Mario Movie

Nintendo's trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie is finally out in the world, and so is Chris Pratt's extremely normal-dude Mario voice.

[looks like a Disney princess](https://twitter.com/elliotduby/status/1577984447936241665). [Save $3](https://www.amazon.com/FUNLAB-Carrying-Compatible-Messenger-Accessories-Red/dp/B09D3L32W4/ref=sr_1_5?asc_campaign=InlineMobile&asc_refurl=https://kotaku.com/super-mario-bros-movie-mcdonalds-princess-peach-leak-1849627982&asc_source=&crid=WRPHA0TDQ4DG&imprToken=4ac1dc20-cd0e-e0e6-f63&keywords=funlab switch case&ots=1&qid=1665242137&qu=eyJxc2MiOiI0LjI2IiwicXNhIjoiMy40MCIsInFzcCI6IjIuNzkifQ==&s=videogames&slotNum=0&sprefix=funlab switch cas,videogames,428&sr=1-5&tag=kinjakotakupromo-20&th=1) [shared it on Twitter](https://twitter.com/ConnorEatsPants/status/1577529389146841088), and fans descended to analyze the art. It showed the Mushroom Kingdom, a bunch of Toads, and most importantly, Mario, but only his backside. [extremely normal-dude Mario voice](https://kotaku.com/nintendo-direct-mario-movie-chris-pratt-trailer-accent-1848509515). The first look didn’t explain why everyone’s favorite Italian plumber lost his ass, but it does appear to confirm the recent leak of a Mario movie calendar by an alleged McDonald’s employee on the ConnorEatsPans Discord.

Toado... I have a feeling we're not in NYC any more - So. We are now in a post-Chris-Pratt-as-Mario world. A world in whic...

Finally, a confirmation of the title: The Super Mario Bros. In the Mario font and all! [We already knew that](https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2022/09/illumination-website-reverts-super-mario-movie-release-date-back-to-spring-2023), but it's nice to see it in the Mario font, at least. The M on his hat is smaller, his eyes and face are rounder, his moustache is a lot smaller (more realistic, probably), his ears are smaller, his eyes are closer together, his fingers are REALLY LONG, and he's got a little pocket on the front of his dungarees. A red-shirted, denim-dungareed man gets catapulted out of a green pipe to the strains of BEE-BEE-BEE-BOO-BEE-BOO! Well, okay, one thing: In the poster, there were islands and blocks and pipes floating all over the place. The man is surrounded by weird stuff and the first thing he wants to do is touch the one blue mushroom? We'll get to the inhabitants in a minute, because for now, it's time for Kamek! So, okay, we've got a Mario who doesn't know about the Mushroom Kingdom. The trailer released today has provided everyone with a first look at Mario in The Super Mario Bros. There are a lot of ice kingdoms in Mario, but this one isn't immediately familiar to us. A world in which we know what Mario sounds like.

Watch the trailer for the "Super Mario Bros" movie.

The “Mario” theme song twinkles in the background as he awakens to find Toad. The “Mario” movie was announced in September 2021 with an original December 2022 release date, but the film has since been delayed to April 27, 2023. Toad leads Mario through the valley of gigantic mushrooms, with Princess Peach’s castle looming in the distance. He burns down the icy castle and takes control of a “Mario” star power-up. In a new scene, Mario flies through a green pipe into the Mushroom Kingdom, where he bounces off huge, red mushrooms until he flops on the ground. Bowser’s army of Koopa Troopas, led by Kamek the Magikoopa, face off against the ice kingdom’s legions of blue penguins, seen in the “Mario” games.

Now that the first tease for Nintendo's The Super Mario Bros. Movie—and Chris Pratt's Mario voice—is here, we have to ask: What do we actually want it to ...

movie from 1993](https://www.avclub.com/somewhere-in-the-super-mario-bros-movie-is-a-vision-th-1826326845). The reactions to the trailer have been a surprisingly mixed bag, with a lot more positives than we’d honestly been expecting. [Nintendo unleashed the first trailer](https://www.avclub.com/super-mario-movie-trailer-1849627248) for its long-anticipated animated The Super Mario Bros.

