The 7 Best And Funniest Parts Of The Super Mario Bros Movie
After three long decades, a new Super Mario Bros movie has arrived--and it's pretty great! The animated film was made with all sorts of love for the Mario IP, but much more importantly: It's crafted with skill and genuine cleverness. It's a good movie, full stop. But it's also a good Mario movie.
If you want a spoiler-free discussion to help you decide if you want to make a trip to the theater this week, you can and should check out GameSpot's Super Mario Bros. Movie review. Otherwise, below I'll break down some of the very best moments, characters and action sequences that make The Super Mario Bros Movie such a winner. As such: there are major spoilers ahead for The Super Mario Bros Movie. You have been warned.
The Super Mario Bros Movie starts with a cold open that shows Bowser's ongoing conquest of the universe that the Mushroom Kingdom is in--we saw a condensed version of this scene in the first trailer for the movie. It sets the epic stakes of the story and is full of faux-gritty seriousness. And then it cuts to a local plumbing commercial, starring Brooklyn's own Mario and Luigi, complete with a ditty inspired by the Super Mario Bros Super Show theme song.
The commercial is hilarious in its own context, but the hard cut from the epic fantasy prologue to this goofy riff is such a great joke that it makes the bit twice as funny.
With Jack Black playing Bowser, it only makes sense that he'd have a musical number. And that musical number here is a ballad for Princess Peach--the plot is that Bowser will wreck the Mushroom Kingdom unless Peach marries him, and this song is his expression of his obsessive, stalker-ish feelings toward her.
It also more or less sounds like it could plausibly be a Tenacious D song. And with
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