'Super Mario Bros. Movie' review: The “Mario” video games are more popular now than ever, and Nintendo must have felt it had some unfinished business.
Mario, left, and Princess Peach in"The Super Mario Bros.
The production was plagued by power struggles, with distributor Disney attempting an eleventh-hour swerve into something more kid-friendly than the edgy “‘Blade Runner’ for teens” vibe Morton and Jankel brought. Largely considered an unmitigated disaster at the time, the film is now a cult classic. But the “Mario” video games are more popular now than ever, and Nintendo must have felt it had some unfinished business.
The film hops from set piece to set piece, and the animation is indeed eye-popping — some backgrounds and elements of this world are almost photorealistic. The style also liberates Mario’s activities from the flat horizontal landscapes with which we’re familiar, putting a more action-packed and dynamic point of view on his leaps and jumps across obstacles as he’s trained by the princess.
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