The Super Mario Bros Movie sequel in the works

[TigerClaw]

Nintendo and Illumination announces that they started work on the sequel to the Super Mario Bros Movie, And it will release on April 3rd 2026.

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[CyberCubed]

Hopefully the sequel is more fleshed out, more Luigi, Yoshi, and hopefully the Koopalings.

[TigerClaw]

Hopefully the sequel is more fleshed out, more Luigi, Yoshi, and hopefully the Koopalings.
and Bowser Jr.

[IMJ]

I still need to see the first one...

Looking forward to getting around to it.

[triplexxx]

Wonder if Daisy will be in it as well.

[TigerClaw]

Yoshi will be in it no doubt, Because of that post credit scene, But I wanna see Bowser Jr, and the Koopalings in particular because each one has a different personality to them, So that would be fun to see.

[The Deadman]

I'm excited for it. The first movie was pretty good.

[ranger_scout]

The sequel will be titled Super Mario World.

https://www.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/1km1ng5/the_official_title_for_the_super_mario_bros_movie/

https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/super-mario-bros-movie-sequel-title-leak-super-mario-world/

I think with Yoshi being teased in the post-credits scene and the title being based on the classic SNES game, the Kooplings will probably be in this movie.

[CyberCubed]

The Koopalings not appearing in a Mario World movie would be odd, so I hope we see them.

[Andrew NDB]

hopefully the Koopalings.

Is that what we call them? I thought in SMB3 it was "the Koopa Kids."

[Storm Eagle]

Is that what we call them? I thought in SMB3 it was "the Koopa Kids."

Nintendo Power's player's guides for that game, as well as for Super Mario World, have also referred to them as Koopalings.

[neatoman]

I think their Japanese group name is just "Koopa's minions" or something like that.

[Coola Yagami]

Is that what we call them? I thought in SMB3 it was "the Koopa Kids."

The games always called them the Koopalings, or at least the American SMB3 and SMW manuals did. The cartoon called them Koopa Kids and gave them completely different names. Bully, Cheatsy, Cootiepie, etc.

[ranger_scout]

We got an updated version of the "Mario Bros Rap" in the first movie, so hopefully we will get an updated version of this song in the sequel.

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[LeotheLateBloomer]

The games always called them the Koopalings, or at least the American SMB3 and SMW manuals did. The cartoon called them Koopa Kids and gave them completely different names. Bully, Cheatsy, Cootiepie, etc.

Yup I remember! Roy - Bully, Morton - Big Mouth, Ludwig - Kooky, Larry - Cheatsy, Wendy - Kootie Pie, Lemmy and Iggy - Hip and Hop. If Iggy had his current plant-like hairstyle back then, he and Lemmy would've been called something else and not be twins.

[oldmanwinters]

We got an updated version of the "Mario Bros Rap" in the first movie, so hopefully we will get an updated version of this song in the sequel.

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I always loved that intro.

And since they are now going with game titles, I have the perfect name in mind for the third Super Mario Bros. movie...

[Andrew NDB]

And since they are now going with game titles, I have the perfect name in mind for the third Super Mario Bros. movie...

"Super Mario Odyssey" would lend itself well as a fairly satisfying movie, I think.

Galaxy or Sunshine wouldn't be bad either, but probably too "high concept" for a movie.

[Xav]

The games always called them the Koopalings, or at least the American SMB3 and SMW manuals did. The cartoon called them Koopa Kids and gave them completely different names. Bully, Cheatsy, Cootiepie, etc.No they didn't. The SMB3 manual used "Bowser's kids" and the SMW manual "Koopa Kids". The cartoons used both Koopa Kids and Koopalings.

[Storm Eagle]

The games always called them the Koopalings, or at least the American SMB3 and SMW manuals did. The cartoon called them Koopa Kids and gave them completely different names. Bully, Cheatsy, Cootiepie, etc.

The manual for Super Mario All-Stars for the Wii and an insert with Super Mario World for the GBA referred to them as Koopalings. Not the manuals you mentioned. I don't have any of the Mario games that came after. So I can't vouch for their manuals.

Yup I remember! Roy - Bully, Morton - Big Mouth, Ludwig - Kooky, Larry - Cheatsy, Wendy - Kootie Pie, Lemmy and Iggy - Hip and Hop. If Iggy had his current plant-like hairstyle back then, he and Lemmy would've been called something else and not be twins.

Iggy Koopa was Hip Koopa and Lemmy Koopa was Hop Koopa.

The Japanese didn't name them, but a Nintendo official in the US gave them names. All except for Larry Koopa and Morton Koopa Jr. were named after musicians. Morton's namesake is obvious, but the guy came up with the name Larry for Larry Koopa because he thought he looked like a Larry.

[LeotheLateBloomer]

No Lemmy was Hip, Iggy was Hop. I learned this from the World cartoon episode "A Little Learning" where the scene when Peach said Hip's name when she told him to explain his project to the judges (Mario and Luigi) while Iggy (Hop) was underground controlling the volcano.

[Storm Eagle]

No Lemmy was Hip, Iggy was Hop. I learned this from the World cartoon episode "A Little Learning" where the scene when Peach said Hip's name when she told him to explain his project to the judges (Mario and Luigi) while Iggy (Hop) was underground controlling the volcano.

I decided to look up the Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 episode "7 Continents for 7 Koopas", and you're correct. I could have sworn that Lemmy Koopa was Hop and Iggy Koopa was Hip. I guess it's because of how Lemmy/Hip would sometimes be on a ball, and I think of him hopping on it.

I remember the episode you mentioned though.

Princess: No school tomorrow boys.
Hip or Hop (I can't remember which): You mean it's a holiday?
No, you're expelled! Forever!

[IMJ]

I'll probably be in the minority here, but it would be cool if they somehow tied the content from Mario Bros 2 into the Universe on film. I love SMB 2 whether it was a "repurposed game" or not. When that game launched as a kid it was sold out everywhere.....

[Storm Eagle]

I'll probably be in the minority here, but it would be cool if they somehow tied the content from Mario Bros 2 into the Universe on film. I love SMB 2 whether it was a "repurposed game" or not. When that game launched as a kid it was sold out everywhere.....

I wouldn't mind that myself. There was just something about the game since it was so different. I actually got Super Mario Bros. 3 before it though. I had no idea it sold as well as you say.

[Andrew NDB]

I'll probably be in the minority here, but it would be cool if they somehow tied the content from Mario Bros 2 into the Universe on film. I love SMB 2 whether it was a "repurposed game" or not. When that game launched as a kid it was sold out everywhere.....

Me, too. I liked that it was so different.

[CyberCubed]

The first movie was a loose adaption of Super Mario Bros. 1 with real world stuff thrown in. This movie will probably merge Super Mario Bros. 3 and World into one movie, given the title, we know Yoshi is in it, and the Koopalings debuted in Mario 3.

After this the third movie could be a mix of Mario 64 or Sunshine, or even skipping straight to Galaxy if they want to introduce Rosalina right away. There's also been rumors for awhile about a Donkey Kong spinoff movie for his series, I'm surprised nothing came of it so far.

[cammy85]

The games and cartoon were different in some ways too. Like how Larry is the youngest Koopaling in the games, but Hip and Hop are the youngest in the cartoons. Iggy was known as the inventor in the choose your own adventure books, while Kooky was the inventor in the cartoon.

[ranger_scout]

A Donkey Kong movie is also in the works.

https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/2002767-donkey-kong-movie-confirmed-in-development-at-universal

[ranger_scout]

Don't expect Mario and Peach to end up as a couple in the sequel. Nintendo insists they are just good friends.

https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/mario-princess-peach-friends-relationship-couple-in-love-nintendo/

[oldmanwinters]

Don't expect Mario and Peach to end up as a couple in the sequel. Nintendo insists they are just good friends.

https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/mario-princess-peach-friends-relationship-couple-in-love-nintendo/

That’s always been my head canon!

[ZariusTwo]

Don't expect Mario and Peach to end up as a couple in the sequel. Nintendo insists they are just good friends.

https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/mario-princess-peach-friends-relationship-couple-in-love-nintendo/

Everyone knows Peach and Bowser are endgame anyway, she just plays hard to get:P

[ranger_scout]

It's now rumored that sequel will be based on Super Mario Galaxy.

https://wdwnt.com/2025/09/possible-title-of-super-mario-bros-movie-sequel-revealed-as-universal-registers-domain-names/

ETA: It's now official and the principal cast from the first film will also return.

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/super-mario-galaxy-movie-sequel-1236515440/

[Andrew NDB]

"Super Mario Odyssey" would lend itself well as a fairly satisfying movie, I think.

