Super Mario Bros. Movie Is Powering Up Other Video-Game Adaptations

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If you converted how much The Super Mario Bros. Movie earned from American dollars to Mushroom Kingdom coins, you could probably buy the whole place, Princess Peach’s palace included. The movie is set to make a billion dollars(Opens in a new window) soon and is already the most successful video-game movie of all time. 

While the movie won’t be available to stream for some time(Opens in a new window), streaming video-game-based media is getting some power-ups by proxy. Playing off the popularity of the Bros., JustWatch(Opens in a new window) put together a list of the top 10 films and shows that people are watching. 

Video-game movies and TV shows have been notoriously bad until recently, with the critically acclaimed The Last of Us series breaking the curse for TV, and The Super Mario Bros. Movie undoing whatever it was that was done by its notorious predecessor, Super Mario Bros. (which starred Bob Hoskins as Mario Mario and John Leguizamo as Luigi Mario(Opens in a new window)). 

While the reviews and audience ratings for the movies Uncharted, Sonic the Hedgehog, Pokémon Detective Pikachu, Resident Evil, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Tomb Raider, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Mortal Kombat, Warcraft, and Rampage should have spelled game over for some of them, they’re nevertheless the most enjoyed by streaming audiences. 

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Until The Super Mario Bros. Movie came along, Sonic the Hedgehog(Opens in a new window) and then Sonic the Hedgehog 2 were the top-grossing video-game adaptations. That was, of course, after Paramount Pictures remade the movie to get rid of, among other things, Sonic’s terrifying