She’s still not much more than a vehicle for Mario’s journey, but it’s something. As his mentor, Peach is compassionate yet tough as she challenges Mario to self-actualize. She’s not only capable in her own right - leaping through courses with precision and trashing her forced wedding - but she has an interesting dynamic with Mario that we’ve never seen before. Chris Pratt’s mercifully brief attempts at an Italian accent had me in stitches.Īdditionally, in a game series where Peach tends to be either Mario bait or a sluggishly safe playable character, Anya Taylor-Joy’s acrobatic and cunning Peach is a breath of fresh air. I was pleasantly surprised by the opening scenes in Brooklyn, which were genuinely compelling and felt lived-in. This isn’t to say there weren’t moments I found genuinely enjoyable. Movie” is a film that, first and foremost, knows what it is: throughout the entire experience, Nintendo and Illumination never let you forget that they are here to entertain you and sell you a product. I doubt anyone in the audience sincerely expected this film to really do or say anything, because we know that’s not the point. However, I’m fully aware that guessing about a Mario movie’s themes is meaningless. ![]() What would Mario’s arc be? What would he have to learn over the course of the narrative? What sorts of themes would Mario, and his accompanying universe, lend themselves to exploring? Given the threat of a Koopa invasion, I came to expect storylines about adversity, war or unity. While certain characters in the Mario games have well-defined (albeit one-dimensional) characterizations - Bowser is power-hungry, Luigi is timid, Peach is clever - Mario, by design, has always been a blank slate. ![]() ![]() On the way to the theater, a friend and I speculated wildly about what themes a Mario movie would engage with. Movie” succeeded wildly at everything it wanted to do.
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