'Enjoy the bouncy, tropical sounds of Isle Delfino, released here for the first time! The ever-catchy Delfino Plaza theme boasts a bounty of variations. A total of 58 tracks are featured in the soundtrack.

Prior to Super Mario 3D All-Stars's release, a few of its songs were included in some compilation soundtrack CDs officially released by Nintendo. Although an official soundtrack was never released at the time of the original game's release, it was made available for the first time as a special feature in Super Mario 3D All-Stars alongside the previously released soundtracks for Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Galaxy, complete with an album cover used to represent it in the in-game menu. It’s wild how, whenever these musical bits would pop up, I could almost feel their respective generations’ controllers in my hands, like some sort of dorky phantom limb.The Super Mario Sunshine Original Soundtrack is a digital soundtrack featuring songs and short tunes from Super Mario Sunshine. And the scene-stealing nihilistic Luma is fittingly paired with the Super Mario Galaxy theme. Our brief glimpse at a herd of Yoshi (Yoshis?) out in the wild is accompanied by the familiar notes from Yoshi’s Island. 3 shines when Mario gets his Tanooki power-up during the climactic battle.

Throughout the Mario Movie, we get musical nods to the entirety of the franchise. The first shot of Peach’s Castle was paired with “Inside the Castle Walls,” which took me back to the first time I ever held a Nintendo 64 controller at a pre-launch demo kiosk in a Toys “R” Us and had my mind blown by witnessing the future of 3D gaming. When Mario and Luigi venture down into the sewers of Brooklyn in the opening act, the subterranean melody of World 1-2 from the original game sets the scene. It’s remarkable how immediately transportive composer Brian Tyler’s take on the music of Koji Kondo and the entire Mario franchise is, as well as how the movie uses that magic to great effect. Movie’s Music Is at Its Best When It Celebrates Nintendo’s History While my eyes were darting around every frame of the Mario Movie soaking in every detail from the Punch-Out Pizzeria, to the memorabilia crammed into Mario’s bedroom, to the familiar Kongs packed in the stadium, it was my ears that were the doing the most work when it came to clocking callbacks to Nintendo’s storied history.

But while it’s clear that much of the joy of the Mario Movie will depend on your own history with the franchise, I wasn’t quite prepared for just how nostalgically powerful the incredible generation-spanning music would be, as well as how the wrong song at the wrong time could completely pull me out of the experience. A simple story crammed full with Nintendo Easter eggs and told at the breathless pace commonly found in previous Illumination animated films like Minions, Sing, and The Secret Life of Pets. Movie was a lot of the things I expected it to be.

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