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I'm a dumbass who thinks of The Runaway Guys quickly when it comes to Mario, so stuff like ProtonJon being a Waluigi fanboy and Chuggaaconroy loathing Sticker Star come to the forefront of my mind. Considering this and how infamous Miyamoto has become for meddling in Mario games to keep their plots to the bare minimum, I feel like he may have done something similar here. I'm also a little baffled by how the Mario movie is getting the kind of bad reviews I would have thought more critics would have given to movies I mentioned before like the Sonic movies, Pokmon: Detective Pikachu, and Ghostbusters: Afterlife since I reasoned out that the only reason those movies have Fresh ratings on RT is because of nostalgia for their respective brands. I was wondering why Mario is exempt from being let off the hook in the same way, only to realize it's probably because the franchise is already incredibly reliant on nostalgia as is so it didn't hit quite as hard here. Not to mention there was quite frankly probably not as much of a wow factor to this Mario movie as there was to those four movies.

Miyamoto was also asked in an interview when the next Mario game is coming out, due to no main series installment in over half a decade. I find that interesting in light of all the praise Odyssey got for finally moving the series forward instead of re-hashing the same old same old, and how Mario, Zelda, and Star Wars all had major franchise "reinventions" in 2017 that were welcomed by critics with open arms but have all gotten varying degrees of hype backlash since (admittedly way more for Star Wars).