what's the problem with the mario movie anyway?
there are people of color all around new york in the film, a few have speaking roles at the start
mario has a big family, depicted as a multi-generational, culturally-rich home
keegan-michael key as toad and kevin michael richardson as kamek, two major speaking roles as hero and villain, and they are correctly not playing problematic characters like casting them as apes
instead the kongs are white people, which is befitting, as whites are the silly embarrassing primitive clowns of real life as well
princess peach is anna taylor-joy, half argentine:
Taylor-Joy lived with her family in Buenos Aires and attended Northlands School until the age of six, when the family relocated to the Victoria area of London.[8][11] She is fluent in both Spanish and English.[8][10][12] Taylor-Joy experienced the move as "traumatic" and initially refused to learn English in hopes of moving back to Argentina.[13] She attended Hill House International Junior School and Queen's Gate School, acting in school productions. She struggled at school, recalling:
I didn't really feel like I fit in anywhere. I was too English to be Argentine, too Argentine to be English, too American to be anything ... The kids just didn't understand me in any shape or form ... I used to get locked in lockers.[8]
one of the minor toad characters is voiced by eric bauza, a canadian-american of filipino descent
I would not be surprised if the mario movie is better for representation than the sonic movies, or a number of other recent blockbusters
