Good day and welcome to the IGNUK podcast, it's me Simon Cardi with Joe Scribbles.

Hello, Matthew Perslow. Hello, we're going to speak a lot about video game adaptations

this week, but not necessarily ones you've seen in the past, but ones we'd want to see

in the future as we build our own video game, TV and movie streaming services. But before

we do that, the reason we're doing that, and you asked, why Joe, that's because we've

got our first look at the Mario movie yesterday, which I think personally looks banging.

I don't know what you guys think. I'm all in, it looks nice.

I'd say banging is maybe a bit far for me as someone who doesn't have a huge amount

of personal attachment to Mario, but I think it looks exactly why I'd expect a Mario

film to look like, illumination, pretty good studio, particularly for their animation.

I'm fine with it, absolutely fine. Yeah, so let's just get this out of the way. I think

the voice is fine. I think barely heard it. Get over it. I know. And it sounded fine.

It's going to sound fine. It sounded in, I think it's an issue. I know everybody's going

on, there's about the fact that why does the French guy sound more like Mario than the

actual US kind of recording for it, but it's like ultimately, like, yeah, it is the voice

of Mario, the absolute definition of what you desperately need. I think this is the

definition of a grow up situation for a lot of people. The definitions of what you need

for Mario is nothing that could ever be expressed in a movie about Mario. So it's pretty

much a blank slate of just like, that is true. If this looks like a, if this ends up

like the Lego movie, then I'm basically fine with it. If it ends up trying to be serious

or like, maybe a bit wreck it, Ralphie, then I'll probably be a bit annoyed with it.

I think they're going to lean into silly, because if, you know, the minions are silly and

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