I’m pretty sure it doesn’t hold up as a film per se, as it seemed like a bunch of set pieces loosely strung together. But… I don’t care. Nintendo was my childhood, and this took me back to a simpler, happier time. I almost audibly squeed when one of the lumas referenced the Super Mario Bros Super Show theme song.
All the cameos from other Nintendo franchises make me want a Super Smash Bros movie so bad. Fox also doesn’t look uncanny in this movie unlike the SF64 rereremake.
Always happy to see references to Mario Sunshine (Bowser Jr’s paintbrush, the piantas in the gateway galaxy). I seem to be in the minority of people who really like that game.
I liken media consumption to food consumption. “It’s just for kids” is a STUPID argument to defend a poor movie. Maybe not specifically this Galaxy movie, but many abysmal movies have been defended with the same logic.
Why?! Why would you defend feeding your children literal unnutritious slop?? If it were food, would you say, “I don’t care if it has no vitamins or minerals and is loaded with sugar, it’s for children.” If you say yea that’s fine, I’d say you’re a terrible parent. Period.
Same goes for media. Just because it’s “for kids” should NEVER mean vapid, pointless trash should ever be viewed as good. There are TONS of classics that are “for kids”, but have a hell of a lot of heart and good writing/animation/etc, even if they have zero jokes “for the parents”.
To accept mediocre as acceptable for children is straight up just throwing away the next generation’s future because certain people are too stupid to realize that children need to become functional adults some day.