It was nice tbh, felt like Leonardo DiCaprio during the whole movie. It also had a Gunbuster reference
While we could nitpick everything that the short runtime prevented to flesh out, at the end of the day I’m glad it actually felt like a movie. This could have been some very corny cringe product placement and fanservice but in the end it was a movie that was based on a videogame, therefore the action sequences simply applied the game’s rules. You got acts, you got arcs, you got a little bookend… Nintendo did it. Not much else to say
On the topic of the games changing forever after that… I don’t see it honestly, it already retcons a bunch of lore so I don’t see future games trying hard to tie into the movie and whatnot. The one thing noticeable though is how established the brand is, between this and Odyssey we have a pretty good idea of where Mario can go in terms of general aesthetics… sadly it also shows the whole Shadow Council thing with all of the generic Toads. Therefore we will never have again stuff like mafiosi Piantas or Super Paper Mario’s story and characters. That’s another topic but what I’m saying is that’s how is it now so mid 2000s Mario is simply never coming back
Looking forward to see Nintendo’s next movies for post credit related reasons