Super Mario Movie

I kinda get that decision alright though... the Mario game voice is iconic, but it's also super over-the-top. it works well with short snippets of in-game dialogue, but for a whole feature length piece with tonnes of more nuanced dialogue and emotion it might be a bit much, and a bit grating, and end up hurting the movie. Though they could've perhaps found a happier medium than Chris Pratt. I'll still give it a watch though, and judge based on the end product.

it's a very simple story for kids with a tonne of references for older mario fans. Your mileage with the film depends heavily on how many of the references you get, great visuals, the actors play it very straight with the characters, so very little christ pratt being chris pratt with an accent etc, but the film aims very young so while its refreshing to have the characters played straight, they do not actually have a lot of content for those characters. The film also goes very quickly, like it's faster then the sonic movies quick. Overall visually true to the source material and it's heart is in the right place just dont expect to have it leave an impact

Oh the editing suuuuuuuuuuuucks, that is my biggest criticism, the film is edited badly and there are quite a few of those 'this will look great in 3D' shots where a character is making a face right towards the audience or throwing something at the screen etc which makes me wonder if thats because the film is delibrately aimed young and kids are more likely to go see 3D films or something.

I don't see how you grew up with the games and don't love this, it wasn't aimed at me but it didn't insult me. Wonderful.

Not a 7.9, no? 😉

on track for biggest debut for an animation movie globally ever, second in the US behind Incredibles 2.

I grew up with Mario, it's an early memory and he (and Yoshi) are tattooed on me. I took my 5 year old (who's Mario mad) to see this today and we both enjoyed it as much as we should when you take into context how it's aimed at both kids and parents. Turning on my 'movie brain' which is generally just 'enjoy it for what it is without critical analysis' it did a great job. 90 minutes of fun, with great visuals and plenty of laughs with the prospect that there might be another one in the works.

Sidenote, my child dug his head deep into my ear and said 'Dad, I didn't like when Shyguy took Luigi' 😂

Felt they did a pretty decent job with this. It’s top-loaded with a load of references to previous Mario stuff, so fun for anyone into Mario, but I think they also did a good job laying out the rules of the world so that anyone who hasn’t played the games will understand what is happening.

The story itself is pretty thin, so not the best movie at all, but more fun than anything else I’ve brought Rawr Jr. to lately. My only nit-pick is that Peach accepts Mario a little too automatically. Would have made sense to give it a couple more minutes of setup before she agrees to train him.

I suspect they’ll do a sequel to this, and I guess there’s plenty of scope left in the Mario / Nintendo games for one.

Well, it is their bread and butter. Mess with the Mario IP and it could impact games & merch sales.

Apparently there is a rumor that someone at Illumination was going to pivot the whole film to focus on Peach as the hero who would save Mario but Nintendo allegedly rapped their knuckles and reminded them of what the title of the project was. Not sure how much credence I’d give that rumor, but I was somewhat concerned that Peach would be shown as an overpowered girl-boss type character. Thankfully however, she comes more across as a fellow teammate to Mario and an experienced guide to him since he was new to the mushroom world. I felt that complimented the spirit of the games where Mario, Luigi, Peach & Toad would often be co-operative playable characters.

Although I’m often on the fence about Illumination’s stuff, I do feel that this film does compare a lot better than to the Disney/Pixar stuff that came out recently. If they can keep working with Nintendo in the same way as this film, there could be some more good stuff down the road.

Saw the movie. I think they captured the characters and world well. Some good jokes and sequences for fans. They could have fleshed things out a lot more and used more of the brilliant music from the games. But they've lots of sequels for that. It does not detract from the games, and because it's been so successful, Nintendo are big winners here.

I went to see this yesterday and I really thought it was awful. The visual style was OK but otherwise it was one of the worst animated movies I’ve seen in recent memory.

Took the kids, very meh movie. Kids weren't too impressed. Both preferred DC League of Super-Pets last year, still one of their favourites!

Just back from it myself, along with a 10 year old Nintendo (but rarely Mario) fan.

And we both loved it- I mean it's a v good 8/10, don't go expecting LA Confidential.

It absolutely does not take itself serious, it's pure kids stuff with lot's of Mario Easter eggs but also some laugh out loud moments too. I loved Lumalee (the child voiced blue star in the cage, perpetually dwelling on existential crisis). Also Jack Black's Bowser was great, and Peach was good too.

Seth Rogen being just Seth Rogen again, as another tired Seth Rogen character dragged Donkey Kong down but everyone else seemed to be happy to be their characters and have fun.

Went to see this on the weekend.

My kid enjoyed it, I did too despite it being a total fan service :)

That's 4 for 4 now in terms of computer games moves/series

Last of us, Sonic, Sonic 2, Super Mario Bros.

The age of the super hero movie is over, let us commence the age of the computer game adaption movie!!!!!!

My kids enjoyed it (big Mario fans anyway), I thought it was precisely what you'd expect it to be, just like the Sonic movies, turn your brain off for an hour or so, a Ronseal type of movie, not the disaster the reviews made it out to be, it was grand.

I know this is crazy talk but between this and TLOU, maybe producers in Hollywood will start to realise that when you take on an adaptation and make a genuine attempt to be somewhat faithful to the source material, people who liked said source material will turn up to watch the adaptations.

Didn't this film only open in Japan this past weekend? Be interesting to see how it does there, though not sure what cinema numbers are usually like over there, especially for Western movies.

Surprisingly this is being released on VOD on the 16th of May