With just a few months left before Super Mario Galaxy comes out, Nintendo held another Direct to reveal new information about the film, and show off a trailer.
Picking up after the first one, Mario (Chris Pratt) and Luigi (Charlie Day) have settled nicely into being the protectors of the Mushroom Kingdom. But when Bowser Jr. (Benny Safdie) comes looking to spring his dad (Jack Black) out of tiny prison, the brothers have to travel the cosmos to stop them. Along with a returning Peach (Anya Taylor-Joy) and Toad (Keegan-Michael Key), they’ve a new ally in Brie Larson’s Rosalina, another princess who lives in outer space and raises the Lumas.
But this new trailer is actually about Yoshi, and highlights his dynamic with the brothers. He’s not the only dinosaur to show up: there’s a brief tease of Birdo and a T.Rex that longtime Mario fans will remember from 2017’s Super Mario Odyssey. During the stream, Shigeru Miyamoto teased that Yoshi and other “many familiar characters…will play active roles” in the film.
Super Mario Galaxy arrives in theaters on April 3.
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