The Super Mario Bros. Movie is Average at Best and its Discourse is Inconsistent and Horrid
The Super Mario Bros. movie has had more than its fair share of discourse online prior to release for quite a few reasons. But it would probably be best to explain it from the beginning to make it easier to understand. General consensus around the film when it was first revealed was mixed at best, as memes of the voice cast's performances were spread online, leading to a heated discussion about how it would turn out.
More often than not, there was a question of why Nintendo and Illumination went with the voice cast they did, particularly in the case of Chris Pratt as the star of the film Mario. Overall, impressions weren’t exactly great at this time. After some time, Illumination shared the first trailer for the movie since the reveal of the voice cast, and suddenly impressions were improving as the visuals were very good and most of the jokes in the trailers worked. Even the voice cast was filling in their shoes rather nicely - Pratt’s unenthused first take notwithstanding.
The general vibe surrounding the Super Mario Bros. movie continued to get better as it inched closer to its theatrical release. Unfortunately, this is where the drama begins and will likely continue. Here’s the deal, critics’ reviews weren’t exactly favorable, with the popular movie aggregator Rotten Tomatoes ranking the film at just 49% at the time of writing. For many fans of Mario, however, this was purely insane, and all of the critics didn’t understand what they were talking about. In some cases, that criticism was indeed warranted, only adding more fuel to the fire.
This ushered in another phase of the Super Mario Bros. Movie discourse. To put it simply, many fans of Mario would defend the movie to a point where it may have been physically
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