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Hello, Welcome back to another episode of Somewhere Between Some Between,
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a film and TV podcast. I'm your host, Daniel Parratt
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and number one. Thank you so much for listening and
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watching Number two. If you could please down below, like,
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comment and subscribe. What did you think of the Super
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Mario Galaxy movie. Did you love it, did you hate it?
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Or are you somewhere between on it? I want to know. Also,
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heads up, guys, if the lighting looks a little bit
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different and something's going on with my light, hopefully we
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can figure that out. But it's good for now either way.
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Illuminations first collaboration with Nintendo was a very big deal
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when it came out. It came out a few years ago,
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and it really, I think, honestly just decimated the box office,
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destroyed so many expectations, and was very very loved by kids. Now,
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continuing that, what I want to say, do I have
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a bias towards this franchise series whatever you may call it. Yes,
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in a sense, I absolutely do. I also really really
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love Mario Galaxy. Mario Galaxy in particular is one of
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the best games I've ever played. Admittedly I have not
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played the second one. The we you escaped me, much
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like a lot of people didn't do too well back
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in its original release. But the first one is still
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a pioneering, groundbreaking platform or with some of the most
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insane music I've ever heard and some of the most
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intricate and detailed level design just on a stunning level
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that I'd ever seen. And I also really love Odyssey
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as well. From I was going to say a few
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years ago, apparently it's nearly a decade old. I was reading,
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that's crazy. But we're here to talk about the movies themselves,
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and the first one I enjoyed. I think you could
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even go back and find a review of it somewhere.
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I believe it's still around. But I liked it. It
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is very much a disposable thing. I mean, it's very cute,
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see and it's stunning to look at, and then it's over.
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And I know that some people had some reservations about
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illumination doing that now I get that. Admittedly, though I
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do enjoy the Despicable on New movies, I don't love them.
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I love the first one and the second one, but
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I mean they're enjoyable and they're a good time. And
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here I think it is totally valid to say that
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both of these have zero plot and that the plot
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can extend to the A princess gets captured and they
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got to go and figure out what that's all about.
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The first one definitely was a lot more. You're in
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Mario and Luigi's shoes because they get transported here. It's
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absolutely more so there's a lot going on here. And
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telling you guys, did I love this movie in particular?
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Did I hate it? Or am I somewhere between? Well,
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I guess I would fall under the summer between category.
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I didn't love it. I enjoyed it, though I thought
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that it was better than the first one, honestly, kind
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of by a lot. I just the one thing that
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this doesn't have on the first one is that Donkey
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Kong's in that one, and I love Donkey Kong. But overall,
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the highest praise I can give it, there are two
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things I loved actually three. Jack Black as Bowser continues
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to be putting in just this like next level performance
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as this character. It's very much him lending his own
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persona into Bowser and kind of playing up his own
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perception of it. It doesn't feel like he's trying to
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do like this is what I think that Bowser acts
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like in the game. No, this is very much Jack
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Black's take on this particular character, and I think that
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he does really really well in it, and I really
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enjoy that character, and he continues to be the standout
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to me. He was definitely my favorite part of this
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movie every time he was on screen, and when they
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finally get him back to normal size, I was ecstatic.
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I love this character in this series for whatever reason.
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And other thing definitely stems back into the game though,
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and well LEAs two next two things. The music that
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Waltz thing also plays in this that's in Super Mario Galaxy,
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and it's ridiculously well done. I don't know why the
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music is so good. There's like this like full orchestral
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going at it in terms of just this grandiose beauty
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to the music, and you're like, why does this movie
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deserve all that? And then you're like, I mean they
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went all out on it, for sure. Nothing I can
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say about like I cannot discredit the people that made
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this are clearly fans of it and or you know,
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in this in this case, Miamoto, I believe being really
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heavily involved with the creation of it, and sometimes I'm
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gonna admit I feel like you can feel that constraint there,
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and we'll get into that in a second. But the
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music's incredible, and of course I it's animation, so you
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feel like you're gonna say this, but it looks amazing.
