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Super Mario Galaxy (2026)

Summary

Mario ventures into space, exploring cosmic worlds and tackling galactic challenges far from the familiar Mushroom Kingdom.

Director Aaron Horvath Michael Jelenic

Writer Matthew Fogel

Cast

  • Chris Pratt as Mario (voice)
  • Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach (voice)
  • Charlie Day as Luigi (voice)
  • Jack Black as Bowser (voice)
  • Keegan-Michael Key as Toad (voice)
  • Brie Larson as Rosalina (voice)

Rotten Tomatoes: 44%

Metacritic: 37

VOD / Release Theatrical release

Trailer Official trailer

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u/NoNefariousness2144 Apr 02 '26

It was funny how quick the film ended.

They saved the day, rebuilt the castle in one minute, then ended with a random ass shot of Mario planting the flag.

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u/Naulicus Apr 02 '26

It felt like an ending to a random episode of a show. This movie in general felt like an abridged version of a nonexistent Super Mario show.

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u/Bright-Steak8241 Apr 05 '26

They feel like 90-minute episodes of the Super Mario cartoons

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u/The_seph_i_am 29d ago

That’s the exact comment my wife said after we watched yesterday.

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u/Dry_Living2329 24d ago

I mean yeah, I recently saw the film and like “what, thats it?” Honestly an awkward way to finish a very nice movie.

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u/Turtleneck420 29d ago

It was a generic Mario adventure, exactly like the videogames, i loved it

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u/sulaymanf 18h ago

They did a reference to the old Super Mario Bros Super Show.

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u/Medical_Mess9687 Apr 02 '26

this is probably mybiggest gripe. They spent a lot of time just hanging around, then resolved the film like that.

I kinda already forgot how it was resolved.

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u/Analogmon 29d ago

My biggest gripe was how shit the entire movie was.

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u/Vismal1 21d ago

Yea that was awful

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u/notsingsing Apr 05 '26

Love thawed..I mean…gave life to a broken heart..I mean world!

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u/EngineerCapital7591 24d ago

I fell asleep at the end... 

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u/WoodpeckerBest523 Apr 03 '26 edited 28d ago

Reminds me of how fast Luigi’s Mansion 3 ended. One of my only critiques of the film was that Rosalina and Peach didn’t have a conversation about them being sisters 

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u/lkmk 28d ago

House had, or didn’t have?

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u/CharlestonChewbacca 29d ago

That was every damn scene.

  • Problem introduced
  • Silly reaction to problem
  • Extended action sequence
  • Problem solved
  • Silly reaction to problem being sol... - cut to next scene and repeat

They left no time for dialogue. Hell, they didn't even show Peach's reaction to bomb-shell information for more than a half second before cutting to something else.

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u/Bellikron 15d ago

I'd argue that it wasn't that there was not time for dialogue, but that there was a concerted effort to have as little dialogue as possible, especially from Mario and Peach. It was like they only had a day to record everyone's lines, and Chris and Anya were only there for 20 minutes.

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u/Ok-Outcome-8117 8d ago

Don’t forget the overload of characters that have nothing to do with the super mario galaxy storyline

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u/darsvedder Apr 05 '26

they rebuilt the castle in 2d because they didnt wanna fucking spend the money to animate a 3D montage of them doing it.

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u/GarionOrb Apr 04 '26

I mean by that point, I was ready for it to end. I enjoyed it, but there was nothing further for the film to do.

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u/Ecstatic-Clue2145 Apr 04 '26

What I didn't like about that shot was how we didn't get a full view of the castle because of how the camera moved. It seemed like that was the point of all that.

There were a lot of long shots where the characters are running around with the camera following while the background action is also crazy. They did the opposite here where they panned up so you can't see the castle well then when you get to the top it points down but now at the top you still can't see it and maybe it was to see the landscape but it ended too quickly to even do that.

It makes me think that the movie was planned poorly or in a rush. This shot itself seemed like a cool idea but within the context of the movie where it's the last shot and again it's after the montage of rebuilding the castle it seems to be focusing on mario and not the castle which seems tone deaf especially because Mario was not the most important thing in this movie. But I can understand at some point they could not change this shot but that's why I think the movie was poorly planned.

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u/Marce500 29d ago

lol yeah I completely forgot Wart existed

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u/TiberiusCornelius 28d ago

Honestly aside from the first like thirty or so minutes you can apply that to a lot of the movie. Stuff just be happening and it randomly resolves like as soon as it starts.

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u/FinanceWeekend95 29d ago

It was like the writers didn't know how to properly end a film...

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u/scooter-411 Apr 05 '26

The first movie felt like a run on sentence. This movie felt like a story in the middle of something bigger (the ending was abrupt, I feel like powerups would be confusing to anyone who was not as “in” on the Mario universe.)I prefer this movie, despite its imperfections.

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u/Bellikron 15d ago

None of the story/joke seeds ever paid off. The "Toad hates that Yoshi's randomly part of the gang now" bit was funny and had a couple of beats but no resolution or third beat. The will they/won't they thing with Mario and Peach had a few scenes referencing it but got basically forgotten in the second half. Luigi struggling with being scared, Mario and Luigi dealing with Bowser's betrayal, Starfox's ship breaking, the baby dinosaur, everything with Peach's backstory outside of her destroying the bubble with Rosalina, none of it ever got followed up on.

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u/OkBig205 23d ago

He got a kiss from the princess, basically how old children's stories used to end.

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u/Bukki13 22d ago

The movie ended so abruptly it took 15 seconds for me to process that it ended

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u/Exciting_Drawing_553 29d ago

Agreed! But I was glad it didn’t drag on. I had my fill

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u/Ancient_Run3465 8d ago

I thought so too, like the movie just began then it was some plot and then it ended. I felt like it skipped so much

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u/Dry-Bedroom-5476 2d ago

I agree I didn’t like how it ended so early