Hi fellow animation fans, welcome to my review of The Super Mario Bros, Movie.
Synopsis: Hoping to make it big in the plumbing business the Mario brothers, Mario (Chris Pratt) and Luigi (Charlie Day) head out to take on a massive job, where a surprise discovery whisks them off to another dimension. Luigi ends up in the Gloomy Forest where he is eventually captured by Bowser (Jack Black) who wants to take over the Mushroom Kingdom, and Mario ends up in in a mushroom forest not far from Mushroom City. It is here that Mario meets Princess Peach (Anya Taylor-Joy) and together they decide to team up to save Mario's brother and to keep Bowser from taking over the Mushroom Kingdom.
The Good:
* I found the animation to be excellent, whether it is the bright, flashy Mushroom Kingdom or the dark gloominess of the Dark Forest. The clean animation also has many easter eggs in the background for eagle eyed Mario fans to spot.
* The voiceover work was brilliant, especially that of Jack Black who just brought so much depth to the character of Bowser.
* As a fan of the games I also quite enjoyed some of the obscure references, such as the guards saying "the Princess is in another castle", a line that is used in the first couple of Super Mario videogames as you complete each castle.
* I also found the music to be extremely catchy, which can also be a downside (see below).
* I also actually liked that the story was kept fairly simple, after all this is mainly aimed at a younger audience and to attract new fans. It was also quite amusing for young and old fans.
The Bad:
* I did find it a little difficult to get used to Chris Pratt as Mario, he did eventually grow on me though.
* The songs are catchy and if you watch with children one in particular will drive you crazy as they sing "Peaches, Peaches, Peaches" all afternoon.
* Mario and Luigi's family seemed very unsupportive of their sons which I just didn't feel was right.
IMDB 7/10 Rotten Tomatoes 59% My Rating 9/10
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| Chris Pratt and Charlie Day are The Super Mario Bros. |
Do you happen to know by any chance the name of an old family movie that had a girl name Allie dressed in blue and she was adventurous and tomboyish and she had a friend who was girly and scaredy and wore a white shirt and plaid skirt and there was a gang of boys who like to tease the girls. In one scene they throw a mouse at Allie’s friend when she’s on the toilet at the woods and she screams a lot. Other scene I remember is when at the end they all go together to a mountain, Allie, her friends and the boys in bikes, and allie’s friend is like “I think we should go back we shouldn’t be doing this” and then when they get to the hill they spy on a trailer in some deserty land cause they thing someone is an alien and they want to look at the evidence but at the end it happens there were no aliens and the parents of Allie congratulate her for being brave for some reason. I want to find that movie so bad ðŸ˜
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