NEW YORK—Describing the new film’s narrative choices as recklessly exploitative given the current climate, critics blasted The Super Mario Galaxy Movie in reviews last week for its flippant school shooting plotline. “This is a painful, deeply difficult topic, and one that deserved more than the deliberate provocation of showing Princess Rosalina doing target practice in the Gusty Gardens Galaxy to take revenge on her classmates,” wrote IndieWire film critic Andrew Wreden, one of numerous critics who claimed the animated movie failed to make any substantive points by showing the visibly unhinged princess warning Toad not to come to Gateway Galaxy High the next morning. “The film’s marketing made it look like a completely different movie. You come in expecting a fun, animated adventure, only to get a deeply unsettling portrayal of gun violence in America. But it all rings hollow. There’s a fine line between shocking the audience and pure glibness, and it’s simply indefensible in 2026 to make audiences watch a weeping Yoshi take cover behind a power-up block while Bowser Jr. bleeds out in the corner.” Wreden went on to critique the depiction of a Princess Peach paralyzed by a separate school shooting as entirely indefensible.
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