{"id":25625,"date":"2026-04-15T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=25625"},"modified":"2026-04-28T12:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:36:11","slug":"miyamotos-illumination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/miyamotos-illumination\/","title":{"rendered":"Miyamoto\u2019s illumination"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A phot of “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” poster | Photo from @supermariomovie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

pril 15, 2026 | <\/span>Belen Ponce Leal | Lifestyle Editor<\/span><\/p>\n

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Content warning: <\/b>this article contains minor spoilers for \u201cThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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On April 1, \u201cThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie\u201d was released in theaters, and I was lucky enough to be able to see it on its debut. The movie by Nintendo is based on the game of a similar title, Super Mario Galaxy, and is a sequel to the first movie, \u201cThe Super Mario Bros. Movie.\u201d The film was highly anticipated by fans as Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 are extremely beloved in the fanbase and are often viewed as some of the top ten Mario games ever produced by Nintendo.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After the movie\u2019s release, many have expressed their opinion of it, ranging from it being good, bad, peak, terrible and even claiming it\u2019s political. I wanted to give my own take on the movie as both a Mario fan and someone who played the Galaxy games.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am in no way a movie critic or high-brow Mario superfan. I’m just a girl who wanted to see a movie based on one of the games I played the most growing up. That being said, though, my rating is definitely not a 10\/10.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The game, Super Mario Galaxy, was praised for its ability to provide stunning visuals of outer space, and I\u2019m happy to report that the movie was very similar to the game in that sense. The stars and galaxies were absolutely stunning to view on the big screen. The biggest strength the movie had was its animation. It\u2019s incredibly smooth and well done, the fight scenes in the movie being particularly impressive. The movie\u2019s main villain, Bowser Jr., has an incredibly powerful paintbrush that can create living drawings out of thin air as well as engulf him in the paint to give him a crazy amount of strength.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The strongest parts of the movie for me were any scenes that had Yoshi in them, as well as the relationship between Bowser and his son. Yoshi, as a character, was an incredibly entertaining character to watch on screen. He is not only a very resourceful creature, but he\u2019s funny and really stands out on the character roster as a loyal companion who also likes to mess around with his buddies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bowser Jr.\u2019s motivation throughout the entire movie revolves around getting his imprisoned father out of the clutches of the Mario brothers, as well as creating a planet for both of them, something that Bowser promised his son when he was growing up. Their bond is incredibly heartwarming to watch. Even if Bowser is a bad guy, there is no doubt that he is a great father.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The biggest change of the movie from the game is that some of the character backgrounds have changed drastically, specifically Rosalina\u2019s and Peach\u2019s. While I won\u2019t dig into these changes to avoid major spoilers, my main complaint is that I feel like they really rushed the character development of most of the characters, but in particular, Princess Peach.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In this movie, she finally discovers where she comes from and who her family is. However, the journey of her getting there doesn\u2019t feel particularly satisfying. There isn\u2019t a lot of meaningful, emotional turmoil, and what little there is feels extremely rushed. I thought the way that they revealed Peach\u2019s past was a clever way to do it, but it just didn\u2019t feel like it was something she fought for. Her backstory just seemed to be handed to her\u00a0 \u2014 quite literally \u2014 without any sort of depth given to her character.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Overall, I feel like the movie wasn\u2019t as terrible as some have been saying online. I personally enjoyed it a lot and had fun watching it. I would rate it a 7\/10. I would watch it again, it was really funny.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Contact the author at howllifestyle@wou.edu<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

pril 15, 2026 | Belen Ponce Leal | Lifestyle Editor   Content warning: this article contains minor spoilers for \u201cThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie\u201d\u00a0   On April 1, \u201cThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie\u201d was released in theaters, and I was lucky enough to be able to see it on its debut. The movie by Nintendo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Miyamoto\u2019s illumination","_seopress_titles_desc":"A review of \u201cThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie\u201d","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[737,161,5322,7498,454,417,47,6836,1271,1057,7486,7487,1254,684,3927,3381,66,39],"class_list":["post-25625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-education","tag-entertainment","tag-funny","tag-galaxy","tag-games","tag-gaming","tag-nintendo","tag-oregon-2","tag-school","tag-stars","tag-super-mario","tag-super-mario-galaxy","tag-university","tag-western","tag-wolf","tag-wolfie","tag-wolves","tag-wou"],"modified_by":"saragerrick","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25630,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25625\/revisions\/25630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}