Super Mario Galaxy Spoiler Free Review
If you're walking in with kids, reset your expectations and you'll walk out fine. They will lose their minds. You'll eat popcorn. Everyone goes home happy. That's a legitimate win.
If you're walking in as a Nintendo fan hoping this is the movie the franchise deserves, you will be sad.
The plot is eight storylines crammed into one film with no real connective tissue. Things happen. Then more things happen. Then it ends. The simplicity that makes Mario games work, a clean premise that gets you exploring the world, is exactly what they abandoned here. They looked at everything Mario has ever been and decided to do all of it at once.
Here's what saves it: the music and the animation are both elite. Brian Taylor's score is the best character in the film. It has more of a throughline than the actual story. And the animation is the kind of thing where you have to remind yourself to pay attention to it because the plot keeps getting in the way. The world looks extraordinary.
Worth seeing for the animation and music. Worth skipping if you were hoping for a franchise.
