Nintendo and Illumination released the final Super Mario movie trailer, and it shows a brief glimpse of a familiar Mario Odyssey location. For a scant second, we see Mario and Princess Peach walking through the deserts of Tostarena, the second planet Mario visits in the Switch game.
It’s there for a brief moment only with the large floating pyramid depicted in the background, sandwiched between a scene where a cannon is poised to fire someone into the sky, and Bowser rallies his minions. It’s the first time outside Peach’s Palace itself that we’ve seen a familiar location in the Mario movie. Previous trailers showed a new take on Bowser’s castle and the Mushroom Kingdom, alongside some locations inspired by the games, including a penguin kingdom.
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Perhaps Mario and Peach accidentally overshoot their destination and find themselves in Tostarena on the way to fight Bowser, or perhaps Nintendo and Illumination are taking a “kitchen sink” approach and tossing in as many Mario references as they can. Despite Rosalina – presumably – not making an appearance in the movie, the new trailer shows a lone Luma with a sadistic streak imprisoned in Bowser’s castle.
The trailer ends with an extended look at the Mushroom crew racing down the iconic Rainbow Road Mario Kart course, a nice nod to the Nintendo theme park’s signature ride perhaps.
The Super Mario Bros. movie releases in theaters on April 5, 2023, a few days earlier than its original intended release date.
Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF
