'Critics jeered, but audiences came in droves.'
Mario, Princess Peach, and Toad are shown in a scene from"The Super Mario Bros. Movie."When "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" opened in theaters earlier this month, the experts were ready to count out the computer-animated film as another disposable video-game byproduct like the colossally awful, 1993 live-action take on the 1985 Nintendo game. Not so fast.
& Dragons: Honor Among Thieves," for winking adult references. It's the dedication to silliness that makes "Mario" such an impish delight. Fears about ethnic stereotyping emerged from the voice casting of non-Italian Chris Pratt as Mario. Relax. Pratt uses his own voice to play the mustachioed Italian plumber in overalls. Ditto Charlie Day as his shy brother Luigi. Both put on exaggerated Italian accents in a TV ad for the bros' Brooklyn plumbing business, then revert to normal. Problem solved? Pretty much.Universal Pictures
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