Ok so the new trailer for the Super Mario Bros. movie is now out and in this video we're
gonna be breaking down all the easter eggs, hidden details and things you missed in it.
This is packed with easter eggs from beginning to end and is it just me or does Mario sound
exactly like Chris Pratt.
Can't quite put my finger on why but the teaser begins much like how Mario began all the way
back in his first game appearance.
Released in 1981 the game Donkey Kong saw Jumpman being introduced to the world.
The basic structure was that you played Jumpman and had to rescue the Princess from the clutches
of the evil Donkey Kong.
The structure to each level was littered with Red metal girders that you had to run and
jump along in order to get to the top.
We actually see these girders early on in the teaser and it's the platform that Mario
and Donkey Kong end up fighting on.
Well I say fighting.
It's pretty one sided.
That's what you get you f**k.
Donkey Kong will be voiced by Seth Rogan and he's gonna be a big character in the movie.
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Now in one of the best refences I've ever seen play close attention to that crowd noise.
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This is actually pulled from the original mario 3 commercial.
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Huge shoutouts to Tanooki Joe on twitter for that one and it shows how much attention to
detail they're paying.
Now early on we see Mario walking out and to the left and right of him are weights.
There's also a sword standing up in the back and some wall carvings that look like a giant
ape.
There's then a barrell and Donkey Kong used to jump in these in his solo games before
he was shot across the sky.
As he enters the arena we then get some classic iconography from the pairs games.
Firstly there are floating brick structures with a golden one in the middle that look
like the ones you encounter in pretty much every mario game.
There's golden blocks on their own and also tyres.
When we pull out to see the girder in full we can also spot more barrels and platforms
as well as a blue ladder which is what Jumpman used to climb to get up to the top.
The arena itself has a giant statue of Kong right at the back and in a nice bit of attention
to detail this actually looks like it's 8 bit.
Just below that is a more modernised Donkey Kong face and on the throne sits Cranky Kong.
In the game lore this was the first Donkey Kong that Mario faced off against all the
way back in the 1981 game.
He's sort of appeared in the other games as a cranky old character telling the Young Donkey
Kong off cos kids today aint got no respect.
Kids aint got no respect.
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Now Mario says Let's a go before he jumps in head first and this is a catchphrase the
character often drops in the games.
Donkey Kong has his famous red tie on that has the letters DK on it and up in the observation
box we see Toadstool and Princess Peach.
There's also some bananas there as well and these are what Donkey Kong used to collect
in his solo games.
Cranky eats one later on and he's pretty much the Donkey King Kong of this entire land.
When we see the map later on we can actually see their land at the top next to the volcano
one.
To the left of it is a desert pyramid land similar to the one in Mario 64.
There's the mushroom kingdom just below it and this will be the first place that Mario
is stopping off.
To the right of that is Yoshis island and we know we'll be visiting here due to a quick
shot in the teaser later on.
There's also bowswers land which if you look closely at has some ice and we know from the
first trailer that Bowser does invade the penguin land which I think this is.
So a little theory time theory time theory time theory time.
So yeah this is probably the penguin land and then bowser
arrived there on his ship and took over.
This then possibly turned it into the lava land we see and then he's flying back on his
ship to take over the rest.
The land at the top is probbaly where he came from and then he moved down from there to
take over the rest.
Anyway that's the end of theory time, pretty short, bit of a waste of time time time time
but moving on.
Also nice bit of attention to detail is that there's a golden star above the ship as he
flies over the land.
Anyway The audience itself is also made up of apes and you can see they've got loads
of different clothes and costumes on.
Huge shoutouts to Nin10Doland for pointing out that when Mario first exits the tunnel
that you can see characters that might be from the Donkey Kong games such as Wrinkley
Kong.
To the left of the tunnel there's two characters with Bonnets on that look exactly like the
same one she has.
When we pull out to a later shot we can even see two characters holding big letters that
say DK and also smaller chimps that resemble Diddy Kong but these are obviously just kids
rather than being him.
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Anyway cut to Bowsers castle.
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So Bowswer has got Luigi at this point and I'm guessing that he'll have him for most
of the movie.
This seems like it's early on and the pair probably get seperated upon being sucked into
the Mushroom Kingdom.
We have a bit where they are clearly in the normal world which I'm guessing is out in
Brooklyn.
Luigi has his took box and later on when we see them getting sucked into the world you
can see that he also has it there.
