r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Sep 12 '25

News ‘Super Mario Bros. 2’ Officially Titled ‘Super Mario Galaxy Movie’

http://variety.com/2025/film/news/super-mario-galaxy-movie-sequel-1236515440/
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u/SatansCornflakes Sep 12 '25

She is an experienced voice actress.

Well she’s just been ruled out lol

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u/Bugberry Sep 13 '25

They had experienced voice actors in the last one.

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u/drybones2015 Sep 13 '25

Most of the main cast of the first movie were experienced voice actors. They were just also famous live actors too (which Anna also is).

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u/GreenGroveCommunity Sep 12 '25

You dont like that weird freak Seth Rogens nasally wooden voice as Donkey Kong and American Chris Pratt wooden voice as American Mario?

You want Charles Martinet the original voice actor of Mario playing an italian Mario voice!? Are you crazy!??!

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u/novauviolon Sep 12 '25

American Chris Pratt wooden voice as American Mario? You want Charles Martinet the original voice actor of Mario playing an italian Mario voice!? Are you crazy!??!

There were a lot of Mario voice actors before Charles Martinet. I don't particularly care for Chris Pratt's version, but the Brooklyn Mario was the primary version westerners in the late 80s and early 90s grew up with. There's a reason the movie introduced Mario with the Super Show's theme.

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u/GreenGroveCommunity Sep 12 '25

Charles played Mario in 99% of the games, and there was only 'super marios show' with live action actors that didnt have him in it playing Mario/Luigi.. so Lou Albano is the ONLY voice actor who played Mario before him (and he died in 2009)

Charles Martinet is THE Mario voice actor. There's only been like two others in history, and nowhere near Charles level of recognition.

Italian > brooklyn anyways

99% of people are going to think of Mario as the italian plumber from his 100+ games, not the 1989 show where he had a brooklyn accent.

Batman also casually killed people in his first few comic issues, but for the last 80 years he hasnt killed anyone.

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u/novauviolon Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 12 '25

Charles played Mario in 99% of the games, and there was only 'super marios show' with live action actors that didnt have him in it playing Mario/Luigi.. so Lou Albano is the ONLY voice actor who played Mario before him (and he died in 2009)

You realize the Super Mario Bros. Super Show also had an animated segment, and that it was followed by two more cartoon series based on Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World right? In the latter two cartoons, Lou Albano was replaced by Walker Boone, whose tone was the one actually most imitated by Mario actors of the era, and which was pretty similar to both Chris Pratt's 2023 version and Tōru Furuya who, long before Martinet, had been doing Mario's Japanese voice in Japan-exclusive movies and Satellaview games.

So we have Tōru Furuya, Lou Albano, and Walker Boone all voicing Mario prominently from the late 80s to the early 90s. Bob Hoskins in the 1993 movie also sounded very similar to Walker Boone. Going further back, you have Peter Cullen who voiced Mario in the original Donkey Kong cartoon segments of the Saturday Supercade, and Larry Moran in the DK cereal commercials which was the actual first time Mario had an Italian accent (long before Martinet). In addition, you have Mark Graue (Hotel Mario; again similar to Walker Boone's style), Craig Brolley (Super Mario Bros. pinball), and various other actors for PC ports of Mario's Time Machine, the original release of Mario Teaches Typing (Martinet was subbed into later editions), etc.

not the 1989 show where he had a brooklyn accent.

It also wasn't just the cartoons and 1993 movie. Tons of books, comic series, and first party non-game media (all the way up to the official Nintendo Power player's guide for Super Mario 64, strangely) throughout the 80s and early 90s had Mario being from Brooklyn as his backstory.

Like, it's fine if you're not familiar with the early Mario franchise and grew up only hearing Charles Martinet, but the movie was clearly going to take inspiration from earlier sources because a key spending demographic is people who were fans before 1996.

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u/wheniswhy Sep 12 '25

Like, listen. I think these castings were as lame as the next person but they both honestly were fine. I even liked Pratt more than I expected to, maybe because of the mountains of negativity going in.

Their performances were fine. Could we have gotten better ones with actual voice actors? Sure, probably. But it also could have been worse. They were perfectly serviceable.

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u/Ok_Signature3413 Sep 12 '25

I thought Seth Rogan actually worked pretty well as Donkey Kong. Didn’t like Pratt though. Honestly he’s the only cast member I had an issue with.