Kids Deserve Better Than the Braindead 'Super Mario Bros. Movie'

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Kids Deserve Better Than the Braindead 'Super Mario Bros. Movie'
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Chris Pratt isn’t playing Mario; he’s doing a gig that he’s approaching with the apathy of a plumber who’s getting too old for this shit.

is dumb. People will say it is like this to appeal to the youngest members of its audience, but for decades Pixar has proven things don’t have to be this way. “is how you Princess!” squeals Toad after Peach saves him from falling off Rainbow Road. That’s...a line, I guess! Every once in a while, the movie does find something in the games to riff on, like the targeting of Peach by Bowser, who, let’s face it, is a rapist or an aspiring one.

MarioThe only real sign of life here comes in the form of Lumalee , a daffy, baby-voiced star bit who’s a fellow inmate of Luigi’s after he’s captured by Bowser. Lumalee feels like she’s been beamed in from another movie, not only because she’s an aggregate of severalcharacters, but because she’s endowed with the ability to see the world for its absurdity. “Time, like hope, is an illusion,” she philosophizes.

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