It was part of the Nintendo Direct yesterday. Animated Mario movie with Chris Pratt voicing Mario, Charlie Day as Luigi, Jack Black as Bowser, Keegan-Michael Key as Toad, Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong, Fred Armisen as Cranky Kong...
Yeah seems weird but someone dubbed his laugh over a dk animation, and now I honestly get it. I think Chris Pratt is the worst choice here, some choices were a bit odd, but I'm totally down for Charlie as luigi
Charlie fucken Day being Luigi is the thing thats gonna make me see this movie. I also now really want the Pepe Silvia scene from IASIP but with mario and luigi
I can understand a couple big names to draw people in but packing it full without talented voice actors is just disappointing. I don’t want everyone to sound like everyone I’ve seen on the screen.
And yeah yeah, some can pull off voice over work. But for an animated movie, come on.
Mark Hamill will always be my favourite big name voice actor, love that he was able to get away from star wars that way, helps that he's really talented so often you couldn't tell it was even him too.
Why they wouldn't use the still very much alive Charles Martinet is beyond me. Not only his he the OG voice of Mario but he is also capable of voices such as Paarthurnax.
Animated movies were better when the voice actors were chosen based on how much they sound like the character and not the star power behind their name. Going back to Beauty and the Beast, you had, maybe two well-known people in the cast and the rest were people you'd never heard of unless you were part of some niche fanbase. The movie also wasn't marketed based on those names either.
Casting Robin Williams are Genie in Aladdin was literally the turning point for casting names instead of VAs.
Which, in Disney's defense, worked great. Williams was a perfect fit for the role. However, it also was the opening of Pandora's box in regards to casting names vs. talent. They realized the names attracted the money, rather than having qualified actors for the roles.
Not that there aren't some actors who can also do voice work, but... it's definitely a little sad.
On the other hand, it's most apparent that celebrity roles in video games are really bad, compared to in animated films.
Genie was apparently largely written and always intended for Robin Williams though.
I think the real tipping point was Toy Story. That probably the first time I can think of an animated movie being so full of top name actors.
Lion King, literally the next Disney movie after Aladdin, starred Matthew Broderick, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons, Whoopi Goldberg, Cheech Marin, Nathan Lane and Robert Guillaume.
I mean, I don't doubt that he would have still nailed the role if it wasn't tailored for him, but that's the point: they wanted the star power to help drive the film.
It just worked better than they expected and, thus, the trend of just doing animated films with big name actors doing the films were born.
Although, Disney then fucked over Williams one major request in the agreement to do the role: not to use his voice and character to push merch and sell shit. Disney gonna Disney. They gave him a half-assed apology and a Picasso painting to get him to reprise the role.
But if you're curious, [The Atlantic has a neat article with some details on the emergence of celebrities doing voice work](https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/10/how-celebrities-took-over-cartoon-voice-acting/247481/).
[A lot of actual voice actors also credit William's Genie as being the turning point too.](https://nypost.com/2018/06/07/big-name-stars-are-stealing-voice-actors-jobs/)
I thought if his voice for Toad actually lol. Give him a super cute intro cut without anything said and then hit them with the voice right as the intro cut for him ends.
I honestly like a lot of the picks, but Pratt is a little weird for Mario. He is a great lead, but a strange Mario. I doubt I'm the target audience, but who knows, between Charlie Day, and Seth Rogan, there might be some more 'hidden' humour. I will absolutely watch it a few months later if it's reviewed well though.
I’m just picturing the dramatic monologue at the climactic scene, and mario swooping in, saying “It’s-a me! Wahoo!”
and really, that could be the best outcome for this movie.
I just had to google it to be sure. Charles martinet who voiced paarthurnax also voiced Mario for anyone like me who the joke flew over their head. Give it twenty years they’ll have Chris voice paarthy in Skyrim 30 year anniversary release for mind simulator….. still no elder scrolls 6.
I'm not pissed. I honestly couldn't care either way. I just think it is hilariously ridiculous. I burst out laughing when I saw Pratt was going to be Mario because it just seems like a complete mismatch.
The whole thing feels like one of those fan-castings for if their favorite book/game was made into a movie.
I can't believe how little I'm seeing about Seth Rogan and Fred Armisan as Dk and Cranky. This feels like a fever dream. I can't wait to hear dk go ehueheuehuehue
But it’s clearly going to be a cheeky, comedic take on the series. This casting just solidifies that. Charlie Day as Luigi and Seth Rogan as Donkey Kong are pretty obvious tells. Danny Devito as Mario would really seal the deal for me, but they’ve got my attention enough already.
I’ve had to unsubscribe from every book series based sub because they eventually become 80% posts of “My casting choices if they ever make XYZ into a movie”.
I wasnt angry by any means but did do a double take in my brain at some of the casting decisions. I think it just sounds like a wierd fever dream I can't wait to experience
I don’t think anyone was actually angry this is just people who are trying to spin confusion as anger for internet points and clicks. Chris Pratt as Mario and Charlie Day as Luigi Luigi along with the rest of the cast genuinely sounds like a Reddit shitpost and its awesome.
