Luigi was distilled down to a flanderized caricature of his most famous outing, which is scared and screaming until he finds his courage to still save the day by the end.

They made the retarded decision to try and cram as many references and characters as possible into the movie and most of them ended up one note and garbage for it. I think the Donkey and Cranky Kong got it even worse than Luigi did. If they cut them entirely, Luigi probably would have filled in the slack.

Its not a great movie by any means, and as someone whose always liked the 90s version anyway I still think that one is better.