Super Mario Bros. – The Movie, review
Super Mario Bros. The Movie the review of the new animated film set in the world of Super Mario Bros, from April 5 at the cinema. Realized by Nintendo e Illuminationthe film is directed by Aaron Horvath e Michael Jelenic (manufacturers of Teen Titans Go! – Il Film ), from a screenplay by Matthew Fogel (The LEGO Movie 2: A New Adventure, Minions 2 – How Gru Becomes Despicable), in the original version Chris Pratt double Mario, Anya Taylor-Joy and Princess Peach, Charlie Day it’s Luigi and Jack Black Bowser; Keegan-Michael Key lends voice to Toad, Seth Rogen e Fred Arminen respectively a Donkey it’s at Cranky Kong. A Kevin Michael Richardson it is up to the role of Kamek ea Sebastian Farrier Spike’s.
The film is produced by the founder and CEO Of Illumination Chris Meledandri it’s yes Shigeru Miyamoto per Nintendo. The film is co-financed by Universal Pictures e Nintendo and distributed worldwide by Universal Pictures.
Structured like a full-fledged video game, Super Mario Bros. The Movie it’s a colorful, dynamic film that never stops, from start to finish. In a simple story within everyone’s reach, with lots of fun, references to games and family themes. When we think about Mario e Luigi at the cinema the film immediately comes to mind live-action of 1993, flop, which has become almost a cult for its ugliness. But the most famous moustached of video games teaches us that it is from great falls that we can get up to do great things.
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The young directorial duo Aaron Horvath e Michael Jelenic they realized the only way the world of Super Mario can and should be transported to the screen: an animated film. 2023 looks to be a big year for video game adaptations into TV series like The Last of Us and now with the mascot of Nintendowe are probably facing the best adaptation ever made.
Mario e Luigi they find themselves catapulted into a fantastic kingdom, that of mushrooms, threatened by a villain, the madman Bowser. The two brothers find themselves separated and will have to do everything to find each other and understand that only if they are together will they make something ordinary (like simple plumbers) extraordinary.
We are at Brooklyn and we see a TV commercial of the Super Mario Bros: two awkward Italian-American plumbers. Two brothers, one opposite to the other, like red and green, two completely opposite but complementary characters. Business is bad and the family, especially the father, are dissatisfied with the two brothers. Mario sad and disconsolate as he removes the mushrooms from his spaghetti (Yes, Mario doesn’t eat mushrooms), he finds an opportunity to redeem him and Luigi, hoping to be recognized for their true value. Everything changes when a mysterious pipe in the city’s sewers sucks the two brothers into a magical world. Mario ends up in the Mushroom Kingdom, surrounded by many Toad and governed by Princess Peach. Luigiinstead, falls into the Darklands dominated by Bowser. Evil turtle who, once he has obtained the magic star, intends to invade all the Kingdoms and win the heart of the Princess.
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A simple plot, linear like the various video game missions. Entering a world, being able to reach the end towards that coveted flag in a climb full of emotions and changes.
fans of Super Mario they will live this cinematic experience by chasing references and quotations from the game on the screen. From the shots, to the music perfectly remixed inside the film. Many easter egg are easily recognizable, while others are hidden like the best secrets of a video game. The story is not deep. That’s not the purpose of the film. We want to play and have fun and the goal is achieved with flying colors.
Illumination Entertainment has done an excellent job creating the daily life of the Mushroom Kingdom, known in video game form only in a stylized form in the background. Unlike other animated films that have attracted homage from critics (see The Lego Movie), Super Mario Bros. The Movie does not push too much on the accelerator, remaining on the story of family adventures. Yet she runs – and “flies” – on the famous Go-kart. Between drifts, turbos, all the dynamics of the video game Super Mario Kart that made us scream, enrage, but also rejoice. Reviewing certain sequences on the screen and the “cursed” Track Rainbow it increases a certain sense of joy in the hearts of the players.
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In this film structured like a multi-level video game, starting from the tutorials up to the final boss, the film is an animated amusement park. Mario he must find and save his brother Luigi. The Princess saves herself – with a lot of reference to Frozen -, and in all this the film also gives the viewer a beautiful moral. Above all there is brotherhood, the union of the family with whom you played as a child – but not only – and you found a sense of togetherness that you can now feel even at the cinema.
An animated film is successful when the dubbing works too, and in this case it’s great. Apart from some extremisms in the Italian-American stereotype, Claudius Santamaria – unrecognizable – excellent double Mario. Super Mario finally has its own dedicated film.
