Nintendo and Illumination’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie momentum shows no sign of slowing down as recent stats from North American box-office shows that the beautifully animated movie had the best second weekend ever for an animated movie at the domestic box office with $87M, beating Disney’s highly popular Frozen 2 movie. Again, these are just domestic figures, and not worldwide, and it just goes to show the phenomenal power of the Mario franchise.
US: Super Mario Bros. Movie has best second weekend ever for animated movie with $87M
Damn is really hitting hard now.
This just proves that movie critics are outta touch with audiences when it comes to video game adaptations.
Financial success means little to nothing about the quality as a movie. It’s a decent movie and the critical concensus makes sense to me. Even decent movies can be enjoyable, it’s just a little flat and the use of random pop songs was distracting to me. Overall a generic kids film with a Mario skin. Still enjoyed it though and the fact that it IS Mario lifts it, but without the constant references it obviously wouldn’t have been nearly as fun. The financial success though, it’s Mario, go figure.
Didn’t they test this in R&D before it was released?
🍄 🍄 🍄 🍄 🍑 🍑 🍑 🍑 =💰 💰 💰 💰 💰.
Good now use the money to pay hire more software developers to make more sequels for other franchises besides Zelda and Mario games. And aim to cut the years from 15 to 7 years.
You clearly don’t know how anything of this is working lol.
Notice how there’s nothing else animated playing. In short, zero competition.
Other than that, it’s Mario.
By that logic, any animated film that had zero competition should have insanely high numbers.
Watched it with my son with whom I have played it so much when he was a kid. There were times I almost got teary eyes lol. It was amazing!