I liked the first one, and WILL watch this in theaters. First one was awesome, expecting the second to at least get close. Now people are shaking the stigma of the old live-action John Lugimuzo whatever the fuck that clown's name is. I cried because this is actually the dream Mario movie. illumination or Pixar would do this film justice. I would've chosen illumination because they're such great artists with comedy thrown in there.
I'm glad they squashed the DEI/ideology bullshit. Yeah, Nintendo killed the idea of putting ideological crap in there.