Look, this is a movie clearly made for 10 year olds and younger, so I'm not entirely mad at it. One of the rare instances where I wish it was longer so it could yell a story. Something this has no interest in doing.

I mean when 2 live-action SONIC THE HEDGEHOG movies actually care about telling a story with characters you care about, then there's no excuse.

But if you're over the age of 14 and legit try to tell me that this is a good movie cause it hits all the nostalgia points and Easter eggs, you gotta grow up beloved.

The ONLY part I actually enjoyed was the Mario Kart sequence. Other than that, your movie I'd weak sauce when the villain, Bowser, and the sidekick, Toad, are the best characters. Luigi is completely sidelined here and turned into a HUGE wimp. His turn to action hero at the end was very sudden and barely works.

Take your kids to see DUNGEONS & DRAGONS instead. This will be on Peacock by May 15th. Sure, this looks great but it's definitely an Illumination movie.

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Not an ounce of soul in here whatsoever, or even an attempt. Which is fine, I guess, since it's a kid's movie, and who gives a shit... but man, kids' movies usually at least *try* to put something of vague interest in there.

Still, it looks fucking great. And I was stoned. So you can do worse, lol.

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...of people who sit around coming up with vague premises and take that all the way to the final stage.

Even DreamWorks gives a shit when making their family animated movies.

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down to hiring Chris Pratt to be the lead, just because

and all that is fine -- obviously there is a demand for such a commodity, especially since the source material is a 40-year-old video game about a jumping blockman composed of 10 pixels

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My son loves all things Mario, Yoshi, etc.

He has damn near every Mario game you can get and he'll even go back to the OG Nintendo game from time to time. We're doing this and then hitting Universal Studios for Super Nintendo World the last weekend of the month for his birthday.

He's about to turn 8 so as long as they make him laugh a lot I'm going to have a fucking blast.

I'd say that age range is perfect for this.

My theater was packed and the little kids were dying laughing at all the stuff. So yeah, I'm sure you two will have a blast.

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the animation alone is incredible..especially kart section.

i legit lol'd at a couple of gags, and i was surprised by the amount of 80s references.. (the song selections..and bender quote from Breakfast Club??)

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Navem nu, cuando sol
Tutu nu, vondo nos nu
Vita em, no continous non
Nos nu ekta nos sepe ta, amen

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We sweat and life is not safe
To swim or to touch not
When we unite we hedge amen

This didn't need much more than it was, though I agree it could have been "better" in terms of the story.

But I don't know that it needed a better story. It was a fun video game adventure that absolutely flew by.

The fan service on this was HEAVY.

The score, the countless little references. The motherfucking BLUE SHELL!

If you play the games, this was beautiful, because they crammed *so* much into it, without making it feel forced or bloated.

This was a dope love letter that rewards those of us who have played the games over the course of generations.

I can't praise it enough.

Yes, the story was basic. And in any other movie that would have killed it IMO.

But they gave us SO. MUCH. MARIO.

They brought the games to life in a way that actually felt like the games themselves.

This is easily on par with Sonic, despite Sonic giving us a more relatable and human story. Sonic 2 hit the gas on fan service and it worked. So perhaps Mario hits the gas on the relatable, human elements when it gets a sequel.

Love it, and can't wait to see them build this out.

I do want to see them improve the story elements, while keeping everything else that made this magical. I'm just glad to see this succeed.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/super-mario-bros-box-office-crazy-great-1235375839/

Through Sunday, Super Mario has grossed $353.3 million domestically and $339.8 million overseas for a jaw-dropping global tally of $693.1 million through Sunday before crossing $700 million on Monday. Its foreign cume includes an impressive second-weekend gross of $102.5 million from 71 markets after dipping less than 28 percent (final foreign numbers were also up from Sunday’s estimate of $94 million). Mexico leads with a huge $52 million, already the third-best showing of all time for a Hollywood animated film.

The animated sensation smashed numerous records in its launch over the long Easter holiday. And by mid-week, Mario zoomed past Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania to rank as the top-grossing movie of the year to date at the domestic, international and worldwide box office. It’s also now the No. 1 video game adaptation of all time after passing up Warcraft ($439.4 million) and Pokémon: Detective Pikachu ($449.8 million).

A plethora of new movies opened nationwide this weekend to mixed results, led by Universal’s modern-day vampire comedy Renfield and Screen Gems’ supernatural thriller The Pope’s Exorcist.

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