He’s WRONG! (The Super Mario Galaxy Movie)

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]Starfox is doing barrel rolls wrong. The biggest surprise in the Mario Galaxy movie was the inclusion of Starfox leader and Smash Bros spacey Fox McCloud as a main character. And the thing he loves most in the world is being cool and doing barrel rolls.

[00:00:14]>> Do a barrel roll. But he's doing them wrong. We talked about this [music] ages ago, but a barrel roll is when a plane's center of rotation is at a point further from the aircraft itself. [music] Basically, it looks like the ship's doing a corkscrew shape. That's not what Fox is doing in the games or in this movie. Spinning the plane like we see here is actually called an aileron roll.

[00:00:32]So,