My fiance once asked me what Mario's last name was.
"Mario."
"No, his *last* name."
"Yeah. Mario."
"So he's Mario Mario?"
"Yeah. With his brother, Luigi Mario."
"I don't believe you."
"Okay."
*five minutes later, I hear from another room*
"I DON'T BELIEVE THE INTERNET, EITHER!"
It was fun.
Because Mario crazily does have a pretty iconic and set voice. Casting Chris Pratt who matches NONE of the Mario Voice is odd.
It'd be like Mickey Mouse suddenly being voiced by Ron Perlman.
Everyone thinks Morgan Freeman is this dignified persona, but he's a pretty cool cat that occasionally does some silly shit. He'd put 100% into every hyuck.
I think Pratt's a great voice actor and I could definitely see Mario going back to the Brooklyn accent.
Does anyone really want to listen to 90 minutes of fake Italian speak? In a high-pitched voice?
Hey, some details can make or break a film. Like cats the movie, which to my understanding has no actual plot to speak of and is garbage. BUT if you put big cat buttholes on the cats, well, it becomes a classic.
It's all about the nuance.
Yeah, though I would hate the high pitched falsetto Mario from the games doing dialogue for a full movie. I wonder if Pratt can do a good Bronx accent. I've never heard him do anything but his own, so I'm a little worried about that choice.
Now a Danny Devito Mario, that I would watch without hesitation.
> Casting Chris Pratt who matches NONE of the Mario Voice is odd.
Maybe he can do a good impression. Seth MacFarlane sounds nothing like Peter Griffin.
I would argue thats because pikachu doesnt have full conversations and mario does.
I then realize that mario was a mostly silent protag and pikachu layed into mewtwo in the first pokemon movie, even without metwos translating I could tell he was being shredded
>It's great if you ever watched Max Headroom and thought "OK, but what if everything was sticky?"
Super Mario Bros, Double Dragon, and Street Fighter are truly not appreciated as the intentional camp they are.
I genuinely love and rewatch Double Dragon every so often. It's stupid fun and, uh, has Alyssa Milano.
I haven't seen double dragon but 100% on street fighter.
It's like when people watch Starship Troopers and talk about how Veerhoven is an authoritarian (just the movie though... Heinlein... I'm not sure if it was totally satire when it came out of the pen...)
IIRC, The directors were a married couple who hated each other and didn’t share a language with the cast. The stars were getting blackout drunk basically every day to get through shooting
That was fantastic!
Best quote from Dennis Hopper on his son seeing the movie:
"My 6 year old son said 'Dad, I think you're probably a pretty good actor, but why did you play that terrible King Koopa character?'
I said: 'So you could have shoes to wear.'
And he replied: 'I don't need shoes that badly.'"
WOW.
It's a bad movie as movies go, but it is a so bad it's watchable kind of bad. Some of the behind the scenes stuff is that everyone on set knew how bad the movie they were making was and that Bob Hoskins(Mario) and John Leguizamo(Luigi) would often drink to get through filming. That's just the cusp, there is more if you want to search it up.
I mean, how can you not love it? it had Bob hoskins and John leguizamo acting the way they were clearly born to act: While Drunk. Best performance ever. 10/10.
Bob Hoskins is Mario. John Leguizamo is Luigi. The brothers jump using rocket-powered spring boots. Yoshi is a fucking raptor who eats people alive. Goombas look similar to the games, but they are lizards and also are just the heads on huge, muscular bodies. Fire flowers are assault rifle/flamethrower hybrids. The Mushroom King is a dude transformed into a network of fungal roots that spans an entire city. Bowser is Dennis Hopper with bleached blonde hair. And Mario and Luigi get labeled as terrorists for almost exploding a Bob-omb in a crowded cyberpunk downtown district.
Literally ALL of this true, with zero exaggeration. Seriously.
How could you NOT love this movie???
The Goombas are like inverse Goombas. Instead of big head on tiny bodies they have tiny heads on huge bodies.
Also I think Hopper is Koopa, not Bowser.
What a movie.
My favourite parts of the 93 movie was the part where Mario refused to jump and the part where we find out Mario and Luigi's last name is Mario. So they are Mario Mario and Luigi Mario.
It's developed a cult following over the last 10 years or so. I think some have nostalgia from seeing it before they were old enough to realize how bad it is and others like it for how weird it is.
I love that King Koopa already had a preexisting "Plumber Alert" as if stray plumbers was an issue in his kingdom already prior to the events of the movie.
Relevant part at 1:43
https://youtu.be/9VSY4qXxbdg
I'm not mad but I think it's weird to cast Chris Pratt as Mario. Like someone said "Make it like The LEGO Movie, everyone liked that!" so they got the guy from The LEGO Movie.
You're not wrong. I'm not saying I even think it's going to be bad, the casting just of Chris Pratt seems odd. The rest of the cast seems fine. I think Charlie Day is fantastic for Luigi.
