'The Super Mario Bros. Movie' has been poorly reviewed by critics, but box office analysts foresee a big opening weekend for the Nintendo video game adaptation.
Thinly plotted, the feature relies heavily on sequences pulled directly from the video games its based on and skips out on character development, according to critics. They also lamented what they deemed unfunny jokes and a voice cast that seemed to be phoning it in. That is, for the exception of Jack Black, who voices the villainous Bowser.
Audiences get a brief taste of what it would have been like to have Chris Pratt and Charlie Day preform exaggerated Italian accents as part of an over-the-top TV advertisement for their business. The movie also uses this ad to explain why Mario and Luigi wear giant white gloves. Barber said screenwriter Matthew Fogel did an efficient job of linking the various video game references, "but the film has an astonishing lack of jokes, twists, memorable lines, exhilarating stunts, touching emotional moments, and anything else that might engage any viewer who isn't playing spot-the-allusion."
"The problem here isn't that Pratt can't emulate the helium-pitched 'it's-a me' and 'let's-a go' catchphrases, which Charles Martinet made iconic in the video games," Simonpillai explained.
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