Mario coin block The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Celebrate over 40 years of Mario with the Super Mario Bros. The Movie. If you love Mario like that this film is the most trivial history of the world’s most famous Plumber. For those who play the most recent games you’ll see visual elements coming from the games that will get you excited. As an old head I smiled when they made old school references to the history of the Mario Bros. Especially happy that they focused on Mario and Luigi’s organs as Italian Americans from Brooklyn, over whatever that accent they are doing in the games now is from.

As far as the voice over controversy is concern, I’ll give credit to Chris Pratt whose performance seem truer to Mario than it did his Star power, which is overall weird cause it seems you would hire Pratt to hear his voice come out of Mario. In the opposite of Pratt, it felt like Seth Rogen was trying too hard to assure you knew he was Donkey Kong. None of the voice over choices truly wowed me. The only talent worth it was Jack Black. He was not the best King Koopa, but he gave us to ballets in the film that were definitely Jack Black and that was good for some laughing.

I cannot see anyone disliking the film. If you’re a true die-hard Mario fan you’ll notice that animation is up to pair with the visually amazing worlds Nintendo has built in these games. The colorfulness will generate with anyone who loves animated movies and the story is grown up enough to keep everyone interested (Does not help that everyone loves Mario Mario. Right?)