movie The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) | Chris Pratt | $1.3B WW | Out now on digital

[Roberto]

1 hour ago, justjess said:

 

Jack Black is a national treasure.

 

The "Peaches, Peaches, Peaches" moment was so funny. 

 

OMG, this movie becoming an absolute smash. 

[MadonnasBoyfriend]

I want a game I want a sequel I want a peach spin off game

[Shawn]

4 hours ago, Godontop said:

Universal Studios was smart for making Nintendo land in Cali and opening another Nintendo themed area in Florida park. 🙃 Can't wait to see this

I'm scared for the land, the Hollywood one was already dangerously in-demand & crowded prior to the movie breaking worldwide records.  Even 2 years later, the Osaka one is an ordeal & a half.

[Eternium]

29 minutes ago, MadonnasBoyfriend said:

I want a game I want a sequel I want a peach spin off game

12 hours ago, Harrier said:

This movie was enjoyable enough. However, I don't see myself showing up for another movie. 

 

If only they could just let it be a cute fun movie and move on, but its a smash, so we're gonna get 5 more of these things 

The movie was great. The only issues were the dialogue and some of the pacing but other than that, it was excellent. 

And why wouldn’t we want another film? There are still so many untapped characters and Nintendo has so many franchises that could make excellent films (Zelda, Metroid, Kid Icarus, Kirby, Donkey Kong, Fire Emblem, etc.) and then they could culminate in a Smash Bros. film. 

1 hour ago, Blade Runner said:

People who like this movie are so insecure. 

 

"Despite what critics are sa-"

"I loved it. Critics took a L"

"Critics are just tast-"

Etc etc. 

 

So funny. 

What you’re doing is called “projecting,” sis.  

[Blade Runner]

9 minutes ago, Eternium said:

 

What you’re doing is called “projecting,” sis.  

Sure. jdgj

[MadonnasBoyfriend]

58 minutes ago, Eternium said:

The movie was great. The only issues were the dialogue and some of the pacing but other than that, it was excellent. 

And why wouldn’t we want another film? There are still so many untapped characters and Nintendo has so many franchises that could make excellent films (Zelda, Metroid, Kid Icarus, Kirby, Donkey Kong, Fire Emblem, etc.) and then they could culminate in a Smash Bros. film. 

What you’re doing is called “projecting,” sis.  

That's old. I meant new ones obvi

[Shawn]

Deadline increased their prediction again:

 

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SATURDAY PM:

 

“It’s still growing tonight” says one rival studio source who happens to be watching the non-stop booming late night ticket sales for Illumination/Universal’s Super Mario Bros Movie which clocked a $56M Saturday (+2% over Friday), for what is now a $146M 3-day, a massive $33,1K theater average, and a record 5-day of –wow – $204.2M per recent industry figures. 

 

If overseas is still at $173M by tomorrow AM, then the new global opening record for an animated movie set by Super Mario Bros stands at $377.2M.

 

[ICLDXU4HS]

This was cute, short-while fun. I thought a lot of the traditionally simplistic character and world design from the games didn't translate well and just felt underwhelming on the big screen, though. The real world was actually done best because they had more freedom there, I suppose. 

 

Wreck-It-Ralph and even the Sonic movies are way superior so it's a bit frustrating this will be outdoing both many times over and receive 28 sequels but it is what it is. 

[Lovett]

6 hours ago, Blade Runner said:

People who like this movie are so insecure. 

 

"Despite what critics are sa-"

"I loved it. Critics took a L"

"Critics are just tast-"

Etc etc. 

 

So funny. 

You're so mad.

[Roberto]

4 hours ago, Shawn said:

Deadline increased their prediction again:

 

 

OMG. How many times has the prediction increase?  I'm pretty sure it started with 125M or something and now it's over 200M locally. 

[Eternium]

8 hours ago, MadonnasBoyfriend said:

That's old. I meant new ones obvi

We need Super Princess Peach 2, immediately. Maybe she’ll get another game when she gets her spin-off movie.

1 hour ago, Roberto said:

OMG. How many times has the prediction increase?  I'm pretty sure it started with 125M or something and now it's over 200M locally. 

