Mario Movie's Jack Black Song 'Peaches' Now Eligible For Oscar Nomination

Bowser got soul.

Who decides on who is a candidate for all of these awards ceremonies? It seems predetermined to me.

It's a very bad song. Sorry I heard it.

Of all the things in the movie, two things stood out for me:

One was the Peaches song. That was surprisingly funny to me and I truly appreciated it.

One of my favorite moments of the movie, and one of the real surprises that I didn't expect. It could have easily gone on too long, but I feel like it played for just the right amount of time to be funny without being too cringey.

Can we all agree Jack Black absolutely killed it in this role?

I loved the whole wedding subplot. It was an excellent nod to Odyssey. The song was great.

Song is terrible, performance was terrible. Seems more like a case of jumping on the popular movie bandwagon.

I hate that I can't find it in my language.

I mean, the song song was translated for the movie, but can't find anything in Youtube or anywhere else about the translated Spanish version.

Erm...
Kinda cringey. 😅

The "Peaches" song to me felt like a really good Teen Titans GO! gag, funny enough. The directors of the SMB film are producers/developers/writers/etc. for TTG!, and I grew up watching that show, so I instantly recognized that style of humor. I think Jack Black's performance of the song worked really well comedically; specifically, it was a really good nonsense gag that was treated as a story beat, which is something the best episodes of TTG! did well.

Would be hilarious if they actually submitted it for an Oscar. Like an industry practical joke.

Jack Black honestly carried this movie the same way Jim Carrey carried Sonic. Jack Black was always great to hear whenever he randomly sings whether live action [School of Rock, Nacho Libre, etc] or animation [Metalapocalypse, Brutal legend, etc]

As it should be! One of my favorite parts of the movie, though the soundtrack as a whole is pretty spot on!

@Browny I didn't even know where that song was from. (The spoiler tagged one).

But yeah, sounds great.

Jack black was the big star. He’s a peach

Best Original Song has been a pathetic joke for years now. It would track if this won.

I thought this song was pretty disappointing, honestly. Was expecting Bowser to have a full-on rock musical number to the beat of one of his theme songs from the Mario games. Was thinking it could have started out to the melody of the Bowser boss battle from Super Mario 64 before speeding up and transitioning to Ultimate Koopa. Electric guitars blazing incredibly flashy animation while his minions cheer him on. Instead, all we got was a solemn piano song with no meaningful lyrics. It's a huge missed opportunity. I hope the sequel has a proper Bowser musical number.

@prw_88 It's all about campaigning.

Am I the only one surprised to find out Jack Black never won a Oscar?

That is literally a crime

Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy, Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy, I Luuuooorrvveee yyyoouuuaargh!

I am sorry, but this song does not fit the style of Mario music. In my opinion they should have added elements from Bowser's Theme (e.g. from Mario 64) so that the music makes more sense in a Mario movie.

@RemembersGems Well that's good because people tend to like trash. We'd have years of Transformers and The Fast and the Furious films winning Oscars. And all videogame awards would go to GTA Online and FIFA.

This has to be a meme right?.... It wasn't even that good... It was purposely bad....

The song being terrible and cringey literally just makes it better

I dont care i see mario i press like the animation was so wonderful i did not care about that fast pacing worthless story

Seems I'm not missing much by not watching the movie...

My entire family loved the movie and we’ve been singing “Peaches” all weekend. While this article states that the song is now eligible to win an Oscar, no one, even the creators think it’s worthy or expect it to. It’s a brilliantly bad song wonderfully performed and got the reaction from audiences that they wanted.

It’s a fun song but not really Oscar worthy. It’ll never get nominated.

@RainbowGazelleYo are missing alot. According to fans, critics are evil and full of hatred. Mario is the best movie ever made int he history of animation.

By far better than any film released in the last 50 years and should win every prestige award ever. Anyone who disagrees is just a hater.

It's a bit of fun in the movie but this in no way should get nominated for an Oscar. I get the Oscars these days are considered a bit too much of a participation award event but this would just make it a joke.

@Not_Soos its a great joke/song… its not meant to be a “good song”. It was funny and kind of catchy. Nobody wanted a musical to be honest.

I don't think anyone's seriously considering it for an Oscar, just pointing out that it's technically eligible. Like I'm technically eligible to become president of the US, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna do it.

@Zequio Being terrible on purpose doesn't exclude it from being disappointing and so bad it's bad.

Lots of intentionally bad songs are awesome. This one was just cringe.

