The Super Mario Bros. Movie And What's Making Us Happy

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🗓️ 7 April 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In The Super Mario Bros. Movie., Chris Pratt and Charlie Day play Mario and Luigi, two New York City plumbers who get transported to another world. Soon, Mario must team-up with Princess Peach (Anya Taylor-Joy) to stop Bowser (Jack Black) from destroying the Mushroom Kingdom. The animated movie is heavy on Easter eggs that draw from Nintendo's many decades of video games.

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0:00.0	The Super Mario Bros. Movie is an animated feature length spin-off of the many Nintendo games
0:11.0	that feature Mario, Luigi, Peach, Bowser, and others.
0:14.5	Chris Pratt stars as Mario and the movie has gotten Nintendo Easter Eggs galore.
0:19.9	I'm Stephen Thompson, today we are talking about the Super Mario Bros. movie on Pop Culture
0:25.4	Happy Hour from NPR.
0:27.3	Joining me today is Emil Niazi, freelance writer and columnist at the Cut High Amoeil.
0:31.4	Hi Stephen.
0:32.4	Also with us is Daisy Rosario, senior supervising producer of Audio at Slate, where she just
0:37.3	relaunched Dear Prudence Slate's advice podcast Hey Daisy.
0:40.9	Hey Stephen.
0:41.9	And rounding out the panel is Ronald Young Jr. He is the host of the film and television
0:45.7	review podcast leaving the theater high Ronald.
0:48.4	It's Sammie A'Rannold.
0:49.7	Steve.
0:50.7	One of us was bound to do it.
0:53.1	I thought it was going to be me.
0:54.5	Glad you got it out of the way.
0:56.6	So in the Super Mario Bros. movie, we first meet Mario and Luigi as plumbers in New
1:02.9	York City.
1:03.9	They are voiced by Chris Pratt and Charlie Day.
1:06.4	Soon they are sent through a portal to another world where we encounter a bunch of the
1:10.5	characters you know and love.
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