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It looks just spectacular. There's a scene kind of early
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on with Rosalina and the stars and the whole platform
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the observatory where they're at that's stunning. All the details
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of the books and the pages and this like storybook
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thing that they're reading, and the intricate, like small details.
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Also whenever Bowser's like using this puppet for cardboard, it
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looks like a real cardboard and it just looks like
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that Captain Underpant's movie kind of with the really seemingly
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like real life integration of that into animation that I
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couldn't even tell I couldn't tell you if that was
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like a weird visual trick they decided to do with
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like a live action component, no idea, but it was
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just that good and every level that is technical, this
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is a spectacular movie. It just has a lot of
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problems in the sense that if I were to tell
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you the plot of this movie let's try and break
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that down for a second, and I'd get it. I
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know you're like, oh, brother, like twenty seven year old man,
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that's like complaining about Mario, And I mean, in a case, yes,
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And I did grow up with Mario Galaxy. That was
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my time. I was damn long time ago. That was
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I was eight counts thousand and eight thousand and seven.
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I was around eight or nine years old, and I
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loved that game. Also, there are some and I also
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love Super Mario Sunshine, and there are references to those
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two in particular, that made me very happy. They had
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the guys from Delfino Plaza in there walking around a lot.
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Me very happy. I kind of hope that that gets
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adapted into something at some point as well. I love
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that game. But here it's just so rambunctious. In Mile
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a minute, it feels like it's catered to the kid
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audience of modern day in that it cannot stop moving.
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If I were to try and lay out the plot
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for you, it would be Rosalina is introduced and is
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kidnapped by Bowser Junior and needs to be saved by
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Mario and Luigi and Peach and Toad and Bowser. But
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While that's going on, there's also this subplot with Peach
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and her origin and Toad and exploring that, and then
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Fox McLeod shows up there, which I'll get into. And
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then Mario and Luigi are doing their own thing where
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they're hanging out with Bowser and they're trying to aid
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Bowser and being a better father, but then Bowser goes
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off to try and be a better father but then
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doesn't really do. It just feels kind of an internal
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struggle the entire time. And I think what was interesting
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to me is it felt very much like anytime I
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started to think about it too hard, it would throw
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a thing at me that I'm like, oh, I know that,
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I know that reference. I like that thing. And admittedly,
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I got to say it kind of worked for a
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long time up until there's like something that's referenced that
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you don't care about that much, Like, for example, for me,
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I don't mind baby Mario and baby Luigi, but that's
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never been a thing for me where I've been like,
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oh my god, I love it when they're babies. No,
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I remember that I would actually get agitated whenever they
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were babies and Mario Kart and so seeing them show
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up like actually broke the illusion for me entirely because
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of PTSD from Mario Kart, and I was like, I
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don't no, we can move on from this. And it
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was funny because then it was at that point that
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I was like, there's so much stuff happening in this movie,
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like we saw it kind of late at like nine something.
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Felt exhausted by the time it was over. It felt
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very much like a movie that was the equivalent to
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a sugar rush. So you ate like just ten of
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the unhealthiest sugary things for you and then you just
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had to like lay out and lie down and you
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had a good time doing it. It's just the after
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effect that you're like, oh my god, I gotta lie down.
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But like I said, a lot of it I think
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is just maybe even frustrating because there's so much good
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stuff in there that part of you almost wants them
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to dig deeper. You're like, I don't want to credit
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you for me being satisfied off with the pure like, oh,
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I enjoy this, it's fun. It's silly alone. I kind
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of want you guys to push for something a little
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bit deeper. And I get how it sounds out loud
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you're like, you want this from the Mario movie. I
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don't know. Maybe like people said this about the Lego movie,
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didn't they? And there is a substantial amount of depth
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and character exploration and development in those So I don't
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think it's like beyond saying that it's possible. I even,
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you know what, hell, I even enjoyed the actual idea
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that Bowser kind of is regretful about being a neglectful father.
