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After Breaking Box Office Records, Super Mario Bros. Movie Now Available Digitally
16.5.2023
Illumination’s animated adaptation of Nintendo’s long-running Super Mario franchise has racked up an impressive box office high score of $1+ billion worldwide. And now, while it continues to squeeze all the money it can out of moviegoers at the multiplex, it’s time for Mario and Luigi to come home....
The Super Mario Bros. Movie’s Jack Black Made An Incredible Love Letter To Gaming
12.5.2023
You probably know Jack Black from his long career as the enthusiastic star of films like School of Rock and Kung Fu Panda, and most recently as the actor who was the perfect amount of excited to voice Bowser for The Super Mario Bros. Movie. While Chris Pratt convinced me that he’s never touched...
Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3's Final Needle Drop Had Its Songwriter In Tears, Too
8.5.2023
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 punctuated the ending to arguably one of Marvel’s best trilogy films (don’t @ me) with an emotionally gratifying final needle drop that had its titular characters, the fans, and even the musician behind the song ugly-crying with happiness. Minor spoilers ahead.Read...
Sheesh, The Full Super Mario Bros. Movie Keeps Popping Up On Twitter
1.5.2023
With Twitter struggling since Elon Musk was forced to buy the social media platform in October 2022, folks on the decaying Bird App have taken to posting entire films online thanks to the site’s stark lack of content moderation and safety, including the Chris Pratt-led The Super Mario Bros....
The Best And Worst Things About The Super Mario Games
20.4.2023
The Super Mario series has come a long way since Mario first rescued Peach from Bowser’s clutches on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Mario has cleaned up an island with a sentient hose, launched himself through the stars alongside Rosalina, and possessed innocent bystanders with the help of...
The Super Mario Bros. Movie Expected To Pass $1 Billion, Biggest Movie Release This Year
17.4.2023
The Super Mario Bros. Movie may be a designer baby that Nintendo and Illumination grew in a lab, but all the aggressive marketing that accompanied the release is clearly paying off. The film hit a new record-setting sales benchmark during the weekend of April 15 and 16 and is expected to surpass...
Chris Pratt’s OG Voice In The Super Mario Bros. Movie Was Too ‘New Jersey’
10.4.2023
Whether you’ve seen The Super Mario Bros. Movie or not, you’ve undoubtedly heard Chris Pratt’s fairly normal-sounding voice as the titular plumber. Initially derided for sounding nothing like the Mario we’ve come to know from the games, Pratt has put his own spin on the character. But in his quest...
14 Of The Best And Most Obscure Secrets We Spotted In The Super Mario Bros. Movie
8.4.2023
I watched The Super Mario Bros Movie during its opening week with the intent of writing this Easter eggs and references article, only to realize that the movie is nothing but Easter Eggs and references. A thorough roundup would be indistinguishable from a wholesale rundown of the entire movie.Read...
Jack Black Continues Super Mario Bros. Movie Dominance By Owning Cast At Mario Kart
7.4.2023
By now the gaming community has reached critical mass when it comes to online discussions surrounding the Super Mario Bros. Movie. While we can debate whether or not the film’s legacy will be etched into the annals of video game history as the most expensive crowd-pleasing advertisement committed...
The Super Mario Bros. Movie Feels Like It Was Designed In A Lab
6.4.2023
For me and so many millions of players around the world, the Nintendo brand means something. In our hearts, it holds a place akin to the one Disney holds for others. And, importantly, it’s earned that place not just by being a massive corporation whose name is emblazoned across so many of the games...
The Super Mario Bros. Movie Has Original Voice Actor Pass Torch To Chris Pratt
6.4.2023
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is out in theaters now, and for those of you who didn’t care for what you heard of Chris Pratt’s Mario voice in the trailers, well, it is pretty much like that throughout most of the movie. However, there is one scene at the beginning that serves as a bit of a meta...
Super Mario Bros. Movie Cast Wear Their Characters To Opening Night
3.4.2023
The stars of The Super Mario Bros. Movie were out Saturday night for the film’s premiere in Los Angeles, with some of them sporting outfits inspired by their video game characters. Sadly, not all of the A-list celebrities’ fits were created equal, so we’ll be ranking each actor by how well their...
Super Mario Bros. Movie Fans Knock Seth Rogen For Barely Trying
3.4.2023
Seth Rogen joined Chris Pratt in the Super Mario Bros. shame corner last week during an interview. He revealed that he wouldn’t be “doing any voices” for his upcoming role as Donkey Kong, the gorilla antagonist who has been throwing barrels at Mario and kidnapping his girlfriend since 1981.Read more
The Super Mario Bros. Movie Is Flooding Everything ATM
30.3.2023
I look out the train. A bright red cap stares back at me. I step out of the train. A bus departs the curb, plumbers splashed across its metal body. I open my laptop. Seth Rogen isn’t singing the Donkey Kong rap, because that would be unbecoming, but he’s still feeding the beast.Read more
Chris Pratt Says Angry Super Mario Fans Are Just ‘Passionate’
30.3.2023
Since the day Mario and Universal announced Chris Pratt was going to voice Mario in the upcoming Super Mario Bros. film, the internet has been in a state of shock, confusion, and anger. Mostly anger. And while there are some legit reasons to dislike Pratt or his casting, the star doesn’t seem...
Final Super Mario Bros. Movie Trailer Debuts At Nintendo Direct
9.3.2023
Today, during Nintendo’s special Super Mario Bros.-themed Direct, we got a look at the third and final trailer for the anticipated, animated Super Mario Bros .Movie .Read more
Oldest Known Miyamoto Interview Reveals Nintendo Staff Loved…Donkey Kong Jr. Math
28.2.2023
A newly translated 1986 interview between Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto and Namco’s Masanobu Endo reveals some neat details about the games the two designers were playing at the time, what music Miyamoto was into, and his hopes for Mario’s future. Read more
'Mario Rap' Makes Comeback In Super Mario Bros. Movie Super Bowl Commercial
12.2.2023
Another new trailer for the upcoming Super Mario Bros. movie has been released today, part of the onslaught of expensive and lengthy Super Bowl commercials, and while that’s usually enough to rot the brains of even the most online among us, I can assure you, this one is fantastic.Read more
Mario Movie's Donkey Kong Voice Is Just Seth Rogen
29.1.2023
It’s weird that one of the things people have been most interested about as far as the upcoming Super Mario Bros. movie is concerned is how everyone sounds. I mean, we know who the cast is, have known that forever, but what we haven’t known is the extent to which each actor was going to ham...
Super Mario Bros. Movie Clip Finally Unleashes Chris Pratt's Italian Accent
9.12.2022
Hollywood was out in full force tonight at Geoff Keighley’s Not-E3, The Game Awards Game, but the award show’s most important appearance, as far as Nintendo fans were concerned, was the first ever-world premiere clip for the Super Mario Bros. Movie.Read more