'The Super Mario Galaxy Movie' Stinks

I tried. I really did. After very much disliking 2023’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie, I went into its sequel, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, hoping beyond hope that things would improve. I’m a huge Nintendo fan and have been for almost half a century. This didn’t have to be perfect. It just had to find a balance between an emotional, captivating story to go along with all the Nintendo madness, something the first film didn’t do, and many other animated films have done. But when Mario and Luigi got turned into babies and were riding Yoshi with Toad, holding a Super Scope, being chased by a T-Rex over a bridge of bones, I realized nothing had changed. In fact, things may have gotten worse. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is a nonstop barrage of stuff with no meaningful connection or cohesion. Oh sure, there’s a story. But it’s such a thin story that the gaps are filled with characters flying, jumping, or falling into new areas where they meet new characters, who then start flying, jumping, or falling around too. Every frame is filled with little visual flairs and Easter eggs that mean nothing. And the veiled attempts at giving the film a heart are laughable. In the end, though, the bigges