very short. If you
01:10:56actually wanted a plot summary and were hoping that this was an hour and 12 minutes of plot summary,
01:11:01I couldn't. There's literally, I could barely stretch it to 20 minutes. I skipped nothing.
01:11:07I hope you enjoyed the video. I had a lot to say clearly. A lot that I didn't expect to
01:11:12say.
01:11:14Please, if you want more all lore explained videos, make sure to like and subscribe.
01:11:18My name is SpookyDude. Thank you so much for watching and I will see you next time.
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