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I like that, and it could have been dug into deeper.
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I felt the joke with Benny Safty, of all people,
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a Bowser junior, and every time he would like go
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off on these like insane rants and then Bowser saying like,
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oh I am a good father. That's hilarious, But like,
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what is the mindset there? Why does he think like that?
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And outside of it's funny, which I mean, yeah, I
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mean solid reasoning. I suppose like you can get away
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with that for a lot of things. But I think
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part of me was just like I like this, I
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am enjoying this. I cannot help but feel like I
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would be loving this if it went a little bit
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above its own aspirations because of the good will that
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you have Bill with me, I thought that this was
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better than the first. I thought it was better paced,
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it was a little too chaotic, actually, and I thought
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that it was a little bit more trusting of its
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audience to just see weird stuff on the screen because
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they would just show creatures and be like, yeah, that's
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this world, and also the power ups and not explain them,
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but just kind of show them. I thought that was
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cool too. I can also acknowledge, though, as somebody that
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is an outside viewer, in the sense that I have
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played these but I want to put myself into the
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perspective maybe people that haven't that they're gonna be like,
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why do they keep cutting to these montages of like
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them doing the power up thing over and over and
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like why is LEBIGI a frog? Why did that happen?
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Why do they keep showing stuff like that? And to
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be honest with you, to a little bit of a degree,
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I agree, I think that if this movie would have
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explained itself a little bit more, not even in the
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mechanics of how the world works, I don't need all that.
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I would just like more of the dynamic of the
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characters within this world. If they could just like sit
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down for a second and I don't know, talk about something.
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There's so much like go, go, go throughout this entire
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thing that, to be honest with you, if you really
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sat back and thought about it, you'd be like, why
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is Peach so insistent on going to get Rosalina. I
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understand that they acknowledge later that that they're related their sisters,
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but how does that make this character we're following feel
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I know that even the couple of moments where Bowser
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and Luigi and Mario are talking and Bowser's like lamenting
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about like, oh, I haven't been a great father, and
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then even to the extent of Mario like having feelings
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for Peach, and then I'm sure you're, like an eight
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year old's not going to enjoy this, But I think that,
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like it's just to me that I'm kind of like, Okay,
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a movie like Shrek two is exactly as long as
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this is, and I feel like it's able to dig
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into every single one of those dynamics really well. It's
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able to break down its world without having to explain anything.
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We accept it as is the whole far far away
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concept as like a parallel to Hollywood, as well as
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the dynamic between Shrek Fiona, Fiona's dad and the mom
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and the whole subversion of expectation when it comes to
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like the breakdown of fairy Tale within that world, I
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couldn't help but feel here. I was like, this is
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ambitious in the sense that they are just going ahead
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and showing all of this stuff on the screen, the world,
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the galaxy, hopping, the star stuff where they like can
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spin in the star and then launch into a different planet.
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Very cool, very well done. But then part of me
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is also just like, but if you, like, would I
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don't know, sit down and aim a little bit higher
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in your aspirations that there could be something truly special here. Instead,
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what I think this is I think this is fun.
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no part of this bad. Some of it's just really fluffy.
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I am enjoying, but there's also a potential for more,
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not what I meant to do. But is there a reason?
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his feelings to Peach, Yes, because it's written within this
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weird like contract thing that Mario is not allowed to
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have that relationship. And part of you is like, okay,
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character development relationship building, then the whole subplot you set
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up at the beginning about him developing feelings and like
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not being able to read the room or whatever is
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just abandoned. Every single subplot that has to do with
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like something like that is just skimmed over. One of
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the ones that I enjoyed, and I like, I thought
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it was smart in the first one, right whenever don
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Key Kong and him are about to bond and then
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it kind of cuts short while they're on the boat
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care about this. I thought that's really funny. Here they
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do something with Toad and Yoshi that's very similar, where
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you Toad's gonna be jealous and his for about a
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minute and then he's like, now you're cool, and then
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that's it, and I was like, you know what, that
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one I respect, it's more the other one that I'm
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kind of like, what is what is this? And I
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like that Bowser and Luigi and that whole and Mario
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and that whole dynamic. They kind of coast off of
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like a vibe with each other. They're like a frenemies,
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but they're kind of chill with each other by the
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end of this movie, and they could just sense the conflict.
