Captain Jigglypuff
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Super Mario movie!!!!
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I am both excited and nervous to all heck for tomorrow afternoon. I'm glad the movie direct is happening after work so I get to live react with the rest of the world.
Seeing the poster and the possible Mario face leak, I'm hopeful that the visuals will be good. The thing that terrifies me the most is Chris Pratt, no voice acting role he's done before fits the character, so I have no clue how I'm going to react to hearing his voice coming out of Mario.
Seeing the poster and the possible Mario face leak, I'm hopeful that the visuals will be good. The thing that terrifies me the most is Chris Pratt, no voice acting role he's done before fits the character, so I have no clue how I'm going to react to hearing his voice coming out of Mario.
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for the few haters in this thread. lol
daringred_
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thoughts? jack black nailed bowser; that's exactly what i imagined him sounding like. the animation and scenery are chef's kiss gorgeous, too, but, alas, i was right: chris pratt as mario sounded awfully off from the grunts of him hitting the mushrooms alone. and then when he actually spoke... sorry, gonna have to be a hard pass for me. the two just aren't connecting in my brain; it sounds like a miscast dub, almost, and i don't think i could sit through a whole movie of that rip. (and mario does kind of have the dreaded ~illumination~ face lmao, but it's only a little bad.)
the animation is great, everything was going smoothy until chris pratt came. well i mean... it could work.. but he's kind of using his own natural speaking voice, i could hear a little bit of a new york accent. anyway i think it looks good so far, it's also coming sooner than i expected. this is really good compared to when sonic's first trailer was released, his first design was disastrous. im looking forward to this.
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Groovycat64
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Completely agree. I don't know why they got Chris Pratt as Mario. Sounded really, really bad for the character, honestly. I don't know if I can watch it because of it which is a shame because it looks pretty good for the most part. Either way, I'm sure it'll probably do fairly well in the box office. If they do make a second one, hopefully they replace Chris Pratt as Mario XD.
daringred_
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saw a leak(?) of of peach on twitter and it's not bad, but she definitely has ~illumination~ face and something looks incredibly off about her as a result imo asdfghjk. i hope she looks a lot better animated, although that might not count for much depending on how anya taylor-joy sounds.
The penguin scene was hilarious.
Bowser is absolute perfection, and the animation quality is looking good. Looking forward to watching it next year despite any shortcomings.
Bowser is absolute perfection, and the animation quality is looking good. Looking forward to watching it next year despite any shortcomings.
I suppose I ought to at least try to be constructive about it. Jack Black's Bowser voice is surprisingly good. But Chris Pratt's Mario is exactly as bad as everyone knew it was going to be when he was announced for the part. The visuals are fine. Mario's face looks better in motion than it did from the leak that was put out earlier, which I thought just looked dead and lifeless. But the trailer is just so full of stereotypical Hollywood cliches that even the parts I enjoyed were brought down as a result.
In short... eh... I'm sure the kids will like it.
Visually the movie looks good from what we saw in the trailer (though Mario's face is weird af ngl). The voices are, hmm. It's hard to disconnect what I'm used to in the games from what we're going to get in the movie, but that said, Chris Pratt as Mario is definitely not right would be the best way of putting it.
I don't watch movies in theatres, so I won't watch it when it comes out, but I'll likely watch it at some point in the future once it's more widely available.
I don't watch movies in theatres, so I won't watch it when it comes out, but I'll likely watch it at some point in the future once it's more widely available.
LittleMissPanda
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It looks like I'm watching the trailer for a video game rather than the trailer for an actual movie 
Mario on the big screen just seems like such a foreign idea, but it may turn out surprisingly good, who knows. But the fact it's being made by Illumination, the same people who are responsible for a scary number of animated atrocities.... It's not looking too hot already. But only time will tell.
Mario on the big screen just seems like such a foreign idea, but it may turn out surprisingly good, who knows. But the fact it's being made by Illumination, the same people who are responsible for a scary number of animated atrocities.... It's not looking too hot already. But only time will tell.
