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Hello Cinephiles,
Today we’re talking about the 2026 film The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.
Story
The story was about the same level as the Super Mario Bros. video game and had significantly more plot threads that were not resolved.
Score: 0
Characters
The movie doesn’t slow down between set pieces and nostalgia to give anyone much development except Bowser, who then goes back to being a jerk. It would have been nice to have some sort of character bonding other than the one scene of Peach and Mario “not being angry”.
Both Peach and Rosalina suffer from the “Strong Female Character” syndrome where they are unbeatable unless the plot dictates they get captured.
Score: 0
Dialogue
There were some clever pieces of dialogue, a lot of call backs to the games, and some fun silliness.
Score: 1
Visuals and Music
The animation and easter eggs were wonderful. The space scenes were pretty and the character design was great.
The music was lovely and used lots of themes and sections from the games.
Score: 1
Fun
The kids loved it although even they had questions afterward about some plot points. The adults were less impressed but didn’t hate it.
I loved the nostalgia factor and I should be the prime audience for this, but it mostly left me meh. It wasn’t a good story and the characters were 8-bit.
Score: 0.5
Overall
A pretty animated film with enough nostalgia to keep you interested and some amazing music. Unfortunately, the story isn’t interesting and the characters are flat.
Final Score: 2.5 Stars out of 5