Mario Movie

Super Mario and his brother Luigi are “the most iconic and beloved characters in the gaming universe,” in the words of Chris Meledandri, founder and head of the ...

The Super Mario Bros. Movie willfully avoids anything creative or ambitious. Mario and Luigi deserve so much better.

That means we’ll get a sequel, and I expect another cycle of the debate of “critics vs. With the nostalgia craze merging with the power of Nintendo and Illumination, “The Super Mario Bros. I suspect we will get a ton of films from the NES universe, including “Donkey Kong Country” and “The Legend of Zelda” (and let’s not forget “Kid Icarus”). I enjoyed the choices made by the team in the structure of Donkey Kong Country, and the Rainbow Road “Super Mario Kart” sequence is well-directed. It is “The [Chris Farley](/cast-and-crew/chris-farley) Show” of family entertainment, mistaking making references to something that was “awesome” for actually making a movie. Or a version that unpacks like “The LEGO Movie” that's more sharply aware of its references and world-building—something that even incorporates the player like that movie does in the end. Fans of this movie will shout from the rooftops that the scripting for something called “The Super Mario Bros. Although Luigi lands in the pipeline that drops him immediately in the dark lands and makes him Bowser's prisoner—a dumb decision that sidelines him for an hour—Mario meets Princess Peach, who introduces him to power-ups. And so all the question-mark cubes get a chance to shine as Mario grows, shrinks, and even turns into a raccoon. Some Nintendo easter eggs in the background of these initial scenes should produce a small smile from people of my generation, and there's a bit of inspiration structurally, like a clever early shot in which Mario and Luigi race through the city in a side-scrolling manner that mimics the earlier games. [Bob Hoskins](/cast-and-crew/bob-hoskins) and [John Leguizamo](/cast-and-crew/john-leguizamo), but the new “The Super Mario Bros. Mario has come a long way since the notoriously awful 1993 version of his adventure starring

When Shigeru Miyamoto first created a princess-rescuing plumber more than four decades ago, Nintendo's future mascot was just a collection of pixels who ...

and the direction of that single lead person brought it together into this one cohesive structure," he recalled. "I do watch a variety of movies. Until then, beyond the odd "Wahoo!" Movie," a major new animated film released in theaters by Hollywood giant Universal Pictures. "That's when we met Chris. But in order to successfully bring that authentic Nintendo spirit to the movie, "I was certain that we needed to be involved, otherwise it could not be done," said Miyamoto.

Video-game-inspired adventure is a colorful, creative story with more twists and turns than the plumbing under your sink.

(You know, the people you spend time with when you’re not playing video games.) Meanwhile, co-directors Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic keep the waterways flowing, infusing the narrative with a host of colorful characters — including a thingamabob called a Lumalee (Juliet Jelenic, the director’s daughter) who says things like, “There is no sunshine — only darkness,” in the most adorably nihilistic little squeak of a voice. While the pretty production design will, overall, almost certainly appeal to children, the apocalyptic Dark Lands may be too intense, with scenes of fiery destruction that earn the film’s PG rating. As they try to repair a massive water main break, the brothers descend into a cavernous sewer system that spits them out into two rival underworlds: Mario in the vibrant Mushroom Kingdom, a place with clear echoes of “Alice in Wonderland,” where he meets Toad (Keegan-Michael Key), a talking, humanoid fungus. As in the original game, Mario (voice of Chris Pratt) and his dimwitted brother, Luigi (Charlie Day), are plumbers, here struggling to jump-start their new business in Brooklyn. Luigi, unfortunately, gets sucked into the Dark Lands, ruled by the evil Bowser (Jack Black), who has the power to destroy the kaleidoscopic Mushroom Kingdom.

Fans of The Super Mario Bros Movie have issued a warning to those planning on seeing the much-hyped animated film in cinemas.

Oh, and stay until the VERY end of the credits. While the film also features a light-hearted mid-credits scene, The Super Mario Bros Movie uses the very end of its runtime to tease a major character from the Mario games. “If you love the games and everything, you’ll love this. “I honestly hate Post Credit Scenes in films like Mario because nobody is gonna stay for after the credits since it isn’t a Marvel movie,” one person wrote. That’s because it features at the very end of the credits. [The Super Mario Bros Movie](/topic/the-super-mario-bros-movie) has been receiving poor reviews, [including from The Independent’s Clarisse Loughrey](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/the-super-mario-bros-movie-rating-review-chris-pratt-b2314368.html).

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

From the retro ringtone to the map from Super Mario World, here are all of the hidden details and easter eggs in The Super Mario Bros Movie. Let's a-go!

