Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE REVIEWS"

Episode Date: April 5, 2023

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnalyticThe first Super Mario Bros. Movie reviews are in — and they're not quite super. The new animated movie from video game company Nintendo and Minions studio Illumination is earning high scores as a faithful adaptation of the Mario games, but as one critic puts it: the Mario movie "may complete the level, but it doesn't quite nail the leap to the top of the flagpole." On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, only 55 percent of critics gave The Super Mario Bros. Movie a positive reaction, which is below the 60 percent threshold to qualify as "fresh."Mario's 55 percent "rotten" score ties 2015's Minions as Illumination's third-worst rated movie in the studio's 13-year history: only 2011's Hop (24%) and 2012's Dr. Seuss' The Lorax (54%) fared worse. The score is also lower than 2018's Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (58%) and 2017's Despicable Me 3 (59%).Outside of Illumination, The Super Mario Bros. Movie is scoring lower than other big-screen video game adaptations like Pokémon Detective Pikachu (68% fresh), Sonic the Hedgehog (64%) and Sonic 2 (69%), and the wholly-animated The Angry Birds Movie 2 (73%). See a round-up of critics' Super Mario Bros. Movie reviews below.source: The Super Mario Bros. Movie Reviews: What Critics Are Saying (comicbook.com)Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In the most unfortunate news you can possibly imagine, the Super Mario Bros. movie reviews are in, and let's just say that it's not looking good. Because only, it only has a 55%, I believe, on writing tomatoes right now from critics that's seen the movie early, of course. And it's below the 60% threshold to qualify as fresh.

So the 55% rotten tomato score for, Super Mario Bros. It's very unfortunate because if you don't know, Illumination made this movie, which is the creators of Despicable Me. So you would think the animation is on point, which it is. That's not the

bad part of this movie. The animation is on point. A lot of people did recommend to see it in 3D. So that's not the point. It's the story and just how the story literally makes no sense, which a lot of people be like, well, don't usually Mario movies or Mario video games story make no sense. Technically, you can say it makes no sense, but in the video game aspect, it makes all the sense in the world. But in a movie aspect, when you have to have a point A and a point B, and you have to get to like point C at the end, it's like we don't really see the whole

storyline being cohesive, which it makes sense. But anyways, so Illumination just received the first 55% on Rotten Tomatoes. And actually, no, I think it tied. the 2015 minion movie as Illumination's third worst rated movie in the studio's 13-year history. So, of course, Illumination is not used to putting out these duds as far as movies. And it only is highlighted by the fact that this is Mario, like literally the savior of video games. I know a lot of people like to give that title to other like unknown. I'm not going to say unknown, but other like random games like Tetris or whatever. but for Mario

he was actually the savior of video games I believe and he literally carried a whole franchise I mean not franchise a whole company in Nintendo for a while and holding them down to the point where they could try to branch out and create new IPs

but Mario was the one where you come back to where you're like okay this is a surefire hit so for the movie to have a very low rating from Ryan Tomatoes after being made by illumination and being promoted by Nintendo, it's a very surprising blow, or just surprising news in general,

for the public. For me personally, I'm definitely planning on seeing this movie simply because my love for video games is unmatched, and I would definitely say I'm a nerd when it comes to video game or just gaming in general, and Mario's one of those where you just have to pay your respects and go see the movie.

because as a gamer, you know what Mario means to the industry. So anyways, for this movie to be super trash, it's unfortunate, but I'm still going to see it. I probably just won't see it as soon as it dropped. But a lot of the different reviews was saying, like, Entertainment Weekly said, quote, it's all quite fun with a good sense of humor and a consistent computer animated aesthetic,

which basically is talking about the illumination influence about the animation. because if you don't know, Illumination, it's probably one of the better animated studio or animation studios in the business as far as movies go. And for that, you know, it's the same here.

They said especially during the Rainbow Road sequence that you would probably be having more fun just playing a game together instead. That's funny. So I think they were talking about the movie. They were talking about you'd rather just play the video game

than watch the movie, which, I mean, kind of makes sense. The video game is definitely hard to match up to. I was just comparing to the last Mario movie the live iteration of Mario which i don't know why did they a live iteration but that was just complete trash so anyways uh the end no i want to use another one uh variety variety says quote there have been approximately 50 movies based on video games and most of them are terrible mario presides over a digital playground that lifts the spirit to a place of a split

second wonder and the super mario bro's movie it's true to that. It's ingenuity, it's infectious. 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. Interesting. All right.

And then Screen Crush said, quote, The Super Mario Bros. movie could definitely be better, but it couldn't be more slavishly devoted. What is it? What slavishly? What type of word? Slavishly. I ain't never heard that before.

devoted to the look, feel characters, okay, they say a bunch of stuff. Basically, it said, the movie ain't much. Barely 80 minutes of colorful action and winking game references. As a feature-length commercial for the Nintendo games is reasonably effective. Then the Hollywood reporter said, quote, The plot is as basic as can be. And the character development is clearly not a priority. delivers a reasonably

faithful big screen adaption that while it features plenty of juvenile humor wisely doesn't lean toward broad satire. Fans will be delighted by the many Easter eggs including the vocal cameos by original Mario voice.

But I don't really, like how are you going to pick out the original voice of Mario? Do people like know what that sounds like? I mean, of course you do but it's like in a movie will you be able to pick that out? Hopefully they make it like a point to say like, oh, this is what we're trying to do instead of just having a one of those, see or blinking you miss the type of cameos.

I saw another thing when they was talking about Chris Bratt as being the voice of Mario being like one of the main detriments because if you don't know, let's just say the casting of Chris Pratt as Mario wasn't well received. And let's just leave it at that because, yeah apparently he didn't do any better in the movie so uh yeah i guess they gave him like a new york accent or something when he's italian anyways um let's just keep going so anyways yeah that's the super

mario bro's a movie review uh wrap up in general uh so if you see the movie hopefully you enjoy it and you go in with very low expectations that hopefully it is uh your low bar that you've already said for the movie is surpass which in turn makes you enjoy the movie the movie So anyways, click my link to your my bio, let me know one of my social medias. What do you think about the Mario movie reviews coming out by critics? And do you think, if you've seen the movie, do you think is as bad as people are making it out to be?