By Peter Bradshaw
Publication Date: 2026-03-31 19:00:00
HIt’s a lazy and uninteresting animated sequel to The Super Mario Bros. Movie, based on the old video game about two crazy Italian plumbers Mario and Luigi from Brooklyn, voiced here by Chris Pratt and Charlie Day. This type of stereotype is obviously the last thing in mainstream entertainment that would be considered offensive. Now she and the ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom, Princess Peach (voiced by Anya Taylor-Joy), must rescue Rosalina (Brie Larson), the adoptive mother of the slightly minion-like creatures called Lumas. She was kidnapped by Bowser Jr. (Benny Safdie), the son of the evil turtle Bowser (Jack Black), who did much the same thing in the previous film.
Of course it’s intended for young children, but it certainly didn’t need to be such a visually boring screensaver of a movie, with even more of that first film’s cheesy Euro-knockoff look. And here too, the lack of funny lines is a real mystery. The last film was a deliberate attempt to manipulate the game’s 2D graphics…
