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And by "Mario fans," Polygon really meant "that one guy on Twitter who happened to remember this obscure as fuck anime movie." What bothers me way more than the possible return of this Haru guy is the possible return of that ass-ugly yellow/orange color scheme for Luigi.
Oh, and here's the movie in question, by the way (which I will be watching for myself in a bit):
(EDIT)
In this, the Mario brothers are not plumbers, nor are they carpenters. In this, they run a grocery store. Go figure.
Mario is kind of cowardly. And while both of them are greedy, Luigi is the far more greedy one of the two. And, most of all, both of them are kind of egregious dumbasses.
And yet, they still manage to save the princess in the end, with the help of the three power items (mushroom, flower, and star) and that little blue dog thing that turns into Prince Haru in the last five minutes of the movie. As such, I certainly wouldn't say that he's "the worst guy" or "one of the Mario franchise’s most despised characters" or "a guy that people hate." (Really, Peach could do way better than Mario as he was depicted in this movie. That said, I don't necessarily think she should be basing her marital decisions solely on legends about random guys wearing matching jewelry, either.)
The Toads in this were weirdly hot.
There was a brief scene where Mario is dressed as a stereotypical Mexican bandito... for some reason. I wonder when that particular power up will ever appear in one of the games. ¬_¬ (Assuming it hasn't already, and I'm just not aware of it...)
And there were these strange moments where they'd stop everything to advertise things like Mario ramen or Mario rice seasoning. It was really odd and out of nowhere.
Okay... so, it wasn't great, but it wasn't terrible, either. I'd say it was probably at least on par with anything you'd see in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show. It was certainly a better representation of the games than the live action movie was (though I still have a soft spot for that one, even so). Can't compare it to that new The Super Mario Bros. Movie, since I still haven't seen that one, yet.
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Oh, and here's the movie in question, by the way (which I will be watching for myself in a bit):
(EDIT)
In this, the Mario brothers are not plumbers, nor are they carpenters. In this, they run a grocery store. Go figure.
Mario is kind of cowardly. And while both of them are greedy, Luigi is the far more greedy one of the two. And, most of all, both of them are kind of egregious dumbasses.
And yet, they still manage to save the princess in the end, with the help of the three power items (mushroom, flower, and star) and that little blue dog thing that turns into Prince Haru in the last five minutes of the movie. As such, I certainly wouldn't say that he's "the worst guy" or "one of the Mario franchise’s most despised characters" or "a guy that people hate." (Really, Peach could do way better than Mario as he was depicted in this movie. That said, I don't necessarily think she should be basing her marital decisions solely on legends about random guys wearing matching jewelry, either.)
The Toads in this were weirdly hot.
There was a brief scene where Mario is dressed as a stereotypical Mexican bandito... for some reason. I wonder when that particular power up will ever appear in one of the games. ¬_¬ (Assuming it hasn't already, and I'm just not aware of it...)
And there were these strange moments where they'd stop everything to advertise things like Mario ramen or Mario rice seasoning. It was really odd and out of nowhere.
Okay... so, it wasn't great, but it wasn't terrible, either. I'd say it was probably at least on par with anything you'd see in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show. It was certainly a better representation of the games than the live action movie was (though I still have a soft spot for that one, even so). Can't compare it to that new The Super Mario Bros. Movie, since I still haven't seen that one, yet.
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