Topic: Illumination Mario Movie

I am shocked, stunned and flabbergasted to say....that I actually really liked that. Gorgeous animation, interesting enough premise and some absolutely hilarious voices all come together for me to say: this actually ain't that bad. Cannot wait for April now to be honest (which is a sentence I never though I'd say)!

Also, Kamek's voice immediately reminded me of N.Gin from Crash Bandicoot so that also gets a plus in my book.

Jack blacks voice fits boweser soo well! And kemek sounded amazing. I didn’t know how toad would sound, but he sounds great as well. He animation is top notch just as expected.

And Mario, I kinda, gotta hear more, because he sounded different with he vary last line at the end of the trailer, but at the start, he sounded like christ Pratt, but is hat a bad thing?

Even if let’s say, no one likes Christ voice, we still have the rest of the amazing cast, and it’s look so good so far, so, yeah, I’m hyped! And like everyone else, pretty surprised that I feel this way.

Just went to Twitter to see the reaction afterwards and I don't think even Twitter itself was ready for what was shown.

I'm just gonna go out on a limb and say 7,500 views does not equal 15k likes.

Seems to be a prequel of sorts for the series. That’ll be interesting.

I'm really, really glad that Koji Kondo is working with a movie composer. Definitely one of my biggest wishes for this movie was for it to have classic game music.

Meh, as a proof on concept or a statement of intent I thought it was abit poor. I didn't get a feel of who Mario is, I get to see the grander picture of what the movie is about, it didn't feel lavishly Mario-ish either and I thought it jokes were rubbish. It looks pretty enough although the characters themselves could be better.

I need to hear more of Mario. but i'm impress with Bowser, Toad, and Kamek so far.
color me impress with the movie. wish the trailer was abit longer though. but i'm excited to see more out of it.

Hmm there's definitely something strange about Mario's face.. I really disliked it at first, but the more I look at it, the less I start disliking it. Even looks kinda adorable here:

EDIT: Oh and I think Jack Black was fantastic, he really nailed it!

Funny you point out Kemek, because that's how I imagined him sounding, even as a kid playing SNES.

I'm surprised how good this looks, also, I love how Toad is all like "Do not touch that mushroom, you'll die!!!" Super Mario Bros Lost Levels anyone?

It does indeed seem like that. Can already imagine Mario learning to bounce on the mushrooms, instead of this awkward climbing/jumping.

@Monkeido I think you’re noticing the slight Pratt-ification of his face. They definitely are trying to inject some of the personality from the voice actor into him. As is usual with animated movies.

@Monkeido OH MY GOD I JUST REALISED WHAT THAT DESIGN REMINDED ME OF.

I THOUGHT IT LOOKED FAMILIAR.

That could indeed be it!

Hahah, they definitely look very similar, nice find!

@Sunsy I think he sounds pretty much like I thought he would, toad man, he gonna be a doozy, I’m going to probably love this movie, even if none else does, I will still love it.

The animation looks absolutely stunning and you can tell they put a lot of money in it.
But the humour... ugh, it's that typical Illumination humour that almost never works for me.

@Keveseunie
I didn’t mind the joke where the penguin says you have seen just a fraction of our power. But the rest were bad.

Were there any jokes on there then the penguins in that movie, I mean there’s the, just joke type of jokes, like the loops hiding and what not, I thought it was funny, and I’m not a fan of illumination humor.

@Snatcher
There was the one with the toad and the mushroom. That one didn’t land.

Why do the penguins look like Pablo

I thought the trailer was good. It was 100% what I expected... I hope Jerry Seinfeld isn't Wario in the sequel, then everything I've thought of is true.