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Yesterday we s☂aw the first trailer for The Super ♏Mario Bros. Movie, and it’s like, fine. Despite 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mario’s cultural impact, I don’t think anyone loves Mario. As a games journalist, I deal with a lot of people who make a single video game too large a part of their identity, and want to fistfight anyone who stops short of total adoration. I don’t see this for Mario. Pokemon, Zelda, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:God of War, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last of Us, Halo, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Tomb Raider, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ghost of Tsushima, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Red Dead Redemption all see these types of fans far more often. You can’t really ruin Mario. And they haven’t! 𓄧Seems like every other Illumination picture. Pratt’s doing a New York thing and it’s fine. Mario is fine. But there was no Anya Taylor-Joy and that makes me sad.
Anya Taylor-Joy is my favourite actor working today. Through The Witch, Thoroughbreds, The Queen’s Gambit, Split, and Emma, she already has a fantastic body of work at such a young age. The upcoming The Menu and the Furiosa, plus her slated projects Weezie Bat and Laughter in the Dark, all point to a career that’s only going to keep climbing. The Super Mario Bros. Movie isn’t entirely out of character for Taylor-Joy, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网🐠:who was the best thing in The Playmobil Movie, but she does seem at odds with the rest of the cast and I’m far more interested in 🔯her than any of them.
Most of the Mario cast are actors primarily known for their comedic roles. Even Pratt, now an established leading man in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World, got his start in sitcoms and buddy comedies. Taylor-Joy has neಞver been in a comedy, with the possible exception of The Playmobil Movie. We have no idea what to expect from her, and that’s all the more rꦏeason to let us see her.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Peach has already leaked, and while they couldn’t change the trailer at the last minute to accommodate this, it seems odd that we’re going to meet Peach first on a McDonald’s Happy Meal calendar. There were several other important characters we didn’t see either, but Peach feels like a major oversight because the games only recently stopped sidelining her. Even Mario Strikers: Battle League pigeonholes her into a redundantly sexist role where her power up is essential🎀ly a Simp R🥀ay.
We should probably talk about how the trailer was not a trailer. That’s always a worrying 🎉s꧙ign. Instead it was two distinct scenes - one where we meet Bowser, the other where we meet Mario. Trailers usually show off some of the most exciting parts of a movie, giving each character a slice of screentime, trying to sell you from every angle.
I know that, as a Direct which involved cameos from Chris Pratt ♛and Jack Black, it was more of a vehicle for them, but I’m always cautious when movies show us a single scene over a collection. Brave’s trailer was just the archery scene, easily the film’s finest moment before it descends into irrita🔴ting bear-fuelled chaos. I expect when all is said and done Brave will be a better movie than Mario, but I’m still a little uneasy that the movie tried to set the table with two scenes that were only okay.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:And what of the rumours this was a mus🍃ical? It still could be, but nothing in the trailer🐈 suggests it. Taylor-Joy has a wonderful voice, shown off in The Playmobil Movie and Last Night in Soho, as does Black. Even Pratt can sing. We were never going to get a full musical number right outܫ of the gate, but I thought we might get a snippet of Peach’s pipes. Instead we didn’t get Peach at all.
I’m torn on how much I care about the Mario movie. I don’t love the games (outside of the fun in the moment, I’d argue few people do), and Illumination movies don’t really do it for me. I have outright avoided some of the studio’s catalogue because they seem to be lowest common deno🌠minator kids movies rather than making something with heart. Yet it feels like a major moment for video games across pop culture, plus Anya Taylor-Joy is involved, so I’m invested. I have to be. But it’s worrying that Peach is of so little value to this story that we haven’t even seen her yet.