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supportive of my son, so I kind of got to
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like beat you guys up. And then it's just like
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I actually thought that there was more to that than
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that's just not what they were trying to do. And
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outside of that, I will also say the visuals and
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the action is spectacular. The action and the third act
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is really really cool. I love the power up stuff,
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I love Bowser. Junior's specific ability with paint really cool
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and it reminded me of Epic Mickey, which I'm sure
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that this Bowser Junior's power probably came before. I could
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not attest to that. I could tell you which ones
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I've played, which is sixty four, Odyssey, Galaxy, and Super
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Mario Brothers Two, I believe, and did I say Mario
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sixty four that one as well? My favorite is definitely Galaxy,
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and I really honestly left a really strong impression on me,
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maybe because it was easy and I'm really shit at games,
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but I loved it, and overall, I just was kind
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of like, I liked this. I would even watch it again.
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I would have no issue going back. Even if somebody
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was like, do you want to go see Mario Galaxy
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right now? I'd be like, yeah, absolutely sure. And it's
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kind of one of those things where I'm just like,
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but maybe if the third one, I don't know, I
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wanted to aim a little bit higher in its ambition.
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I just think that there's something there. There's something there
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that I don't even think that the way that Illumination
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is operating right now with this particular series, even they
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might not acknowledged or not even know, but I just like,
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I find that it's good. It's family entertainment that I liked,
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and I'm sure that a lot of the people that
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watch this are gonna have to watch this again and again,
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and they probably have no issue with that. It's good,
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it's funny. And one other thing I will say is
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I love Yoshi. I as love Donald Glover. Could not.
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If I didn't know that that was him, I would
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have never known. But I love Yoshi a lot and
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this he's cool and he's very much like the the
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grogu you know what I mean, the dinosaur sidekick toy
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that is going to be sold a lot of I'm sure.
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pretty awesome. Only thing is he kind of shows up
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to like posture and then be cool and then he
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gets them one place to another and then he that's it.
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I was like, this is more like a lip serve
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thing to me that he's in this, that he's just like,
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oh cool Fox. Where could that lead? Which I was
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assuming was gonna be Smash Bros. But they were saying
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that they're not doing that anytime soon. But anytime soon
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does not mean never. And overall, yeah, I just I
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left it going. I liked it. It was good, and
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it's really I fell in love with the visuals of it.
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I will say, do I want to see more of
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this world? Absolutely? I think that there's so much to
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do here. They said they wanted to do Luigi's mansion. Absolutely, yes,
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do it. But I couldn't help but think if they're
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going to approach it in the way they're approaching it
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right now, I don't know, maybe restrain yourselves just a
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little bit more like you guys don't understand like the
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gravity of how entertaining Mario is, just like his pure
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like presence alone. You don't have to throw everything at
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the wall to see what sticks. In my opinion, but yeah, overall,
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I'm gonna give this a score. I'm gonna give this
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a three and a half out of five. It's a
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very solid It's good. I liked it overall. What did
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you guys think of the Super Mario Galaxy movie. Did
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you love it? Did you hate it? Or are you
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somewhere between on it. I've talked to plenty of people
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that loved it. They were like, oh, yeah, that was
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so great. I thought it was even better than the first.
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Tell me what you think. I want to know. I
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thought I was better in the first as well. I
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think I gave them the same score. But I think
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that there's some stuff in the first one that I
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really like, but there's even more I think, just immersion
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in the world here for me. But yeah, again, thank
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you guys so much for listening and watching. If you could,
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please down below, like, comment, subscribe, tell me what you thought.
