Talk about an entertainment news release that seems so bizarre that it almost can’t be true! Nintendo announced a new Mario movie is coming out in 2022, and the list of celebrities playing the characters is something out of a psilocybin-induced fan fiction.
Chris Pratt as Mario? Okay, that’s weird but believable.
Jack Black as Bowser? Umm… that’s on the border of parody.
Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong? We’ve entered some sort of Adult Swim dream world.
Chris Pratt says he has been working hard at the voice for Mario. pic.twitter.com/0UG8qAcOOf
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) September 24, 2021
Well, this insanity has officially broken the internet. From people arguing that Mario should only be played by his video game voice artist, to others angry because Chris Pratt holds conservative view points, to others laughing at the absurdity of this cast list, the whole thing is mind-blowing. It almost feels like Nintendo saw how SEGA launched the Sonic the Hedgehog movie with a horrendous visual piece that turned out to be a stroke of accidental marketing genius… and then they thought, “what if we did the same thing, but with the voice cast instead?” That’s not to say that the cast is bad or that the movie will be poorly acted; it’s simply to say that this is so out-there that it’s had a similar effect.
It’s hard to imagine how this movie is going to work. Detective Pikachu was a decent success for Nintendo, but nothing like the somewhat-surprising breakthrough of the Sonic the Hedgehog movie. Still, Nintendo appears to be going with a full CGI, animated feature, and that will be odd with a cast of voices that sound nothing like the video game characters. Will it work? Probably… if only because people are already wondering what in the world this movie is going to be.
This how the Mario Movie gonna sound pic.twitter.com/XYWkkAgrBU
— kenny gesserit 🦝 🦝🦝 (@KennyGesserit) September 24, 2021
For the movie’s financial success, that’s a winner. For the movie’s critical and fan reception, who in the world knows how this is going to turn out? At least it can’t come short of Mario’s first feature film. Surely.