Galaxy or Sunshine wouldn't be bad either, but probably too "high concept" for a movie.

Maybe not too high concept after all! Kind of strange they're jumping to Galaxy, though. I would have gone "Super Mario World."

[sdp]

I mean it doesn't have to stick to game canon so why not, although it is indeed raising the stakes a lot. Where do you go after Galaxy for a third movie and beyond?
The introduction of Yoshi and other Mario universe worlds was likely enough for a sequel, basically mixing ideas form SMB3/World/other 2D Marios. But whatever as long as they deliver a fun movie that's all I care about.

[Andrew NDB]

it is indeed raising the stakes a lot. Where do you go after Galaxy for a third movie and beyond?

That's what I mean. Though... "Odyssey," I guess? Odyssey is very much the spiritual successor of Mario Galaxy 1 and 2. Traveling between other planets and all.

[Autbot_Benz]

I was hoping the sequel would have been Mario 3 or World. Seems weird to jump straight to galaxy

[Andrew NDB]

Kinda makes me want to fire up Super Mario Galaxy for the 3D All Stars and see what that looks like on the Switch 2 now.

[CyberCubed]

Yeah it's a shame they're rushing. The second movie should of been a hybrid movie of Mario 3 and World together. Then save Galaxy for the third movie.

They are rushing the Mario timeline and lore. Mario lore has the deepest lore in all of gaming.

[The Deadman]

I mean, the first 4 Mario games didn't have much of a storyline going for it outside of "Bowser kidnaps the Princess", and that was established in the first movie. Besides, if we wanted them to follow the game timeline, then Donkey Kong should have been the first big bad instead of Bowser.

[sdp]

To be fair the story of the Galaxy games is also Bowser kidnaps the princess even if done with more bells and whistles.

Imagine if the Sonic movie had blown their load with Shadow on the second movie despite only teasing Tails at the end of the first movie. Sure Sonic 2 the game didn't have too much story either but by adding Knuckles from the Sonic 3 Game then you had a solid Sonic 2 movie. Same with Super Mario Bros 3 / World and other ideas from the New Super Mario Bros series.

Lumalee was my favorite character in the first movie, I hope he appears again.

[The Deadman]

True but the first Galaxy game involves trying to stop Bowser from destroying the world.

The Sonic movie timeline is showing you can go backwards though, because they waited 4 movies to introduce Metal Sonic when he debuted in the first game.

[CyberCubed]

The thing is this movie was going to be about Yoshi, hence Mario World. Add in the Koopalings and you could merge Mario 3 and Mario World's plots into the same movie. Show the Bowser air-ships and such.

Skipping straight to Galaxy (and this includes skipping Mario 64 and Sunshine too, if that matters), feels like a mistake. Galaxy always felt like "third movie" material. Now they're sending Mario straight into space and not exploring much of the Mushroom kingdom, especially when Luigi barely had a role in the first one. Also feels too soon for Rosalina, they should of introduced Daisy and even Wario beforehand too.

[Andrew NDB]

Yeah. They could have had a nice, chill adventure movie with Super Mario World with Luigi and Yoshi and developing the characters and another big Bowser encounter. If the stakes are already the end of the universe and Bowser creating a new galaxy... I mean, even Odyssey has lower stakes than that. With Mario World they could even fold stuff from other games into it. Like maybe there's a bit where Mario has to use the water sprayer from Sunshine for some reason, or the tanooki suit.

Maybe movie #3 will be about whatever the Switch 2 Mario game will be about.

[Xav]

The Sonic movie timeline is showing you can go backwards though, because they waited 4 movies to introduce Metal Sonic when he debuted in the first game.Huh? Metal Sonic didn't show up until Sonic CD which was the third game released.

[The Deadman]

Huh? Metal Sonic didn't show up until Sonic CD which was the third game released.

That's right, I was thinking about Mecha Sonic who was in Sonic 2. He wasn't in in the first game.

[sdp]

But yeah, not to continue to rant too much about this but yeah between all those games were "nothing happens" in the mushroom kingdom was enough content for one more movie adventure. I mean meeting Yoshi, Bowser Jr. etc would've given us enough characters

This Galaxy movie seems to include stuff from Odyssey since we see Tostarenan in the Old Navy leak so yeah we'll get a bunch of stuff from those games. But it leaves them at an odd place for a third movie, which I'm guessing they really haven't began to think about. I'm sure Miyamoto is taking this as a one at a time approach.

There's no mention of Donkey Kong, which makes sense since this isn't part of his origin story but after having such a big part in the original movie, I do think he's getting his own spin-off. Which leaves a bunch of questions, can Miyamoto supervise a Mario movie, a Zelda Movie & A Donkey Kong one at the same time? Will he give his first creation to someone else at Nintendo. Is Mario 2 the last movie he works on (also the reason why he wanted to do Galaxy). I mean he's not a young man, but I do believe his supervision helped the Super Mario Movie a lot and while i'm sure Nintendo would just give someone else that role like they have in the games, it'll still be sad.



Skipping straight to Galaxy (and this includes skipping Mario 64 and Sunshine too, if that matters), feels like a mistake. Galaxy always felt like "third movie" material.

Also feels too soon for Rosalina, they should of introduced Daisy and even Wario beforehand too.


Well it's not like they have much to adapt for Mario 64 or Sunshine, they're very basic stories. They'd work if it's a TV episode. Same with basically most 2D games and even the 3D world games. The stories work because the gameplay is fun.

I don't think Daisy or Wario were ever going to appear at least not until much later (movie 4-6), Nintendo likes to shove them in the spin-off characters only section.

[CyberCubed]

There was also rumblings of a Luigi's Mansion spinoff movie too, although I don't think it will happen. Mario lore should be maintained.

[ranger_scout]

I have a feeling this movie is going to say that Peach is from Rosalina's galaxy and that Rosalina sent her to the Mushroom Kingdom based on what Baby Peach was wearing when she first walked through the pipe that led to the place in the Mushroom Kingdom where the Toads found her.



Maybe movie #3 will be about whatever the Switch 2 Mario game will be about.

It's possible the third movie could be based on Super Mario Wonder, but I'm not sure.

[sdp]

When I first played Galaxy back when it came out (nearly 20 years ago, hell when this movie comes out it's only going to be one year away from its 20th anniversary). I always thought they were going to reveal Rosalina was Peach's mother. I mean she basically looks like Peach but with bangs

[drgon78]

I was hoping to see Mario 2, 3, World, etc. but going strait to Galaxy is disappointing. Personally I would have preferred the introduction of Princess Daisy for the second movie.

[TigerClaw]

I was hoping to see Mario 2, 3, World, etc. but going strait to Galaxy is disappointing. Personally I would have preferred the introduction of Princess Daisy for the second movie.
The second movie will also feature Yoshi, Remember he was teased as an egg in the post credit scene from the first one, Also there was a lot of stuff from almost all the games in the first one, and the producer did say we can expect more surprises in the second one, Even though the sequel will feature the stories from the Galaxy games, We can expect other things to show up, My hope is that we get Bowser Jr and the Koopalings too, Would be cool to see them in movie form.

[KaraiLover09]

Do they ever explain where Luigi is during these games? I don't recall any mention of him in Sunshine, Galaxy, Odyssey, possibly Wonder too. Does he just chill at home while his brother is in all these adventures?

[TigerClaw]

Do they ever explain where Luigi is during these games? I don't recall any mention of him in Sunshine, Galaxy, Odyssey, possibly Wonder too. Does he just chill at home while his brother is in all these adventures?
Probably dealing with ghosts in a mansion.

[sdp]

Paper Mario addresses Luigi being absent and wanting to go on his adventures. Technically Mario 64 got retconned with 64 DS so he WAS on that adventure. Luigi is literally in Super Mario Galaxy and you save him, not to mention you can play as him as well after you beat the game. I don't remember Luigi's role in Odyssey but I remember he gave balloons in some levels. And Luigi is a playable character in Wonder, dialogue even changes when you select him.

So it's only Sunshine where he is not in the game at all.

[Andrew NDB]

I was low-key hoping they'd do Super Mario Bros. 2 as the movie. Even though it isn't the "real" Super Mario Bros. 2 in Japan.

[Mad Dog McMutt]

I agree with everyone that says it's too soon for Mario Galaxy. There is a lot of unexplored territory that they could have implemented before they got to Mario exploring other planets. I also think that Mario 3/World characteristics would have made for a great movie, especially if it used some of those amazing songs or even remixed versions of them.

