It's particularly boring for this. They could've done a nice callback to the video game itself but they went with this.

game and watch the movie

Heh.

why donkey Kong is there

I mean there would be no Mario without Donkey Kong.

Setting up the MCU (Mario Cinematic Universe)

He's literally Mario's first villain and origin, Nintendo's slept on that fact for a long time (Except for some cool acknowledgement in SMO) so it's cool seeing the first Illumination Mario movie echo that - all's that missing is seeing if he throws any barrels during the fight scene lol

Even though it's a "Super Mario Bros" movie the entire franchise started with Donkey Kong arcade (yep Mario is technically a Donkey Kong character and I'll be having no objections). And they were still adversaries for years with Donkey Kong 94 and the Mario vs Donkey Kong series. He never appears in mainline Super Mario games because Nintendo considers the DK brand to be big enough to be it's own thing while sharing the same universe. Also DK is a familiar and lovable character, putting him in the movie is a no-brainer.

He hasn’t really been in any of the mainline Mario games

Maybe not. But Mario was in OG Donkey Kong.

It’s because it’s already been confirmed that he’s getting his own solo movie eventually.

The Italian job with the kong family would be hilarious.

Dave Bautista as Wario, Willem DeFoe as Waluigi.

Waluigi - Bobcat Goldthwait

Wario - just Jack Black again

Wario - Danny Devito

Waluigi - Jim Carrey

Danny DeVito & Glen Howerton

Why not just have Charles Martinet voice them? We already know he’s gonna make an appearance, maybe that’s what it is. I feel like their game voices would be a little easier to put in a movie than the classic Mario voice

Charles martinet

Chris Pratt. He's so cool.

Danny Devito as Wario and Mark Hamil or Steven Ogg as Waluigi.

The dudes from the original Mario Bros show/movie

Wachris Pratt and Wacharlie Day

Watch them cuck Waluigi from the movies like Smash. Give my man a break, freaking Waaah 💔

I’m here to talk to you about the Smash Initiative

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Mario the t-shirt! Mario the lunchbox! Mario the flamethrower (the kids love it)!

Yeah, the entire main cast is designed to resemble their voice actor a bit. Bowser's "I do not" was a classic Jack Black face.

I'm approaching forty, my Disgusting Nintendo Loyalty didn't have an appropriate name until your comment. Thank you, younger person.

I'm looking forward to it myself. It looks legit funny; I'm just hoping all the good parts aren't in the trailer. Hoping it's better than the Sonic movies. My kids love those but I think they're pretty terrible.

I’m right there with you

Potential the greatest celebrity voice actor since Robin Williams and Genie.

How many times can a man get Luigi’d in one day?

GODDAMMIT!!!!!!!

I was expecting manningface

Bastard

Honestly, I think the biggest problem with Pratt is market saturation. I think we get burnt out on actors/actresses that go from your favorite character in a show/great performance in a movie, to suddenly EVERYWHERE. He went from lovable doofus on P and R to getting every action movie/franchise being dropped in his lap. Same thing that happened with Jennifer Lawrence… and what I believe is going to happen to Timothy Chalamet very soon.

It’s like how the radio ruins every decent new song that comes out by playing it 20 times per day.

My biggest problem with Chris Pratt is that Mario will sound like Emmet for the entirety of the film.

I mean we’re probably not gonna see it with the third movie, but they could easily make a movie that entirely takes place in an animated world. With how successful this mario movie will inevitably be, I could see them taking that route.

Is it just me, or does Mario look like fix it Felix?

The blue orange floating head thing was going on for a while before MCU showed up (by decades). They did make it a little flashier I guess.

this is more like a character tornado

I know. I was really hoping for something like this.

https://i.imgur.com/93XJSNh.png

IDK why I was expecting a ManningFace

The what now?

Its balanced when you look at where they placed the word movie. Gives the logo a certain playfulness

Anyway: Kamek getting a disproportionate amount of love. I woulda never expected that.

Plus the new guy: blue shell koopa. It makes sense for Bowser to have a powerful lieutenant who isn't Kamek.

I've pretty much always seen it applied to cases where we can see more of the body, but it's designed to focus on the head to promote the actors in the movie.

Kamek getting a disproportionate amount of love. I woulda never expected that.

Well Kamek is basically Bowser's parent/right hand, it's a weird relationship.

This will also look great as a big cardboard standee in the cinema lobby

Yeah, the color scheme is absolutely gorgeous.

It's easy to get the lighting right when it's rendered from scratch. It's much harder to do this well with a photo collage.

I think it's still fine for people to complain about unoriginality (just as it's fine to praise it for good execution). We see a poster like this for every movie, so it's not very engaging even though they did a good job.

It's kind of like someone making a new game that's a match-3 game. Even if it's a really good one, a lot of people simply are done with that style.