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Thank you so much. I'll see you next time.
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Hello, Welcome back to another episode of Somewhere Between Some Between,
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a film and TV podcast. I'm your host, Daniel Parratt
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and number one. Thank you so much for listening and
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watching Number two. If you could please down below, like,
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comment and subscribe. What did you think of the Super
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Mario Galaxy movie. Did you love it, did you hate it?
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Or are you somewhere between on it? I want to know. Also,
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heads up, guys, if the lighting looks a little bit
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different and something's going on with my light, hopefully we
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can figure that out. But it's good for now either way.
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Illuminations first collaboration with Nintendo was a very big deal
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when it came out. It came out a few years ago,
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and it really, I think, honestly just decimated the box office,
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destroyed so many expectations, and was very very loved by kids. Now,
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continuing that, what I want to say, do I have
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a bias towards this franchise series whatever you may call it. Yes,
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in a sense, I absolutely do. I also really really
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love Mario Galaxy. Mario Galaxy in particular is one of
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the best games I've ever played. Admittedly I have not
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played the second one. The we you escaped me, much
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like a lot of people didn't do too well back
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in its original release. But the first one is still
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a pioneering, groundbreaking platform or with some of the most
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insane music I've ever heard and some of the most
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intricate and detailed level design just on a stunning level
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that I'd ever seen. And I also really love Odyssey
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as well. From I was going to say a few
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years ago, apparently it's nearly a decade old. I was reading,
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that's crazy. But we're here to talk about the movies themselves,
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and the first one I enjoyed. I think you could
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even go back and find a review of it somewhere.
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I believe it's still around. But I liked it. It
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is very much a disposable thing. I mean, it's very cute,
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see and it's stunning to look at, and then it's over.
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illumination doing that now I get that. Admittedly, though I
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do enjoy the Despicable on New movies, I don't love them.
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I love the first one and the second one, but
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I mean they're enjoyable and they're a good time. And
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here I think it is totally valid to say that
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both of these have zero plot and that the plot
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can extend to the A princess gets captured and they
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got to go and figure out what that's all about.
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The first one definitely was a lot more. You're in
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Mario and Luigi's shoes because they get transported here. It's
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absolutely more so there's a lot going on here. And
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telling you guys, did I love this movie in particular?
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Did I hate it? Or am I somewhere between? Well,
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I didn't love it. I enjoyed it, though I thought
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that it was better than the first one, honestly, kind
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of by a lot. I just the one thing that
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this doesn't have on the first one is that Donkey
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Kong's in that one, and I love Donkey Kong. But overall,
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the highest praise I can give it, there are two
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things I loved actually three. Jack Black as Bowser continues
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to be putting in just this like next level performance
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as this character. It's very much him lending his own
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persona into Bowser and kind of playing up his own
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perception of it. It doesn't feel like he's trying to
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do like this is what I think that Bowser acts
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like in the game. No, this is very much Jack
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Black's take on this particular character, and I think that
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he does really really well in it, and I really
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enjoy that character, and he continues to be the standout
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to me. He was definitely my favorite part of this
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movie every time he was on screen, and when they
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finally get him back to normal size, I was ecstatic.
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I love this character in this series for whatever reason.
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Waltz thing also plays in this that's in Super Mario Galaxy,
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and it's ridiculously well done. I don't know why the
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music is so good. There's like this like full orchestral
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going at it in terms of just this grandiose beauty
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to the music, and you're like, why does this movie
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deserve all that? And then you're like, I mean they
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went all out on it, for sure. Nothing I can
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say about like I cannot discredit the people that made
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this are clearly fans of it and or you know,
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in this in this case, Miamoto, I believe being really
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heavily involved with the creation of it, and sometimes I'm
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gonna admit I feel like you can feel that constraint there,
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and we'll get into that in a second. But the
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music's incredible, and of course I it's animation, so you
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feel like you're gonna say this, but it looks amazing.