[LeotheLateBloomer]

I agree with everyone that says it's too soon for Mario Galaxy. There is a lot of unexplored territory that they could have implemented before they got to Mario exploring other planets. I also think that Mario 3/World characteristics would have made for a great movie, especially if it used some of those amazing songs or even remixed versions of them.

Maybe but Mario's never been story heavy and the movie is probably going to be 'loosely' based on the Galaxy games as opposed to being one-on-one. Plus both games had remixes of tracks from 3 and World, so there's a big chance we could get some in the movie.

[ranger_scout]

Images of Yoshi have been leaked.

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1C9FBZYHeL/

ETA: Bowser Jr. has been confirmed to appear in the film.

https://comicbook.com/movies/news/super-mario-galaxy-movie-confirms-unannounced-characters-first-look-at-yoshi/

[sdp]

so bowser did impregnate peach in movie canon

[ranger_scout]

New artwork has been released, and the official trailer will be released on November 12.

https://scontent-dfw5-3.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/580693660_1396479942133807_3671203061560139229_n.j pg?stp=dst-jpg_s640x640_tt6&_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=-NFzOzs9F3QQ7kNvwFePKpd&_nc_oc=Adln3vuFyT5IgLchuWNiM1svmFsLo1jamVrSdyXcP7D n6JSa5E9WKi2tBFfMniBNKZDhtF8TAdmUREqZoc4nIu8j&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-3.xx&_nc_gid=W_13UOcrGbTAInsNxqbyWQ&oh=00_AfggWgsf8e54FIL0uwF0t9MQz-YnKUPDTfr7RsefYVZbYA&oe=69185258

https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-direct-to-deliver-first-the-super-mario-galaxy-movie-trailer-later-this-week

[IMJ]

I think it's cool this is getting a sequel, but I barely made it through the first one, and the "bring them to Earth" thing never works for me anyway.

I probably would have loved these back in 1988. Hopefully the sequel does well.

[ranger_scout]

The trailer is here and Brie Larson has been cast as Rosalina.

https://x.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1988609855251206274

https://comicbook.com/movies/news/the-super-mario-galaxy-movie-trailer-launches-the-franchise-into-space-and-adds-marvel-star/

ETA: Here it is and the second video has some additional footage.

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[Andrew NDB]

Huh. The upside down pyramid "world"... that's from Super Mario Odyssey, not Galaxy. I still remember it.

[sdp]

I mean they're mixing things up clearly, I mean it sucks Yoshi didn't get his movie to shine alone but...the movie looks fun, I don't need it to stick to lore as long as I get a fun movie. Have Mario 3 mix up stuff from every other game they've ever made over the past 30 years and you have a solid trilogy.

No need to stretch things out, just go all out on the 3 movies.

[Coola Yagami]

Hmmm girl boss X 2. Peach and Rosalina get 'kick-ass action are-you-sure-this-is-a-Mario-movie scenes and Mario and Luigi just get to bother Bowser.

At least it seems Luigi will be in this a lot.

[Andrew NDB]

Hmmm girl boss X 2. Peach and Rosalina get 'kick-ass action are-you-sure-this-is-a-Mario-movie scenes

I wasn't going to say it, but yeah. At least, the trailer is definitely making it a point to push that. It might be 10 seconds in the movie itself, for all we know.

[Coola Yagami]

I wasn't going to say it, but yeah. At least, the trailer is definitely making it a point to push that. It might be 10 seconds in the movie itself, for all we know.

Oh yeah, this one was blatantly obvious, especially since Peach and Rosaline are not known to be action heroes. Or you know... it wouldn't be so bad if either the Marios got their own 'bad-ass' scenes or the Princess was shown kicking ass alongside them.

Like if this was a Smash Bros movie and the trailer showed Samus being bad-ass, no complaints here, since she is one in her canon games.

[sdp]

Rosalina has been a playable character in 2 mainline Super Mario games and in Smash Bros the last three games. Peach has is playable in even more mainline games than Rosalina and even has two games where she is the hero that saves the kingdom. Also a Smash main stay since the second entry.

[Coola Yagami]

Apparently Brie Larson will voice Rosalina.


Uh oh

[sdp]

Brie Larson is a known Nintendo fan and has done many promotional stuff with nintendo before. We all know she's fugly but it's only her voice.

[CyberCubed]

It's weird they didn't show Yoshi in the trailer at all. Yeah, they should of definitely made a Super Mario World movie first as the second movie, and this Galaxy movie should of been the third to round out the trilogy. They really rushed to this just to get to Rosalina.

It seems the movie is combining elements of 4 games (Sunshine with Bowser Jr and his paintbrush, Rosalina/Galaxy, Yoshi/Mario World, and some Odyssey levels?) all into one movie.

Good thing is there's no sign of Donkey Kong, so we're probably getting a DK spinoff movie too. Hopefully Pauline is in that one.

[Andrew NDB]

It's weird they didn't show Yoshi in the trailer at all. Yeah, they should of definitely made a Super Mario World movie first as the second movie, and this Galaxy movie should of been the third to round out the trilogy. They really rushed to this just to get to Rosalina.

Yeah, he's like the main draw from the "good guys" after Mario and Luigi themselves. Nobody gives a f*** about Rosalina.

[IMJ]

:lol:
I didn't even know there was a "2nd Princess" named Rosalina.

[CyberCubed]

:lol:
I didn't even know there was a "2nd Princess" named Rosalina.

I mean the games never called her a princess, that's new for the movie.

As for Rosalina herself, she debuted way back in 2007 in Mario Galaxy for the Wii. That was 18 years ago....

[sdp]

IMJ was already like 30 in 2007 :tlol:

Rosalina is insanely popular, and even Nintendo loves her featuring pretty much everywhere after the Galaxy. She's been around almost as long as Peach had been when galaxy first came out. I don't care for her much but it's wild for someone to say she isn't somehow one of the bigger Super Mario characters.

[Autbot_Benz]

Ugh why did it have to be Brie Larson voicing Rosalina I can’t stand her :roll:

[IMJ]

IMJ was already like 30 in 2007 :tlol:

Rosalina is insanely popular, and even Nintendo loves her featuring pretty much everywhere after the Galaxy. She's been around almost as long as Peach had been when galaxy first came out. I don't care for her much but it's wild for someone to say she isn't somehow one of the bigger Super Mario characters.

I suppose now that I think about it, the last Mario game that I truly dove into was Super Mario World on the SNES. I think I only ever demo'd the N64 - never even really sat down with it.

My Mario life I guess was mostly NES.

[Autbot_Benz]

Plus side it’s just Brie’s voice and we don’t have to stare at her resting bitch face like when she is in the mcu

[CyberCubed]

I mean people had the same negative reaction when Chris Pratt was announced to be voicing Mario, then people heard his voice and it was pretty good. You can't even tell it's Chris Pratt's voice. From the clips we heard her Rosalina voice sounds good, so it doesn't matter about the real life actress.

And yeah, Rosalina is probably the most popular Mario character after the original cast. She eclipses everyone. Pauline is only starting to get really popular after Odyssey and DK Bananza.

I'm surprised Yoshi didn't get an announced voice actor? Maybe Yoshi won't actually talk at all and just make the dumb Yoshi sounds from the games like a Pokemon? I'm used to the Super Mario cartoon where Yoshi spoke english. :lol:

[ZariusTwo]

Ugh why did it have to be Brie Larson voicing Rosalina I can’t stand her :roll:

Apparently Brie is a big fan of the Galaxy game and reportedly once kicked out her boyfriend because he complained about it:ohwell:

[Andrew NDB]

Apparently Brie is a big fan of the Galaxy game and reportedly once kicked out her boyfriend because he complained about it:ohwell:

Don't believe anything her publicist puts out there (or tells her to put out there).

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[ranger_scout]

Ugh why did it have to be Brie Larson voicing Rosalina I can’t stand her :roll:

I don't think she's the worst choice. I would've preferred Elizabeth Debicki, Reese Witherspoon, or Kristin Chenoweth. Still, I'm just glad that Rosalina isn't voiced by someone like Emma Corrin, JoJo Siwa, or Rachel Zegler.

[drgon78]

I can't stand Brie Larson, such bad casting, so many better choices.

[ranger_scout]

I also think Vanessa Kirby or Florence Pugh would've been a good choices for Rosalina, but as I said as long as it wasn't someone like the three people I didn't want for the part then Brie Larson is fine.

[IMJ]

Plus side it’s just Brie’s voice and we don’t have to stare at her resting bitch face like when she is in the mcu

:lol: Right? But she doesn't need "some dude telling her" that. :lol:

Actually now that you framed it that way, maybe her career is better off continuing in voice acting..... she might have a continued shelf life.