Thankfully it still works, and after that big brute departs the phone rings out with a ringtone familiar to those of us who (or, in my case, whose brother) were purveyors of cuboid underdogs in the early-2000s console war. There's sort of a plot, if you squint — [Mario](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/mario-games-switch) and Luigi are plucked from Brooklyn to save the Mushroom Kingdom, etcetera — but the script largely serves as a mechanism to move us from one familiar object to the next. Here, then, a list of all the best easter eggs spotted in The Super Mario Bros. Luigi and Mario, plucky so the brothers are, get into a fight with a sports shade-wearing giga-chad, in the process of which Luigi's not-an-iPhone is smashed on the ground. Frankenstein-ing your mum's favourite Minions into existence) isn't a movie so much as a guided tour of [Nintendo](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/best-nintendo-switch-games)'s greatest hits of the past 30-plus years. [This Mario Kart-inspired TAG Heuer watch is the collab of 2022](/watches/article/mario-kart-tag-heuer-watch-2022)

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.”

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).

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 ...

Nintendo and Illumination have released The Super Mario Bros. Movie movie to theaters. Here is everything we know about when Nintendo's movie will come to ...

Rise of Gru was available to stream on Peacock exclusively roughly three months after release. Movie will be available to stream on Peacock sometime this summer, likely in the months of June or July 2023. Rise of Gru streamed [exclusively on Peacock](https://imp.i305175.net/c/482924/828265/11640?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.peacocktv.com%2Fhelp%2Farticle%2Fminions-the-rise-of-gru&sharedid=polygon.com) in September 2022, and then came to Netflix roughly seven months after its theatrical release. Luckily for Mario fans, Illumination films have historically appeared on several streaming services after theatrical release, including Netflix, so here is everything we know about when or where to stream the new Mario movie. As more confirmed dates come in, we will update this post. This time around, he and his friends are getting the star treatment complete with a full [ensemble cast of A-list celebrities](https://www.polygon.com/23668057/super-mario-bros-movie-red-carpet-cosplay-jack-black-bowser-anya-taylor-joy-peach) paired with a stunningly animated feature film from Illumination, the same studio known for making the [Minions movies](https://www.polygon.com/23186264/minionpalooza-minions-despicable-me).

With The Super Mario Bros Movie in cinemas now – and projected to make a fortune this weekend – talk is already turning to a potential sequel.

Movie 2?](https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/will-there-be-a-super-mario-bros-movie-2-chris-pratt-excited-for-potential-sequel-2104163/) [Post-credits scene explained](https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/what-happens-in-the-super-mario-bros-movies-post-credits-scene-huge-cameo-explained-2104057/) [Jack Black wants Bowser movie](https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/the-super-mario-bros-movie-jack-black-bowser-sequel-2104959/) [Best Easter Eggs](https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/the-super-mario-bros-movie-all-the-best-easter-eggs-cameos-and-nintendo-jokes-2101996/) Movie review](https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/the-super-mario-bros-movie-review-gameplay-is-king-2097635/) [Wario and Waluigi voice speculation](https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/who-chris-pratt-and-charlie-day-want-to-voice-wario-and-waluigi-in-super-mario-bros-sequel-2101729/) [Mario’s accent explained](https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/chris-pratts-mario-accent-explained-2105058/) [How to watch the Mario movie](https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/how-to-watch-the-super-mario-bros-movie-is-it-streaming-2103336/) [Lots of Mario movies planned](https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/chris-pratt-says-get-ready-for-a-lot-of-super-mario-bros-movie-sequels-2100710/) [All actors and characters](https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/the-super-mario-bros-movie-cast-actors-characters-2104401/) [Chris Pratt’s favorite Mario cheat](https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/chris-pratt-reveals-his-favorite-super-mario-cheat-2101613/) [Seth Rogen wants Donkey Kong spinoff](https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/seth-rogan-hints-at-opportunity-for-a-donkey-kong-super-mario-bros-spinoff-2100496/)

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 ...

According to Chris Pratt, there's a special surprise at the end of The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

Covering the good, the bad and the ugly - https://youtu.be/f46IZknN4CE The Super Mario Bros. Movie is finally out today an...

There are thoughts about things that we liked, thoughts about things that we didn't like, and thoughts about all things in between. Just remember, the only review that should matter is your own, so have a read and a watch to see how our views are similar or different to yours. In the above video, Alex and Jim team up to discuss their thoughts on the movie, covering the story, animation, score and that all-important voice cast.