Why Penguins Are a Perfect B-List Super Mario Race to Highlight in Illumination's Trailer
Fans the world over got to see the Super Mario Bros. Movie teaser trailer today, with the biggest surprise and good sign for the film being the appearance of the perfect B-list race, the Penguins. Nintendo first announced it would be collaborating with Illumination and Universal on a Super Mario Bros. Movie in 2018 after Shigeru Miyamoto met with Illumination founder Chris Meledandri.
No doubt, many were concerned about this movie from the very first announcement. Many were particularly worried about Chris Pratt as Mario, yet it seems the initial reaction to the actual movie is, by and large, fine. It's not the greatest, it's not the worst. But where the trailer clearly shined was at the start, though it wasn't just Bowser. It was the surprise appearance of the B-list race, the Penguins.
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The world caught its first glimpse of the film Thursday, October 6, during a Nintendo Direct where fans see Bowser, King of the Koopas, leading a siege against a fortress of stubborn penguins attempting to thwart their enemies with a barrage of ineffective snowballs. When the penguin's efforts prove worthless, Bowser retaliates with a powerful breath of fire melting the penguin's ice palace which, presumably, allows his army to claim victory. The trailer then shows viewers the titular hero, played by Chris Pratt, greeted by a snarling Toad in a magical Mushroom Kingdom world before a montage of action-packed, animated fun that appears to stay faithful to the source material.
With only a limited three-minute runtime, the teaser had to pick and choose scenes carefully from the upcoming film, and the early sequence taking up more than half of the teaser just goes to show the important role these
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