[Andrew NDB]

:lol: Right? But she doesn't need "some dude telling her" that. :lol:

That just gave me a flashback to the ending of Captain Marvel 1 and a shudder.

Wasn't that a bit where all of this began? Things were going along so well until about that moment, in general at Marvel.

[sdp]

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0c/96/6b/0c966b3dcfddd8c2bbc51cbf682d3bea.gif

[IMJ]

That just gave me a flashback to the ending of Captain Marvel 1 and a shudder.

Wasn't that a bit where all of this began? Things were going along so well until about that moment, in general at Marvel.

If you mean the near-decade of the M-SHE-U, then yes.

If you mean the disdain towards her in general, I'd say the whole thing began in earnest when she was doing pre-press for Craptain Marvel. She virtue-signaled endlessly about the responsibility of playing this (appropriated from a male) character, then was on an award stage lecturing people who were dissatisfied with Oprah Winfrey's "A Wrinkle In Time", and then of course her interview-tour with the Avengers castmates was a disaster of conflict.

All of that combined with Captain Marvel being a truly terrible movie and her playing an entirely unlikeable nothing-burger lead.

I'll never forget our screening of Endgame. We saw it in a packed theater at a private screening held by Graham Crackers comics. People were cheering like crazy and the theater went utterly silent when she showed up and flew threw the space ship. Everyone erupted in cheers again when Thanos belted her with the Power Stone. It was hysterical......

[Andrew NDB]

I'll never forget our screening of Endgame. We saw it in a packed theater at a private screening held by Graham Crackers comics. People were cheering like crazy and the theater went utterly silent when she showed up and flew threw the space ship. Everyone erupted in cheers again when Thanos belted her with the Power Stone. It was hysterical......

Actually I do recall a lot of cheering -- weirdly enough -- for her when she showed up and smashed through Thanos' ship. Even for the "Got something for me, Peter Parker?" bit.

But it WAS dead silent beyond some unintentional laughter during the big "Girls Get it Done!" extended group scene.

[IMJ]

But it WAS dead silent beyond some unintentional laughter during the big "Girls Get it Done!" extended group scene.

Oh ya :lol: We had some audible "What the f?" across the theater at that moment... Especially the one where Shuri is running with all of the women and she looks like one of the Attack on Titan titans... :lol:

But as for that ship moment you mentioned..... :lol: There was one odd man out in the theater who did the "WOOO!!" amidst complete silence and you could sort of sense that so many people side eyed in the general direction. It was unintentionally hilarious.

Either way it looks like the Brie can extend she/hers acting life by voice acting a bit.

[Wildcat]

I’m sure it’ll be a good, cute movie but I have zero fondness for the Galaxy games…because I never played them. Rented the first but only a few stages.

I have Odyssey. Beat it. I think I should play the Galaxy games first to connect with it. People say they’re iconic. I guess it’s true, they based the movie on it.

[sdp]

I think galaxy is better than odyssey. They're both good tho

[CyberCubed]

I’m sure it’ll be a good, cute movie but I have zero fondness for the Galaxy games…because I never played them. Rented the first but only a few stages.

I have Odyssey. Beat it. I think I should play the Galaxy games first to connect with it. People say they’re iconic. I guess it’s true, they based the movie on it.

I don't understand why you haven't tried them. They just recently remastered them in HD on Switch. There's no reason not to play them.

[ToTheNines]

Brie Larson is definitely some kind of industry plant or nepo-baby right?

[Xav]

I don't understand why you haven't tried them. They just recently remastered them in HD on Switch. There's no reason not to play them.You do realize not everyone owns a Switch.

[sdp]

But wildcat clearly does since he beat Odyssey

[CyberCubed]

You do realize not everyone owns a Switch.

Switch 1 came out in 2017. If anyone hasn't had one by now after 7 years then they just must not care about games. The Galaxy remasters are also Switch 1 games, so you don't need a Switch 2 for them either.

Seriously is everyone here a casual gamer or something? So many of you are years or even decades behind on games. I must be too used to ResetEra and reddit where people buy the biggest games every year.

[Wildcat]

I don't understand why you haven't tried them. They just recently remastered them in HD on Switch. There's no reason not to play them.

I know they remastered them but I don’t have them. Wasn’t planning of spending $70 on games at the moment. I have a few I haven’t played.

[Coola Yagami]

Never bothered with Nintendo consoles past the SNES, when it started being more Nintendo and less third party. Just the fact the N64 and Game Cube having no Street Fighter games despite the fact that the SNES SF2 turned the tide in their favor for a while during the console wars.

[sdp]

https://i.imgur.com/tvfV3P2.jpeg

[Andrew NDB]

Switch 1 came out in 2017. If anyone hasn't had one by now after 7 years then they just must not care about games.

A pretty solid 8 years at this point, nearly 9. But it's not as bad as the PS4 users who act like it's still so impossible to get a PS5, and how PS4 is still their gold standard. It's a TWELVE year old system. PS5 has been out for FIVE years. If you aren't able to scrounge together some money to get it yet, idk what to say to you. You can still sell your PS4 and be nearly halfway there, right off the bat.

[IMJ]

Never bothered with Nintendo consoles past the SNES, when it started being more Nintendo and less third party. Just the fact the N64 and Game Cube having no Street Fighter games despite the fact that the SNES SF2 turned the tide in their favor for a while during the console wars.

Same here. I briefly had an N64 but it was something I stumbled into while working at a FuncoLand decades ago. I kept it for maybe 3 months and traded it in. I think we mostly played GoldenEye on it.

[CyberCubed]

Never bothered with Nintendo consoles past the SNES, when it started being more Nintendo and less third party. Just the fact the N64 and Game Cube having no Street Fighter games despite the fact that the SNES SF2 turned the tide in their favor for a while during the console wars.


Street Fighter died for like 10 years until 4 came out in 2009. I don't know why you'd skip good games or consoles otherwise.

The amount of casuals in this thread is staggering. I must be spending too much time on ResetEra and reddit where people buy every major game day 1 and have decades of discussion over it.

[Coola Yagami]

Street Fighter died for like 10 years until 4 came out in 2009. I don't know why you'd skip good games or consoles otherwise.

The amount of casuals in this thread is staggering. I must be spending too much time on ResetEra and reddit where people buy every major game day 1 and have decades of discussion over it.

I jumped ship to the PS1 and PS2. Tekken, SoulCalibur, KOF, Capcom VS SNK and such took over for me.

[CyberCubed]

You missed out on some groundbreaking games. Fighters are fun, but only sticking with fighting games gets old after awhile.

[ranger_scout]

The poster has been released.

https://scontent-dfw5-3.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/582947328_806883028856080_7816263491865134782_n.jp g?stp=dst-jpg_s640x640_tt6&_nc_cat=1&cb2=99be929b-bd9a46d7&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=2aae2CZxsTsQ7kNvwFi8cEU&_nc_oc=AdlTzQklcybCl3AE2Ek--2Xw8jI4vChKHuhQld8amXwkFKtnPDz2INw0o4AGzy2A5WI5dug zpFQ5n5OwvIjrPeSw&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-3.xx&_nc_gid=KQDo5N11ID9XHUgAOHRKhg&oh=00_AficJlMZYkN5CLv3edazuOxDdsQUAJg7AYTFD_d26C1D qQ&oe=691DC48E

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1MG9u37hJA/

[CyberCubed]

> name the movie Mario Galaxy

> promote Mario Odyssey world and characters in the movie

> pick one

[Coola Yagami]

You missed out on some groundbreaking games. Fighters are fun, but only sticking with fighting games gets old after awhile.

Not when there's so many. And when you have a brother to play with.

I do miss the old days before work, rent, mortgage and whatnot got in the way. Like when Street Fighter 2 was new, we were up all night playing the hell out of it for the SNES. I remember similar experiences with WWF Royal Rumble back in the day since it featured (at the time) the wrestlers we saw on TV (except Flair).

I think the SNES games that were not fighting games that made us play for hours were Megaman X and Mario RPG, especially the RPG naturally.

Then we finally got our hands on a PS1 and got into SF EX + Alpha and the Tekken games and whatnot.

The PS2 got us the KOF games and whatnot.

I barely have time to devote countless hours to gaming nowadays. I don't exactly run to the controller the moment I clock off work. I just wanna chill and do nothing. The only RPG I play once in a rare while is Persona 5 Strikers, and that's maybe a few hours to at least progress the story before I hit save and get back to it the next time I remember that I own it.

[CyberCubed]

I mean I have a full time job and still have 5-6 hours to play videogames each weekday. I don't know how you guys consume media but I have plenty of time to play games and watch shows/movies.

