This week, Pear and Brian are here, and we've all seen the Super Mario Galaxy movie.

We'll talk about our spoiler-free impressions first, and then we'll dive into full spoilers.

Plus, Star Fox could be coming back. NBC starts right now.

You've switched to Nintendo voice chat for the week of April 2nd, 2006. I'm your host, Logan,

plan, joined this week by Pear Schneider.

Hey.

And Brian Altano.

Hello.

And the three of us have seen the Super Mario Galaxy movie. Brian went to Kyoto to the Nintendo

Museum to watch it. He talked to Shigeru Miyamoto and the whole cast. So this show is going to be a lot about the Super Mario Galaxy movie, everything that happened. We're going to start with a spoiler-free discussion. So if you haven't seen the movie yet, you can hear our thoughts. Then we'll move into spoilers later on the show. We'll clearly tell you when that's going to happen. And then we'll talk about Brian's trip to the Nintendo Museum and everything he learned. So first is general

thoughts. The movie's out. We all saw it on opening night last night on Wednesday. Pair, what

you think? You know, I actually, I went in with lowered expectations because the critical reception

has been so much worse from the first one.

But I actually liked it on par with the first one.

Now, if I put on my movie critics hat, it is a bit of a mess of a movie from a storytelling perspective.

But it kind of feels like Mario Galaxy where it's like every level is different.

And so the attraction is not some sort of through line between them, but just

sort of like immersing yourself in the world and jumping in. And so I thought all of that worked.

I thought all the characters were wonderfully realized. I had some great cameos. Star Fox obviously

is a big deal and absolutely wonderfully realized. Crazy.

But it is like, if you sit down and think about the movie as anything else but a roller

coaster ride of like, you know, memories and cameos and all of that, it is a very sort of

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