Nintendo and Illumination’s newly released The Super Mario Bros. Movie seems to be firing on all cylinders at the box office which estimates on takings being revised daily. The latest figures from Deadline shows that The Super Mario Bros. Movie is headed for a $368M Global start. However, the even bigger news is that The Super Mario Bros. Movie is now set to become the biggest animated movie launch at the box office, ever, dethroning the current record holder which is Frozen 2, which was released in November 2019. Here’s some highlights:
- Biggest global opening and 3-day domestic to date for 2023, outstripping Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania ($225.3M WW, $106.1M U.S./Canada).
- Biggest domestic opening ever for Illumination, besting Minions‘ 3-day of $115.7M and Despicable Me 2‘s 5-day of $143M.
- Second-biggest opening ever for an animated film in U.S./Canada after Incredibles 2 ($182.6M)
Thanks to Unholy and Lamatsucubo for sending in the news tip!
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🎵Peaches, peaches, peaches, peaches, peaches… greatest movie of all time, yeeeeaeaah!!!!!!🎵
I wonder what the critics and rotten tomato think about the movie now, im guessing they change their opinions. Everyone says “watch it and form your own opinion” Yet anyone who voices an honest opinion or doesn’t agree is an outcast or a troll for forming an honest opinion. Then again people imply others are a troll for pretty much anything, including not liking what they do or a difference in opinion.
Isnt it interesting how the critica are allowed to review bomb, but if anyone else gives an opinion they’re immediately bigots and trolls.
Give this comment an award. Too damn true.
Journalists/critics are the most disingenuous people on the internet, but it should be expected since they thrive on clickbait.
Honestly, yes they really are for doing that. We can’t trust them.
The face and faces of video games got their ace again, in movie format. Not only is a new generation going to get into Mario. Their parents, cousins, grandparents, great grandparents, neighbors, countries etc. are going to want to know more of who these brothers in overalls are. The next super Mario bros. Games’ on the Switch and next Nintendo console are going to sell millions. In fact if they time the release of the next ‘switch’ or console of a different name, it’s poised to outsell the current switch. Also the other IPs got a boost in exposure. Nintendo ‘leave luck to heaven.’
F=ma.
Do you really think critics look up what other people’s opinions are (unless it’s to copy them)?
Just because a movie does well financially, does not mean it is a good movie. See: Frozen, Frozen 2, The Lion King (2019), Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and so on and on and on.
Like, that doesn’t mean it isn’t enjoyable. But compare it to something like The LEGO Movie, which is great on many fronts as well as animation, when it easily could’ve just been a soulless franchise money grab.
Frozen was decent imo…. not amazing or worth the hype it had back then but it was decent at the very least. Now Frozen 2 was just trash especially for how they did the impossible which was be a Disney movie that was confusing as hell to follow what was even going on.
fantastic movie, my family enjoyed every second of it.
The mega poular Mario is as strong as ever…smh.
💰🎵Where in the money, where in the money🎵 💰 😊
Having seen it myself, I can honestly say…
I do think it’s great. I still think Pratt and Rogan were bad choices (more so on Rogan now that he came out and pretty much admitted he didn’t even try), but Luigi and Peach were fine and Bowser was, honestly, amazing. At least they explained right away why they didn’t have accents throughout the whole film (they did it for their commercial and even they thought “was that too much?”), which is more than I was expecting them to do. I had my eyes peeled for Easter eggs and every one of them was a joy to catch, and I was glad they weren’t limited to Mario/DK/Yoshi games (the Blue Falcon poster near the end had silently screaming, like “holy shit, they actually acknowledged F-Zero!?”) Yeah, the plot is thin, but haven’t Mario game stories always been simple, the RPG games notwithstanding? My only real gripe with the plot, and this might be nitpicky, was that for a movie called “The Super Mario BROS. Movie,” Mario and Luigi sure spent a lot of time apart, being onscreen together for less than an eighth of the runtime.
Is this film going to win at the Oscars? No, probably not, but I don’t think that’s what the filmmakers were going for with this movie. It was clearly made for people who grew up on the games and their families, and for children who might not have been introduced to the characters yet.
Oh, and there was one name in the credits that I was not expecting to see, but was so happy to because I thought we wouldn’t anymore. You probably already know who I’m referring to, but if you don’t… Well, watch it for yourself.