N64 had some groundbreaking games. Ocarina of Time is still a masterpiece to this day. Gamecube was good but a little less so. Wii was mostly known for the Mario Galaxy games, Twilight Princess, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Metroid Prime Trilogy, etc.

[Andrew NDB]

> name the movie Mario Galaxy

> promote Mario Odyssey world and characters in the movie

> pick one

It's weird. Though I sort of get it... none of the worlds in Galaxy are particularly memorable but the worlds in Odyssey are.

[CyberCubed]

The issue is they're going to run out of ideas for the third movie when they make one. This movie is combining:

- Super Mario World: Mario meets Yoshi for the first time

- Mario Galaxy: Rosalina and the observatory, traveling through space

- Mario Odyssey: The sand world kingdom and mexican skeletons pictured above

- Mario Sunshine/Wonder: Bowser Jr. is introduced with his paintbrush


They're like taking 4 big Mario games and merging it all together. Technically 5 if they include Mario Galaxy 2 worlds in it as well.

What is left for a third movie? The Koopalings I guess...lol

[sdp]

I mean they're just remixing things, this is galaxy in name only, it has worlds from Odyssey but at the same time it's an original story of Baby Bowser trying to save his father and I guess conquer the kingdom.
The first movie people can say that it "adapted" SMB1 I guess but it's basically an original story, that used elements from every mario game, mario kart and even Donkey Kong arcade

The third movie will just be another original story using elements from the 40 years of history of Super Mario. They'll be fine.

I don't think they'll even touch Wario or Daisy until a Super mario 4 or 5. If Nintendo even allows Illumination to use them. Though I think things could get crazier since I think Miyamoto won't be supervising anything after mario 3. Hell, maybe the zelda movie is the last thing he supervises.

Now that I think about it, Nintendo is going to be parading Miyamoto around until he dies like Disney did with Stan Lee aren't they?

[ranger_scout]

Last month, I met both Kenny James and Samantha Kelly, the longtime voices of Bowser and Princess Peach and Toad, respectively at a convention. Kenny told me he did not see the first movie, but Samantha said she did and she enjoyed Anya Taylor-Joy and Keegan-Michael Key’s performances as Peach and Toad. I told them that I wish they had some involvement in the movie like Charles Martinet, the longtime voices of Mario and Luigi did. Kenny told me he heard that Charles wasn’t thrilled about Chris Pratt and Charlie Day doing his characters. I can understand why Charles would’ve been disappointed, but it was good of Universal and Illumination to have him voice Mario and Luigi’s dad, other family members, and the character where he got to do his iconic voice. I’m sure he was told ahead of time that this would happen unlike the late Janet Waldo whose dialogue as Judy Jetson in Jetsons: The Movie was replaced by Tiffany and Matthew Lillard, Grey DeLisle, and Kate Miccuci, who were not told that they wouldn’t be reprising their roles as Shaggy, Daphne, and Velma, respectively in Scoob!

ETA: I think some archive audio of Samantha Kelly was used for the other Toads in the Mushroom Kingdom.

[drgon78]

I wish we got the version of the Jetsons Movie with Janet Waldo as Judy

[Andrew NDB]

I mean they're just remixing things, this is galaxy in name only,

Pretty much. If you ask anyone that's played Super Mario Galaxy to describe what the game is about, they'd say, "Bowser attacks Peach's castle and rips it out of the ground, taking it into space, where he's trying to create a new galaxy. Mario chases after to rescue the princess and stop Bowser's plan." This movie doesn't look like it's going to have anything to do with any of that.

- Super Mario World: Mario meets Yoshi for the first time

- Mario Galaxy: Rosalina and the observatory, traveling through space

- Mario Odyssey: The sand world kingdom and mexican skeletons pictured above

- Mario Sunshine/Wonder: Bowser Jr. is introduced with his paintbrush

I didn't even make that connection with the paintbrush. But yeah, sort of, sure. And I'm not sure if we're getting the Observatory. We may just get those spinning ring boosters that blows Mario to the next world and that's it, or maybe Mario's Starship Mario from Galaxy 2 or his full-on spaceship from Odyssey.

[ranger_scout]

Yoshi is here and so is Birdo. The movie will also be released on April 1.

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[CyberCubed]

This really should of just been a Yoshi movie. The Galaxy stuff should of been saved for the third movie. This movie is covering Yoshi/Mario World, Mario Odyssey, Mario 2 in the casino part with Birdo and the other Mario bosses, baby Mario and Luigi, and Bowser Jr. and Rosalina all in the same movie?

[Andrew NDB]

And what the hell do they call the third movie that won't be a step down, now?

[oldmanwinters]

And what the hell do they call the third movie that won't be a step down, now?

Super Mario Galaxy…. 2? :tlol:

[drgon78]

And what the hell do they call the third movie that won't be a step down, now?

Super Mario Universe

[TigerClaw]

And what the hell do they call the third movie that won't be a step down, now?
They could call the third one. The Super Mario Odyssey Movie.

[CyberCubed]

Good thing Luigi seems to be with Mario for this whole movie, unlike the first where he was captured till the very end. Also Donkey Kong is nowhere to be seen, so they deported him and he'll probably get his rumored spinoff movie.

[ranger_scout]

Toad seems very jealous that Yoshi is Mario and Luigi's new sidekick. This could be a reference to him been replaced in the Super Mario World TV series. Many believed Yoshi was Toad's replacement, but the caveman Oogtar also was.

[sdp]

We also see Luigi saying he's not scared anymore, this could be a reference to Mario is Missing PC version where he says "I'm not scared" when he enters Bowser's castle.

[Mayhem]

Or the Luigi's Mansion games.

[CyberCubed]

Since DK isn't in the movie I suspect the Donkey Kong spinoff movie will be confirmed soon. I do hope they adapt Bananza with child Pauline for the first DK movie.

[sdp]

Nintenbros we're getting a new Nintendo movie every year for the next decade basically.

2026 Mario Movie 2
2027 Zelda Movie
2028 Donkey Kong Movie
2029 Mario Movie 3
2030 Zelda Movie 2
2031 (Star Fox?/Metroid?/Kirby?)
2032 Donkey Kong movie 2
2033 Zelda Movie 3
2034 sequel to 2031 movie
2035 Mario Movie 4

[CyberCubed]

Remember when Detective Pikachu was a thing, and people thought we'd get live-action Pokemon movies regularly? :lol:

[sdp]

The giga leak confirmed they were working on the sequel called Great Detective Pikachu it even had a logo. Who knows how far along that went. IIRC the a tor said at one point it was no longer happening but a year later said it was still being worked on.

Detective Pikachu 2 came out I think 3 years ago on the switch and no one bought it. It looked like a 3DS game upscaled but it finished the story which was actually a cliffhanger in the original game. The movie did finish the story but could've still adapted the story bits from 2.

With that said I do think The Pokemon Company is going to want to release a new movie in the next few years. Now that no one cares about the Pokemon anime or Pokemon anime movies, it's time for a new live action Pokemon film

[ranger_scout]

Yoshi turned Kamek Koopa into an egg. LOL.

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[Powder]

I'm crazy stoked for this sequel. First one wasn't perfect, but a lot of fun, & I imagine they've learned from their mistakes. The absolute love letter this seems to be for old school fans, mannn, they've got me. So many obscure characters from the NES/SNES era, like Mouser, Ninji, Chargin' Chuck, & clearly some beats from Yoshi's Island are gonna play out, too, I feel spoiled. I'm not a Bowser Jr fan so I could do without his inclusion, but so long as they don't ruin any key moments with licensed pop music, it's fine. :tlol:

[drgon78]

I have always hated they retconned that the koopalings were Bowser's children.

[CyberCubed]

It's weird how every new trailer makes this look less and less like a Galaxy movie. Rosalina is also hardly in any of the trailers, which makes me worried she's going to have a very small role. I hope they're just hiding her.

[neatoman]

I have always hated they retconned that the koopalings were Bowser's children.

Wasn't that a in-translation-only thing though? Like Dr. Eggman being named Robotnik?

[Xav]

No the Japanese manuals called them Bowsers children.

[ssjup81]

I liked the first movie, but wasn’t too keen on Peach. Would’ve liked her better if she’d grown into the cool type who can fight or whatever, like how she was kinda portrayed in Mario RPG or how she had a balance, like in the old Mario cartoons. The way Peach was portrayed, was more Daisy like…and I’ve always liked her better and favor her. Wish some medium would do something worthwhile with her. Had a good opportunity to have her in Luigi’s Mansion 3.

Either way, I’ll still be checking out this movie since Luigi will be around. Luigi is one of my favorite Nintendo characters. I have always hated they retconned that the koopalings were Bowser's children. I hated this too.

