The Super Mario Bros. Movie Directors Break Down That Mind-Blowing Rainbow Road Chase
When most folks head to the theater to check out The Super Mario Bros. Movie, they'll probably be expecting a funny and charming and very nice-looking animated movie. But what they might not expect is a pretty great action movie. And while there are plenty of extremely sick action sequences in the film, the peak is undeniably the Mad Max-esque Mario Kart chase on the Rainbow Road.
Warning: This article contains some spoilers for The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
The Rainbow Road sequence comes about two thirds of the way into the film, after Mario and Peach have secured the help of the entire Kong family against Bowser. Everybody loads up in their kart of choice and hits the Rainbow Road--a shortcut to Bowser's Dark Land.
But Bowser sees them coming and springs an ambush, and a wild chase ensues. And that comparison to Mad Max wasn't just descriptive--this sequence is actually Fury Road-level good.
So when GameSpot sat down with directors Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, we couldn't help but pick their brains on how this incredible sequence came together.
«Well, we definitely had like a blockbuster approach to making this movie. To me, this is a movie that's been like 40 years in the making, you know, and I've always considered Mario more of an action game,» Horvath said. «The characters look comedic, but the story is always high stakes, you gotta save the princess or save the world or whatever in the game. So we wanted to reflect that action sensibility.»
But that wasn't always easy or intuitive, with «Michael and I coming from TV animation, where you have, like, no budget to do anything,» Horvath said, laughing.
Their solution? Bring in some of their favorite artists they knew from TV, «who are always probably a little
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