Baked Beans

This movie adds to the pile of bad video game movies. The worst thing about The Super Mario Bros Movie is how they handle the characters. Here's why: Luigi: He is incompotent, useless and too reliant on Mario and is barely even in the film. This is shown by how Luigi keeps crying for Mario in Bowser's dungeon and even before that, looks at Mario as his one and only saviour as if Luigi isn't meant to be a partner/sidekick to Mario. What a loser. Bowser: The movie flanderised Bowser immensely. Basically, his apparent crush on Princess Peach is diled up to the max where it becomes cringy especially during his song. His hatred of Mario now stems from jealously over Peach. The film tries to portray Bowser as a threatening villain but he comes off as a complete joke. Bowser is now only really evil because of his crush on Peach. Stealing Power Stars, sacrificing prisoners and even killing a Koopa Troopa who asked if Peach would say no was all because of Peach. Canonically, the real Bowser just straight up forced Peach into marriage. Mario: He really shouldn't have been in this movie. Mario's whole cliche shick was that he is a doubted hero that everybody treats as some loser but he becomes great. This is shown when his family scolds him for his advert and being a bad influence on Luigi, Peach mocking him for being short etc. Illumination made the plot bend in favour of Mario. For example, he gets plot armoured out of dying by defeating Donkey Kong with a cat suit which started because he making a deal to fight DK. Secondly, he causes his team to lose and then gets eaten by an eel but somehow finds a way out. Additionally, Mario broke the magic pipe which sucks everyone into his world, runs away from Bowser to reach the Super Star but gets saved by Luigi when he should died since Bowser's fire was about to hit him. After this he gets some stupid late minute motivation because Bowser calls him worthless and teams up with Luigi using the Super Star and ends up defeating Bowser. You can see the problem here. In conclusion, Mario felt forced into a role to an extent where the movie had to plot armour him in times where he should have died. Even during the first time Mario meets Peach, she tells him to complete a training course which he fails at but Peach just lets him join her team because Mario almost succeeds. Peach: She was a wannabe Samus Aran who may as well have been the main character of the movie since the plot forced her to harbour Mario. The dialogue in the movie was full of cringy jokes and references. The pacing as well was awful. Many plot points and and elements needed proper build up such as Peach and Mario's relationship and DK and Mario's sudden frienship. The movie felt the need to rush itself and play safe, along with the movie lacking high stakes and intensity. The voice acting is still mid. The fake advert scene had Chris Pratt actually do a decent Mario impression.

Very rushed and underthought movie. It hand plenty of plot holes such as: Electro knowing that Peter is Spider-Man when that didn't happen in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Lizard and Sandman died when they didn't. Tobey saying that Harry died trying to kill him when he actually became Hobgoblin and was an enemy of Spider-Man until the end were they teamed up against Venom and he died saving his life(This was in Spider-Man 3). Tobey and Andrew coming in after the villains' fate. Flash Thompson still being accepted into MIT even though he wrote a book about being Peter Parker's best friend but MJ and Ned were still rejected for the same reason Lizard needing to be cured twice even though that happened in The Amazing Spider-Man Spider-Man being able to beat Doctor Strange with geometry which all started because Doctor Strange just wanted to clean up Peter's mess(it's a bit more of a plot armour to be honest) Ned can somehow summomd portals They really missed an opportunity to at least try and attempt better Tom's potrayal. He still hasn't had his own villains yet and doesn't feel like a friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man. And he still makes dumb decisions like when he let the villains out which lead onto May's death and the supporting characters act like "yeah sh** happens". In a better superhero movie without plot armour he would be even more ruined. The villains then realise that they don't need to be cured, because their powers are gifts and why does Spider-Man get to keep his? He's not even a very good fighter and got beaten up by Doctor Octopus and Green Goblin(first fight). He needed Stark tech to save him at the end so he can control his mechanic arms. And to add to that, he needed Sandman to help him against Electro and Doctor Octopus to come in clutch in the final fight. Not to mention that he needed Sandman's help into capturing Electro. He's also selfish and annoying like when he literally put the entire multiverse and lives in danger just because he wanted him and his friends to go to college which is reckless. Even worse when he wished for too much during the spell. This guy is meant to be a hero right? A lot of the jokes in the movie were bad and were made worse with poor line delivery. One being the joke Electro made about wanting a Black Spider-Man and Doctor Strange's Scooby-Doo joke. Hard to even crack a smile at those. The whole plot had flawed logic and was just bad decisions after bad decisions which could have been easily avoided. Peter could have just had everybody forget the event of Mysterio revealing his identity. The movie felt like something from an awful fanfiction. MJ and Ned have got to be one of the worst supporting characters in the MCU. Zendaya's monotone voice and lifeless, lack of facial expression acting is annoying to watch and Ned wasn't well written and just seemed there to fill the void. The villains themselves were pretty wasted and lacked the same depth as before and just seemed devalued and dumbed down. Marvel really brought back washed up actors to reprise roles just to hype people up while also knowing that they're showing us an awful movie with no redeeming qualities(fans fell for this). Overall this movie use the same idea as Spider-Man:Into the Spider-Verse but failed misrabely while also just doing it for fan service. I also wouldn't trust the dishonest good reviews either.