[sdp]

but so long as they don't ruin any key moments with licensed pop music,
This was my biggest turn off from the movie, I think I remember reading that Illumination was the one that said it's what audiences liked. And also IIRC the soundtrack of the movie has music for the scenes that had the pop music and it's basically just appropriate music from the games so it's a real shame.

It's weird how every new trailer makes this look less and less like a Galaxy movie. Rosalina is also hardly in any of the trailers, which makes me worried she's going to have a very small role. I hope they're just hiding her.
Well I feel it's going to be a tour of different games, the Galaxy portion of the movie will be one act, likely the one near the end. The others will be acts based on other games, so it won't be an entire movie based off the Galaxy games. The first act will likely be about Yoshi so Yoshi's Island, then likely Mario Wonder arc where you'll see the talking flowers, the SMB2 act where they are in the casino and then the final act being the Galaxy games.

If you think about it the original movie was similar, you had an act based on the Donkey Kong Arcade, an act based off classic SMB/NSMB, an act based off Mario Kart and an act based on Odyssey (The whole wedding thing).


I have always hated they retconned that the koopalings were Bowser's children.

I'm ok with this change. Bowser Jr has more of a personality and when used correctly by Nintendo he's very memorable though that's not always the case.

I also hated the retcon when Mario Sunshine came out since it felt like they were forgetting history but they have since brought them back many times and well they're not very entertaining, they feel like random sub bosses and even lack the aura of Bowser Jr.

Wasn't that a in-translation-only thing though? Like Dr. Eggman being named Robotnik?
When did Koopa become Bowser? I first watched the SMB3 cartoon as a kid on VHS in the N64 era and was shocked he was called King Koopa.

[neatoman]

When did Koopa become Bowser? I first watched the SMB3 cartoon as a kid on VHS in the N64 era and was shocked he was called King Koopa.

That is an odd one. According to an english language manual from 1985, he's "Bowser, King of the Koopa". So according to that, he's named Bowser and the king of Koopa, so it's pretty odd that the show called him King Koopa. The character's name is Koopa in Japanese though, so it mostly just seems to raise questions about the show didn't follow that change.

[Andrew NDB]

I have always hated they retconned that the koopalings were Bowser's children.

Retconned them into being his children or retconned into not being his children? As far as I've ever known or heard they ARE his children. No?

When did Koopa become Bowser? I first watched the SMB3 cartoon as a kid on VHS in the N64 era and was shocked he was called King Koopa.

I'm a little fuzzy on this but I definitely don't remember even hearing the name "Bowser" until around SMB3. As kids he was only ever referred to as "King Koopa" that I can recall. When "Bowser" started getting traction later on, my mental math was, "His name is Bowser, King of the Koopas, AKA King Koopa."

[CyberCubed]

The Koopalings were said to be Bowser's kids through Super Mario World but they dropped it since. Then Bowser Jr. debuted in Sunshine and they only called Jr. his son. Even when the Koopalings came back in New Super Mario Bros and later games, they were never referred to as his children anymore.

[Andrew NDB]

The Koopalings were said to be Bowser's kids through Super Mario World but they dropped it since. Then Bowser Jr. debuted in Sunshine and they only called Jr. his son. Even when the Koopalings came back in New Super Mario Bros and later games, they were never referred to as his children anymore.

I never took it that way. Like, they're all his kids but obviously Bowser, Jr. is the one taking after him the most and probably the one he's the most proud of.

Speaking of the Koopa Kids... if Bowser is the father, then...

https://y.yarn.co/ba2b2f80-1b6a-457a-89b4-4f60e511c8ab_text.gif

[CyberCubed]

Someday Bowser's wife will be revealed and people will be either horrified or love it.

Also here's the SMB3 manual, on the right side it says, "These are Bowsers kids"

https://www.smbmovie.com/SMBArchive/pics/forumstuff/smb3_manual_1.png

And Bowser says "These are my 7 children."

[neatoman]

Speaking of the Koopa Kids... if Bowser is the father, then...

https://y.yarn.co/ba2b2f80-1b6a-457a-89b4-4f60e511c8ab_text.gif

Well, you know how Yoshi is stated to be male yet still lays eggs?
Another possibility is that Bowser is just like a Namekian.
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[drgon78]

Retconned them into being his children or retconned into not being his children? As far as I've ever known or heard they ARE his children. No?

Sorry I mean the retconned them being his children, I like that they were his kids.


I'm a little fuzzy on this but I definitely don't remember even hearing the name "Bowser" until around SMB3. As kids he was only ever referred to as "King Koopa" that I can recall. When "Bowser" started getting traction later on, my mental math was, "His name is Bowser, King of the Koopas, AKA King Koopa."

I do remember when they changed it.

[ZariusTwo]

Someday Bowser's wife will be revealed and people will be either horrified or love it.

We all know it's Peach. They just can't say it.

[cammy85]

Not that it's canon obviously; but one of my stories a long time ago had them dropped on his doorstep one day after escaping from a major defeat from the Mario Bros.. Like for example, the Adventures of SMB3 opening theme narrates what happened. This was a two episode extension of that opening monologue.
https://youtu.be/goHwtY2DHMw?si=I5Sif_6G1iCeMjpI

[ranger_scout]

The supposed storyline of Mario and Luigi being turned into babies must be a way to promote Mario Tennis Fever since the adventure mode has that happen to them as well as Peach, Wario, and Waluigi.

[Andrew NDB]

We all know it's Peach. They just can't say it.

That could recontextualize Bowser continuingly trying to marry her. He's just trying to keep the family together while she's being an absent mother.

[ranger_scout]

Donald Glover is voicing Yoshi.

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/super-mario-galaxy-movie-donald-glover-yoshi-1236682959/

Here's the final trailer.

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[Andrew NDB]

OK, now THAT looks like a trailer for Super Mario Galaxy. That's like the entire opening act of the game, almost exactly.

[CyberCubed]

In all 3 trailers they've shown, Rosalina is barely shown at all. They're either hiding her scenes purposely, or Rosalina unfortunately is going to have a small role in the movie. Given they got Brie Larson to voice her I don't think her role will be that small, but we haven't seen her interaction with Mario or friends at all in any of the trailers and she seems isolated for most of it. I hope she doesn't just get 5 minutes of screentime in the movie.

[drgon78]

Interesting....but still wish we got Princess Daisy.

[neatoman]

Donald Glover is voicing Yoshi.

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/super-mario-galaxy-movie-donald-glover-yoshi-1236682959/

Here's the final trailer.

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I didn't exactly think Wart would appear, aside from cameos and stuff like that weird appearance in Link's awakening, he really only shows up in the Doki Doki Panic/the international Super Mario Bros. 2 and remakes of the international Super Mario Bros. 2. When you think about, it's pretty weird that his henchmen are far more prominent characters in the franchise than himself, right?

[ranger_scout]

They've just confirmed that Fox McCloud from Star Fox is going to be in the movie.

https://comicbook.com/movies/news/star-fox-finally-makes-movie-debut-in-super-mario-galaxy-11-years-after-nintendos-cancelled-tv-series/

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/super-mario-galaxy-fox-mccloud-smash-bros-1236700583/

This clearly means a Super Smash Bros. film is in the works.

[Andrew NDB]

They've just confirmed that Fox McCloud from Star Fox is going to be in the movie.

https://comicbook.com/movies/news/star-fox-finally-makes-movie-debut-in-super-mario-galaxy-11-years-after-nintendos-cancelled-tv-series/

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/super-mario-galaxy-fox-mccloud-smash-bros-1236700583/

This clearly means a Super Smash Bros. film is in the works.

As like the Nintendo version of The Avengers? Sure. You're probably right. Kicking off with SMB1 and SMB2 movies as basically Iron Man 1 and 2 and Donkey Kong as like the Incredible Hulk movie.

[CyberCubed]

The irony is Starfox is such an obscure franchise now only 30+ year old boomers even know what it is. Starfox hasn't had a new game since 2016, which no one played on Wii-U, and before that no new game since 2006, which again no one played on the DS. Starfox goes 10 year gaps between games after the Gamecube era.

[Andrew NDB]

Now imagine if Sonic 4's end credits has a "I'm putting together a team!" scene.

Starfox hasn't had a new game since 2016, which no one played on Wii-U

No one really played Wii U, though it looks like the Wii U Star Fox game was just a remake of the N64 Star Fox game? That's not very exciting.

[Prowler]

I won't lie, Fox being in the movie kinda makes me want to go to the cinema and watch it in April. As strange as this sounds. I know they're both Nintendo, but what role is Fox even gonna have in the Super Mario Galaxy movie? I guess it's fitting for Fox to show up in a Mario movie with space travel of all Mario media out there, but nonetheless, I can't say I've expected this.