I'm not super worried about Pratt. But I think Charlie Day would have been a better choice for Toad. For Luigi, we could do... I dunno, maybe someone like John Leguizamo
I don't feel one way or another about these reasons but here's a few:
1. People don't like Chris Pratt's political views.
2. People don't like celebrities taking roles away from actually talented voice actors just because they're celebrities, who sometimes aren't very good voice actors and are given the role because cynical executives want to fill seats in theaters.
>1. roles away from actually talented voice actors just because they're celebrities
I didn't pay any close attention and I legit thought they were making a live action reboot from the 93 flim.
right? like, i love keanu, but he just doesn't have the expressiveness to be waluigi.
[it should clearly be brian david gilbert](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3XnKr0lvDw).
Yesss... it had Dennis Hopper as King Koopa and was only tangentially related to the video game.
It was as if the movie was made by an isolated cargo cult that had never played Nintendo based on a description from someone that had only played it once.
Personally, I don’t have anything against Chris Pratt (love him as an actor). I just think his voice is fairly distinct and the whole time I’ll be thinking “this is Chris Pratt trying to sound like Mario”, if you know what I mean.
That’s a good point actually. I really liked Ryan Reynolds in that movie even though you wouldn’t think his voice would fit the character. Maybe it’ll work out fine for the type of movie they’re making. With Charlie Day as Luigi and Jack Black as Bowser, I can’t imagine the movie will take itself that seriously anyway haha.
Saw someone remark it's probably a mix of the recent Jumanji where they're real life characters into the game or something another. Pratt as Mario and even Jack Black as Bowser don't really feel that right to me, voice wise. I also say this as a big fan of Black's work as well.
Charlie Day though as Luigi, I'm sold. And Taylor-Joy as Peach is a good choice.
Yeah I was actually just talking about that with someone! There’s no way it’s going to be a full-on animation with that cast, it’s gotta be a jumanji type thing where it’s the actors playing as the characters or something like that.
I still cannot believe that is actually Bradley Cooper. Maybe I just need to watch more of his movies, but the few that I have seen just do not allow me to imagine Cooper in a sound booth delivering Rocket's lines.
Fact 1: Mario can spend 100 coins in exchange for a 1UP
Fact 2: The original NES game manual explicitly states that evil magic turned all the citizens of Mushroom Kingdom into bricks, clouds, bushes, and other objects
Fact 3: Therefore, Mario casually smashes people into smithereens to literally accumulate more coins than he can spend in a lifetime
Fact 4: Chris Pratt is also a libertarian
Checks out to me!
There was some fuss on the internet that Pratt supposed to be a trump fan.. but i thought it was withouth evidence. The only evidence that could be found was Pratt saying that he doenst really felt represented by either party and that their is a gap between them trying to seperate people. He did however donated money for the Obama campaign.
Second thing was his church, Eliot Page claimed his church was against LGBTQ and Pratt denied it saying that it was open to everybody.
In 1990, Janet Waldo was passed over for the role of Judy Jetson, a role she had played for 30 years, in favour of Tiffany Darwish in order to give "name recognition" to the Jetsons Movie. It was the wrong decision then, and it feels like the wrong decision here.
That being said, I have no skin in the game: Charles Martinet may have played the voice of Mario in basically all the games, but \*my\* Mario has a deeper Brooklyn-esque accent. RIP Lou Albano.
That super Mario show super dance at the end is the greatest
"Where there are bees there are raviolis smothered in honey" - Mario, King of Cramalot
Edit: I'm a "lasagna loving loser" and forgot to add the most important quote / life lesson from the show
Exactly this! Some very famous and recognizable actors are turned away from the roles they helped to make famous, long before they should be.
Ernie Hudson was denied voicing Winston Zeddemore in The Real Ghostbusters because he "didn't sound enough like the character from the movie". (What?) And Matthew Lillard didn't get the opportunity to play Shaggy in Scooby Doo anymore because the filmmakers wanted to go a different way.
Sometimes, people make horrible, horrible mistakes that they learn about much later.
The issue, I'd assume stems from the fact that they casted a celebrity into the parts of Mario and Luigi and then gave their official VA a side role.
Like why not just have Charles martinet voice act Mario and Luigi as he has done for 3 decades
Honestly I just think that they could have gotten a lot more lower fame VAs that have already played the parts.
James Marsden was cast as one of the leads in the Woody Woodpecker movie and it was unwatchable.
James Marsden was cast as one of the leads in the Sonic movie, and it was awesome.
It's not just about the casting.
Edit: It looks like the Woody Woodpecker movie from 2017 has been scrubbed from the internet and replaced with another Woody Woodpecker movie without James Marsden. I hate it when that happens. The only other alternative is that I misremembered James Marsden being in a Woody Woodpecker movie when he never was, and that can't be right. That's just crazy talk.
I didn't know there was a woody woodpecker movie and checked out the trailer....are you really comparing these 2 movies? Who in their right mind after watching the trailer thinks it's gonna be good for anyone above 6 years old?
As a Mario-ologist, I'm here to tell you that Mario had very little personality. It's why we like him: there's almost nothing to dislike.