We know from the first trailer that when Mario lands that he's by himself so I'm guessing
that they get separated during this and Luigi crash lands somewhere where he's captured
by Bowsers forces.
The movie is probably gonna be about Mario rescuing his brother because we know from
later shots that Peach is working alongside him rather than being someone that needs to
be saved.
So it's the women helping to save the men.
Take that patriachy.
We do get a shot where Mario seems to be working on his day to day job just fixing a sink and
this could be the opening of the film that has them then gettign pulled across.
During their conversation we actually see his army which is made up of pretty much every
type of trooper that he has.
The first ones we see fly away from the camera and though we only get a split second shot
of these I think these might be Swoopers which are now just called Swoops.
Most of the forces here are Koopers and we see all the different colour shells that they
have.
Now the ones that we can see with the helmets on are the Hammer Bros and there's quite a
lot of them too.
There's a big one that a couple is huddled around and a Piranha plant swoops in and steals
some food from one.
Piranha plants are there quite a lot too you'll be able to recognise them from their red colouring
and the white spots they have.
Shy Guys appear there as well and they're more sort of a niche villain after first being
introduced in Super Mario brothers 2.
One of them appears to have a black mask on rather than just the white one and and again
shoutouts Nin10doland for pointing out that this is actually a sniff it.
Definitely go check out their channel for some amazing Nintendo trivia.
There's also some Goombas as well and as we zoom in we see a stack of them standing on
top of each other.
They're all doing some pretty funny stuff with a Hammer Bro tucking his shell in as
the Piranha plant goes to bite him.
There's a couple of koopers doing a limbo stick too and the trailer is absolutely packed.
There's a bomb-omb that explodes as we get closer and this takes us into a transition
of the next shot.
However if you pull back you'll also notice a spiked red shell crawling along the floor
and this belongs to a spiny.
I also love how this area is full of Bowser statues and there's one as well when Luigi
is first brought in showing how bad his ego is.
He's gonna be voiced by Jack Black and I really can't wait to see what he brings to the movie.
There's a cool shot where he pulls out a hair from Luigis moustache and starts to interrogate
him about his brother whilst he also does the usual villain monologue about what his
plan is.
Cut to the mushroom Kingdom and we see Princess peach in her classic pink dress.
Up the stairs and behidn her we can also see the stain glass window which first debuted
back in Mario 64.
This was released as it's own poster just before the trailer dropped and there are a
couple of significant details in it.
At the top is a star and I'm guessing that this is where they're kept.
At about a minute 34 in the teaser we get a split second shot where Bowser burns an
ice doorway and at the top we can also see a star there too.
This probably belonged to the penguin and taking it from there might explain how he
has one.
There's also a painting to the left hand side that looks like tall tall mountain.
Paintings are of course important in the mushroom Kingdom as 64 showed us that we could jump
into them and be transported off to other worlds.
Lastly the windows in the castle have clouds painted onto them which look like they're
ripped right out of the game.
Now we get a shot from behind Peaches head and can see lots of toadstools there.
On the ground is an interesting detail though as we can see a star emblem.
Cast your mind back to Mario 64 and something similar was on the ground in that too when
you first entered the castle.
At the back of the room we can see two toad guards that have helmets and axes.
Guessing these are either taken out or they run away which is why they're on the floor
in the next shot.
Tend to lean more towards them running away which is why there's just one Toad with her
instead of the big group we see in the earlier shot.
Peach has changed her outfit now too and she's wearing her motorcycle outfit from the later
mario games.
Originally she just wore the dress but this changed over time.
She rides her motorbike later on but we'll talk about this more when we get to that section.
Peach will be voiced by Anya Taylor Joy and shes gonna be taking the fight to bowser which
we see in the next shot of them walking out to his airship.
My man Bamalam pointed out that the trees to the left of this shot have stripes on them
and they look similar to the trees from Super Bell Hill.
We then see Mario running through training and this quote unquote level is packed with
easter eggs.
So in the middle a flag rises up similar to the ones that you'd see at the end of levels.
There are also several green pipes looking like the classic ones from the game as well
as some canons.
These would fire out bullet bill who we later see popping up in the scene.
This charges mario but we can see from the next shot that it looks like it's made out
of fabric rather than being an actual bullet.
The one that hits him is a bigger bullet bill and this is known as a Banzai Bill.
Again not real and this is mirroed in the pipes that have piranha plants popping out
of them.
