2023 · family · comedy · adventure
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Directed by Aaron Horvath1h 33m2023
While working underground to fix a water main, Brooklyn plumbers—and brothers—Mario and Luigi are transported down a mysterious pipe and wander into a magical new world. But when the brothers are separated, Mario embarks on an epic quest to find Luigi.
Our read: The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) reads as a cosy, breathless, surreal family · comedy · adventure entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle family / comedy, surreal in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- surreal
- redemptive
- tender
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How The Super Mario Bros. Movie feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want colorful game nostalgia, brotherly heart, and zero emotional homework.”
Skip it tonight — Thin videogame plotting and Pratt voice casting will pull you out constantly.
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