The Super Mario Bros. Movie
AI Woke Score
No detectable agenda — story first.
confidence: high
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The Verdict
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a faithful, crowd-pleasing video-game adaptation with essentially no identity messaging. Peach is depicted as competent and proactive, but this stays mild and never sermonizes or denigrates the male leads. Clean across nearly every axis.
What the AI Flagged
Each axis scored 0–100, with the receipts. The headline score weights the worst offense, so a single egregious element isn't diluted by the rest.
Identity Swaps
10Characters are faithful to the games with no identity-based recasting.
Girlboss & Male Demotion
25Princess Peach is portrayed as a capable leader and trains Mario, but this is light and never frames men as the problem.
- Peach leads the Mushroom Kingdom and bests Mario in the training course
- Mario is a bumbling underdog early on
LGBTQ+ / Trans / Non-Binary Content
5No LGBTQ+, trans, or non-binary content present.
DEI Casting
10Casting fits the fantastical setting; no lore-contradicting quota casting.
Preachiness
5No sermons or activist messaging; straightforward family adventure.
Anti-Masculinity / Anti-West
5No anti-masculinity or anti-West framing.
Source Betrayal
15Faithful to the games with only minor expansions; Peach being more active is not agenda-driven.
- Expanded backstory for Mario and Luigi as Brooklyn plumbers
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Cast & Crew
Chris Pratt
Mario (voice)
Anya Taylor-Joy
Princess Peach (voice)
Charlie Day
Luigi (voice)
Jack Black
Bowser (voice)
Keegan-Michael Key
Toad (voice)
Seth Rogen
Donkey Kong (voice)
Fred Armisen
Cranky Kong (voice)
Sebastian Maniscalco
Spike (voice)
Charles Martinet
Mario's Dad / Giuseppe (voice)
Kevin Michael Richardson
Kamek (voice)
Brett Hoffman (Executive Producer) · Michael Jelenic (Director) · Matthew Fogel (Writer) · Aaron Horvath (Director)
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