Mario… Pedro Pascal
Princess… Chloe Fineman
Male voice: HBO’s The Last of Us is a hit, proving a video game can become a prestige dystopian drama. HBO is doing it again with another iconic game.
Female voice: It’s been 10 years since our kingdom fell. The only thing we have left, hope.
Heidi: I have important cargo I need smuggled to Rambo road. People say you used to drive?
Mario: People say a lot of things.
Heidi: You got a name?
Mario: It’s a me Mario. So what’s the cargo?
Heidi: Not what? Who? She’s a princess. Really, she was? Until he took over.
Mario: We’ll never make it on foot.
Heidi: You won’t have to.
[Heidi shows him a Mario Kart]Mario: Let’s a-go.
Male voice: From the producers of “The Last of Us” and the master storytellers behind Mario Kart 1 through 8.
Princess: What’s it like out here?
Mario: Carting out out here isn’t a game. We’re gonna make it? We need all the help we can get.
Luigi: It’s a Luigi time.
Mario: Everything on this road wants us dead.
Princess: What is the thing?
Luigi: Goomba, cinci and fungus with shoes for legs.
Male voice: All your favorite wacky racers reimagined as complex dramatic HBO characters.
Yoshi: I’m Yoshi. I’m bisexual.
Toad: My name’s Toad. Also, I’m bisexual.
Male voice: “HBO pick the wrong game to do this with”, reads Variety. “Yeah, this ain’t it,” adds the New York Times.
Princess: [seeing Mario eat the mushroom] You eat that poison?
Mario: It makes me feel big, okay? I need to feel big. Because Bowser is out there. And he’s the main bad guy.
Mario narrating: When we’re out there in our carts…
Luigi: Woohoo, I love this.
Mario narrating: … I need you to trust me.
Mario: Hold on. Ah!
Mario narrating: I’ll get you to Rainbow Road.
Toad: There’s a shell on my seat.
Mario: You can do it.
Toad: No. It’s red.
[Toad’s cart gets destroyed]Princess: What if we crash?
Mario: Little guy in a cloud comes and uses a fishing pole to put you back on the road.
Princess: Oh, okay.