It doesn't feel like Mario at all. It feels like every hollywood cliche with mario paint slapped on it. and of course they made Peach a "le strong and independent" hollywood feminist cliche she practically has the complete opposite personality as the games, instead she's just another hollywood feminist cliche. And Mario seems to be as the victim of "slapstick jokes" to laugh at. Everything is just so hollywood
Also they couldn't even get any of the voices of the characters right
They should've produced it in Japan, then.
They kinda did.
Nintendo chose Illumination over bigger studios like Disney because Illumination were the only ones who would let Nintendo keep creative control.
Which is why I think people are reading too much into stuff. It has already been confirmed Nintendo crushed some of the attempts to make some stuff woke in the movie.
I did hear that it was even MORE feminist in the original draft but nintendo made them dial down the feminism a bit. Not enough though , the characters are all completely out of character. At the end of the day the script and casting all feel like hollywood and nothing like the games