Weirdly enough, for me it works as advertised for words in my native language (Italian, if it matters), but it doesn't seem to work at all in English (or at least, if it works it does so slowly enough that I got bored with repeating random words to myself before it happened).

I'm just musing around; but perhaps it might be related to me having learnt English words (and the association between their sound and their meaning) much later in my life and in a more formal, less "unconscious" way?

I'd be curious to see if other bilingual people notice the same, or if that's just me being weird.

Say what you will about the 1993 movie, but at least it took a handful of names and ideas from the games and went on to do its own weird 1990s thing with them. Succeed or fail - and I'll agree that it failed, although in a pretty entertaining way - it was IMO the right idea: the Mario games have never been very heavy on plot or characterization (this is not a criticism - they don't need that, not every game needs to be a "cinematic experience" or have ridiculous amounts of worldbuilding), to say the least, so they had to do something new.

The trailers of the new movie, instead, make me worry that it might end up being way too reference-laden, more an excuse for gamers to play whack-a-reference and feel unjustifiably smug at knowing in advance what that platform with a hole in the middle was going to do than something that is enjoyable on its own merits.

We'll see.

No, this is Earth taking revenge against Space for killing the dinosaurs.