


Now that time has passed since the initial trailer release, excitement seems to be steadily building for the movie. Rogen's Donkey Kong is especially fun, as the actor uses his trademark laugh in the short trailer clip. The other voice-acting choices were received with much more acceptance, and to their credit, they all do a quality job of matching the energy level that viewers came in expecting. Trailers so far have offered nothing but optimism for many, though some are still held up over Pratt. Now that Donkey Kong's voice has been revealed, the last big voice reveal seems to be that of Frank Welker's Yoshi.

Sebastian Maniscalco is also set to play Spike, Mario and Luigi's boss from the 1985 video game Wrecking Crew. Martinet doesn’t use his typical Mario voice for the role, instead closely aligning himself with Pratt and Day’s slight Brooklyn Italian accent.Ī poignant moment for Martinet and the character comes near the end of the movie when he refers to Mario and Luigi as “my boys”, a subtle nod to his over three decades as part of the Nintendo family.Instead of Martinet lending his voice to Mario, he will make various background voice cameo appearances.

He appears in multiple scenes during the opening part of the film, as well as the end when Bowser’s castle comes crashing through the human world. The other character that Martinet plays is Mario and Luigi’s dad. “It’s-a perfect! Wahoo!” he adds, before striking a classic Mario pose while wearing clothes that resemble the character’s classic red and blue outfit. That’s when a character standing next to them named Giuseppe is seen playing Jump Man (a nod to Nintendo’s Donkey Kong) on an arcade machine. “What about the accents? Is it too much?” says Mario. Plumbing commercial, with Mario wondering if the two may have exaggerated their Italian accents in the ad. Martinet’s first appearance takes place just minutes into the film, when Mario and Luigi are hanging out in the Punch-Out Pizzeria (a reference to the 1984 Nintendo game Punch-Out). Instead, he is grouped alongside the secondary actors in the film. While big Hollywood stars like Pratt and Charlie Day have gotten much of the attention for their lead roles in the film, Martinet does have multiple cameos.Įurogamer notes that Martinet isn’t credited as an individual character in the film. He’s also voiced other characters like Wario, Waluigi and their baby equivalents. Martinet has voiced Mario, as well as Luigi, in the Super Mario video game series since 1991. Is Charles Martinet in ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’, fans have been wondering about the original voice behind the title character, Charles Martinet. While much has been made about Chris Pratt’s voice as Mario in ‘The Super Mario Bros.
