As Ars' Sam Machkovech put it yesterday, the line delivery 'comes without any sort of exaggerated Italian accent, instead sounding like rote Chris Pratt.' That said, the sheer Pratt-iness of Mario's first line in the trailer-'What is this place?'-is utterly distracting. Judging Pratt's entire Mario performance on that basis is like judging an opera based on the first note. To be fair, the only examples of Mario's movie voice we have thus far are the two lines Pratt delivers in the trailer. It's a reaction that seems to extend past the Internet snark zone, too at least two parents I know in real life have told me that their kids expressed similar confusion about Mario's movie voice.īut putting our collective finger on what exactly is 'weird' about Pratt's Mario performance requires a bit of examination into how the idea of what Mario is 'supposed' to sound like developed in the first place, and whether Pratt's performance can ruin what otherwise looks like a pretty solid movie. This is not an uncommon reaction to the first public line-reading for the Chris Pratt-voiced Mario, judging by the overall tone of social media in the last 24 hours.

And while she would later express excitement at the sight of Bowser battling an army of penguins or Mario being confused about a field of giant mushrooms, her immediate reaction after watching the trailer was more negative: When my 8-year-old daughter got home from school on Thursday, I was excited to show her the first trailer for the upcoming animated The Super Mario Bros. The world's introduction to Chris Pratt's Mario.

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