Film Review – The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

2023’s “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” was treated like an event film release. Here, at last, was an animated production looking to please the hardcore Nintendo fanbase, giving them exactly what they want after 1993’s live-action “Super Mario Bros” left the faithful puzzled and tremendously disappointed in a pass to make something incredibly odd with a seemingly easy lay-up moviemaking opportunity. Illumination endeavored to play it safe with a softer, colorful adaptation, and the house of “Minions” was rewarded with a massive box office success. And now there’s “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” with the sequel setting out to generate an even larger world for the main characters to explore, putting directors Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic to work stuffing in as many Nintendo cameos and environments as possible, setting the series up to explode with spin-offs and continuations galore. “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” remains action-packed and vibrantly animated, but there’s new heaviness in play as the endeavor gets carried away selling a brand instead of telling a story. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com