It’s crazy because it was supposed to have significantly fewer theaters but they just keep adding new ones since it’s so in demand. They were expecting a $225M global opening and now it’s almost already the highest grossing videogame film ever.

[Rotunda]

My only real issue with the movie was that they seemed to move really quickly. Each location was really just a blip. 

 

Visually everything looked nice, and Lumalee added some great humor to the show.

[#Beautiful]

i was gonna watch then i found out who voiced mario

[feelslikeadream]

I've been a Nintendo stan since I was 2 years old, but this was objectively bad. The main culprit was the writing  They seriously used "mamma mia" as a joke 4 times like  The laziness. I saw it in a sold out theater and there were soooo many jokes that got ZERO laughs

 

It was of course fun to catch so many game references, but that was pretty much all I enjoyed. There are plenty of really great children's movies with strong character development, inventive plot, narrative coherence, etc., so there's no excuse for this. I just hope the next one gets a much better writer.

[Fevesy]

Went to see this last night - I laughed a few times from the game references. Lumalee was pretty funny. I didn't expect some deep plot so it was just OK for me 

[Goaty]

The writing wasn’t great and it suffered from weird pacing but overall this was so fun. 
 

some of the jokes didn’t land but when they did, they did — bowser at the piano, the existential luma in the cage 

 

 

[BNF91]

This is doing fantastic but let's not forget this is a full 5-day opening, Frozen 2 had a regular 3-day debut. Kind of odd and skewed to say that it's the biggest animated debut ever. 

[Poxy]

Miss Luma was the star of the show  they are setting up the DEMAND for Rosalina to make her entrance (though Daisy first pls)

 

Now that I’ve seen it, I agree it moved way too fast. We literally JUST meet Peach and the next thing we see she asks Mario to help her, no discussion 

 

I hope the sequel gets a much better writer, yes. I hope they don’t interpret this success as his doing because it’s certainly NOT  he is lucky people adore Mario so much and that Nintendo did their best to make a faithful [visual] adaptation.

 

Peach and Bowser were also very great by the way, but I also feel they could have done more with Toad

[jjmed59]

34 minutes ago, BNF91 said:

This is doing fantastic but let's not forget this is a full 5-day opening, Frozen 2 had a regular 3-day debut. Kind of odd and skewed to say that it's the biggest animated debut ever. 

3 day weekends have a much bigger advantage than 5 day weekends. Had it been 3 day it likely wouldve demolished the record even harder. (and im pretty sure frozen 2 did have preview days but not 100%)

Edited April 9, 2023 by jjmed59

[Ms. Togekiss]

Edit: and it’s still missing numbers from Japan 

Edited April 9, 2023 by Ms. Togekiss

[BNF91]

19 minutes ago, jjmed59 said:

3 day weekends have a much bigger advantage than 5 day weekends. Had it been 3 day it likely wouldve demolished the record even harder. (and im pretty sure frozen 2 did have preview days but not 100%)

Yes Frozen had standard Thurs evening previews. Mario has a full day and a half of extra grosses padding it's debut. It's not accurate to say Mario is the new record holder unless that record is for 5-day gross. Frozen still had the biggest 3-day global debut. 

 

I'm not downplaying it's success but let's be accurate when considering record holders. 

[Shawn]

1 minute ago, BNF91 said:

It's not accurate to say Mario is the new record holder unless that record is for 5-day gross. Frozen still had the biggest 3-day global debut. 

 

I'm not downplaying it's success but let's be accurate when considering record holders. 

The official reporting refers to the "biggest worldwide opening ever for an animated title". There's no arbitrary numerical constraint.

 

That's not how it works with the Hollywood trades. That's the record that was broken, and that's how it will always be reported in the future - until another film breaks it.

 

[Monster Megamind]

 

[Azulito]

I agree with the pacing complaints. They could’ve spent more time on character development and world-building tbh. Considering Universal/Nintendo have already hinted at making more movies together, I don’t know why they chose to cram so much into the first one. They didn’t leave many options for a sequel. 

[Babymomo]

5 hours ago, Fevesy said:

Went to see this last night - I laughed a few times from the game references. Lumalee was pretty funny. I didn't expect some deep plot so it was just OK for me 

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