The Super Mario Bros.
Movie managed to wrack up an impressive global sum of over $1.3 billion worldwide, making anyone that claimed audiences had “video game movie fatigue” look fairly silly.
It’s easy to see why The Super Mario Bros.
Movie has been so wildly successful.
The film tells the basic story of Mario (Chris Pratt) and Luigi’s (Charlie Day) battle against the forces of Bowser (Jack Black) and his army, and there’s little that is changed from the original source material.
Fans who grew up with the Mario video games likely enjoyed the film for similar reasons, even if it didn’t necessarily provide much of a new experience.
However, Anya Taylor-Joy’s depiction of Princess Peach actually elevated the character beyond the (literally) two-dimensional character from the original game.
This version of Princess Peach is no damsel-in-distress.
She’s a defiant girl boss, and worthy of her own spinoff story!
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