Mario Bros. Set to Jump to Big Screen in Movie Deal with Universal’s Illumination - Paging Movie Bob, Paging Movie Bob...

xXx: State of the Union said:
I thought Jack Black was fine except for when he started singing. Then he just sounded like Jack Black.

BTW this was the Sonic 2 scene I watched with my friends kids while he looked for his keys. I kept asking them "where the heck is Sonic?" and they just kept going "oh he's on an island somewhere" and kept coloring in their books not paying attention.


To further the point, I didn't even start watching because I thought it was Sonic. I was watching cause I thought it was Criminal Minds and the kids had to tell me it was Sonic 2.
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I still enjoy the Paramount Sonic movies. That said, I'm hoping the third movie has less human scenes. While I loved the second one, I couldn't help but notice that the human scenes felt more like a Tyler Perry movie self-inserted in a movie about a speeding blue hedgehog that eats chili dogs and collects rings.
Neet Tokusatsu said:
I've seen people complaining that the movie is nothing but fanservice, that only the people who played the games will enjoy it, and you know what? they're right, and i like it more because of it, fuck general audiences, most videogames adaptations always shit on the source material and seem to hate the fans with a passion, remember this shit?

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Always making stupid changes, either to stir up controversy or to chase the "wider audience", so having a movie that is pretty much a love-letter to the fans feels like a breath of fresh air, especially in this day and age. The Mario movie fully embraces the games, it fully embraces being a videogame adaptation, it is a celebration of both Mario and DK's legacy, to me this movie is just about as perfect as a Mario movie could be.
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Netflix Resident Evil, Legend of Chun-Li, 2018 Tomb Raider and Doom Anihilation are the absolute worst
 
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George Lucas said:
Thinking more about this I think I’ll push against people saying Peach is more like Daisy. Peach isn’t completely un-athletic. She was in SMB2, plays lots of sports, and races cars. She has an active role in the RPGs. The rumors about Nintendo dialing down the girl boss stuff may be true, but I think looking at the active parts of her role in the movie as out-of-character is unfair. She reminded me of Princess Leia: she holds her own but at the end of the day lets the hero swing her across the gap. The femininity is there.
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Considering the current cultural™ climate™ and the fact that you can count the complete sentences Peach has spoken on one hand after 30+ years, I'd say they did a pretty good job.
Honestly, I'm impressed that Peach came across so well as competent and kind. It just goes to show how absolutely intentional the whole abrasive Marysue trope actually is.

It's not just her dialogue though, the way her competence was demonstrated is even justifiable. Everything about Peach’s action scenes that could have referenced source material did.
She used her moveset from Smash in the "obstacle course" scene, she used her bike and outfit from Mario Kart when the movie went all Road Warrior and when Peach used a power up she got her appropriate outfit from SM3DW.

Gotta say I’m pleasantly surprised with the movie, worst thing about it is that it's paced to hold the attention of children.
Good on them gooks for reining in the gaijin menace.

All so:
"Noooo! You can't just make a video game movie that appeals to children and fans!!!" -Journalist and Movie Critics.
Imagine getting paid peanuts to write embarrassing propaganda from a shoebox-sized apartment in a shit hole city.
 
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AlmightyMagichan said:
So now that we have movie universes for Mario and Sonic, how long until we get a crossover? And will it be about the Olympics?
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If Paramount says yes to Universal for a potential Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games movie, yes. And that would potentially motivate Universal to do a Smash Bros. movie.
 
I'm just glad it's retro gaming mascots, of all things, saving cinema from pretentious woke retardation.

Absolutego said:
Honestly that's the way it should be. Nintendo's been making the Mario brand more child targeted for the past 10 years, and the less they indulge the mid-40's NEET alcoholic demographic, the better.
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It's always been a child-oriented brand, they just really kicked up the merch over the past 20 years. Never was there a time where you couldn't get Mario on a T-shirt of some sort, if only through Nintendo Power's catalog, but they really stepped it up when the DS came along and you could buy Mario-branded electric toothbrushes.
 
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It is going to surpass Frozen 2 as the highest opening worldwide for an animated movie ever. Disney seething :story:
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This is the happiest I’ve been for cinema in a long time, I never thought I’d see the day I’d have more respect for illumination than the supposed kings of animation themselves but here we are, Illumination are based and they have my respects.
 
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thegooddoctor said:
This is the happiest I’ve been for cinema in a long time, I never thought I’d see the day I’d have more respect for illumination than the supposed kings of animation themselves but here we are, Illumination are based and they have my respects.
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Honestly, my screening was quite possibly the best screening I had in years. It was also worth my day off from work.

Again, this is Illumination's best movie since the first Despicable Me (which was their first outing) and I'm happy that they can do something incredible when they want to rather than making some soulless cashgrab, especially the couple Dr. Seuss movies they've made (both Lorax and Grinch). I'm hoping they continue with the goods by the sequel.
 
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Gaear Grimsrud said:
I hope the lesson Hollywood learns from the success of this movie isn't, "We can make the story and character development in our IP movie as bare-bones as we want, as long as everything looks cosmetically exactly like the thing we're adapting from."
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I mean Hollywood executives are retarded, reminder they cancelled a bunch of vampire movies because Morbius flopped.
 
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Corbax said:
I guess Miyamoto probably kept them on a tight leash. Thank god.
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I think that’s for the best, I think the films biggest simplicity works to its advantage, Mario was never a complex or epic series known for its story, Nintendo having so much creative control over the product and preventing him from being too deep as to not break the integrity and what makes the characters themselves was the best move.

I think the biggest issue in the film is while Peach is competent and not too girlbossy they really stripped a lot of what made her character ‘feminine’ she could have been portrayed as more of a dainty and elegant as she was in the games whilst still being a competent fighter. That’s the only hitch I think they made. Other than that I think the way they portrayed everyone’s characterisation giving them more emotion than they’d ever before was about as good as they could have done for a Mario movie.
 
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From what I saw of a camrip encrusted with ads for gambling sites, the Mario movie hits every bad kids' movie cliche people predicted would be in it before the 10 min mark.

It’s LITERALLY every kid's movie Illumination has made this exact same movie like, 9 times. The writing is incredibly lazy and hits every cliche like the scripters had a checklist they were consulting to make sure they wrote them in. Like, Mario hates mushrooms! Ha ha! It is the most Hollywood hack writer type of film. The voice acting is, except for I will grudgingly admit Jack Black who has actual VA experience, terrible. Standard movie-actors-phoning-it-in VA work, all of the video game voice actors can voice act better than all these guys.

And why do the Mario Bros. have a big family they need to have drama with, who actually wants to see this, even the most braindead CONSOOMers who will mindlessly shill for this sort of movie.
 
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