Nintendo Releases 'It's Me, Mario!' Stop Motion Shorts, Watch Them Right Here

I know there's at least one person sick of me saying this and I really am sorry,

but UUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHH KEVINNNNNNN WHYYYY

It isn't even that he's godawful! When he's just yipping and yahoo-ing he's passable! But when he talks? And tries to say actual words?

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Like, the shorts themselves? Cute, charming and nicely animated. The laid-back rearrangements of Mario themes are fun to hear. But this one fly just won't get away from the soup and it's neutering my enjoyment significantly.

[sigh] I miss Charles.

@N00BiSH Honestly, I thought Kevin sounded a lot better in these shorts than he did in Wonder. He sounds more both more relaxed, and yet also more confident. I say this as an open critic of his work on Wonder. We're all gonna miss Charles Martinet, but nothing lasts forever, and they could have done a lot worse than Kevin as his replacement.

These just ooze charm!

these are so cute i love them! its clear a lot of work and care were put into these. the mustache one is deffo my favorite!
and unpopular opinion i like kevins take a lot 💔

@Andy_Witmyer I honestly don't think there's anyone worse than the guy who can't even talk as Mario without some kind of glaringly painful voice crack mid-sentence.

@N00BiSH hehe, guilty as charged! I am sick of it! But, in fairness, you're sick of this VA, so I guess we all have our own issues lol

The shorts are super cute! Very fun little things to watch.

Neat little videos for kids, cool. Not as good as gi joe psas, but these are aimed at super young kids

“Hi-ya kids! Itsa me, Mario! Give-a me all-a your hard earned money!”

@CaleBoi25 I can't apologize enough

@N00BiSH all good! Honestly, my annoyance is balanced out by how much I enjoy chatting with you at other times. I figure, hey, I won't agree with anyone about EVERYTHING so it's not a big deal!

These are really sweet. And the music choices are a nice touch.

These are so freaking adorable! If they make more of these, when they finish them all, I want to own them on Blu-Ray 🤣!

Its cute how the sfx and music come from a bunch of diff mario eras. Overall I just love how animated the mario cast has been allowed to be since wonder, we need to see mario be more of the goof he is

I have a feeling there’s no 40th anniversary “celebration” at all.

Aww, these are so cute!

@N00BiSH The thing that gets me is his "MOMMA MIA," sounds like Mickey Mouse and not Mario.

Well, it looks cute.

These are very cute. Mario's replacement VA is getting better, too. Spoken words are a bit iffy but just the grunts/etc are way better.

If I was a little kid these would make me giggle and re-watch endlessly. As a grown man in my 30s, they made me smile. I'll take it!

That first Mario short came dangerously close to showing what adult Mario without a mustache officially looks like and it is still uncanny.

What's a cute!!! ^^
Waiting for more!!

Very sweet. Stop motion is such an art form, a underused one at that, but one can understand why. Even a minute short probably took ages and ages!

@N00BiSH It is not that bad good lord.

@coolioam yes, it is. I've heard better.

@N00BiSH Ok? Move on. You are right, people are sick of it. Give the dude some slack and let him learn instead of constantly bashing on him. In the app itself there are voice samples that sound very much improved.

It’s been two years at this point.

@coolioam It's been two years and five games. "Let him learn" isn't an excuse anymore. Most actors don't need 7 years to get good at their parts because that's not how acting works. At that point you get someone else.

Telling me to "move on" isn't going to work because unfortunately for the both of us I can't unchange how strongly I feel about stuff like this and I won't be complacent with what I feel are bad choices being made by Nintendo. It's like telling people to get over Game Key Cards, it's just not going to work.

And to clarify, I have nothing against Kevin as a person, at the end of the day he's just doing his job. Again. it's Nintendo making bad choices that's the real issue for me.

@N00BiSH You can legit hear the improvement each entry. I’m not trying to change your opinion but like you said, people are sick of still hearing about it.

@coolioam I'm not hearing any substantial improvement between titles, he sounds just as awkward and amateurish here as he did in the last 5 games he was in. All he's proven is that he can do noises, but not clear and well-defined voices.

Oh my gosh that hat one really makes me want to play Super Mario 3D Land! I loved that game.

Super cute and charming.

Now this is cute!!

@N00BiSH Tbh I think the worse about Kevin voicing Mario here he's just reusing lines from Mario Wonder and Mario Kart World...there's nothing new or creative like Charles would add, I mean what's the point of getting a new Mario voice actor if your just gonna use archive voice clips again? You could easily add in Charles's archive of voice clips and it would be the same tho better pitched less Mickey Mouse more Mario, still nice animations and i love the music remixes like how New Super Mario Bros DS got remixed in one of these

It really makes you appreciate how utterly brilliant Charles was - everything he did had a touch of magic. Hearing someone else impersonate him feels jarring, just because Charles IS Mario in my mind. I'm not sure I'm going to get used to it.

Tbh I thought that was Charles Martinet.

@N00BiSH lmao I'm not gonna lie, I didn't even pick up on him sounding any different from the last 30 years...maybe I've never listened hard enough but I really think some of you are trying to hear a difference. I quite honestly forget it's not even Charles doing the voice anymore.

I'd love to see some behind the scenes/the making of videos to see how it call came together. Stop motion is such a painstaking and precise process.

@Baker1000 I know people hear things differently but there's a very clear and significant difference in pitch, range and inflection between the two. For comparison:

Notice how one sounds like Mario and the other sounds like a cheap impression.

@N00BiSH
What makes it a cheap impression do you have an example of what you’d consider not a cheap impression of Martinet? Most impressions are exactly like this they’ll never sound 100% perfect.
If you randomized those voice clips and had people listen to it blind and asked them to guess who’s who for each one how do you think it would turn out? The most famous clips would largely be guessed correctly but everything else would be a toss up I imagine even from the self proclaimed super fans who are such super fans that they have no idea that Martinet isn’t even the first voice actor of the character.

@N00BiSH At the end of the day, sooner or later they'd have had to find a replacement for Martinet, whether he retired of his own accord or sadly passed away. Unless they just wanted to reuse the same clips forever. The fact they've found someone that folks like me can't tell the difference between without a comparison video, I'd say they've done a pretty good job.

@N00BiSH if it makes you feel any better at least it is Chris Pratt doing the VA 🤣

Those were so cute! I think there was a koopa in the shell though. That shell was determined to get Mario.