Super Mario film

A famed video game character side-scrolls once again to the big screen in this bland, witless and flagrantly pandering animated comedy.

Every level of the original Super Mario Bros. This is Mario in the Marvel mold: every line a punchline, every gag an arcane meta reference for the nerds who can’t get enough of that sort of thing. Illumination and Universal’s “The Super Mario Bros. Even Mario (a grating, unctuous Chris Pratt), who doesn’t sound like the Mario of the games, still manages to invoke trademark catchphrases like “it’s a-me” and “let’s a-go.” But while the details are meticulous, the attitude is all wrong, trading the simple, unaffected charm that has served the character so well since his introduction in 1981 for a snarky and fatuous air that leans hard on winking humor and bland, hackneyed irony. Fireflowers, super stars and

Before I take you to the bummer circus that is a critical review of a children's movie, I want to talk about something Nintendo is typically good at: ...

I genuinely laughed and rooted for Mario and Donkey Kong as they progressed from antagonists to unlikely allies—and that brief success made me realize how hollow the rest of the film's patchwork of scenes felt in comparison. But all of that is boring to me compared to the constant laugh-out-loud potential of other games-to-film translations. Their attempt to start a plumbing business isn't going great, and we watch them engage in hollow slapstick for roughly 12 minutes, with hints of legitimate chemistry bubbling up, before the duo is ripped apart en route to the Mushroom Kingdom. The film could very well have tried doing something new for the series, in the form of making us care about its main characters' relationships, but instead, its dedication to slapstick and action sequences play more like a 3D artist's demo reel on YouTube. A plumber warps from Brooklyn to a magical kingdom, becomes its new hero for seemingly no reason, beats the bananas out of a talking ape, rides a go-kart on a racetrack made of rainbow dust, and fights a steroid-pumped turtle who is desperate to marry the only female human within 10,000 miles. Before I take you to the bummer circus that is a critical review of a children's movie, I want to talk about something Nintendo is typically good at: protecting its plumber pal Mario.

A post-credits scene in 'The Super Mario Bros. Movie' hints at a potential sequel with a fan-favorite character.

"The Super Mario Bros. Movie" has been poorly reviewed by critics, but box office analysts foresee a big opening weekend for the Nintendo video game ...

"The 'Super Mario Bros. NBCUniversal owns Rotten Tomatoes and is the distributor of "The Super Mario Bros. "But 'The Super Mario Bros. Disclosure: Comcast is the parent company of NBCUniversal and CNBC. "It's that Pratt takes a very distinct character – a short mustachioed plumber in overalls who kicks around turtle shells is anything but average – and gives yet another bland and deflating stock-in-trade performance, which we're familiar with from multiple Guardians of the Galaxy and Lego movies." The movie kicks into gear when "one night the brothers investigate a flood, which is never explained, and find a magical pipe, which is also never explained," wrote Nicholas Barber in his review of the film for BBC. "The trouble starts when Mario is suddenly surrounded by floating bricks, giant gold coins, 'Power Up' cubes, and burbling electronic sound effects, which only make sense in the context of a video game," Barber said. Fans wondered early on if Pratt would attempt the "it's-a-me" accent, and expressed mixed opinions when producers said he wouldn't. At present, forecasts call for "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" to generate more than $100 million over Friday, Saturday and Sunday — and more than $150 million for the full five-day spread starting Wednesday, according to BoxOffice.com. The movie also uses this ad to explain why Mario and Luigi wear giant white gloves. As of Wednesday afternoon, it earned a 54% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 122 reviews, [a "rotten" score](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_super_mario_bros_movie).

Some think it's 'sheer animated fun.' Others say it's 'bland.' Here's a sampling of reviews of 'The Super Mario Bros. Movie' starring Chris Pratt.

