Director: Aaron Horvath, Michal Jelenic, Pierre Leduc
Genre: Animation/
Family/ Action/ Adventure/ Comedy
Runtime: 92
minutes
Year:
2023
Starring: Chris Pratt, Charlie Day, Anya Taylor-Joy, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Rogen, Fred Armisen
Description: A plumber
named Mario (Chris Pratt) travels through an underground labyrinth with his
brother Luigi (Charlie Day), trying to save a captured princess (Anya
Taylor-Joy).
Review: Thirty years ago, there was a movie adaptation of the wildly popular Super
Mario games. This was a giant failure. I’m glad they decided to give it another
try, in the form of an animation. “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” is such a fun film.
In this movie, an origina
story of Mario and Luigi has been created. Thus, we get to see the family of
the plumber brothers for the first time. They just started their own company
and have not yet managed to get jobs. When they do, their first job goes
horribly wrong. In addition, the New York borough of Brooklyn suffers from
overflowing sewers. Since Mario and Luigi could use a little success, they
decide to “save New Yorj”. But instead, they get sucked into a sewer pipe and
end up in underground world. Luigi is stuck in the dark world of Bowser and
Mario meet Princess Peach in her Mushroom Kingdom.
Once Mario and his brother have
entered this world, the writers pull out all stops to match the games, complete
with power-ups. It looks great and it’s tons of fun. They did change up Peach’s
character a bit. Instead of playing the damsel in distress, as usual in the
games, she fights along with Mario this time. And I liked this change.
Even though the world if
Super Mario is already quite extensive and diverse, they ingeniously manage to
involve Mario Kart and the Donkey Kong series in the adventure. And Jack Black
voicing Bowser is probably the best choice of the entire film.
Videogame adaptations have
always been tricky, but the succeeded here. “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” is a
colorful, action-packed, adventurous and funny film for all ages and a guaranteed
good time.
Rating: 4/ 5
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