Nintendo just had a special Direct where Shigeru Miyamoto debuted the first trailer for the film and its A-list Hollywood voice cast, including Chris Pratt ...

Given how intimately Miyamoto has tied himself to this project, I feel like we’re not going to have a repeat of the famously disastrous live-action movie decades ago, and this is probably going to destroy the box office when it arrives this upcoming April. This first trailer is not all that long, and features a lot more Bowser voicework than Mario’s (and Jack Black is great, from what it sounds like). But the second line, you can hear more of what I’ll call an “Italian uncle from the Bronx” accent, where he’s how you might imagine a real life, Italian-heritage plumber in the US. We got a little bit from Keegan-Michael Key’s Toad, and a few yelps from Charlie Day’s Luigi as an end teaser. It sounds kind of just like, normal Chris Pratt voice, like he’s leading the LEGO Movie again. Unlike most animated features where it’s common to stack up big names in the credits, given that these are characters we’ve already heard voiced for decades now in some form or another, and some of the biggest icons in gaming, this was…a different animal.

Chris Pratt is voicing Mario in "The Super Mario Bros. Movie."

“The Super Mario Bros. “The way they turned around and looked at me when Chris Pratt’s voice piped up is going to be making me laugh for months, if not years.” Movie” has debuted](https://variety.com/2022/film/news/mario-movie-trailer-chris-pratt-nintendo-1235369647/), bringing with it a first listen of [Chris Pratt](https://variety.com/t/chris-pratt/)’s Mario voice.

The Mario movie with Chris Pratt, Charlie Day, and Anya Taylor-Joy opens on April 7, 2023.

Still, the team behind the movie have been consistently promising that Pratt’s Mario voice would not only be good, but that Nintendo and Illumination have just released the first trailer for the movie, giving us all a chance to not only hear Pratt’s Mario but to see what the studio behind the [Minions](https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/minions-the-rise-of-gru-2022) movies can do with the mushroom kingdom. [Chris Pratt was first announced as the voice of Mario](https://www.avclub.com/mamma-mia-why-the-fuck-is-chris-pratt-playing-mario-1847734995) in Illumination’s Super Mario Bros.

Who's who in the Mushroom Kingdom - Well folks, there it is! We've finally got our first look at the Super Mario Bros. Mov...

Hopefully we'll get a glimpse at some more characters in the month ahead, including the likes of Princess Peach and Donkey Kong. Either way, this little dude clearly has quite a high standing in Bowser's army, introducing the man of the hour after a pretty epic period of set-up. It's clear he's all set up to be a kind of guide for the Mushroom Kingdom, introducing Mario to the citizens, the town, and of course, our beloved Princess Peach. We loved his little magic trick part way through, even if it did result in a bunch of Penguins flying across the ground. It's obviously a nod to his starring role in the Luigi's Mansion series, and we see him here running for dear life away from a bunch of admittedly pretty scary looking Dry Bones! We reckon he's going to be the breakout star of the movie and provide a lot of comic relief when times might seem dire for Mario and Co.

From Illumination's rendition of the Mushroom Kingdom through to Jack Black's Bowser, Keegan Michael-Key's Toad, Charlie Day's Luigi and - of course - Chris ...

