It’s sort of woke, at least in the first half. In the first half Peach is brilliant at everything and completely kicks ass for no reason while Mario gets dumped on and disrespected at every opportunity, they let him come into his own a little bit more as the movie goes on but it takes a while. By the end he’s portrayed as pretty competent and kick-ass.
On the plus side Peach isn’t very cunty to Mario as I feared she’d be, she seems to like him and they actually kind of tease a romance between the two which shocked me, I thought for sure she’d make it clear that she don’t need no man.
completely kicks ass for no reason while Mario gets dumped on and disrespected at every opportunity
Went and saw the movie. She kick ass as you say because she was raised by the Toads at an early age in the mushroom kingdom (thus being proficient at traversing the world and its dangers) and was chosen as their princess to protect them because they were all a bunch of timid wimps, which fits cannon as far as I remember.
Now Mario, he's a case of the scrappy underdog. Him and Luigi struck out on their own and haven't gotten their big break yet at the beginning of the movie. Also, as you said, he develops competency in the mushroom kingdom after time and training, and was kicking ass left and right by the end.
I didn't see any overt wokeness in the movie, and actually enjoyed it.
Perhaps I’m just too sensitive to it from every other movie made these days. I just thought they dumped on him a little too much in the beginning, and it took longer for him to come into his own than I would have liked. I also wish they gave Luigi more to do, it would have been nice if he tried to escape or lead all of the prisoners or something.
I agree with the Luigi take, but he also stepped up at the end, showing that he may not be as brave as his brother, but he can overcome that fear to help him in his time of need.
Overall, it wasn't perfect, but I'm pleased with what was produced when compared to what they had to work with.
That definitely wasn't how they marketed the movie, maybe advertising did work on me and fooled me into thinking the girlboss stuff was worse than it actually is.
It’s sort of woke, at least in the first half. In the first half Peach is brilliant at everything and completely kicks ass for no reason while Mario gets dumped on and disrespected at every opportunity, they let him come into his own a little bit more as the movie goes on but it takes a while. By the end he’s portrayed as pretty competent and kick-ass.
On the plus side Peach isn’t very cunty to Mario as I feared she’d be, she seems to like him and they actually kind of tease a romance between the two which shocked me, I thought for sure she’d make it clear that she don’t need no man.
Went and saw the movie. She kick ass as you say because she was raised by the Toads at an early age in the mushroom kingdom (thus being proficient at traversing the world and its dangers) and was chosen as their princess to protect them because they were all a bunch of timid wimps, which fits cannon as far as I remember.
Now Mario, he's a case of the scrappy underdog. Him and Luigi struck out on their own and haven't gotten their big break yet at the beginning of the movie. Also, as you said, he develops competency in the mushroom kingdom after time and training, and was kicking ass left and right by the end.
I didn't see any overt wokeness in the movie, and actually enjoyed it.
Perhaps I’m just too sensitive to it from every other movie made these days. I just thought they dumped on him a little too much in the beginning, and it took longer for him to come into his own than I would have liked. I also wish they gave Luigi more to do, it would have been nice if he tried to escape or lead all of the prisoners or something.
I agree with the Luigi take, but he also stepped up at the end, showing that he may not be as brave as his brother, but he can overcome that fear to help him in his time of need.
Overall, it wasn't perfect, but I'm pleased with what was produced when compared to what they had to work with.
That definitely wasn't how they marketed the movie, maybe advertising did work on me and fooled me into thinking the girlboss stuff was worse than it actually is.