It's like the cinematic equivalent of there being Mario enemies and Dr. Wright from SNES Sim City in Link's Awakening or something.

[Andrew NDB]

Speaking of Mega Man, if he shows up in a Super Smash Bros. movie they can just re-use his assets from that Secret Level short on Amazon.

[ranger_scout]

Glen Powell is voicing Fox McCloud! Perfect casting!

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/fox-mccloud-glen-powell-super-mario-galaxy-movie-1236700990/

[drgon78]

Too be honest I have never been a fan of Starfox.

[Prowler]

Glen Powell is voicing Fox McCloud! Perfect casting!

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/fox-mccloud-glen-powell-super-mario-galaxy-movie-1236700990/

Dunno him but he does look like a human version of Fox, at least. Not that it matters since we're talking voice acting here, but food for thought.

[ranger_scout]

Dunno him but he does look like a human version of Fox, at least. Not that it matters since we're talking voice acting here, but food for thought.

He was fantastic in the 2024 film Twisters where he played Tyler Owens. I also really enjoyed his performance as Lieutenant Jake "Hangman" Seresin in Top Gun Maverick. Check them out if you haven't seen those films yet.

[Prowler]

He was fantastic in the 2024 film Twisters where he played Tyler Owens. I also really enjoyed his performance as Lieutenant Jake "Hangman" Seresin in Top Gun Maverick. Check them out if you haven't seen those films yet.

I don't really watch a lot of movies and am very out of touch with modern day cinema in general, so no, I haven't watched those.

[ranger_scout]

This review reveals that Rosalina is Peach's sister.

https://variety.com/2026/film/reviews/the-super-mario-galaxy-movie-review-chris-pratt-jack-black-1236703239/

[TheLabRat]

Idk, but these is absolute a "fan service movie" made for Nintendo fans. People who don't play games are not the target audience for this type of movie.

[ZariusTwo]

Reviews are coming in. Critics hate it (but of course, people still thinking it's 2020/2021 are acting like that means the movie is good)

[sdp]

Here is my full review of the Super Mario Galaxy movie (https://miscrave.com/articles/super-mario-galaxy-movie/). A lot of negativity but I had a great time and a great sequel, it's just more of what you saw in the first one.
I can understand the backlash of the Star Fox scenes since it is a MARIO movie, but all Fox scenes are great. As a star fox fan I was really happy how he was handled even if he didn't belong there.

[oldmanwinters]

I saw it this week.

I liked it. It was a better movie than I expected.

But I didn't love it.

I guess for Nintendo/Universal, the quality of the stories don't really matter so long as you just cram in the characters and elements and load it up with 'member-berries. You'll always make a billion dollars or more because, peoples loves the Marios, right?

It feels like we got three or four movies worth of content all blended into a 98-minute rollercoaster. But, like the Koopa Troopas on Bowser Jr's Death Star, I can't help but feel like all of the flesh and guts were burned off when the coaster dipped into the hot lava. It took about 2 seconds but by the end of the movie, I didn't really feel anything any more.

As far as Nintendo lore goes, I suppose it was bold to:
* Make Rosalina the older sister of Peach
* Make a declaration that both Peach and Rosalina weren't children of parents in the traditional sense, but formed out of... star dust or something? (This contradicts the original SM Galaxy game pretty hard)
* Seriously tease a Bowser redemption arc in the 2nd movie, but then turn hard away from that because... he has to be a good father and thus be consistent with the weird lessons he taught his son at some point in the past?
* Nuke Bowser's iconic look in favor of Dry Bowser and then leave him that way. And maybe he's still on his redemption arc?
* Put the Mario-verse in the same reality as the Star Fox lore? I dunno...
* Make Princess Peach the main character. I think she probably had more action scenes than Mario. My favorite part of the movie was probably when she and Toad went to visit Wart. But I also think she was OP'd.

Here's the plot threads that got rushed over that I thought might have made for a major interesting movie than whatever we got:
* Yoshi in New York. That seemed to be the major setup tease at the end of the first movie.
* The Yoshis, in general. Everybody but the Marios seem to already know what a "Yoshi" is. Or maybe it was just the people of the Sand Kingdom that recognized them?
* Bowser Jr being introduced under the impression that Peach was his momma (ala S.M. Sunshine). In fact, aside from the opening of the film, it seemed like Bowser completely got over his infatuation with Peach, which I assumed was 100% genuine in the first movie. With the domestic flashback to Bowser/Jr, it made it seem like his ultimate goal all along was to capture Rosalina. And if he knew something about her star powers, why was he so focused on Peach and the Mushroom Kingdom in the last film? Did he know anything about their sisterhood and could that have been important to this movie's plot and pacing?
* The Subcon-styled criminal underworld led by Wart with his minions... I wish Nintendo could have worked it in as some surreal dream world as opposed to just some random place you could take a warp-pipe over to or even do a video stream.
* Whatever the heck the Tatooine Space Port area was under Daisy's rulership. Are we not going to get Sarasaland proper?
* Rosalina in general got the shaft in a movie called Super Mario Galaxy. I think Fox McCloud is in the movie a whole lot more than her.
* For as big a deal as the Kongs were in the last movie, they didn't even earn anything more than one or two references in this one?
* I really missed the Brooklyn connections and the Mario family interactions. Do the brothers not go back and forth.

I can't speak at all about:
The weird sequence where Mario & Luigi get baby-fied and Yoshi and Toad go on a Super Scope Safari with the T-Rex from Odyssey. That was the part were all my soda and water caught up with me and I had to step out and use the restroom. I'm guessing I picked the right moment to do it since I came back and felt I didn't miss anything.

[Andrew NDB]

* Put the Mario-verse in the same reality as the Star Fox lore? I dunno...

Why not? There's nothing that says all those Star Fox alien planets couldn't be somewhere out there in the same galaxy as Mario. Just a pipe-warp away, in theory, like Earth is. And if pipes can take you not only across worlds but time, then you can get Samus from Earth's future.

[oldmanwinters]

Why not? There's nothing that says all those Star Fox alien planets couldn't be somewhere out there in the same galaxy as Mario. Just a pipe-warp away, in theory, like Earth is. And if pipes can take you not only across worlds but time, then you can get Samus from Earth's future.

Yeah, I wasn't trying to say I didn't like it, just that it was a bold idea for Nintendo to greenlight.
Nintendo in the games has had a tendency to keep all their IPs feel like distinct realities aside "easter eggs" and from the crossover games. And even Mario Kart has yet to go full-on Nintendo Kart aside from some DLC courses and characters. I always thought the logic of Smash Bros. was that it was toys/statues that magically come to life by the Magic Hand so they can battle each other "toybox" style.

[Andrew NDB]

I always thought the logic of Smash Bros. was that it was toys/statues that magically come to life by the Magic Hand so they can battle each other "toybox" style.

I wouldn't expect the statues coming to life thing would be in a Smash Bros. movie.

It could always be that the world where the Master Hand is from is the same place as whoever/whatever is creating all these pipe warps to different worlds/times.

[sdp]

It feels like we got three or four movies worth of content all blended into a 98-minute rollercoaster. But, like the Koopa Troopas on Bowser Jr's Death Star, I can't help but feel like all of the flesh and guts were burned off when the coaster dipped into the hot lava. It took about 2 seconds but by the end of the movie, I didn't really feel anything any more.


I'm fine with that, first movie was similar. And while I'd agree, I also don't know how many Mario movies we're going to get so I'm fine with these movies being a fun ride that go through a bunch of stuff. I'm not expecting a deep story.

Here's the plot threads that got rushed over that I thought might have made for a major interesting movie than whatever we got:
[SPOILER]* Yoshi in New York. That seemed to be the major setup tease at the end of the first movie.
* The Yoshis, in general. Everybody but the Marios seem to already know what a "Yoshi" is. Or maybe it was just the people of the Sand Kingdom that recognized them?
* The Subcon-styled criminal underworld led by Wart with his minions... I wish Nintendo could have worked it in as some surreal dream world as opposed to just some random place you could take a warp-pipe over to or even do a video stream.
* Rosalina in general got the shaft in a movie called Super Mario Galaxy. I think Fox McCloud is in the movie a whole lot more than her.
* For as big a deal as the Kongs were in the last movie, they didn't even earn anything more than one or two references in this one?
* I really missed the Brooklyn connections and the Mario family interactions. Do the brothers not go back and forth.