If you look closely you'll see that they have joints on them.and Because of this I'm guessing
they're fake.
This is reflected in the fire bars too which Mario gets really close to.
However if you look closely at them you'll see that they're actually fake again cementing
this idea that they're not really.
This all just seems like it's part of the obstacle course to put mario through his paces.
We also have golden blocks as well as the bricks being used for ledges.
To the right we can see slightly different platforms and in the games these would drop
away when you stood on them.
This happens to Mario later on when he jumps off a switching platform.
On top of this we have the eye blocks from Super Mario World and some with some spikes
on them.
From here we cut to Mario, Toad and Peach walking along a giant bridge.
At this point Mario is hit by a cheep cheep which is sort of a flying fish that used to
jump up in the game.
Hated avoiding those f**ks do me head in.
Nice little detail is that Peach pulls the cheep cheep off Marios face and then it hits
Toad and starts sucking on him.
Now at this point we get what for me is the money shot.
Mario in the Tanooki Suit swooping down is probably my favourite moment in the trailer
maybe tied with the mario kart one that we see later on.
He glides down from the sky and we can see Bowsers airship closing in on the castle which
we get a birds eye view of.
Theres six stars on a path surrounding the castle and this reminded me a lot of star
road from Super mario world.
Mario swoops down and in a blink and you'll miss it moment you might spot that there's
a bull bill chasing him.
Think this might be a bullet bill, might be a banzai one but it happens so fast that it's
difficult to fully make out all the size proportions.
See guys, size matters and we are actually selling a size matters t-shirt over at our
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Now mario isn't the only one who'll be getting a power up and Peach will be embracing some
flower power to take on Bowser.
In the next shot we see her in a field of fire flowers and Peach touches one.
In the next shot she holds it in her hands and you might notice that her outfit is white
and red.
This is actually her fire peach costume which changes the colour of her dress to give her
a fire costume.
Not saying the costume is fire...well I am but you know what I mean.
We then get a sun set shot and this is followed Yoshis island.
See loads of the little guys running along past a stream but no green one.
So trailer 0/10 would not recommend to a friend.
Don't wanna drop a theory time again but I do think we will see a green one at some point
and the reason they're holding it back is probably to give it to Mario later on.
We then get the penguins kingdom which I'm guessing is how the movie starts before we
go to brooklyn to meet Mario and Luigi.
This leads perfectly into the pipe sucking scene that follows.
Over the topof this peach talks about there being lots of galaxies out there and for a
sequel we might do a mario galaxy type movie where he travels to different planets.
Lastly is another money shot.
The mario kart scene.
Here we see peach on her motorbike and also Donkey Kong.
It's basically like a mad max shot here and Mario gets his classic red kart.
We can see Donkey Kong and behind him is what looks to be Funky Kong.
He's a very obscure character but looking at the shades and bandana it does indeed seem
like it's him.
Most of the characters here are in fact apes so I'm guessing that they've just come off
the back of the Donkey Kong fight and are heading out to take on bowser.
To the left there's also what appears to be Kiddie Kong but no Diddy which...outrageous.
There's lots of karts here including Toad who gets a monster truck one and Mario drops
a.
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I mean...urrrrgghh I guess...it sounds like it I just dunno if it fits in with the rest
of the performance he's giving.
Kinda reminds me of when Cyborg said Booyah in Josstice league in that they've just dropped
a catchphrase in for the sake of dropping a catchphrase.
The guys getting enough s**t online for the voice anyway so I don't wanna add to it and
instead I will say that I think the film looks awesome and it'll no doubt be the best Mario
movie we've ever had.
Sure it won't be difficult cos of the last one but they've completely nailed the aesethic
here and absolutely everything looks like it's ripped out of the games.
I hope this breakdown has showed you how much they've put into it and even the final shot
has him drifting which is directly from the games.
They have completely packed every shot with something that links into the franchise and
it makes me think that they're really putting the effort in here to make it so that it's
gonna be as close to the games as we can get.
And that I appreciate.
I think putting Mario into an animated movie like this is the best way to go about it and
it looks like it's gonna be the best video game movie of all time.
This was a big main trailer to launch the movie with and I am really hyped to see what
comes out of it.
Obviously I'd love to hear your thoughts as well so make sure you comment below and let
me know if there's anything I missed.
The trailer is packed so I'm sure there's some stuff there but this was basically me
going through it frame by frame to see what references I could find.
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