Movie is a visually sumptuous film from beginning to end. Animated by the artists at Illumination (the studio responsible for Despicable Me and Minions), The Super Mario Bros. The film, instead, feels like it’s being operated by a competitive gamer who wants to progress through each level as quickly as they can. Movie doesn’t want to spend too much time exploring its locations or characters - no matter how beautifully they’re rendered. Penned by Matthew Fogel, The Super Mario Bros. Not only are there multiple instances throughout the 92-minute film in which directors Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic literally adopt a side-scrolling perspective, but the film also bounces from one story beat and location to another with the same sense of dimensionless expediency. Movie feels so much like a side-scrolling, 2D video game. It’s fitting, in a way, that The Super Mario Bros.
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