![]() The messiest parts of the movie, if I'm going to get critical, are the dialogue (which is often quite stupid) and the characters. Every beat plays out almost exactly like you'd expect it to, with a couple subversions pleasantly thrown in there. And for the most part, that's all it needs to be. As for the plot, it's just the plot of every Mario game. This is easily Illumination's most visually stunning film, and a massive step up from every one of their other films since the first Despicable Me. Platforming elements from the games was very efficiently worked into the action sequences, and some of them were quite thrilling. ![]() A couple of characters were horribly miscast in my opinion, but in particular Jack Black as Bowser and Charlie Day as Luigi shine as perfectly encapsulating the spirit of the characters. The voice cast was the subject of much controversy, and I thought that for the most part it was actually spot-on. In fact, a slightly better job than I was expecting. But given the fact that these filmmakers were tasked with making a movie that caters to a fan base that spans four decades and thus have a myriad of tastes and expectations, they did a pretty good job. Granted, this film is not going to appeal to people who have never been fans of any games featuring the titular brothers.
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