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Mamma mia! ‘Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ karts $372M+ in global debut, best for Hollywood pic YTD; ‘Project Hail Mary’ on path to half billion
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- Title
- Box Office: 'Super Mario Galaxy Movie' Opens to Record $372M Global
- Authors
- Anthony D'Alessandro
- Published
- Apr 5 2026
- Word count
- 1820 words
I understand that the movie wasn't made for me, and I'm just a stick in the mud. But the preview only made me sad that I couldn't show a more chill Mario movie to my kids.
The entire vibe of the previous was the same as a Marvel movie. The music, the dramatic action sequences ending with panting and ragged heroes and giant explosions, it just doesn't fit with any Mario game I've played. Admittedly I'm a few years out of the loop, but did play the first two Mario Galaxy games.
I guess this is controversial, but i don't think every movie needs to have emotional rollercoasters baked into the plot. It can just be fun, which is always how I felt the Mario games were.
This is all my reaction to a preview, though. My kids will want to see it, so I will, and maybe it'll be a lot better than I expect. Maybe Chris Pratt will suddenly sound like Mario after long enough.
Off to yell at more clouds...
I've seen people describe it as "dangling keys" the movie, like how you dangle keys to distract a baby, and I'd say that's an apt description.
It's constantly moving from one thing to another and treating the viewer as having an attention deficit. Basically everything is inconsequential and not a lot of time is wasted on overarching subplots. It's very clearly aimed at a much younger audience when compared to the previous movie that was more all-ages.
I don't think that necessarily makes it terrible, but it is a shame that it stopped trying to be a general family movie everyone can enjoy and opted to solely entertain kids that will be happy just seeing all the gaming references and flashing lights.
We took our kids to see Goat relatively recently and this was how both myself and my wife felt about that movie. Fast moving nonsense. At the end, I found myself just kind of mentally exhausted and I kept having to resist the urge to pull out my phone during it.
I imagine this one is much the same. My kids saw it, I didn't take them, but apparently they both fell asleep in the car on the ride home, which isn't a terribly typical thing for them anymore, so maybe they felt as I did after Goat.
I think both these films especially this one, are about as close as you’re gonna get to no plot no character just bright colors and flashing lights as in a mainstream movie
Seriously, the character with the most development is Bowser, and they ruined it in 10 seconds.
I have no interest in seeing this movie, but if they can just shoehorn an opportunity for Mario to respond to someone with "It's, uh, me, Mario," then I will watch that clip on YouTube.
I'm not sure what you imagine for that, but "kids summer blockbuster" has always been something with over the top stakes. People like to complain about Marvel, but honestly they were a step up from the Transformers era.
We hunger for new IP. I don't know about you but even though Mario is decades old, the movies are new, and PHM is a completely new IP (though I don't see room for a sequel.)
Well, Project Hail Mary is a pretty faithful adaptation of a pretty popular novel. If you're counting the Mario movies as new IP, though, then I think your point still stands!
PHM is still new IP though, yeah? Like it is not part of an existing universe like Star Wars, Star Trek, Indiana jones, Lego, Marvel, etc.
Yeah. New IP though the authors other super popular book, The Martian, was already adapted and also did well in theatres if I remember correctly.
Maybe neither is technically new IP but it’s different and it’s not superhero stuff. I never thought I’d tire of new superhero stuff but the only upcoming superhero movies that I’m looking forward to at all are both Spider-Man movies; the new live action, and the next Spider-Verse, and the new Super-Girl movie looks interesting enough.
The Doctor Doom stuff doesn't scratch the itch, hey?
Not even a little, no. I’m a fan of Robert Downey Jr., but I’ve never cared that much for Doom or the Fantastic Four; their stories always left me cold. I still haven’t seen the latest F4 movie, and it’s got Pedro Pascal, who should be an instant draw for me.
Yeah, I see that. Like the Mario movie, I'll know what I'm getting into with I shamelessly steal and watch both films. I owe those studios nothing.