The Super Mario Bros. Movie’s final trailer is full of great little details
Nintendo and Illumination debuted the final trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie on Thursday, revealing just a bit more about Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Toad’s adventures through the Mushroom Kingdom. The animated Mario movie’s most recent trailer didn’t explain too much new about the story, but it did give us plenty of Mad Max: Fury Road-inspired action on Mario Kart’s Rainbow Road and offered a peek at some new locations beyond the Mushroom Kingdom.
It also included some fun references, deep cuts, and a few things we’ve never really seen in a Super Mario game before, like Fire Flower Donkey Kong. Here’s what we (and other folks) have spotted.
The, ahem, star of the latest Super Mario Bros. Movie trailer is this little Luma, plucked from the world of Super Mario Galaxy. Luma’s reference to “the sweet relief” of death is more than just comic relief, it’s accurate to the Luma species. At the end of Super Mario Galaxy, a cluster of Luma enthusiastically sacrifice themselves to save the galaxy by getting sucked into a black hole created by Bowser. These guys absolutely love dying!
Anyone who’s played a Super Mario game knows that consuming a Fire Flower power-up doesn’t just grant you the ability to throw fireballs, it also gives you a pleasing color change. We’ve already seen Princess Peach in Fire Flower mode in a previous trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie, but seeing DK in a red-and-white palette isn’t something we’ve seen in the Mario games outside of the toy-inspired Mario vs. Donkey Kong series — and that example isn’t even the real Donkey Kong, it’s just one of his wind-up minions.
This is just a nice little game reference, but it appears the kart-selection process in The Super Mario Bros. Movie is identical
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