I can't speak at all about:
The weird sequence where Mario & Luigi get baby-fied and Yoshi and Toad go on a Super Scope Safari with the T-Rex from Odyssey. That was the part were all my soda and water caught up with me and I had to step out and use the restroom. I'm guessing I picked the right moment to do it since I came back and felt I didn't miss anything.


I agree that the Yoshi New York segment could've easily been 20 minutes of the movie. I also missed Brooklyn and while I was happy it was at least shown briefly, I'd love to see more take place there. And yeah we should've gotten far more Yoshi, he was so great that we didn't see him get used properly. As to why people don't question Yoshi, well we did see the various of the Yoshi species in the previous movie in the background at one point.

Wart might not have been in the Subcon but he was in the -1 World, I thought that was a nice reference, not to mention they're in a casino like the slot machine in SMB2.

Fans timed it and while it seems Fox has more screentime, he has less than half of what Rosalina does. It feels more since it's spread out instead of only in the beginning or the end. Yeah, barely any DK outside short cameos, this makes me think the long rumored DK movie is happening.

A lot of fans say the baby Mario Luigi scene was pointless and should've been cut but I feel I'm the only one who loved that segment. It was fun, gave us more Yoshi and made me laugh. Take that for what it's worth.



Why not? There's nothing that says all those Star Fox alien planets couldn't be somewhere out there in the same galaxy as Mario. Just a pipe-warp away, in theory, like Earth is. And if pipes can take you not only across worlds but time, then you can get Samus from Earth's future.
Fox says he accidentally warped to a different universe and he's been stuck there (Mario Universe's Galaxy). He's trying to find a way back to his own universe where he lives. So yeah, they're all in their own universe, just we have confirmation that at least the world of star fox is accessible through some type of dimensional wormhole.

Although people have spotted Samus' Ship in the movie, while just an easter egg, it'd basically be the same excuse if they need an explanation. While not in the movie that scifi universe warping would also work for Kirby, Captain Falco. So IF you really want they can easily have "excuses" for most of the Smash bros crew being in one place for a movie if they really wanted to go that direction.

[ranger_scout]

I've seen the film twice. It's not an excellent film, but it's still a lot of fun. Yoshi and Star Fox are great additions to the film. The chemistry between Bowser and Jr. was excellent. The voice acting is still very well-done. If you're a Nintendo fan, then this is a movie to see.

[oldmanwinters]

Fans timed it and while it seems Fox has more screentime, he has less than half of what Rosalina does. It feels more since it's spread out instead of only in the beginning or the end. Yeah, barely any DK outside short cameos, this makes me think the long rumored DK movie is happening.



Maybe it hit me that way because while Rosalina is on-screen a lot near the end of the film (and flashbacks), she doesn't really have much in the way of spoken dialogue after the opening sequence, so far as I could tell. Is this really still a Spoiler, at this point due to promotional materials?Fox, on the other hand, never seems to shut up!

[Powder]

We liked it a lot. Not so keen on the dialogue writing (at least where it concerns the forced humor, anyway) or the creative liberties taken with canon (Peach & Rosalina origin) but overall it was a thoroughly enjoyable film. It definitely does a lot in a short time, which may seem disjointed or overwhelming for some viewers, but as someone with a Tiktok-compromised attention span who has played every Super Mario game, that worked for me just fine. Couldn't believe how many references they crammed in there, & how deep/obscure some of them would actually be. I grew up with Super Mario World & All-Stars, in adulthood I've adored Galaxy, 3D World, Odyssey, so having all the greats rolled together into one narrative structure was such a treat. Loved seeing Wart, Birdo, Mouser, Ukiki, Monty Mole, Octoomba, Coin Coffer, & many other less-regarded baddies get plenty of screen time. I wish I hadn't gotten spoiled about Fox (from the official character debut poster distributed by Nintendo, no less) but his inclusion was still incredibly thrilling & out-of-left-field. I was SO delighted with how he was portrayed, the way iconic Star Fox music cues were incorporated, the animated sequence detailing his background, wow. Mr. Game & Watch, ROB, so many fun cameos & Smash Bros nods, right down to many of the characters' fighting moves being lifted outta the games. I couldn't believe they acknowledged The Super Mario Super Show & the live-action film from 1994, both dear to me. I'm glad they toned down the Jack-Blackness of Bowser, he was a bit easier to digest for me this time, whereas Bowser Jr. felt perfectly portrayed, & Yoshi was decent, too. The Luma's are adorable. On the whole, what I most enjoyed were the visuals. You could tell every creative person involved was a HUGE fan & poured so much love into every inch of the screen. Bowser's puppet show motif being the art style from Yoshi's Crafted World was an absolute stroke of genius! The transitions between video game graphics & computer interfaces, the re-use of old controllers as modern in-universe tech, so much nostalgic eye candy. I know it's millennial memory bait, but I bit.

[Andrew NDB]

More girlbossy than Super Mario Bros. 1 or less girlbossy than Super Mario Bros. 1?

[Powder]

More girlbossy than Super Mario Bros. 1 or less girlbossy than Super Mario Bros. 1?

I didn't really consider the first one to be that to begin with. Less, though, I guess? I expected a lot more screen time & triumph for the two princesses but they weren't emphasized too heavily at all. Their origin bothered me, not their personalities.

[CyberCubed]

Saw it today finally, it really was more enjoyable than the first one. They used Mario music tracks from the games this time instead of licensed music which was a plus, the animation is probably the best I've seen for a CG movie, literally better than a lot of Pixar's stuff.

If you're a Mario fan, you'll love the movie. Constant references to all the games, fun humor that fans of the games will understand, and really good action scenes. Once again Bowser (and his son) were the best parts of the movie. They really nailed them as a father/son duo. And Starfox was a highlight as most people said, funny how you'd never imagine Fox Mccloud being the best character in a Mario movie. Yoshi was fun too, he's basically a Pokemon.

As said the downside is Rosalina doesn't get much screentime, reminds me of how Luigi was captured for most of the first movie. But I think they will make up for this with Rosalina in a bigger role in the third movie, since I doubt this is the last we'll see of her.

I had a fun time, you can tell how much the writers love the Mario world with so many games being represented. I can see why movie critics didn't like it, if you never played a Mario game before you'd probably not understand what the hell was going on, but anyone who plays videogames will like this.

I fully expect the third movie to introduce the Koopalings, Daisy (properly), and Wario probably.

[ranger_scout]

Peach's new backstory will be now be canon in all games.

https://www.ign.com/articles/mario-galaxy-movie-backstory-now-video-game-canon-miyamoto-suggests

[ranger_scout]

A Donkey Kong spin-off film is rumored to be released in 2028.

https://wdwnt.com/2026/04/rumor-donkey-kong-third-nintendo-film-2028/

[oldmanwinters]

A Donkey Kong spin-off film is rumored to be released in 2028.

https://wdwnt.com/2026/04/rumor-donkey-kong-third-nintendo-film-2028/

Kinda feels like a DK movie should have come out THIS year or already be scheduled for 2027.

[Andrew NDB]

Do we have any idea how Donkey Kong Bananza sold?

[sdp]

In the last financial report it was less than 5 million which at the time was the second best selling Switch 2 game after Mario Kart World which sold 3 times that. That's pretty good for Donkey Kong, I feel they expected stronger Mario like sales though, let's see if it continues to sell in the generation. But I mean Universal already has a Donkey Kong Land section in Super Nintendo World and Nintendo has been pushing Donkey Kong to regain his popularity outside of Mario. I'm not the biggest DK fan but it's clear why they'd choose him.

[ranger_scout]

HISHE:

TLGTuWHI1ig

[Storm Eagle]

I recently rented the Super Mario Movie from 1993. I played it, and after a few minutes, I decided I didn't want to watch anymore. I'll just stick to the animated movie, and hopefully I'll enjoy SMGM whenever I see it.

[ranger_scout]

Keegan-Michael Key (Toad) says the third movie is scheduled for 2029. He says the directors want to make sure the script is just right.

https://screenrant.com/super-mario-bros-movie-3-2029-release-keegan-michael-key/

[oldmanwinters]

He says the directors want to make sure the script is just right.

https://screenrant.com/super-mario-bros-movie-3-2029-release-keegan-michael-key/

Eh… I don’t think that really matters. Throw in a new major character or franchise crossover, and it’s guaranteed to make at least a billion dollars globally.

[ZariusTwo]

Keegan-Michael Key (Toad) says the third movie is scheduled for 2029. He says the directors want to make sure the script is just right.

https://screenrant.com/super-mario-bros-movie-3-2029-release-keegan-michael-key/

Galaxy had a pretty clunky script as it is, I wouldn't worry. Kids don't see these films for the plot.