Mario Felino enters the scene!

Our incalculable desire to see Super Mario Bros. The Movie have received a Power-Up: Universal Pictures and Nintendo have offered a new appetizer of the animated adventure of the King of Platforms and it is a new demonstration of the enormous effort to bring the essence of the video games on the big screen. Not only visually, but also with the first appearance of one of the most distinctive costumes of our mustachioed hero: Mario Feline!

Shown for the first time in Super Mario 3D World and rescued in new installments, including the expanded version of Nintendo Switch, Mario Felino continues the tradition of offering new types of abilities to our protagonist. The excerpt is an extended version of a scene featured in the latest trailer in which Mario must stand up to none other than Donkey Kong. And beware, in the process we are given the first words of Seth Rogen as DK himself

More tributes for an adaptation that aspires to be ten

In Super Mario Bros. The Movie It seeks to transfer all the essence of the classic games to the cinematographic format, and that includes obtaining objects and Power-Ups. In previous previews we’ve seen things like fire flowers and even Tanooki Mario soaring through the skies.

However, the most interesting thing about this project animated by Illumination and supervised by Nintendo and Shigeru Miyamoto himself is that throughout the film we will see scenes directly taken from games like the classic Donkey Kong, Mario Kart, Luigi’s Mansion and has even been integrated something very curious: the essence of platform games.

Logically, the use of costumes will add extra color to this curious collage of tributes.

However, and as you may have seen, the appearance of feline Mario is just an appetizer of what is to come. DK doesn’t take it very seriously, and we’ll have to wait for the movie to see it in action. However, the good news is that there is very little left for its premiere: Super Mario Bros. The Movie will be released in Europe Friday March 31 exclusively in theaters and in the United States and practically the rest of the world the April 7.