With its final trailer offering even more reason to get excited for its worldwide release, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie could end up the biggest movie of the year. But beyond the reveal of Yoshi, Princess Peach’s abruptly uprooted castle, and more, it seems there’s one major twist that remains. And you can thank the British Board of Film Classification for letting it slip early.
Potential spoilers follow for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, so if you’re going in blind, this is your last chance.
The BBFC rated the movie “PG” with “occasionally intense” violence involving punches, kicks, lasers, etc – typical cartoon fare. There’s also a bit of scary stuff and some “very mild” rude humor, but the Theme section is most interesting. It specifically calls out, “Infrequent very mild upsetting scenes include flashbacks to the separation of a girl and her younger sister.”
Many believe that this references Peach and Rosalina. A long-running theory among fans is that they’re siblings who were separated very early on, but it was never really explored in the Super Mario Galaxy games. Nintendo may finally pay this off, and may have even planted the seeds in the first movie, when it depicted Baby Peach wearing a skirt with stars and moons.
Time will ultimately tell, but it would be a cathartic moment for a fan base that’s waited a long time for this connection. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie premieres in US theaters on April 1st.
