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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 361331" data-attributes="member: 33">The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)<img src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BOTJhNzlmNzctNTU5Yy00N2YwLThhMjQtZDM0YjEzN2Y0ZjNhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTEwMTQ4MzU5._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 363px" />I&#039;ve never played The Super Mario Bros. video game so the references to its source material were completely lost on me. However, you don&#039;t need to know anything about the video game franchise to enjoy this film.&nbsp; It&#039;s about brothers Mario and Luigi, Italian-American plumbers who are transported to an alternate world and become involved in a battle between the Mushroom Kingdom, led by Princess Peach, and the Koopas, led by Bowser.&nbsp; The genius of the film is that it is not just about the characters from game but it is a film of&nbsp; the game that feels both like a video game and a motion picture. For example, there a scene early in the film when the brothers are running to a plumbing job and they jump over fences, run along fire escapes and dodge objects and visually it looks a lot like video game play. Later on, the brothers have to navigate various tasks and when they complete them the narrative of the story takes them to another challenge which feels a bit like another level of the game play.I thought it was a entertaining and enjoyable film and was a great example of how to produce a successful video game adaptation that works on its own terms and delivers a satisfying film experience. It will appeal even more strongly to fans of the Super Mario games but people like me, who have no prior knowledge of the game,&nbsp; will still appreciate its humour, its quirky style, its originality and the and the adventure in the storyline.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 361331, member: 33"] [B]The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)[/B] [IMG width="363px"]https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BOTJhNzlmNzctNTU5Yy00N2YwLThhMjQtZDM0YjEzN2Y0ZjNhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTEwMTQ4MzU5._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg[/IMG] I've never played The Super Mario Bros. video game so the references to its source material were completely lost on me. However, you don't need to know anything about the video game franchise to enjoy this film. It's about brothers Mario and Luigi, Italian-American plumbers who are transported to an alternate world and become involved in a battle between the Mushroom Kingdom, led by Princess Peach, and the Koopas, led by Bowser. The genius of the film is that it is not just about the characters from game but it is a film [I]of [/I]the game that feels both like a video game and a motion picture. For example, there a scene early in the film when the brothers are running to a plumbing job and they jump over fences, run along fire escapes and dodge objects and visually it looks a lot like video game play. Later on, the brothers have to navigate various tasks and when they complete them the narrative of the story takes them to another challenge which feels a bit like another level of the game play. I thought it was a entertaining and enjoyable film and was a great example of how to produce a successful video game adaptation that works on its own terms and delivers a satisfying film experience. It will appeal even more strongly to fans of the Super Mario games but people like me, who have no prior knowledge of the game, will still appreciate its humour, its quirky style, its originality and the and the adventure in the storyline. [/QUOTE]

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