Ep. 869 - The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
The Filmcast
The Filmcast
4.6 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
David, Devindra, and Jeff take cover with Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, look for a way out in Exit 8, and hit the lanes with Born to Bowl. Then they shoot for the stars with The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.
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Weekly Plugs
David - Decoding Everything: Super Mario Galaxy Review
Devindra - Engadget Podcast: How Apple keeps redefining personal computing at 50
Jeff - We Have Concerns The AI Social Network
Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~00:17:23)
David - Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, War Machine, Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat
Devindra - Exit 8, For All Mankind S5
Jeff - Born to Bowl, Exit 8
Featured Review (~01:09:20)
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
SPOILERS (~01:35:32)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the film cast, a podcast about movies. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm David Chen, and I, for one, can't wait to finally review Jingling Keys, the movie. |
| 0:29.8 | Joining me today's Davinder Hardware. |
| 0:31.7 | I'm sorry, your good Mario sequel is in another castle. |
| 0:36.7 | And Jeff Kanata. Wahoo. It's a me. Okay. That's it. That's it. And movie. That's Mario 3. And that's the movie. Those are, of course, all vague and oblique references to the fact that today of the podcast, we're going to be reviewing the Super Mario Galaxy movie, which, by the way, I don't know if you guys saw, made approximately, I think it was one cajillion dollars this weekend. Really, really proving the case. An animated movie ever. Yeah. Yeah. Audience score on Round Tomatoes is like over 95% now. The critic score is around 40. Yes. Yeah. I contributed to that. I contributed to that tomato meter score. So I've never |
| 1:12.9 | been proud of it to be part of the tomato meter. But anyway, looking forward to discussing what is up |
| 1:18.6 | with that gulf in today's movie review segment. Of course, we got some what we've been watching |
| 1:23.8 | for you before we get to that. But first, guys, you know, I saw this |
| 1:28.6 | Am I the asshole |
| 1:30.4 | question on Reddit? |
| 1:33.2 | And I thought this would be fun. |
| 1:34.2 | Now, usually we do the slash film court |
| 1:35.8 | to adjudicate film-related dilemmas. |
| 1:39.0 | I don't think this belongs in the slash-fum court |
| 1:41.1 | because I think it's extremely possible |
| 1:43.4 | this is completely fabricated as many things on Reddit are. |
| 1:46.6 | That said, I wanted to read this to you guys because I thought it'd be amusing to contemplate what the hell is actually going on you. |
| 1:54.6 | So this is an, am I the asshole for leaving my girlfriend in the restroom because she's taking a long bathroom break during a movie I was really excited for. |
| 2:05.2 | This comes from user Secure Draft 9197. |
| 2:09.0 | Whenever my girlfriend and I see a movie together, she likes to take bathroom breaks at the same time. |
| 2:14.3 | Not an issue. Not an issue. |
| 2:16.9 | Anyway, last night we went to see Project hail mary i've been a fan of the |
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