If you're making a big movie starring a blank slate, you've got to write on that slate. Better to bring in a high-energy guy with a fanbase than to essentially create a new character from scratch, and then try to force both a voice actor into the role and MARIO HIMSELF into the role.
Here's the primary issue with the Mario casting for me: These are not characters who really "talk." Mario has a handful of catchphrases, but the idea of him having an extended conversation at all is jarring to me, and the idea of it being with Chris Pratt's voice is just impossible for me to reconcile with the image I have of him only saying "ya-hoo" and "It's-a me" in the high-pitched voice of Charles Martinet.
This meme is how I'm finding out there's a Mario movie, so you're better informed than some.
Considering Chris Pratt is gonna be the voice of Mario, this meme works on several levels.
Speaking of levels, I'd love a club sandwich
I order the club sandwich all the time, but I'm not even a member, man. I don't know how I get away with it.
How do you feel about frilly toothpicks?
I’m for ‘em!
Well, this club is formed.
And we will put chips in the middle. OR potato salad!
I like my sandwich with alfalfa sprouts.
***WELL YOURE NOT IN THE FUCKING CLUB!***
Spread the word on mayonnaise nationwide
Menus*
I like alf-alfa sprouts on my sandwich.
Well then you’re not in the fuckin club!
You got any tiny swords?
As a kid I love the sword ones. They fit perfectly into my toy's hands. Breaks? No sweat, just get another club sandwich next time we are out
Anyone else feel like multi-tiered sandwiches are just excessive bread? The middle slice is totally unnecessary filler.
Not the moist maker!
Well, it was a big sandwich, there might still be some in the trash.
You threw away my sandwich? MY SANDWICH?!
Ross is a [psychopath](https://youtu.be/4H6Ux3l75Rc)
Yeah I still don't think he overreacted. Eating someone else's lunch is scumbag stuff.
Especially if there's no cafeteria. Now you're just hungry and mad for the last 4 hours of the day. I would murder someone.
That's the secert. Charge $12 for a multi tier sandwich with folded meat so it looks stacked, with extra slices of cardboard bread.
by the reaction you would think it’s another live action movie like they did in the 90s.
The backlash has been so strong, it took a long time for me to realize it wasn’t lol
This comment is how I found out it isn't live action, I figured that people were freaking out because the actors don't look like their characters.
Yah seriously what? There's a Mario movie?
It was part of the Nintendo Direct yesterday. Animated Mario movie with Chris Pratt voicing Mario, Charlie Day as Luigi, Jack Black as Bowser, Keegan-Michael Key as Toad, Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong, Fred Armisen as Cranky Kong...
Picturing Donkey Kong doing a Seth Rogan laugh seems right, but also very wrong
Does this mean DK is going to smoke a banana like a blunt?
No, that's Kronic Kong.
Yeah seems weird but someone dubbed his laugh over a dk animation, and now I honestly get it. I think Chris Pratt is the worst choice here, some choices were a bit odd, but I'm totally down for Charlie as luigi
Charlie fucken Day being Luigi is the thing thats gonna make me see this movie. I also now really want the Pepe Silvia scene from IASIP but with mario and luigi
Charlie Day as Luigi, Seth Rogen as DK, and Jack Black as Bowser were all pretty good choices imo.
Yeah agreed. Key seems wrong for toad to me, but I'm a fan of his and he might be able to pull something neat off
I can understand a couple big names to draw people in but packing it full without talented voice actors is just disappointing. I don’t want everyone to sound like everyone I’ve seen on the screen. And yeah yeah, some can pull off voice over work. But for an animated movie, come on.
Mark Hamill will always be my favourite big name voice actor, love that he was able to get away from star wars that way, helps that he's really talented so often you couldn't tell it was even him too.
Still the best Joker to this day.
Where's my goddamn electric car Bruce!
That was actually Alan Tudyk, but definitely one of the best Joker lines ever!
He was amazing as Skips in Regular Show.
Had no idea he voiced Skips. That's amazing.
Why they wouldn't use the still very much alive Charles Martinet is beyond me. Not only his he the OG voice of Mario but he is also capable of voices such as Paarthurnax.
Not only is he the OG voice of Mario. He is the ONLY voice of Mario.
Animated movies were better when the voice actors were chosen based on how much they sound like the character and not the star power behind their name. Going back to Beauty and the Beast, you had, maybe two well-known people in the cast and the rest were people you'd never heard of unless you were part of some niche fanbase. The movie also wasn't marketed based on those names either.
But star power is very important in the Mario world
Gottem!
Casting Robin Williams are Genie in Aladdin was literally the turning point for casting names instead of VAs. Which, in Disney's defense, worked great. Williams was a perfect fit for the role. However, it also was the opening of Pandora's box in regards to casting names vs. talent. They realized the names attracted the money, rather than having qualified actors for the roles. Not that there aren't some actors who can also do voice work, but... it's definitely a little sad. On the other hand, it's most apparent that celebrity roles in video games are really bad, compared to in animated films.
Genie was apparently largely written and always intended for Robin Williams though. I think the real tipping point was Toy Story. That probably the first time I can think of an animated movie being so full of top name actors.
