“I’m the good guy with literally every other damn thing” may be the most unaware thing Moviebob has ever said.
Tell me about it, if a movie or a franchise gets to be like by the "wrong people", you know, the chuds, Robert won't stop whining about it.
Sometimes not even that, like this new Dune movie that he has been bellyaching all the time.
Feels dumb and stupid to be so invested in a Mario story, more so because Mario never had much of a story to begin with, Nintendo was wise to treat Mario more as a mascot than a "character", like Disney did with Mickey for most of the time.
Yeah, Chris Pratt as Mario sure is a "wait, what?" sort of deal, but whatever, the guy at least has charisma, he can pull something off.
The biggest thing I think the Mario movies has going for it is the script writter Matthew Fogel, he relatively a newcomer as a solo script writter, but he has been working with the Philip Lord and Christopher Miller writing crew for years, and even got to be in the writting credits for the Lego 2 movie (hence the Chris Pratt cast was probably his take).
And for those who don't know the Phil Lord and Chris Miller duo, they are responsible for some of the best american animated movies since when Cloudy With Chances with meatball hit the scene, also Spiderman Miles Morales, The new Jump 21 movie and they produced a recent favorite of mine, The mitchells vs the machines, and in most of their production Lord and Miller brought in Fogel to help tight the script.
Of course this doesn't mean the Mario movie is a sure hit, but if Robert took a single pause and look who is behind the wheel, he would see that this ain't a regular Illumination flick, who got moist of their movies so far written by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, capable writers, but very "inside the box" old school guys (they made Cats don't Dance though, I like that one).
I think Illumination is going for the distance with this one, besides Fogel, they also got the directors for the Teen Titans Go movie, which is also surprisingly good and clever same way the first Lego movie was.
This might be the big move that Chris Meledandri (head of Illumination) was waiting for, now he has a big, iconic franshise, probably some big Nintendo money behind it and a creative freedom that he seems to be showing with story and direction and looks like he wants Mario to be his own Lego movie, and rise Illumination above the "minions" mediocrity.
Might be a long shot, who knows, good chance it will be more Illumination crap, still so far this Mario movies has been getting at least more interesting than a mascot movie would.