‘Super Mario Galaxy’ Plot Holes: 6 Parts That Make No Sense

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Don’t ever say I don’t love my children.

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I could only get one of them into the early screening ofThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie.So barely one week later, I was back at the theater seeing it a second time with my other daughter. I’ve only seen Jean Renoir’sThe Rules of the Gameonce. But I have now seenThe Super Mario Galaxy Movietwice. What a life.

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I did not particularly likeMario Galaxythe first time around, but sometimes a second viewing can improve films. (Does a second viewing deepen Jean Renoir’sThe Rules of the Game? I don’t know; I’m too busy watching Mario and Luigi ride dirt bikesto find out.)

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Sadly, a return visit to the Mario brothers’ galaxydid not exactly open the text up in the way I would have hoped. Instead, it onlyemphasized allof theholes in the film’s story, and particularly thewayit introduces plot threads and characters only to abandon them a few minutes later inits mad dash toward the end credits.

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AfterSuper Mario Galaxyviewing number two, here are all the parts I’m still hung up on. But what do I know? Maybemoviesdon’t need to make sense if they’ve got Nintendo Easter eggs and cameos. After all,The Super Mario Galaxy Moviefound room for Yoshi, Fox McCloud, and Rosalina, and it’s already grossed over $425 million in theaters.

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Letsa go through these Super Mario Galaxy plot holes, one at a time.

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The film begins with Bowser Jr. kidnapping Rosalina, because her power can fuel a cannon he built that will destroy the universe. (Don’t ask me what he plans to do after he destroys the universe. Not exist any longer, I guess? Maybe he has extra lives, because this is a video game.)

Rosalina’s captured with one of her “children,” a gaggle of colored star-shaped blobs known as Lumas. No sooner has Bowser Jr. shoved Rosalina into his machine than this yellow Luma escapes and then finds its way to the Mushroom Kingdom, where it crash lands and asks for Princess Peach’s help in rescuing its mother.

It’s a classic setup for this sort of children’s adventure film. But typically the character that begs the heroes for help would join them on their quest, providing helpful exposition about why they need rescue and how they managed to find them.

None of that is included in the film. In fact, after the yellow star asks Peach for help it completely disappears from the narrative. It transforms into a Launch Star to send Peach and Toad on their way and is never seen or heard from again. So I guess it sacrificed its own life for the good of the mission? Feels like that might be worth acknowledging for at least a couple seconds?

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READ MORE: A Brutally Honest Kid ReviewsThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie

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These episodes caused such a ruckus most of them were only broadcast once.

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