It gets speeding along that beloved rainbow road, with shells flying and Mad Max: Fury Road coming to mind.
The film brings in the big gorilla (Seth Rogen, The Fabelmans) and his simian pals ( Wednesday's Fred Armisen voices Cranky Kong). It's been four decades since Mario Bros initially hit arcades, spinning off from Mario's 1981 introduction in the first Donkey Kong, so there's much to reference. Instead, the fun-enough picture is packed with as many nods to the games as it can possibly fit in - and to as many games as it can manage. Still, while it might star Pratt, there's no The Lego Movie-level smarts, satire and hilarity on offer. Screenwriter Matthew Fogel ( Minions: The Rise of Gru) has kept The Super Mario Bros Movie's story slight, just as Horvath and Jelenic ensure that the tone stays light. Cue a quest, including along the rainbow road, to reunite the brothers, stop Bowser and keep him away from Peach (Anya Taylor-Joy, The Menu) - who definitely isn't a damsel in distress, but the target of Bowser's obsessive affections. On the other side of the tunnel, Mario lands in the Mushroom Kingdom and Luigi ends up Bowser's prisoner. A sewer flood whisks Mario and Luigi out of their own world, after they try to fix it to drum up customers for their plumbing business. Like the 90s flick, they're also transported to another realm where a villainous creature lusts for power- Bowser (Jack Black, Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood) here, with an army of the turtle-like koopas doing his bidding. In those impressive images, Italian Americans Mario (voiced by Chris Pratt, Thor: Love and Thunder) and Luigi (Charlie Day, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) essentially find themselves in the Super Mario Bros version of The Wizard of Oz.
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The Super Mario Bros Movie will help sell more tickets to those, too. It's also unsurprising due to Nintendo's recent success in mirroring the games IRL in Universal's Osaka and Hollywood theme parks. Under directors Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, creators of Teen Titans Go!, the animation looks like it's been ported straight from the console - a feat that's hardly unexpected given that it's all shiny pixels. To do that, the film truly is as enthusiastic about recreating its various source materials as Mario has been about collecting coins, completing levels and saving Princess Peach since way back in his 8-bit days. These are also peak product-to-screen-to-purchase times selling more Super Mario Bros, Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros games is a clear and obvious aim of The Super Mario Bros Movie. The strongest feeling it inspires: making viewers want to bust out their old NES or SNES or Game Boy, or emulators of any of them, or Nintendo's current Switch, and mash buttons as the red-capped, moustachioed, overalls-wearing Mario. If 2023's The Super Mario Bros Movie is a response to its predecessor, it's a happily dutiful one, doing its utmost to copy the video game. It followed its own dark path and hit its own wild blocks, something that stands out even more now that slavish obsession to intellectual property and franchise-building is king. 1993's Bob Hoskins ( Snow White and the Huntsman) and John Leguizamo ( Violent Night)-starring film, the first-ever live-action video game film, isn't terrible.
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While these are peak product-to-screen times - see also: The Last of Us, Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves, Tetris and Air, plus the upcoming Barbie, BlackBerry and latest Transformers flick - Nintendo's plumber siblings were long flushed out of movies thanks to their underperforming first outing. It took 30 years, plus a warp pipe from live-action to animation, but Super Mario Bros finally gained a cinematic mushroom.
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