A new Mario movie!

[Dark Jaguar]

Chris Pratt is Mario, and it's being made by Illumination.  That's the studio that has substituted ridiculously oversized advertising budgets for actually having compelling stories.  The CG may be nice, but they're simulating disgusting drool and fart jokes with it almost exclusively.

I think Miyamoto got played on this one.  Illumination is making exactly the movie their executives WANT to make, and they're lying to Miyamoto so he gives his seal of approval on it.  I'm fully expecting this to be as bad as Boss Baby or whatever the heck.



These famous people are NOT voice acting talent (well, except Jack Black, he's got a compandaing case as a solid VA), so it's already clear they're not picking the best names for actors.  This... this is going to be bad.  The recent Sonic movie wasn't actually terrible.  Not good really, but not rage inducing.  It was tolerable.  Heck, the Pokemon detective movie turned out actually good, not great but enjoyable enough.  This however.... I have reservations.

[A Black Falcon]

I don't watch movies very often these days so I haven't seen any movies by Illumnination and I don't think I've seen any with Chris Pratt in them either, so I don't care at all about this.  Why is it such a big deal that some actor
is playing Mario,. anyway?  I mean, he's not Italian or Italian-American, but other than that... whatever, not sure why I should care in the slightest.

With that said, as for the movie, Illumination doesn't have the best reputation so yeah I wouldn't have the highest hopes for the movie being good, I do agree on that point.