The Super Mario Bros. Movie Movie Review

Movie Analysis & Review

The Super Mario Bros. Movie, released on 05 April 2023, is an Family, Comedy, Adventure, Animation film (Released) with a runtime of 93 minutes. Produced by Universal Pictures, Illumination, Nintendo in Japan, United States of America. Directed by Aaron Horvath, the movie features performances by Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Rogen, Fred Armisen, Sebastian Maniscalco. The film had a budget of $100.0 million and grossed $1,362.0 million.
Plot Summary: While working underground to fix a water main, Brooklyn plumbers—and brothers—Mario and Luigi are transported down a mysterious pipe and wander into a magical new world. But when the brothers are separated, Mario embarks on an epic quest to find Luigi.

Cast and Crew

Cast: Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Rogen, Fred Armisen, Sebastian Maniscalco
Crew: Ed Skudder (Head of Story), Chris Meledandri (Producer), Shigeru Miyamoto (Producer), Toyokazu Nonaka (Consulting Producer), Robert Taylor (Associate Producer), Aaron Horvath (Director), Michael Jelenic (Director), Brian Tyler (Original Music Composer)
Director: Aaron Horvath

Overview of The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Release Date: 2023-04-05
Runtime: 93 min
Genres: Family, Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Status: Released
Budget: $100,000,000
Revenue: $1,362,000,000
Production: Universal Pictures, Illumination, Nintendo
Countries: Japan, United States of America
Certification (IN): U
OTT Providers: JioHotstar
Keywords: gorilla, plumber, villain, anthropomorphism, magic mushroom, based on video game, toad, aftercreditsstinger, duringcreditsstinger, damsel in distress, piano, brother brother relationship, illumination, evil king
External: IMDB

Story & Plot

While working underground to fix a water main, Brooklyn plumbers—and brothers—Mario and Luigi are transported down a mysterious pipe and wander into a magical new world. But when the brothers are separated, Mario embarks on an epic quest to find Luigi.

Trailer

Reviews

Chris Sawin: _The Super Mario Bros. Movie_ is like Fruit Stripe Gum. It’s super colorful and eyecatching, but it seems to instantly lose its flavor and charm. The film is visually stunning and Jack Black is outstanding as Bowser. The big action sequences are like big budget versions of the Mario video games play…

CinemaSerf: I am not the demographic and to be honest this isn't really a film that I was ever going to like either. The story is beyond simple and the game-based animation – though expertly crafted – did absolutely nothing for me as ninety minutes rolled along devoid of characterisations, thrill or much sense …

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"The Super Mario Bros. Movie delivers everything I wanted. Packed with fantastic references that will warm the hearts of those who lived and still live with Nintendo and Ma…

rsanek: This and Last of Us are two recent movies-from-games that have really impressed me. Saw this in a theatre in Brooklyn, really couldn't ask for a better place to do so.

Nathan: The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a fun ride through the iconic world of Mario. The screenplay is admittedly very bare bones, and the characters lack depth, but the film still manages to capture the essence of the beloved video game franchise. The writers do not attempt to do anything beyond create a n…

holdenc: SOOOOO FIRE I LOVEEEE MARIO PLEEASE MAKE ANOTHER I LOVE YOU MARIO <3

Per Gunnar Jonsson: All my three kids used to play Super Mario Bros games and two of them played them a lot when they were younger so this movie was kind of a must-see movie for us.

For myself , this felt very much like a movie made for Super Mario Bros fans and less for the general audience.

The characters, the …

YouShouldKnow: Probably the best thing about the movie is that it doesn't take itself seriously. There's no attempt to make this an epic movie. It just brings the game's characters to life.
They do so while keeping the art style in line with what you see in the game. The story of the very simple game is expanded …

pimpskitters: About as good as a Mario movie can be I suppose. It hits all of the reference points from the game, then shoe horns in some toxic bro dude politics. Overall just found it exhausting after a while. There is this new mode of pleased with itself mentality that so many of these types of movies hit. Its …

r96sk: It's a good!

My experience of <em>'Mario'</em> starts and ends with <em>'Mario Kart'</em>, which I haven't actually played since back in the day on my Nintendo DS and even then I had no understanding of the franchise itself; just treated it as a normal racing game. I was an Xbox kid growing up (t…

tmdb47940942: It's been a while since I watched the film. But I loved the film so much! I'm not as big of a Nintendo fan as I used to be, and I thought I wouldn't care about the film at all, but I was wrong. Nintendo's world translated into the big screen hit all the right notes. Chris Pratt being the voice of Ma…

ViolettSmith: It's been a while since I watched the film. But I loved the film so much! I'm not as big of a Nintendo fan as I used to be, and I thought I wouldn't care about the film at all, but I was wrong. Nintendo's world translated into the big screen hit all the right notes. Chris Pratt being the voice of Ma…

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