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on with Rosalina and the stars and the whole platform
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the observatory where they're at that's stunning. All the details
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of the books and the pages and this like storybook
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thing that they're reading, and the intricate, like small details.
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looks like a real cardboard and it just looks like
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that Captain Underpant's movie kind of with the really seemingly
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like real life integration of that into animation that I
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couldn't even tell I couldn't tell you if that was
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like a weird visual trick they decided to do with
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like a live action component, no idea, but it was
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just that good and every level that is technical, this
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is a spectacular movie. It just has a lot of
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problems in the sense that if I were to tell
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you the plot of this movie let's try and break
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that down for a second, and I'd get it. I
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know you're like, oh, brother, like twenty seven year old man,
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that's like complaining about Mario, And I mean, in a case, yes,
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my time. I was damn long time ago. That was
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I was eight counts thousand and eight thousand and seven.
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I was around eight or nine years old, and I
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loved that game. Also, there are some and I also
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love Super Mario Sunshine, and there are references to those
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two in particular, that made me very happy. They had
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the guys from Delfino Plaza in there walking around a lot.
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adapted into something at some point as well. I love
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that game. But here it's just so rambunctious. In Mile
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a minute, it feels like it's catered to the kid
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audience of modern day in that it cannot stop moving.
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If I were to try and lay out the plot
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for you, it would be Rosalina is introduced and is
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kidnapped by Bowser Junior and needs to be saved by
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Mario and Luigi and Peach and Toad and Bowser. But
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While that's going on, there's also this subplot with Peach
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and her origin and Toad and exploring that, and then
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Fox McLeod shows up there, which I'll get into. And
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then Mario and Luigi are doing their own thing where
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they're hanging out with Bowser and they're trying to aid
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Bowser and being a better father, but then Bowser goes
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off to try and be a better father but then
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doesn't really do. It just feels kind of an internal
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struggle the entire time. And I think what was interesting
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to me is it felt very much like anytime I
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started to think about it too hard, it would throw
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a thing at me that I'm like, oh, I know that,
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I know that reference. I like that thing. And admittedly,
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long time up until there's like something that's referenced that
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you don't care about that much, Like, for example, for me,
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I don't mind baby Mario and baby Luigi, but that's
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never been a thing for me where I've been like,
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oh my god, I love it when they're babies. No,
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I remember that I would actually get agitated whenever they
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were babies and Mario Kart and so seeing them show
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up like actually broke the illusion for me entirely because
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of PTSD from Mario Kart, and I was like, I
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don't no, we can move on from this. And it
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was funny because then it was at that point that
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I was like, there's so much stuff happening in this movie,
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very much like a movie that was the equivalent to
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a sugar rush. So you ate like just ten of
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the unhealthiest sugary things for you and then you just
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had to like lay out and lie down and you
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had a good time doing it. It's just the after
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effect that you're like, oh my god, I gotta lie down.
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is just maybe even frustrating because there's so much good
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stuff in there that part of you almost wants them
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to dig deeper. You're like, I don't want to credit
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you for me being satisfied off with the pure like, oh,
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I enjoy this, it's fun. It's silly alone. I kind
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of want you guys to push for something a little
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bit deeper. And I get how it sounds out loud
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you're like, you want this from the Mario movie. I
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don't know. Maybe like people said this about the Lego movie,
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didn't they? And there is a substantial amount of depth
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and character exploration and development in those So I don't
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think it's like beyond saying that it's possible. I even,
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you know what, hell, I even enjoyed the actual idea
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that Bowser kind of is regretful about being a neglectful father.
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I like that, and it could have been dug into deeper.
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I felt the joke with Benny Safty, of all people,
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a Bowser junior, and every time he would like go
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off on these like insane rants and then Bowser saying like,
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oh I am a good father. That's hilarious, But like,
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what is the mindset there? Why does he think like that?
