families lamenting the fact that it’s been months since a major kids movie hit theaters), this is going to be an absolute godsend.īeautifully animated, and about as faithful and affectionate as a corporate cash-in is possible to get - but it still doesn’t come close to the experience of actually playing the games. Nobody is reinventing the blue shell, but Horvath and Jelenic do an excellent job of recreating the Mushroom Kingdom from the recent video games while adding a decidedly cinematic flair. Kids’ movies can be - and often are - so much worse. Parents shouldn’t expect a Pixar-level experience, but Matthew Fogel’s script has as at least much narrative heft as the best Mario games. You don’t have to be a Mario fan to respond to it, but the film is going to remind the millions who are why they call it a joystick.
Mario presides over a digital playground that lifts the spirit to a place of split-second wonder, and “The Super Mario Bros. Then again, not all video games are the same - the funky nihilist hellscapes of Grand Theft Auto couldn’t be further removed from the interactive innocence of the Mario franchise.
It’s not that I’m hostile to video games it’s that the game and film mediums are so different. I’ve had limited patience even for the ones that “work,” like the coolly depersonalized “Resident Evil” series or that first “Lara Croft” film. There have been approximately 50 movies based on video games, and most of them are terrible. Movie is a colorful - albeit thinly plotted - animated adventure that has about as many Nintendos as Nintendont's.
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