Miyamoto has banned Illumination CEO from making any dirty jokes in Mario movies

The legendary video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto has been making the rounds on Japanese media to promote The Super Mario Galaxy Movie which launched later in Japan than the rest of the world. One of the things Mr. Miyamoto has jokingly told press is that he has banned the team at Illumination, especially Chris Meledandri, from incorporating any dirty jokes in the Mario movies as he knows they have a few that they would love to add in. However, he says that doesn’t mean that Wario won’t make a special appearance in the future. Here’s what he said via machine translation.

–The Mario series is very popular with both adults and children, but could you tell us what you both value when creating works for children? Miyamoto

: I think of children as “adults, they just don’t have as much knowledge yet.” So I don’t want to make them laugh with dirty jokes, and I’ve even given Chris a ban on dirty jokes (laughs). Oh, that doesn’t mean Wario won’t appear, though? Action is something that both adults and children can understand equally, so I think that if we make a film centered on action, we can make a film that won’t be boring.

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