After watching the teaser trailer I have a few takeaways. Jack Black as Bowser was a genius casting choice. He not only sounds exactly like how Bowser would speak, but he also gives it a unique flair. I have a feeling his performance will be a highlight of the movie. Kamek, Luigi, and Toad's voices work pretty well too. Mario's voice will take some getting used to, but I don't think it's nearly as bad as some people make it out to be. My only real complaint is Mario's face and clothing. It feels like the animators are going for a semi-realistic look while making the rest of the world cartoony. The contrast is a bit rough. Otherwise I'm actually looking forward to the movie.
It looks pretty good. I think all the voices work well to. Nintendo would've nipped this in the bud fast if it was really bad like some of you are making it out to be. And you know you'll still watch it anyway despite how 'bad' it is.
Charles Martinet might be the voice we all know for Mario, but I can't see that voice carrying a full-on dialogue movie. His voice works great for random grunts and the such, but he doesn't do a lot of full on lines. Sure Pratt's voice probably won't be the strong point of the movie, but too little is shown in a trailer to be certain of everything.
Jim Carrey did really good as Dr. Eggman and everyone was crapping on him before they even saw the trailer let alone the full movie.
Charles Martinet might be the voice we all know for Mario, but I can't see that voice carrying a full-on dialogue movie. His voice works great for random grunts and the such, but he doesn't do a lot of full on lines. Sure Pratt's voice probably won't be the strong point of the movie, but too little is shown in a trailer to be certain of everything.
Jim Carrey did really good as Dr. Eggman and everyone was crapping on him before they even saw the trailer let alone the full movie.
Not for nothing, and I say this as lovingly as possible, but you know... Nintendo isn't that great.
i just got home and just finished watching the trailer. it looks pretty great visually, but i'm having a hard time wrapping my head around chris pine as mario...it just wasn't good from what i saw from the trailer. kinda wish they ended up choosing someone else to voice him. i loved how bowser sounded though and totally expected jack black to just use his regular speaking voice, so this was a pleasant surprise! i also really loved the scene with the penguins, i genuinely smiled so wide at that part in the trailer. i'm really curious to hear how luigi sounds and hope we see a trailer with him speaking soon!
I saw the trailer and Jack Black sounds great as Bowser! Mario is alright. I'm sure if they had his typical 'letsa go!" voice that it would get grating after a while but it's still weird to hear him talk without that accent. Character designs look good.
They're very strict but not always (in fact, rarely) for the right reasons. In recent years, there have been a number of anecdotes on Nintendo's apparent mandates on character and enemy design that stifles creativity in favor of brand recognition, even when the product being released is a lifeless, corporate entity with little to no personality, which is more or less what the decision to cast Chris Pratt is being criticized as, and what this movie ultimately is demonstrating to be in the eyes of many people.
Compare, for example, how protective Disney is of Mickey Mouse, to the point where they wouldn't even let the writers of the newest incarnation of DuckTales use him, forcing them to instead use an expy (a watermelon with Mickey Mouse's general shape and voice, as a reference to Cast Away). Meanwhile, incredibly subpar CGI cartoons with an abundance of animation errors and clipping issues astoundingly manage to get the green light.
Nintendo isn't nearly as bad as Disney in this regard, but I think being anything more than cautiously optimistic about something because of Nintendo's history of being a helicopter parent for their IP's sort of flies in the face of their actual creative output, and especially flies in the face of the fact that we can hear with our own ears how ill-fitting Chris Pratt sounds in the role.
To me, the problem isn't whether or not the film looks good or bad, it's whether or not it's the type of film that I or anyone wanted from the Mario series in the first place. When there are YouTube videos made using Source Film Maker that can more closely adhere to the style and tonality of the series, I struggle to think of a legitimate reason (that isn't muddied with corporate jargon and legalese, which I don't really regard as ironclad defenses) that Nintendo themselves couldn't release one themselves, even without the involvement of a major studio like Illumination.
