I wanna hear the story about the plumbers

Japanese Version Observations

- Voices were typically kept the same if it was a character that didn’t outright speak (eg. Yoshi, the blue toad that gets saved and escorted home, the babies etc.)

- A few moments had additional minor dialogue. (The yellow luma prompts Peach to come with it when making the warp star, Bowser makes walking sounds when he moves his puppet off of the bed, and his puppet yells goodnight when leaving the room.

- Luigi still sings Amore, it’s just a Japanese version of it.

- The Luma’s chant “髭” (mustache) instead of “plumbers”.

- There’s a few additional instances of the bros joking about each other. (Mario mimics Luigi saying his childhood is over rather than just saying that he said it, and Luigi copies Peach’s nickname of “Mustache” when joking about the contents of her letter to Mario.

- Toad is jealous about Yoshi joining because he thinks that he’s supposed to be known as the cute one.

- Luigi’s codenames when using the radio are ‘green’, ‘red’, and ‘dog’. He uses the English words for all three instead of using their Japanese language equivalents.

- I didn’t catch everything that was said here, so there might be information missing, but during the confrontation on the bridge, it sounded to me that Bowser was complaining over making the soup, rather than being forced to join a book club. (It’s possible that he complained about both, but I didn’t catch it.)

- Luigi’s comment about the castle dying at the end carried more of an implication that it just vanished into thin air.

- There may actually be two different versions of the Japanese script. I also watched the English version in theatres several times, which was accompanied by Japanese subtitles. There were times when I wanted to clarify something that I heard in the Japanese dub, only to find that the subtitles were different. I’d need to look more at this when the DVD version comes out. Everything else I’ve spoke about so far relates to the Japanese dub, not the sub.

That’s all for now that immediately jumps to mind, but feel free to ask any questions if you have them. (I might not know the answers for a while, but I can look down the line!)

Ultra 4DX Thoughts

The Ultra 4DX version differed from the regular 4D version in a few ways, so I’ll start with what the regular 4D version did differently.

- The normal 4D version included 3D, which the Ultra 4DX didn’t.

- There was more emphasis on the smaller movements in the normal 4D, which Ultra 4DX often omitted in place of more realistic effects. The first example to come to mind is Bowser painting. In the 4D version, every move of his brush was accompanied by small seat movements, whereas there was no movement in the Ultra 4DX version, but there were splashes of water when he threw the paint at the canvas.

- The 4D version used scent (though only once from what I noticed.) when the group land into the jungle, you can smell the jungle.

- There were more flashing lights to accompany action scenes in the regular 4D version, usually after any kind of impact.

Okay, now onto what was specific to the Ultra 4DX version.

- Much stronger movement compared to the normal 4D version. It felt like being on a roller coaster at times, with enough movement to completely spin our cups around in the cup holder.

- Stronger impacts. For example, you can feel a hit to your back when Luigi kneecaps Bowser Jr. (it wasn’t uncomfortable, but enough to jolt you forward a little if you aren’t expecting it.)

- Screen X was cool and allowed you to see a lot more of the backgrounds. Occasionally you could get to see characters that the normal version wouldn’t allow you to see. (You can fully see Mario when Bowser Jr. hugs his father after being saved from the dragon, for example.)

- The headrests would heat up a bit whenever there was fire.

- Smoke occasionally came up from the floor beneath the screen (used during the desert scenes and when the group are running away from the falling castle.)

- You could feel wind blowing at you during the Fox ride segments (This, along with the stronger movement made those scenes the highlight for me during the Ultra 4DX viewing.)