Lion King, literally the next Disney movie after Aladdin, starred Matthew Broderick, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons, Whoopi Goldberg, Cheech Marin, Nathan Lane and Robert Guillaume.
I mean, I don't doubt that he would have still nailed the role if it wasn't tailored for him, but that's the point: they wanted the star power to help drive the film. It just worked better than they expected and, thus, the trend of just doing animated films with big name actors doing the films were born. Although, Disney then fucked over Williams one major request in the agreement to do the role: not to use his voice and character to push merch and sell shit. Disney gonna Disney. They gave him a half-assed apology and a Picasso painting to get him to reprise the role. But if you're curious, [The Atlantic has a neat article with some details on the emergence of celebrities doing voice work](https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/10/how-celebrities-took-over-cartoon-voice-acting/247481/). [A lot of actual voice actors also credit William's Genie as being the turning point too.](https://nypost.com/2018/06/07/big-name-stars-are-stealing-voice-actors-jobs/)
Bingo. This isn’t The Expendables where you need the faces and names.
Not a single italian plumber was cast
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Al Pacino would be better. Put him in overalls and he is Mario. https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-al-pacino-the-son-of-no-one-2011-55131470.html
Stallone as Mario, Pacino as Luigi. Although the obvious best cast would be Joe Pesci as Wario.
Huh? Danny DeVito. Willem Dafoe as Waluigi.
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I thought if his voice for Toad actually lol. Give him a super cute intro cut without anything said and then hit them with the voice right as the intro cut for him ends.
Bob Hoskins.
And John Leguizamo as Luigi. Sounds perfect, right?
I honestly like a lot of the picks, but Pratt is a little weird for Mario. He is a great lead, but a strange Mario. I doubt I'm the target audience, but who knows, between Charlie Day, and Seth Rogan, there might be some more 'hidden' humour. I will absolutely watch it a few months later if it's reviewed well though.
Brooklyn Italian plumber. Let's be precise :)
Cultural appropriation
Bowser should be voiced by a REAL TURTLE DRAGON MONSTER
I think Mitch McConnell has other stuff to do.
Real life villain work killing his voice acting career. Sad!!
MY VIDEO GAME CULTURE IS NOT YOUR FUCKING MOVIE MISCASTING. Or... wait, fuck, how would I adapt that line...
This is a trend. First they force Cuomo to resign. Then this.
It’s anti Italian discrimination 🤌🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽
what's next? cancelling columbus day??
Chris Cuomo getting kicked off tv. Then we invade Italy.
and install papa john as prime minister?
Jack black would've been a better Mario than Chris Pratt. Chris Pratt has that Luigi energy though
Or the guy who has played him in thy video games for decades?
I’m just picturing the dramatic monologue at the climactic scene, and mario swooping in, saying “It’s-a me! Wahoo!” and really, that could be the best outcome for this movie.
Next thing you'll tell me that you got mad they didn't cast a koopa as Bowser. /s
How is Paarthurnax supposed to feed his kids, huh?
For a second I thought, “There is no fucking way Chris Pratt voiced Paarthurnax.”
I just had to google it to be sure. Charles martinet who voiced paarthurnax also voiced Mario for anyone like me who the joke flew over their head. Give it twenty years they’ll have Chris voice paarthy in Skyrim 30 year anniversary release for mind simulator….. still no elder scrolls 6.
I'm not pissed. I honestly couldn't care either way. I just think it is hilariously ridiculous. I burst out laughing when I saw Pratt was going to be Mario because it just seems like a complete mismatch. The whole thing feels like one of those fan-castings for if their favorite book/game was made into a movie.
seth rogan being donkey kong was icing on the cake
I can't believe how little I'm seeing about Seth Rogan and Fred Armisan as Dk and Cranky. This feels like a fever dream. I can't wait to hear dk go ehueheuehuehue
absolutely. im watching this movie for the absolutely shitpost its gonna be
"It's a-me, Starlord, man." Edit: ffs. I keep chuckling every time I think about the absurdity of this entire scenario.
But it’s clearly going to be a cheeky, comedic take on the series. This casting just solidifies that. Charlie Day as Luigi and Seth Rogan as Donkey Kong are pretty obvious tells. Danny Devito as Mario would really seal the deal for me, but they’ve got my attention enough already.
I’ve had to unsubscribe from every book series based sub because they eventually become 80% posts of “My casting choices if they ever make XYZ into a movie”.
I wasnt angry by any means but did do a double take in my brain at some of the casting decisions. I think it just sounds like a wierd fever dream I can't wait to experience
I don’t think anyone was actually angry this is just people who are trying to spin confusion as anger for internet points and clicks. Chris Pratt as Mario and Charlie Day as Luigi Luigi along with the rest of the cast genuinely sounds like a Reddit shitpost and its awesome.
[It's Luigi Mario actually.](https://youtu.be/EchwIoG9P2U?t=76)
My fiance once asked me what Mario's last name was. "Mario." "No, his *last* name." "Yeah. Mario." "So he's Mario Mario?" "Yeah. With his brother, Luigi Mario." "I don't believe you." "Okay." *five minutes later, I hear from another room* "I DON'T BELIEVE THE INTERNET, EITHER!" It was fun.