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mean solid reasoning. I suppose like you can get away
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with that for a lot of things. But I think
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part of me was just like I like this, I
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am enjoying this. I cannot help but feel like I
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would be loving this if it went a little bit
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above its own aspirations because of the good will that
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you have Bill with me, I thought that this was
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better than the first. I thought it was better paced,
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it was a little too chaotic, actually, and I thought
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that it was a little bit more trusting of its
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audience to just see weird stuff on the screen because
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they would just show creatures and be like, yeah, that's
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this world, and also the power ups and not explain them,
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but just kind of show them. I thought that was
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cool too. I can also acknowledge, though, as somebody that
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is an outside viewer, in the sense that I have
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played these but I want to put myself into the
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perspective maybe people that haven't that they're gonna be like,
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why do they keep cutting to these montages of like
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them doing the power up thing over and over and
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like why is LEBIGI a frog? Why did that happen?
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Why do they keep showing stuff like that? And to
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be honest with you, to a little bit of a degree,
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I agree, I think that if this movie would have
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explained itself a little bit more, not even in the
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mechanics of how the world works, I don't need all that.
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I would just like more of the dynamic of the
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characters within this world. If they could just like sit
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down for a second and I don't know, talk about something.
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There's so much like go, go, go throughout this entire
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thing that, to be honest with you, if you really
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sat back and thought about it, you'd be like, why
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is Peach so insistent on going to get Rosalina. I
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understand that they acknowledge later that that they're related their sisters,
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but how does that make this character we're following feel
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and Luigi and Mario are talking and Bowser's like lamenting
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about like, oh, I haven't been a great father, and
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then even to the extent of Mario like having feelings
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for Peach, and then I'm sure you're, like an eight
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year old's not going to enjoy this, But I think that,
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like it's just to me that I'm kind of like, Okay,
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a movie like Shrek two is exactly as long as
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this is, and I feel like it's able to dig
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into every single one of those dynamics really well. It's
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able to break down its world without having to explain anything.
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We accept it as is the whole far far away
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concept as like a parallel to Hollywood, as well as
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the dynamic between Shrek Fiona, Fiona's dad and the mom
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and the whole subversion of expectation when it comes to
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like the breakdown of fairy Tale within that world, I
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couldn't help but feel here. I was like, this is
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ambitious in the sense that they are just going ahead
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and showing all of this stuff on the screen, the world,
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the galaxy, hopping, the star stuff where they like can
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spin in the star and then launch into a different planet.
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Very cool, very well done. But then part of me
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is also just like, but if you, like, would I
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don't know, sit down and aim a little bit higher
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in your aspirations that there could be something truly special here. Instead,
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what I think this is I think this is fun.
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I think it's good. I wouldn't even I would call
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no part of this bad. Some of it's just really fluffy.
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A lot it's all fluff. A lot of it's really fluffy,
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was like, there is a potential here. What I'm watching
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I am enjoying, but there's also a potential for more,
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and part of it to me might even feel like
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maybe even the hand of Nintendo kind of a pun
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and that you know, the smash pros thing kind of
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not what I meant to do. But is there a reason?
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his feelings to Peach, Yes, because it's written within this
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weird like contract thing that Mario is not allowed to
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have that relationship. And part of you is like, okay,
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but if we're in the constraints of even like effective
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character development relationship building, then the whole subplot you set
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up at the beginning about him developing feelings and like
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not being able to read the room or whatever is
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just abandoned. Every single subplot that has to do with
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like something like that is just skimmed over. One of
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the ones that I enjoyed, and I like, I thought
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it was smart in the first one, right whenever don
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Key Kong and him are about to bond and then
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it kind of cuts short while they're on the boat
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and he's like, I still hate you, Like I don't
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care about this. I thought that's really funny. Here they
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do something with Toad and Yoshi that's very similar, where
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you Toad's gonna be jealous and his for about a
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minute and then he's like, now you're cool, and then
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that's it, and I was like, you know what, that
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one I respect, it's more the other one that I'm
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kind of like, what is what is this? And I
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like that Bowser and Luigi and that whole and Mario
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and that whole dynamic. They kind of coast off of
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like a vibe with each other. They're like a frenemies,
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but they're kind of chill with each other by the
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end of this movie, and they could just sense the conflict.
