Review of The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) by Niknud — 18 Apr 2023

I really wanted to like it as a lifelong Nintendo fan, but the movie felt hollow and lifeless. The highlights were hearing Koji Kondo's themes, though they lasted mere seconds and were trodden down by Brian Tyler's uninspired trailer music and random forced pop music.

The story and characters seemed to be written by people who didn't play the games and were hoping throwing fanservice in would make a lot of easy money. They weren't wrong, but I hope that the next film gets better writers and more fitting English voice actors like Jack Black was for Bowser.