With a whopping $378 million global haul on its opening week, “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” now prides itself with the biggest video-game adaptation opening of all time—and that’s no easy feat.
While we caution viewers from overthinking and remind them to manage their expectations for the film’s straightforward tale of Brooklyn-based plumbers struggling to find their place in the sun, it is a far cry from the franchise’s failed 1993 live-action iteration starring Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo.
Part of that “obsession” was due to the game’s irresistible lure, Chris said: “I believed in magic as a young person, and I still do. And there certainly was magic in this game. A quarter was a lot of money for me when I was a kid because we were pretty broke most of the time. But if I found a quarter or if I could scratch together two dimes and a nickel, I was right off to play ‘Mario.
Anya herself was drawn to the project because she said she loved how “on board everybody was for a new version of Princess Peach,” who is no damsel in distress in her big-screen incarnation.
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