An average movie

To be honest, I didn’t have some really huge expectations regarding this movie but I still went to see it with my kids in the movie theater. Well, after all these years, exactly 30 years after the first Mario Bros movie was released and became a huge flop, we finally have a massive blockbuster adapted from a video-game. Indeed, the damned thing is just out and it is already a big box-office success. Basically, they were really faithful to the Mario games which might not seem to be some rocket science but they really nailed it this time. Sure, I have to admit that I didn’t play much or at all the new games on the Nintendo Switch but I certainly extensively played the very first Mario games on the Nintendo and the Super Nintendo back in the 90’s (Yes, I’m THAT old). The thing I enjoyed the most was to see Mario trying again and again to complete this training which is basically how such platform games work. Indeed, you keep repeating the same level over and over again, failing miserably at first, until you finally know the damned thing by heart. On top of that, as usual with Illumination, the animation was really neat. Still, was it really a great movie though? They probably made the best possible movie you could deliver with this material but, at the end of the day, the whole storyline and concepts linked to the Mario games were always, at best, nothing great and, at worst, rather lame and even quite ridiculous. Anyway, to conclude, since they finally cracked the code, we will now probably get a flood of Nintendo related films in the coming years but I have to admit that this one was not bad at all and it is worth a look, especially if you have some young kids to entertain. 

6/10