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Rated The Super Mario Galaxy Movie 7/10

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is an adventure film without pretense. As such, its job is to deliver its characters from set piece to set piece. In this movie, Peach and Toad end up in a sleazy underworld casino almost in a similar fashion as Finn and Rose end up in a snobby casino planet in The Last Jedi, but there's less concern about finding an unremarkable macguffin person and more with just getting their stuff back. I kind of found that refreshing! (And, you know, I love The Last Jedi, but one of the ways it made itself vulnerable to bad faith criticism was the obvious desire to just Do Adventure Stuff, but still tie it into a theme that the plot of the trilogy wasn't organically producing. We all agree casino planet was weird, right? Well, Mario Galaxy pulled it off more successfully, that's all I'm saying.)

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Published 2026-04-10 00:00 UTC · bridged from Atmosphere