From The Telegraph’s movie critic Robbie Collin:
As soon as seen as being for followers solely, movies primarily based on laptop video games at the moment are attracting Hollywood’s best from Cate Blanchett to Orlando Bloom.
So, with Hollywood’s most acclaimed abilities now wading into the button-mashing fray, is the video-game film lastly changing into respectable?
For now, “respectable” remains to be pushing it.
The most recent addition to the canon, launched in cinemas this weekend, is The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film, from Nintendo and the studio behind Minions, Illumination. It’s hardly a crucial hit: the primary wave of opinions, collated by Rotten Tomatoes, skew solely 53 per cent constructive, and personally, as I wrote earlier this week, “no movie has ever made me really feel extra like I used to be being frogmarched spherical a department of Toys R Us”.
Nonetheless, it’s predicted to be one in every of 2023’s greatest box-office hits: early ticket gross sales recommend it would earn again its estimated $100 million (£80 million) funds twice over in its opening weekend alone.
There are a selection of causes for this, one being the dearth of competitors.
Learn Robbie’s evaluation in full right here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/movies/0/video-games-adaptations-films-super-mario-hollywood/