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supportive of my son, so I kind of got to
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like beat you guys up. And then it's just like
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I actually thought that there was more to that than
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maybe even the movie itself was giving itself credit for.
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could have done something even deeper with this, and maybe
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that's just not what they were trying to do. And
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outside of that, I will also say the visuals and
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the action is spectacular. The action and the third act
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is really really cool. I love the power up stuff,
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I love Bowser. Junior's specific ability with paint really cool
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and it reminded me of Epic Mickey, which I'm sure
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that this Bowser Junior's power probably came before. I could
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not attest to that. I could tell you which ones
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I've played, which is sixty four, Odyssey, Galaxy, and Super
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Mario Brothers Two, I believe, and did I say Mario
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sixty four that one as well? My favorite is definitely Galaxy,
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and I really honestly left a really strong impression on me,
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maybe because it was easy and I'm really shit at games,
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but I loved it, and overall, I just was kind
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of like, I liked this. I would even watch it again.
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I would have no issue going back. Even if somebody
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was like, do you want to go see Mario Galaxy
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right now? I'd be like, yeah, absolutely sure. And it's
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kind of one of those things where I'm just like,
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but maybe if the third one, I don't know, I
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wanted to aim a little bit higher in its ambition.
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I just think that there's something there. There's something there
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that I don't even think that the way that Illumination
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is operating right now with this particular series, even they
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might not acknowledged or not even know, but I just like,
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I find that it's good. It's family entertainment that I liked,
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and I'm sure that a lot of the people that
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watch this are gonna have to watch this again and again,
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and they probably have no issue with that. It's good,
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it's funny. And one other thing I will say is
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I love Yoshi. I as love Donald Glover. Could not.
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If I didn't know that that was him, I would
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have never known. But I love Yoshi a lot and
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this he's cool and he's very much like the the
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grogu you know what I mean, the dinosaur sidekick toy
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that is going to be sold a lot of I'm sure.
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pretty awesome. Only thing is he kind of shows up
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to like posture and then be cool and then he
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gets them one place to another and then he that's it.
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I was like, this is more like a lip serve
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thing to me that he's in this, that he's just like,
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oh cool Fox. Where could that lead? Which I was
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assuming was gonna be Smash Bros. But they were saying
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that they're not doing that anytime soon. But anytime soon
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does not mean never. And overall, yeah, I just I
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left it going. I liked it. It was good, and
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it's really I fell in love with the visuals of it.
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I will say, do I want to see more of
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this world? Absolutely? I think that there's so much to
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do here. They said they wanted to do Luigi's mansion. Absolutely, yes,
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do it. But I couldn't help but think if they're
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going to approach it in the way they're approaching it
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right now, I don't know, maybe restrain yourselves just a
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little bit more like you guys don't understand like the
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gravity of how entertaining Mario is, just like his pure
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like presence alone. You don't have to throw everything at
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the wall to see what sticks. In my opinion, but yeah, overall,
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I'm gonna give this a score. I'm gonna give this
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a three and a half out of five. It's a
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very solid It's good. I liked it overall. What did
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you guys think of the Super Mario Galaxy movie. Did
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you love it? Did you hate it? Or are you
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somewhere between on it. I've talked to plenty of people
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that loved it. They were like, oh, yeah, that was
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so great. I thought it was even better than the first.
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Tell me what you think. I want to know. I
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thought I was better in the first as well. I
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think I gave them the same score. But I think
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that there's some stuff in the first one that I
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really like, but there's even more I think, just immersion
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in the world here for me. But yeah, again, thank
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you guys so much for listening and watching. If you could,
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please down below, like, comment, subscribe, tell me what you thought.
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Thank you so much. I'll see you next time.
