Earlier today, I watched the animated comedy The Super Mario Bros. Movie at AMC theaters.
As expected, I walked out of this film feeling the nostalgia... Not only did it remind me of the time I played Super Mario World on Super Nintendo back in elementary school 30+ years ago, but it also brought back pleasant memories of me and my friends playing Mario Kart and Mario Party on GameCube (or was it Nintendo 64?) when we were in college 20+ years ago!
The Super Mario Bros. Movie went all out in adapting the Nintendo and Super Nintendo games. One scene will show Mario (voiced by Chris Pratt...who only did the classic Italian accent from the games in the film's opening scene) duking it out with Donkey Kong (or DK, voiced by Seth Rogen), and later scenes will show Mario, Toad (Keegan-Michael Key), Peach (Anya Taylor-Joy) and DK driving go-karts from Mario Kart in a heated race with Bowser's (Jack Black) minions!
Speaking of Bowser, some of the best moments of The Super Mario Bros. Movie featured Mario's fire-breathing arch-nemesis singing intense love ballads about Peach—who Bowser wanted to marry even if it meant destroying the entire Mushroom Kingdom in the process. Bowser's songs about the princess were so emotional that you kind of empathized with this evil reptile and wanted him and Peach to live happily ever after!
At the end though, Mario, his brother Luigi (Charlie Day) and the gang obviously prevailed...with (spoiler ahead) the end credits scene showing that Universal Pictures unsurprisingly has a sequel in mind. Who was missing from this movie that die-hard Super Mario fans will want to see in the next installment, you ask?
I'll give you a hint: It's a certain green dinosaur that, in the video games, Mario and Luigi can ride on and spit out fireballs or fly—depending on which colored Koopa shell (generally red, green or blue) the dinosaur had in its mouth at the moment. Of course I'm talking about Yoshi!
And lastly, kudos to composers Brian Tyler and Koji Kondo for bringing back almost every memorable music theme from the Super Mario video games. Thumbs-up for The Super Mario Bros. Movie!
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