The Super Mario Bros. Movie

This lively computer-animated take on the video game just opened and it’s already the biggest box-office smash of 2023. Despite lapses into dull and disposable, it’s also a godsend for parents seeking family entertainment for the 5-year-old in all of us.

Among the many errors of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, screenwriter Matthew Fogel plops him and his brother Luigi into a milquetoast Brooklyn family that doubts them and disrespects their small-business dreams.

It is the laziest possible version of a Mario movie, and for most viewers, young and old, that’ll be totally acceptable.

The sneaky surprise here is Jack Black playing Bowser... he's hilarious.

The whole package is a deranged mishmash of overstimulating elements.

A frantic Easter egg hunt of a film that does the bare minimum to please its loyal existing fanbase.

If you are a parent or guardian dragged to see The Super Mario Bros. Movie, be like Lumalee and abandon yourself to a nightmarish experience.

Sometimes I get the feeling that the adventure of Mario and Luigi never goes beyond the routine level. [Full review in Spanish]

A harmless, generic blur of kid’s 'content'.

Harmless&#59; it amounts to a Burger King kid’s meal and night of Nintendo 64. I’m not sure Illumination will ever take one single risk, but I do think their cheery, color-splosion style for 7-year-olds works for a movie about Super Mario Bros.