“At its 8-bit heart, “The Super Mario Bros. ... The Super Mario Bros. “Illumination’s animated adventure The Super Mario Bros. “The Super Mario Bros. He’s simply fine — not so bad as to be distracting, but not strong enough to be at all interesting either, which is about the same as The Super Mario Bros. “The artistry is enough to keep children and adults watching. (If you got that reference, you’ll probably like this movie more than the average viewer.)” “As nice as it is to look at ‘The Super Mario Bros. “This is Mario in the Marvel mold: every line a punchline, every gag an arcane meta reference for the nerds who can’t get enough of that sort of thing. Pratt, it should be said, is perfectly capable of the sort of outsized performance Mario needed, having previously turned in himbos of equal, puppyish élan in The Lego Movie and Guardians of the Galaxy. Movie’ and watching his creation grow beyond him](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-04-05/marios-dad-shigeru-miyamoto-on-the-super-mario-bros-movie-and-watching-his-creation-grow-beyond-him) ... ‘The Super Mario Bros.’ is family-friendly movie theater catnip over the Easter weekend, and it’s sure to be an enjoyable watch for the average viewer.”

The movie has two credits scenes, but the one at the end of the credits is the one that truly matters. It opens deep in the sewers of Brooklyn, the place where ...

Illumination/Nintendo/Universal's Super Mario Bros Movie doesn't need a mushroom to get bigger, it just organically is. Out of the gate today Wednesday, ...

[Universal](https://deadline.com/tag/universal/)’s Super Mario Bros Movie doesn’t need a mushroom to get bigger, it just organically is. If all goes well in weekend 2, it will be down 45% for a take around $20M. No critic can shrink Super Mario Bros, the pic’s Rotten Tomatoes score at 54% Rotten, but an audience score of 95%. How is Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves holding up? Both critics and audiences are inhaling in Air, respectively at 97% certified fresh and 98%. The Paramount/eOne $150M production has a 5-day domestic gross of $43.6M, after a Monday of $2.7M (-69% from Sunday) and a Tuesday of $3.6M (+31%).

Does the Mario movie have a post-credits scene? Two actually. Stick around after the credits for a teaser for a Super Mario Bros.

All the best parts of 'The Super Mario Bros. Movie' — starring Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Jack Black — evoke gameplay. Too bad that's just a fraction ...

Of course, Mario has to save the day, because The Super Mario Bros. [big screen spinoff](https://www.vulture.com/2018/07/the-most-complicated-superhero-is-robin-from-teen-titans-go.html), but who show not a trace of that subversive wit here. Jack Black, who voices the burly villain, generates a few laughs through sheer force of will with a musical interlude, though even that bit gets stretched thin. The Super Mario Bros. The game franchise is famously heavy on carnage and light on narrative, but the movie had a cumbersome plot involving an ancient Martian civilization and genetic experimentation. Back in 2005, when shrugs were on trend and the Rock was still willing to play a villain, Universal released an adaptation of the first-person shooter Doom that had been in the works for a decade.

CNET sat down to chat with legendary Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto and iconic Mario music maestro Koji Kondo.

But he's more interested in Apple than just as a purveyor of attractive personal tech -- he sees similarities between the company he's spent most of his career at and the biggest tech company in the world. Nintendo wanted the film to be for everyone from kids all the way up to people in their 50s who had grown up with the games, and Mario's creator didn't know how the film would land until they sat with fans to watch the films. The Super Mario Bros. Specifically, each new Mario game started with essentially a new take on the iconic plumber, and they made sure not to flesh out the character lest they limit the freedom of the Mario in the next game. In prior interviews, Kondo has noted that he had to manually program sounds into the original Super Mario Bros. film starts with our favorite brothers in our world, specifically in New York City's borough of Brooklyn (which is canonically the setting of the 1983 Mario Bros. That's out the window now: The new Super Mario Bros. "We were out of that and at a point where we're really focused on providing uniquely Nintendo experiences," Miyamoto said. "I wanted to relay through their role in the drama, it really brought out the more human side of these characters." The animated film, created in partnership with Nintendo and studio Illumination, is a bright and joyful romp designed to please fans of all ages. Nintendo first hit the big screen when it licensed out its beloved characters for the 1993 Super Mario Bros. I was lucky enough to sit down with both of these gaming legends to chat through interpreters about the new Super Mario Bros.

After much anticipation and a flurry of pushback, "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" is here in theaters, having premiered on Wednesday with Chris Pratt voicing ...

From Chris Pratt to Seth Rogen and Anya Taylor-Joy, here's a full breakdown of the voice cast in 'The Super Mario Bros. Movie.'