‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ (2023) Movie Review: Fantastic!

The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a film about the popular characters created by Nintendo. It is directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic.

Illumination (the production company of the Minions) does it again and gets a hilarious movie full of spectacularity, laughter and characters that hook.

In addition, it is faithful to the video game.

A joy!

Storyline

While working underground to fix a water pipe, Brooklyn plumbers – and brothers – Mario and Luigi are transported through a mysterious pipe and enter a magical new world. But when the brothers are separated, Mario embarks on an epic quest to find Luigi.

Movie review

Fantastic animation: with sequences full of shots of just 2 seconds when they should, full of details, light effects, and an absolutely brutal work of our friends of the technical team.

Regarding the script: highly entertaining, fresh, and getting the most out of the characters, bringing them to life, making each sequence enjoyable, filling it with references and making us jump from one plot to another without losing sight of the adventure against Browser (Jack Black is always fantastic).

A film that manages to give life and satisfy the video-game lovers (already grown up), making everyone happy: for the “older” ones there’s the classic soundtrack of the 80s and 90s videogame bringing joy to the most faithful. But it also happens to have a plot suitable for children that, as it was with the Minions, is so nice that it can only entertain and amuse.

Yes, it’s not Disney and it doesn’t have references to death either. Super Mario is here to entertain, to fill the cinema or the screen with adventures and, above all, to delight everyone.

Our Opinion

A movie that couldn’t have turned out better, making the most of the story, the characters and satisfying absolutely everyone.

(Except for fans of neorealism).

Movie Trailer

Directors

The Cast

Fred Armisen
Kevin Michael Richardson
Sebastian Maniscalco
Charles Martinet