The Super Mario Galaxy Movie may not be a cinematic masterpiece, but I’ll give it one thing: It will leave you hungry to play some video games. Illumination’s animated sequel is less a coherent film ...

Going into 1981, Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto was facing a problem. Working on one of his first games ever, he hoped to use Popeye, the famed sailor of 1930s cartoons, to serve as the hero.

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Jack Black got down to his Tenacious D musical roots on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” Wednesday, performing a high-energy acoustic rock number called “The Ballad of Super Mario” alongside ...

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If you’re a casual Super Mario Bros. fan, you might have been kind of lost amidst the onslaught of cameos and references in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. I mean, that’s pretty much all the movie has ...

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” now playing in theaters. “Mario” video game fans are in for another treat with “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” the ...

Sarah has been an editor and contributor for GameRant since 2015. She kicked off her video game journey after meeting her first Chocobo, she never looked back. After years of playing them, she decided ...

In “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” we meet Yoshi, a cuddly green dinosaur in pink boots who looks like a rubber bath toy (he’s voiced in a babyish coo by Donald Glover). We also meet an army of Lumas, ...

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