The Super Mario Bros Movie is out now in cinemas. in Mario Kart 8 Soundtrack CD Club Nintendo Reward Powerslides Into View Nintendo Life The perfect driving accompaniment by Share: in Europe (its already. Of course, Illumination – the animation studio behind The Super Mario Bros Movie – have never been known to be subtle, with the Despicable Me ('Sweet Home Alabama', 'Bad' and, yes, 'Take On Me'), and Minions films ('My Generation' and 'Bad Moon Rising') mining the overused-song catalogue for all their movies.Īt this point, we can only hope that The Super Mario Bros Movie is the last time that the words "It's gonna take a Superman to sweep me off my feet" is sung during a movie, and that Bonnie Tyler's bombastic hit definitely won't get dragged out from the clichéd-music archives again if there is a Super Mario Bros Movie 2. But – don't be shocked now – there are far more songs from the '80s that could have been used and aren't as thunderingly obvious as these choices. We get that the use of 'Holding Out For A Hero' and 'Take On Me', both released in the mid-'80s, could be a musical nod to the decade in which the Mario franchise was born. You could argue that's not bad for a song that had reviews such as The AV Club's: "The lyrics are laughable, and the heavy-handed synths and piano riffs come dangerously close to cheese."Īnd now it is in The Super Mario Bros Movie. It's also in the trailers for Pokemon: Detective Pikachu and Netflix's Masters Of The Universe: Revelation, but luckily didn't make it onto either soundtrack. ![]() ![]() There's even a fun nod to the song in Lethal Weapon 2 as Mel Gibson's tough cop Martin Riggs hears the song on TV (in an advert for a fragrance called Hero) just before his trailer home – complete with a bottle of the stuff on his kitchen counter – is blown to smithereens by the bad guys.īut that's more than enough uses of the song on movie soundtracks for the rest of time.ĭid 'Holding Out For A Hero' also need to be in The Angry Birds Movie 2 during an action montage? Or in Loki(episode two of the first season if you really must hear it again), the Cate Blanchett/Bruce Willis movie Bandits, kids' comedy Short Circuit 2 or Jack Black's Nacho Libre? (And we're not even listing the numerous other TV shows and adverts it has been it because, well, we've had enough of it already).
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