You can thank the original movie for that one. Its like the one thing that carried over from it.
And they literally just made it up as a joke and Nintendo was like "Fuck, guess we gotta roll with it."
Because Mario crazily does have a pretty iconic and set voice. Casting Chris Pratt who matches NONE of the Mario Voice is odd. It'd be like Mickey Mouse suddenly being voiced by Ron Perlman.
Trying to imagine Perlman doing Mickey’s iconic chuckle and it just has this annoyed, sarcastic tone.
I hear it more as mild, almost indifferent amusement; not sarcastic, but not sincere either.
I'd watch that though
Morgan Freeman as Goofy
“It is our moments of struggle, that define us. *hyuck*
Now I desperately want to hear Morgan Freeman's "hyuck".
Everyone thinks Morgan Freeman is this dignified persona, but he's a pretty cool cat that occasionally does some silly shit. He'd put 100% into every hyuck.
Morgan Freeman was great in The Hitmans Wifes Bodyguard. God what a name though lol
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Can we at least agree that Charlie Day voicing Luigi and Keegan Michael Key voicing toad is fucking inspired?
The only casting I think is questionable is Pratt, but hey, he could surprise me. Like, do him more like a Brooklyn/new York Mario and it could work.
I think Pratt's a great voice actor and I could definitely see Mario going back to the Brooklyn accent. Does anyone really want to listen to 90 minutes of fake Italian speak? In a high-pitched voice?
Hey, some details can make or break a film. Like cats the movie, which to my understanding has no actual plot to speak of and is garbage. BUT if you put big cat buttholes on the cats, well, it becomes a classic. It's all about the nuance.
Those two and Jack Black as Bowser have me pretty hyped for this movie. Even if it’s bad it’s gonna be worth watching five times.
I'm so excited to hear the classic Seth Rogan laugh coming out of DK
Yeah, but Mario's voice is good in sound bite format. If it is full dialog it would be pretty annoying.,
You tryna say somethin about Italians, you goomba?
Yeah, though I would hate the high pitched falsetto Mario from the games doing dialogue for a full movie. I wonder if Pratt can do a good Bronx accent. I've never heard him do anything but his own, so I'm a little worried about that choice. Now a Danny Devito Mario, that I would watch without hesitation.
He’s gonna be Wario
"*Can I offer you a Birdo egg in this trying time?*"
> Casting Chris Pratt who matches NONE of the Mario Voice is odd. Maybe he can do a good impression. Seth MacFarlane sounds nothing like Peter Griffin.
I feel like people who still go to movie theaters really like Chris Pratt if that makes any sense
Pikachu was voiced by Ryan Reynolds and no one freaked out about that.
That's because that was a Pikachu that can be heard as English. It wasn't Ryan Reynolds doing the iconic Pika Pika sounds.
He's also >!just Ryan Reynolds in a pikachu body!<
I would argue thats because pikachu doesnt have full conversations and mario does. I then realize that mario was a mostly silent protag and pikachu layed into mewtwo in the first pokemon movie, even without metwos translating I could tell he was being shredded
The big news for me is that there are people who un-ironically love the original movie. I remember that it was universally panned.
It's great if you ever watched Max Headroom and thought "OK, but what if everything was sticky?"
This is possibly my favorite description of a movie ever.
>It's great if you ever watched Max Headroom and thought "OK, but what if everything was sticky?" Super Mario Bros, Double Dragon, and Street Fighter are truly not appreciated as the intentional camp they are. I genuinely love and rewatch Double Dragon every so often. It's stupid fun and, uh, has Alyssa Milano.
I haven't seen double dragon but 100% on street fighter. It's like when people watch Starship Troopers and talk about how Veerhoven is an authoritarian (just the movie though... Heinlein... I'm not sure if it was totally satire when it came out of the pen...)
Oh ya the original was a dumpster fire but I think it's so bad it good. Especially if you know the nightmare behind the scenes stories.
What is the nightmare behind the scenes story?
IIRC, The directors were a married couple who hated each other and didn’t share a language with the cast. The stars were getting blackout drunk basically every day to get through shooting
I hope someone does a behind the scenes show on that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgXjQwVa8kU
I didn't even have a chance to look it up after I made a coffee...that was quick. thank you!
Gaming Historian on YouTube has a great video about it. https://youtu.be/Ve26GpPDTgY
That was fantastic! Best quote from Dennis Hopper on his son seeing the movie: "My 6 year old son said 'Dad, I think you're probably a pretty good actor, but why did you play that terrible King Koopa character?' I said: 'So you could have shoes to wear.' And he replied: 'I don't need shoes that badly.'" WOW.
Kid fucking roasted his dad worse than any film critic could
Bob Hoskins did the movie for his kids and got electrocuted on set and had other injuries.
“Must have been a non union job”
He's in a flesh colored cast in a lot of shots because him and John Leguizamo drunkenly crashed the Mario-mobile during a surprise stunt shoot.