I'll preface this by saying that I don't care that much for the Mario movie. I'm not sure if he's trying to put on a bit of a New York accent, but whatever it is it's not working for me. This is why I showed the trailer to my wife saying, "Oh man, it looks just like Mario 3." I had pretty much forgotten this film was on the way, so the trailer was kind of a double gift for me. How this all translates into a full movie remains to be seen, of course, but whichever way Mario himself turns out, I'm cautiously optimistic about the whole endeavour. Isn't he just an avatar for the player to "wahoo!" "Oh, this doesn't look so bad," I thought when the trailer first began. Does this mean that this take on Nintendo's games is going to be an origin story for the brothers? I have a lot of questions, and I am looking forward to finding out more in the future. Leading with Jack Black's Bowser was a masterstroke, since a perfect alchemy seems to have been found between the School of Rock star and Mario's nemesis, while the Mushroom Kingdom looks simply incredible (and simply quite edible, really - Mario levels at their best look good enough to eat, as was the case here with what Illumination has done with Nintendo's world). So, Mario doesn't seem to know the Mushroom Kingdom in this film! From Illumination's rendition of the Mushroom Kingdom through to Jack Black's Bowser, Keegan Michael-Key's Toad, Charlie Day's Luigi and - of course - Chris Pratt's not-so-novel take on Mario, there's a lot to unpack.

Chris Pratt may soon show us the power of one of those 'sucked into another world' anime.

While all evidence points to the Super Mario Bros. [One Twitter account](https://twitter.com/IronPineapple_/status/1578116881835229186) posited that since we’re hearing Chris Pratt’s normal Minnesotan accent, that Pratt himself is somehow turned into Mario, a la Jumanji rules, and now we’re following his adventures in the Mushroom Kingdom in the movie. Hopefully Peach isn’t too preoccupied with being kidnapped in the movie and manages to girlboss her way out of another castle to join Mario in kicking Bowser’s ass. on the Nintendo Entertainment System first whisked him away to the Mushroom Kingdom. movie](https://kotaku.com/nintendo-direct-mario-movie-chris-pratt-trailer-accent-1848509515), of course. You’ve got an entourage of evil minions, pun not intended, in Bowser’s legion of Koopas, and a comically evil lair made in his own image. Upon arriving in the new world, which is commonly a fantasy setting, the main character is thrust into becoming a hero who, under the guidance of a trusty crew of allies, i.e., Toad, must cleanse the world from its imposing and evil overseer: enter Jack Bowser. His dope-as-hell villain entrance was chock full of the ingredients that make for an isekai villain. Hollywood films like Space Jam, Back to the Future, and even the 1993 Super Mario Bros. trailer places the film in that genre. The usual structure of an isekai story revolves around its main character, in this case, Mario, being suddenly teleported into a new world. [the first official trailer for the Super Mario Bros.

McDonald's has seemingly leaked how Princess Peach will look in The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

[the French-dubbed version of the new trailer](/articles/mario-trailer-french-dub-is-much-closer-to-charles-martinet) for The Super Mario Bros. [who else has been cast in The Super Mario Bros. For one thing, we’ve also seen Jack Black’s Bowser who notably sounds different from Jack Black’s usual speaking voice - something we heard more of at New York Comic-Con, where Jack Black [showed off more of his performance](/articles/super-mario-bros-movie-jack-black-bowser-voice). [will be voiced by Anya Taylor-Joy](/articles/chris-pratt-nintendo-direct-super-mario-bros-movie-cast-illumination-entertainment) in the upcoming movie and was notably absent during [The Super Mario Bros. [has already come under criticism](/articles/the-internet-reacts-to-chris-pratts-mario-voice) for essentially being just his own voice… Movie’s first official trailer](/articles/super-mario-bros-trailer-chris-pratt-mario-voice-finally-revealed) which was released yesterday.

We've now all had time to listen to what Chris Pratt sounds like in the first teaser trailer of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, so we're curious to know about ...

What do you think of the other VA work featured within the teaser? So, what do you think - does Mario's movie sound like what you expected it to? Chris Pratt, who has done a number of voice acting roles before, has been hyping it up for months now - previously stating how it would be " [unlike anything you've heard in the Mario world](https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2022/06/chris-pratt-on-voicing-mario-says-its-unlike-anything-youve-heard-in-the-mario-world)".