REVIEW:
The Super Mario Brothers Galaxy movie was not very good. That’s unfortunate considering how much fun the first movie was. Making a sequel is never easy. You want to make your movie different from the first film, and yet you want to hold onto as much as you can of what made the first movie great, and what the fans loved. Now the best sequels of all time are the ones that veered in vastly different directions than the first movies, (Terminator 2, Aliens, The Godfather Part 2.) But those movies are one in a million. The fact is, the smart move is usually to do more of the same and give the fans a repeat of what they enjoyed. Super Mario Galaxy doesn’t do that.
At the very least, this movie should have had the same style and tone as the first film. That means the weird humor (Bowser’s “Peaches” song, the Blue Star character who was hilariously depressed and suicidal and yet loving every minute of it.) This movie doesn’t bring any of this back. The Blue Star makes a quick, one second cameo in the last moment of the movie, which is definitely not the same. Bowser’s song doesn’t even get played here (we just hear the chords once, briefly.)
Really points out why the first movie was so good, but what’s missing here.
No pop hit songs from the eighties and nineties. First movie featured “I Need a Hero,” “Thunderstruck,” “No Sleep Till Brooklyn,” “Take on Me,” “Mr Blue Sky,” This one, almost nothing.
Missing best things about the first movie.. Peaches song by Bowser, Blue Star with strong suicidal humor.
No Donkey Kong. Trying to save money. Brought back Mario, Luigi, Peach, Toad, and Bowser. Figured they were brining back too many. But Rogen adds so much.
trademark of these movies: bringing a new character from a different Nintendo series to help out at the end. First movie Donkey Kong. This one Star Fox, voiced by Glenn Powell.
The good..not as much slow motion. The bad… even the action doesn’t quite look as good.
The best thing about this movie…clever references to the game… the way Mario and Luigi put out fires in the Mushroom Kingdom and it looks like the game board from Super Mario 3 with the flags rising up whenever they succeed. Also, the fighting Bowser on a bridge over lava with Bowser shooting fire and Mario having to jump over him and release the bridge. Showing Mario fighting Bowser in the form of the video game.
Not as much slow motion.
Too many babies. Baby versions of every character except for Toad. Mario and Luigi get turned into babies. See Peach as a baby. Bowser spends three fourths of the movie as a shrunken baby. Even the villain, Bowser Junior, we see when he’s a little baby being read bedtime stories.