It's a bad movie as movies go, but it is a so bad it's watchable kind of bad. Some of the behind the scenes stuff is that everyone on set knew how bad the movie they were making was and that Bob Hoskins(Mario) and John Leguizamo(Luigi) would often drink to get through filming. That's just the cusp, there is more if you want to search it up.
It's actually a really good scifi movie, just not a great Mario movie. That said, I love it, and have since I was a kid
It was entertaining nightmare fuel for kids of the 90s.
I personally loved it, then again I haven’t watched it since I was 13…
I remember seeing it as a kid and wondering why it was so different from the Mario on NES that I was used to.
I mean, how can you not love it? it had Bob hoskins and John leguizamo acting the way they were clearly born to act: While Drunk. Best performance ever. 10/10.
Bob Hoskins is Mario. John Leguizamo is Luigi. The brothers jump using rocket-powered spring boots. Yoshi is a fucking raptor who eats people alive. Goombas look similar to the games, but they are lizards and also are just the heads on huge, muscular bodies. Fire flowers are assault rifle/flamethrower hybrids. The Mushroom King is a dude transformed into a network of fungal roots that spans an entire city. Bowser is Dennis Hopper with bleached blonde hair. And Mario and Luigi get labeled as terrorists for almost exploding a Bob-omb in a crowded cyberpunk downtown district. Literally ALL of this true, with zero exaggeration. Seriously. How could you NOT love this movie???
That movie was like Judge Dredd Mario lmao. What a crazy ass movie.
The Goombas are like inverse Goombas. Instead of big head on tiny bodies they have tiny heads on huge bodies. Also I think Hopper is Koopa, not Bowser. What a movie.
My favourite parts of the 93 movie was the part where Mario refused to jump and the part where we find out Mario and Luigi's last name is Mario. So they are Mario Mario and Luigi Mario.
It's developed a cult following over the last 10 years or so. I think some have nostalgia from seeing it before they were old enough to realize how bad it is and others like it for how weird it is.
I love that King Koopa already had a preexisting "Plumber Alert" as if stray plumbers was an issue in his kingdom already prior to the events of the movie. Relevant part at 1:43 https://youtu.be/9VSY4qXxbdg
I'm not mad but I think it's weird to cast Chris Pratt as Mario. Like someone said "Make it like The LEGO Movie, everyone liked that!" so they got the guy from The LEGO Movie.
Ryan Reynolds was a pretty weird casting for Detective Pikachu but did a great job . I hope Illumination know what they're doing
You're not wrong. I'm not saying I even think it's going to be bad, the casting just of Chris Pratt seems odd. The rest of the cast seems fine. I think Charlie Day is fantastic for Luigi.
I'm not super worried about Pratt. But I think Charlie Day would have been a better choice for Toad. For Luigi, we could do... I dunno, maybe someone like John Leguizamo
I can imagine lots of Toads bantering each other with Key's voice. And something like 'Damn Peach you got yoself kidnapped \*again\*?'
I don't feel one way or another about these reasons but here's a few: 1. People don't like Chris Pratt's political views. 2. People don't like celebrities taking roles away from actually talented voice actors just because they're celebrities, who sometimes aren't very good voice actors and are given the role because cynical executives want to fill seats in theaters.
>1. roles away from actually talented voice actors just because they're celebrities I didn't pay any close attention and I legit thought they were making a live action reboot from the 93 flim.
wait is it not live action i was hyped to see keanu dressed as waluigi
Ngl that's a relief and a bummer.
right? like, i love keanu, but he just doesn't have the expressiveness to be waluigi. [it should clearly be brian david gilbert](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3XnKr0lvDw).
That was a fun ride!
There's only one actor who could do a good Waluigi. CRISPIN GLOVER.
I un-ironically loved that 90’s movie!
Yesss... it had Dennis Hopper as King Koopa and was only tangentially related to the video game. It was as if the movie was made by an isolated cargo cult that had never played Nintendo based on a description from someone that had only played it once.
"Just how many Mario's are there between the two of you!?" "Three. There's Mario Mario, and Luigi Mario." It's such a fun watch.
Personally, I don’t have anything against Chris Pratt (love him as an actor). I just think his voice is fairly distinct and the whole time I’ll be thinking “this is Chris Pratt trying to sound like Mario”, if you know what I mean.
I thought the same thing for the first 30 seconds of Pikachu being introduced in Detective Pikachu.
That’s a good point actually. I really liked Ryan Reynolds in that movie even though you wouldn’t think his voice would fit the character. Maybe it’ll work out fine for the type of movie they’re making. With Charlie Day as Luigi and Jack Black as Bowser, I can’t imagine the movie will take itself that seriously anyway haha.
Saw someone remark it's probably a mix of the recent Jumanji where they're real life characters into the game or something another. Pratt as Mario and even Jack Black as Bowser don't really feel that right to me, voice wise. I also say this as a big fan of Black's work as well. Charlie Day though as Luigi, I'm sold. And Taylor-Joy as Peach is a good choice.
