I Can’t Believe The Super Mario Bros. Movie Still Hasn’t Shown Off Peach
thegamer.comYesterday we saw the first trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and it’s like, fine. Despite Mario’s cultural impact, I don’t think anyone loves Mario. As a games journalist, I deal with a lot of people who make a single video game too large a part of their identity, and want to fistfight anyone who stops short of total adoration. I don’t see this for Mario. Pokemon, Zelda, God of War, The Last of Us, Halo, Tomb Raider, Ghost of Tsushima, and Red Dead Redemption all see these types of fans far more often. You can’t really ruin Mario. And they haven’t! Seems like every other Illumination picture. Pratt’s doing a New York thing and it’s fine. Mario is fine. But there was no Anya Taylor-Joy and that makes me sad.
Anya Taylor-Joy is my favourite actor working today. Through The Witch, Thoroughbreds, The Queen’s Gambit, Split, and Emma, she already has a fantastic body of work at such a young age. The upcoming The Menu and the Furiosa, plus her slated projects Weezie Bat and Laughter in the Dark, all point to a career that’s only going to keep climbing. The Super Mario Bros. Movie isn’t entirely out of character for Taylor-Joy, who was the best thing in The Playmobil Movie, but she does seem at odds with the rest of the cast and I’m far more interested in her than any of them.
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Most of the Mario cast are actors primarily known for their comedic roles. Even Pratt, now an established leading man in Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World, got his start in sitcoms and buddy comedies. Taylor-Joy has never been in a comedy, with the possible exception of The Playmobil Movie. We have no idea what to expect from her, and that’s all the more reason to
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