@MateoYouTube

1 year ago

The movie was great, I think it succeeds at meeting expectations and doing justice to the games. It's very faithful to the video games and has tons of nice Easter eggs and references to them, some pretty cool unexpected ones too. If you're a Mario fan like me I assure you will enjoy this film. Having said that, I just want to clarify some things the actors are misremembering/misinterpreting/do not know about the original games. To be clear, I don't blame them for not knowing the Mario lore by memory, and all I personally care about is that they do a good job in the movie (which they did, well done), and just want to leave this here to clarify any possible misinformation that may happen due to people not knowing the lore watching this. Originally, sure, Mario was willing to save Peach though he didn't know much about her, but to be fair, 40 years ago games weren't concerned with plots, in fact it was extremely uncommon for games to even have a plot and a visible reward (such as rescuing Peach) instead of just Congratulation screens (Like "A winner is you") once you finish the game. And, most importantly, they're forgetting to mention how the characterization of Peach and Mario has evolved through the decades, they were strangers at first for sure (just like every romance starts, I'd like to point out) but afterwards they have always been hinted to be love interests many times ever since Super Mario World and their relationship gets more fleshed out in the following decades in stuff like supplemental materials and spin-offs like the RPGs coming all the way to Super Mario Odyssey which confirms that Mario have romantical feelings for her, solidifies her as his Love Interest, and is willing to crash a wedding and stop Bowser from stealing Peach from him. That is certainly strong love, forged after many decades. Also Peach being a heroine has happened in the games as well contrary to popular belief, she's not always the damsel in distress unlike many think and she has proven that if she wants to she can be just as badass as in the movie, Peach has helped Mario as a fellow heroine multiple times in multiple games, and even swapped rescue roles with him once in her game, Super Princess Peach, rescuing Mario from Bowser single handily. Also to repeat what others have already correctly pointed out and add some other corrections: *The damsel in distress in the original Donkey Kong is Pauline not Peach. Peach debuted in Super Mario Bros. years later. *Pauline is not a princess, she's Mario's original girlfriend and neither of them have feelings for DK. *And Princess Peach has always been the character's name in Japan, it started being used overseas in Yoshi's Safari, and most famously, Super Mario 64.

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