This story contains spoilers for “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.”
Everyone's favorite super-capable and brave princess is back for another adventure, along with the inhabitants of her kingdom and a pair of New York plumber brothers, in “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.”
Now in theaters, the follow-up to the 2023 blockbuster “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” sees Princess Peach, Mario, Luigi and Toad accompanied by some new but also very familiar faces as they try to thwart another evil plan from a member of the Bowser clan. The result is intergalactic travel and family action.
Directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, who also directed the first film, “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” formally introduces the cosmically powerful Rosalina and her flock of star-shaped Lumas, Bowser's ambitious mini-me Bowser Jr., the insatiable dinosaur Yoshi, star pilot Fox McCloud and other video game fan favorites to Nintendo's cinematic universe. (That includes Mr. Game & Watch, one of Nintendo's first playable characters.)
These introductions, of course, don't end when the main story of the film ends.
Like the first installment, “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” features a couple of additional scenes that are shown after the credits begin to roll. The first is a mid-credits scene involving a prominent character from “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” and the second, shown after the credits end, features another member of Nintendo royalty.
Many Lumas appear in “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.”
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The mid-credits scene is justice for Lumalee
Lumalee quickly won over audiences in “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” with his cheerful nihilistic one-liners while imprisoned by Bowser. The blue Luma doesn't appear during the main story of “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” but the star-shaped creature steals the mid-credits scene.
The bonus scene takes place some time after the film's main story ends in the prison where Bowser and Bowser Jr. have been locked up. After Fox teases a possible “Star Fox” sequel or spin-off by mentioning that it is finally “heading home” as it approaches its ship, audiences get a glimpse of what awaits the Bowser duo in the foreseeable future.
Peace may not be an option, because his prison guard is Lumalee, Bowser's former captive. And the role reversal, complete with uniform, doesn't seem to have changed Lumalee's outlook on life in any way.
The blue Luma said it best in the first “Mario” movie: “Life is sad, prison is sad, life in prison is very, very sad.” How sad things get for the Bowsers will depend on Lumalee.
Peach fights some Ninjis in “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.”
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The second post-credits scene introduces a new princess.
The final extra scene of “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” is more of a preview of what could come in a future “Mario” installment.
This stinger takes place at the center known as the Gateway Galaxy. The mischievous thieving monkey Ukiki tries again to escape with a passerby's belongings when he is stopped by another traveler: Princess Daisy.
Daisy is a character who first appeared in the 1989 Game Boy game, “Super Mario Land.” Like Peach in the first “Super Mario Bros.” In the video game, Daisy was the princess that players were trying to rescue. Since then, she has become a Nintendo regular, appearing as a playable character in “Mario”-related titles, including “Mario Kart,” “Mario Party” and “Super Smash Bros.” game series, as well as the latest installment of the main series, “Super Mario Wonder.”
Although Daisy does not have any lines in the film, her video game incarnation is known to be energetic and feisty.
This brief glimpse at Daisy is another hint that there's more to come in the Mario movie franchise. Audiences will have to wait to see if (or when) a third film is officially announced.