@Vexx234 You are wrong, or at least in the minority. Most people enjoyed it for what it is, and it was one of the good laughes in the movie. A lovely funny bad song. I bet you didnt even liked the movie, so its understable.
If you excuse me, I will keep singing it.... Peaches, peaches peeaaaaachessssss!

I haven't watched the movie yet, but this doesn't make me more willing to watch it. Bowser should be a threat, even when he's singing, not some sort of simp.

@Sherlock- @RainbowGazelle
My expectations for the movie were very low when I let my friends drag me out to it, but I can handily say that it was an enjoyable experience and time well spent. Bowser's buffoonery in this clip and elsewhere is a counterbalance to the shocking brutal danger the movie cultivates around him, and it honestly balances out pretty well in context (going in blind, at least).

As a whole, the best thing I can say about the movie is that it had a remarkably faithful Nintendo-true earnestness to its script, in pointed departure from the cynical edginess of some modern fare that tries to be cool by punching down on its source material. Even in Bowser's case, the cringey absurdity of his motivation stands in distinct contrast to the other characters', and is itself implictly a major driver of why he's the villain here.

Rest assured, this movie gets what makes Nintendo Nintendo; despite the studio that made it, and this clickbaity PR clip, it really does stand strong without collapsing into Miniony rubbish.

@Fath I went to watch it and zero exceptions. It was a mid at best.

@Fangleman32 'Kay.

@Fath Indeed!

@Fath What modern fare punches down at it's source material?

I thought the movie was awful. Too fast paced, hit or miss jokes (Bowser's song included), and the plot forgettable. Even if Bowser need a cartoonish villain song (ugh), it could have been better written.

It did stay true to is source material and embraced it, but didn't do much without it other than constant references.

The only thing I give points is the movie looks decent.

I thought the song was hilarious and it's still stuck in my head, but out of context it is just a simple and cliché piano ballad. Which is exactly the point of it and why it's funny. It won't be winning any awards, come on.

This movie was a fan service for Nintendo and Jack Black/Tenacious D fans. Whoever is outside these bubbles will definitely not find anything amusing.

As a fan of both, damn. I was entertained. The song was a surprise and made Bowser even more of a buffoon.

@Bratwurst35 "What modern fare punches down at it's source material?"

Shrek, for a pointed example. Or the Hotel Transylvania series. Or Despicable Me, to use an example from Illumination itself, and the entire genre of the anti-hero more broadly besides. Heck, even the latest Star Wars trilogy wrestled with the idea: "Let the past die. Kill it if you have to."

There's something noble to be found in the matter-of-fact embrace the Super Mario movie has for its own straightforwardly nonsensical world, where punching a floating block makes power-ups pop out, with no explanation at how or why even attempted. Where even in a fish-out-of-water scenario, Mario's reaction isn't "how does that even make sense," or "how the heck is that block floating in midair," but "ew, why did it have to be mushrooms." Where Jack Black's attempt to make his fire-breathing dragon turtle villain ironically cool by turning him into a lovesick rockstar adds nothing to the character, but is rather actively derided by the rest of the cast and the movie itself, because being a fire-breathing dragon turtle was enough already. It was always enough.

But yeah, rant aside, I can understand where you're coming from at being rubbed the wrong way by the movie's railroaded story; even I commented on that to my friends after the show. In my case, though, I contextualized it as being a curiously pronounced case of Miyamoto's longstanding and explicit dislike of plot in favor of pure aesthetics and gameplay, and genuinely interesting in the way that translated to the screen, successfully or not. The movie was pretty fun for what it was, if you could forgive it for that - in a bizzare sort of way, one could justifiably call it the John Wick of animated kid-friendly films in that regard .

So much Inspirado.

Princess peach does not approve of this nomination and has multiple complaints.
You all will be seeing he lawyers

As much as I like the idea of Bowser singing an or to Peach, the song itself was cringy and obnoxious

It was perfectly fine as a joke but yeah, not as a song

Im glad he and Kyle finally remembered the best song in the world

The song's scene reminded me of Spaceballs when Rick Moranis is playing with his dolls and one of his guys walks in.

Has Mario out done Sonic at the box office yet?

Peaches come from a can, they were put there by a man.

What a proud moment that would be for Jack Black, being able to perform in concert at the freakin' Oscars. Absolute dream come true for him. This song HAS to be nominated! Who cares if it wins, the nomination alone would be an incredible achievement for Jack Black. Very happy for him for all this success riding along with the movie <3

This news will probably lead its own life until people start telling each other it got nominated.
It’s eligible, meaning it’s a song in a movie. That’s it.