Well considering that everyone is tearing apart the critics who hate it for being morons who don't even know the franchise, like this one bitch who claimed that the catsuit was humiliating to mario despite it being a powerup in the games for about a decade at this point, it isn't hard to see the editors and publishers telling their writing staff that if they don't actually have criticisms and haven't even touched a console in the last ten years to keep their mouths shut and just vague positives for the film.
As someone who has played mario since the NES days and saw the film, is it a masterpiece, absolutely not. But it's fun and it doesn't try to do anything it shouldn't, like tell kids that Luigi is trans or that Peach is now a lesbian.
It's just a Mario movie, that's it. It has fun with the premise and tries to establish somewhat how things work, which is all fine. There were some solid jokes, mostly out of Luma that I found to be good. Besides the licensed music the updated scoring of classic mario music is fantastic.
I don't think it will win awards but since Nintendo is likely to see a few hundred mil come there way for this film, if we get more movies such as a Metroid, Legend of Zelda or Kirby at the same quality, then I'll be happy since it'll be nice to have children's films I could show to my two year old niece that don't try to groom her and she can just have fun watching.
But the critics are butthurt about Chris Pratt not sacrificing himself on the altar of wokeness and use that as any excuse to attack the film, Mario doesn't have a thick first generation italian accent, which is fine too, it probably would have gotten old anyway.
My only gripe is that it seems to make Mario and Luigi like mid twenties to early thirties but it also feels like they are portraying them as late teenagers, it's hard to nail down exactly how old they are supposed to be in the movie.
And should some of the scenes have had more time to breathe, yeah some would have benefited by exploring more of what was going on or said, but again, it's fine since that means it doesn't linger and waste time either.
Well considering that everyone is tearing apart the critics who hate it for being morons who don't even know the franchise, like this one bitch who claimed that the catsuit was humiliating to mario despite it being a powerup in the games for about a decade at this point, it isn't hard to see the editors and publishers telling their writing staff that if they don't actually have criticisms and haven't even touched a console in the last ten years to keep their mouths shut and just vague positives for the film.
As someone who has played mario since the NES days and saw the film, is it a masterpiece, absolutely not. But it's fun and it doesn't try to do anything it shouldn't, like tell kids that Luigi is trans or that Peach is now a lesbian.
It's just a Mario movie, that's it. It has fun with the premise and tries to establish somewhat how things work, which is all fine. There were some solid jokes, mostly out of Luma that I found to be good. Besides the licensed music the updated scoring of classic mario music is fantastic.
I don't think it will win awards but since Nintendo is likely to see a few hundred mil come there way for this film, if we get more movies such as a Metroid, Legend of Zelda or Kirby at the same quality, then I'll be happy since it'll be nice to have children's films I could show to my two year old niece that don't try to groom her and she can just have fun watching.
But the critics are butthurt about Chris Pratt not sacrificing himself on the altar of wokeness and use that as any excuse to attack the film, Mario doesn't have a thick first generation italian accent, which is fine too, it probably would have gotten old anyway.
My only gripe is that it seems to make Mario and Luigi like mid twenties to early thirties but it also feels like they are portraying them as late teenagers, it's hard to nail down exactly how old they are supposed to be in the movie.
And should some of the scenes have had more time to breathe, yeah some would have benefited by exploring more of what was going on or said, but again, it's fine since that means it doesn't linger and waste time either.
It's a perfectly serviceable movie and a 7/10.
Believe it or not, that's apparently the canon ages according to Shiggy.
They were never intended to be old guys. It's an Ash Ketchum scenario too, they don't age.