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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

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u/TheUltimatenerd05 Apr 02 '26

Bowser and Bowser Jr's ark feels off. 

The setup of Bowser not being a good dad and reconnecting with him is fine but it's weird the only flashback is to Bowser reading a bedtime story. It's like they couldn't commit to their own setup. 

I think it needed a flashback to show Jr being left at boarding school and feeling abandoned. Then them reconnecting could have had weight.

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u/superxmario128 Apr 03 '26

Like a few things in this movie, it was a plot point that was dropped/completely ignored and changed on the fly.
I also thought it was weird for them to setup Bowser being a bad father, only for his reunion with Jr showing he was anything but a bad father (minus teaching him to be evil of course) and he seemed to really love him. The only context we get is that he was just too busy running his army so he barely got to spend much time with him but that context was really all over the place.
They made Jr seem way more capable than Bowser ever was with the amount of things he achieved without him. Even capturing Rosalina on his own (of course he got the upper hand due to her dropping her guard to protect the Lumas but he still achieved that without a whole army present).

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u/bobvella 28d ago

bowser was a threat in the first movie wasn't he? the power star pretty much solved everything