Mario movie trailer reveals the film’s official title – and Chris Pratt’s lousy voice
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The first trailer for Nintendo’s animated Mario movie has finally arrived – and it comes with the movie’s official title. Oh, and Chris Pratt’s poor attempt at sounding Italian.
The teaser, revealed during a Mario movie-specific Nintendo Direct on October 6, gives us our best look yet at the collaborative Nintendo Universal animated film ahead of its Spring 2023 release. It also confirmed previous leaks from today (6 October) that the movie The Super Mario Bros. Movie will be called.
Watch the trailer via the latest Nintendo Direct – head to the 4:00 p.m. to watch it – below:
The first images are more of a teaser montage than an official trailer. In it, we see Boswer and his Koopa army descend from the sky, easily spot a horde of penguins – who have guarded one of the infamous stars of the video game series – and cackle at face that no one is the King of the Koopas.
Meanwhile, we get our first look at Mario, who appears to have been accidentally brought to the Mushroom Kingdom. We suspect that has something to do with one of those pesky warp pipes. We also hear what Chris Pratt’s Mario sounds like – and it’s, well, not good, to say the least.
Anyway, Mario soon encounters a Toad very similar to Captain Toad, who leads him to Princess Peach’s castle. The last part of the teaser is reserved for Luigi, who has landed a spot in both with some Dry Bones. Oh, Luigi, you fool.
The first teaser for the Illumination-developed film follows shortly after the official unveiling of the poster, which came online on October 4. , well, the lack of clutter in Mario’s suitcase:
Tune in at 1:05 PM PT on 10/6 for a #NintendoDirect: The Super Mario Bros. Movie presentation introducing the world premiere trailer for the upcoming movie (no game info is shown).📽️: https://t. co/I868SmSpV2 pic.twitter.com/hqlO0SfLbeOctober 4, 2022
The Mario film received other criticism when the voice cast was announced in September 2021. At the time, Nintendo and Universal revealed that Pratt (Marvel, Jurassic World) would voice the legendary video game character. That sparked opposition from much of Mario’s fanbase, who reacted in various ways to the two studios for not letting Charles Martinet, who has provided Mario’s famous voice for 30 years, lend his vocal talents to the character. Instead, Martinet will appear in numerous cameo roles in the film.
Pratt is joined by an all-star voice cast, including Charlie Day as Luigi, Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, Jack Black as Bowser, Keegan Michael-Key as Toad and Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong.
Meanwhile, the Mario movie script is written by Matthew Fogel (The Lego Movie 2, Minions: The Rise of Gru), with Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic (both Teen Titans Go!) directing.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie opens April 7 in the US and April 28 in Japan.
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