We never thought we’d be typing this sentence, but it appears we have a bit of a The Last Jedi situation with The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Now that the film is out in the wild for the world to see, critics and audiences are divided right down the middle as to whether or not Mario’s first big-screen outing in the 21st century was a hit or a miss.
The most up-to-date information over on film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes shows a meager 53 percent critic rating for the film, whereas audiences have received Mario’s adventure a lot more positively, landing a near-perfect 96 percent rating.
A common critique found while perusing the summaries of critic scores on the site reveals a handful of common themes – namely, a lack of narrative depth, that the film doesn’t have much of anything to say, and that it’s a borderline checklist to service fans of the long-running video game series. For a film that is ultimately marketed to and geared towards children, is that such a bad thing? We don’t think anyone is going in expecting an Academy Award-chasing and thought provoking social commentary from a movie which stars Chris Pratt as a plumber duking it out with Jack Black’s turtle-dragon-man.
In the case of We Got This Covered, our reviewer absolutely adored the film – stating that it achieved exactly what it set out to do. It’s also primed to be a smash-hit at the box office, which got us thinking that it’s time for Nintendo to re-release a rare Mario movie. No, not the god-awful live-action one.
Published: Apr 5, 2023 09:37 pm