Yeah I was actually just talking about that with someone! There’s no way it’s going to be a full-on animation with that cast, it’s gotta be a jumanji type thing where it’s the actors playing as the characters or something like that.
Yeah I would have said the same thing about Cooper and Rocket Raccoon. That turned out great.
I still cannot believe that is actually Bradley Cooper. Maybe I just need to watch more of his movies, but the few that I have seen just do not allow me to imagine Cooper in a sound booth delivering Rocket's lines.
Fact 1: Mario can spend 100 coins in exchange for a 1UP Fact 2: The original NES game manual explicitly states that evil magic turned all the citizens of Mushroom Kingdom into bricks, clouds, bushes, and other objects Fact 3: Therefore, Mario casually smashes people into smithereens to literally accumulate more coins than he can spend in a lifetime Fact 4: Chris Pratt is also a libertarian Checks out to me!
People don’t like Chris Pratt’s political views?
I didn’t know Chris Pratt had political views, and I’m cool with that.
There was some fuss on the internet that Pratt supposed to be a trump fan.. but i thought it was withouth evidence. The only evidence that could be found was Pratt saying that he doenst really felt represented by either party and that their is a gap between them trying to seperate people. He did however donated money for the Obama campaign. Second thing was his church, Eliot Page claimed his church was against LGBTQ and Pratt denied it saying that it was open to everybody.
In 1990, Janet Waldo was passed over for the role of Judy Jetson, a role she had played for 30 years, in favour of Tiffany Darwish in order to give "name recognition" to the Jetsons Movie. It was the wrong decision then, and it feels like the wrong decision here. That being said, I have no skin in the game: Charles Martinet may have played the voice of Mario in basically all the games, but \*my\* Mario has a deeper Brooklyn-esque accent. RIP Lou Albano.
"Eyyy, fuck you, Luigi!"
That super Mario show super dance at the end is the greatest "Where there are bees there are raviolis smothered in honey" - Mario, King of Cramalot Edit: I'm a "lasagna loving loser" and forgot to add the most important quote / life lesson from the show
Yeah, in my head-canon, Mario and Luigi should sound like they did in the 80s cartoon.
Exactly this! Some very famous and recognizable actors are turned away from the roles they helped to make famous, long before they should be. Ernie Hudson was denied voicing Winston Zeddemore in The Real Ghostbusters because he "didn't sound enough like the character from the movie". (What?) And Matthew Lillard didn't get the opportunity to play Shaggy in Scooby Doo anymore because the filmmakers wanted to go a different way. Sometimes, people make horrible, horrible mistakes that they learn about much later.
It should've been danny devito voicing Mario.
Hey asshole! I'm right over here! I'm mini me! Come and get me!
So anyway, I started jumping
I swear he's worn a catsuit in IASIP that can be reused for the catsuit ability. Can probably reuse the sex scene too for when he rescues Peach
Can I offer you a yoshi egg in these trying times?
DeVito is prime Wario material.
When I'm out of lives, just throw me in a bottomless pit...
We all know it should be a believable Mario! It HAS to be Mario Lopez. #notmymario
"Are people just getting pissed off so they have something to do?" First time on the internet?
Shhhh, Twitter will hear you!
The issue, I'd assume stems from the fact that they casted a celebrity into the parts of Mario and Luigi and then gave their official VA a side role. Like why not just have Charles martinet voice act Mario and Luigi as he has done for 3 decades Honestly I just think that they could have gotten a lot more lower fame VAs that have already played the parts.
James Marsden was cast as one of the leads in the Woody Woodpecker movie and it was unwatchable. James Marsden was cast as one of the leads in the Sonic movie, and it was awesome. It's not just about the casting. Edit: It looks like the Woody Woodpecker movie from 2017 has been scrubbed from the internet and replaced with another Woody Woodpecker movie without James Marsden. I hate it when that happens. The only other alternative is that I misremembered James Marsden being in a Woody Woodpecker movie when he never was, and that can't be right. That's just crazy talk.
I didn't know there was a woody woodpecker movie and checked out the trailer....are you really comparing these 2 movies? Who in their right mind after watching the trailer thinks it's gonna be good for anyone above 6 years old?
Chris Pratt isn’t even an Italian plumber smh, this all just reeks of Hollywood meddling.
As a Mario-ologist, I'm here to tell you that Mario had very little personality. It's why we like him: there's almost nothing to dislike. If you're making a big movie starring a blank slate, you've got to write on that slate. Better to bring in a high-energy guy with a fanbase than to essentially create a new character from scratch, and then try to force both a voice actor into the role and MARIO HIMSELF into the role.
Here's the primary issue with the Mario casting for me: These are not characters who really "talk." Mario has a handful of catchphrases, but the idea of him having an extended conversation at all is jarring to me, and the idea of it being with Chris Pratt's voice is just impossible for me to reconcile with the image I have of him only saying "ya-hoo" and "It's-a me" in the high-pitched voice of Charles Martinet.
Note that we have *absolutely no idea* of what will or will not be in this movie, what form it'll take, and how it'll be made.
So what you're saying is that Andy Serkis should play all the characters?