#SPEEDRUNNERS GAME ALL CHARACTERS MOVIE#
Movie is a risk - a cute character that craves death (in a fun way!) in a kids’ movie - that shows off the potential range you can experience in a Mario story. Like the status-quo-bucking game it came from, the Luma in The Super Mario Bros. Or any other Jack Black performance, really. Movie extra-accessible to Mario first-timers, but as the Luma gag shows, writers can get plenty weird with their jokes, and they’ll land just fine - for another example, consider Jack Black’s performance as Bowser. Some of that could be attributed to a desire to make The Super Mario Bros. (The only major exception being the open contempt Donkey Kong has for Mario.) In other words, a lot of its jokes could work in many other movie contexts, and few of them stem from these individual characters. Much of the action unfolds in a straight-faced way, with most of the laughs derived from pratfalls. While the movie is eager to please, with references galore, it’s surprisingly light on jokes. To Mario die-hards, it’s an extremely good deep cut.īut Lumalee’s non sequiturs about oblivion also serve to highlight just how safe the rest of The Super Mario Bros. To the uninitiated, it’s a highly idiosyncratic joke.
Lumalee is just there, in Bowser’s dungeon, with a cadre of other prisoners, spouting nihilistic bon mots. Knowing that makes the gag even funnier, just like the fact that none of this backstory is referenced in the film. The Luma is never named in the movie, but credited as “Lumalee,” and voiced by Juliet Jelenic, the daughter of co-director Michael Jelenic. At the end of Super Mario Galaxy, a cluster of Luma enthusiastically sacrifice themselves to save the galaxy by getting sucked into a black hole created by Bowser. Luma’s references to “the sweet relief” of death are more than just comic relief, they’re accurate to the Luma species. So, as Polygon’s own Michael McWhertor noted when the Luma first appeared in a trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Lumas are star-shaped creatures with the potential to be reborn as planets and other heavenly bodies. This little critter is a Luma, introduced in the Nintendo Wii game Super Mario Galaxy. Movie is also an extremely disconcerting one - and a pointed reference to a specific Mario game, like so much in the movie.ĭeep in Bowser’s dungeon, there’s a little blue glowing star-shaped creature who cheerfully, vocally yearns for death, nothingness, and the void.
One of the best running gags in The Super Mario Bros.
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