The Super Mario Bros Movie

Just saw it, finally. Eh, it was okay. It was as much a Donkey Kong, a Super Mario Kart, and kind of a Super Smash Bros. movie as it was a Super Mario Bros. movie.

I didn't care for the fact that Luigi was just Bowser's prisoner for the vast majority of the movie, though. (The Luma stole the prisoner scenes, at least.) I did like that Peach did not occupy that role for the whole movie, however. Peach was pretty badass. The overall plot was mostly kinda basic, though, even for a movie based on Mario games. The movie didn't really start for me until they actually got to the Mushroom Kingdom. All the "real world" stuff before that was mostly a pass for me.

Chris Pratt's voice did not make me hate the movie. He's no Charles Martinet or even Lou Albano, but I guess he was more Mario than Bob Hoskins was? (I still liked the live action movie for what it was, even so, but whatever.) Peach's voice was a bit jarring for the first minute or so, but then it was fine. Jack Black's Bowser was pretty good... until he started singing. Then he just sounded like Tenacious D, which isn't necessarily bad, but it just didn't feel like Bowser at that point. And... Luigi was fine. All the other voices were passable.

I appreciated it when they played music from the games, particularly during the end credits. They even used the Super Mario Bros Super Show theme for a bit at one point. However, whenever the movie decided to trot out some bland, generic ass-pop song, it just took me right out of it during those bits.

And... not sure what the deal was with the Yoshi stinger, given that they briefly showed a whole bunch of Yoshis earlier in the movie. *shrug*