I love how everyone just unanimously agrees that Jack Black absolutely killed it as Bowser

the 15 minute luigi and bowser makeout scene was a little unexpected, but a welcome surprise

its so surreal seeing jack do an actual review

My daughter is a HUGE yoshi fan (she wore her yoshi outfit to the theater) and was sad that yoshis only showed up briefly in the background. So the post-credit egg hatching scene really got her excited. We absolutely loved the rest of the movie as well though. We were all cheering and nudging each other the whole time when a little musical cue happened or we saw a sight gag. Our family had a blast.

When Jack is reviewing a film, you know it will be a true jacksfilms moment.

Just came back from the movie and I can confirm. It was a blast! I had a big disgusting toothy ear-to-ear grin for 99% of the runtime.

I love that it was corny but not cringey. every time he said a mario catchphrase it felt more like a silly shitpost than just shoving it in for the sake of having it in the movie. I fell out of my seat laughing at the very end when the star showed up one final time

The movie left me wanting to see more of the world, I loved just how beautiful everything was in the movie.

Jacksfilms disagreeing with critics about an animated children's movie based on a video game is certainly one of the Jacksflims moments of all time.

I thought it was a really cool detail that the Super star made Mario invincible for around 15 seconds until he inevitably fell into the ceaseless void.

the training montage scene reminded me of gamers staying up all night to try and get better and better at a particular level. I pretty much had a big, dumb smile on my face the whole movie. Great stuff

Peach being a strong female character but also having a personality + showing actual interest in Mario (instead of the whole ‘I don’t need no man’ shtick) was great and it makes me happy The attention to detail, too, I was so HAPPY every time I’d recognize something from the game, but also things that I would actively do in the games, and the Easter eggs I recognized or details I’d catch onto :)

the fact that this is genuine is kinda funny coming from Jack

More earnest reviews from Jack please. He's genuinely really good at this.

Honestly, a "Waah!" at the end would make the move easily 100% better.

The "looks like he ate the wrong mushroom" was definitely made just to explain that to little kids who mightve been confused 🤣🤣

I fully expected this to be satire, but the fact this is a serious review should tell you how impressed he was by this movie

My favorite thing about it is that there’s no obligatory falling out and the conflict in the third act is actually original. I’m sick of movies always having an argument, sad music, then the characters making up. Not even Dreamworks’ last two movies, which were better than this, avoided that.

I loved when Mario said, “uh, meow?” and Donkey Kong shot him with a tranquilizer dart

The 6 minute long scene of Mario trying to find the right music to race to was very relatable

I loved the part when Bowser got out a tiny piano and played a beautiful rendition of “wap”.

Not gonna lie, I would like to see more of this stuff, it was great! hearing your thoughts and reviews on movies like this is really fun! I think you have a lot of insight on films and i dunno if you would be interested in doing more of these in general, but if you did, I would be a fan.

Jack making a Frank review of a movie he genuinely enjoyed is funnier than any joke he could have made 10/10 no notes

The Yoshi's you mentioned sound like background characters. It's possible they want to do a sequel where a Yoshi plays an important role and that's why they let us see its egg.

Can’t believe I hadn’t thought of it before, but Jack, have you ever given thought to just-reviewing movies like this? Despite how often we use you as the butt of a joke, you do know what you’re talking about when it comes to cinema, at least more than most I would assume. This video was entertaining and informative, coming from someone who I think views movies with a more technical eye yet fits in with the public crowd. I’d like to see you do more.

It was a really clever twist to end the Mario story 20 minutes in. Then when it transitions seamlessly into the minion romantic action drama (the second minions movie in the genre) I was floored.

Genuine spoilers for the movie’s ending: One part I REALLY like is how they avoided the trope of “character goes to a fantastic world and has to either leave it forever, or stay forever and never see their family again”. I know sometimes it makes sense, but I don’t really like it and it makes me SAD. The fact that they can just go between the two worlds at will just really made me happy.

This is by definition the the definitive video game movie. Made by fans, FOR fans.

Fun fact: The description is not lying, between Mario, Luigi and their father they say "Mama mia" around 5 times in the film.

nice to see jackfilm being a champion of the truth as always

I'm not a big Mario fan, but I adored this movie. It doesn't have a deep story cause the whole point of Mario is so simple: Beat the turtle, save the princess. It's not gonna rival Shakespeare. But this movie was heartwarming and sweet and gave personalities to characters who have said all of 20 words in the last decade! I love this movie and I hope they expand on it in the future.

I feel like I spent a third of the movie doing a deep belly chuckle. I absolutely adored it. It will definitely be a go to comfort movie for years to come.

More genuine reviews from jacksfilms please! I love how genuine of a person he’s become

I am in awe that Jack gave like a really fair review and not like a joke review because he could've easily done that. But no, in his own style of review he really gives his opinion on both pros and cons and doesn't mince words doing it, makes people come with genuine interest not feel dejected

You know it's good when Jack takes the review seriously

Is it a masterpiece? No But is it fun? *Hell yeah*

I almost teared up at many parts of the movie but I only cried once: when the DK rap played it was very emotional and i genuinly cried. YES I CRIED.

The moment when Mario gets imprisoned for racketeering charges was a welcome injection of realism into the otherwise fantastical world.

This was a super wholesome review. I saw it last night and pretty much feel the same way about it. Cranky Kong is one of my favorites, and I was a little bummed with his dialog. I also thought Mario and Luigi's family seen however was really interesting and a cool "behind the scenes" view of what their life is like! Plus having OG Mario voice actor Charles Martinet as both Jump Man and Mario and Luigi's dad made me really happy :)

Honestly when I watched this movie with my friends, I went into it like “haha we’re seeing the mario movie with Chris Pratt”, like it was a joke. But Chris Pratt wasn’t horrible. I expected dry, bland humour that catered to young kids, which it did have a bit of. An irk that I had was mario said mamma Mia one two many times. By far, Lumalee is my favourite character

I was expecting this to be a joke video, but it's actually a pretty good and pretty accurate movie review. Well done.

Wasn't expecting Sonic to come and reenact the legendary fanart, but it was a wholesome moment in the movie

The fact that both this AND DnD turned out to actually be good movies actually makes me irrationally happy. For this brief period in time, movies made to hook us in with nostalgia didn't either disappoint me or make me depressed because I was right that the movies I thought were going to suck from the trailers sucked. I got to be pleasantly surprised, and I think I was beginning to forget how that felt.

Personally as a Mario fan this was something I looked forward to since the original image. It was a fun movie filled with so much refrences and also a simple yet fun story. Also the many music refrences were fun (The Bowsers Fury music being a personal favorite of mine because with how recent Bowsers Fury was I wasnt expecting it to show up but it did and I loved it)

I'd love more content like this tbh. I consume a lot of videos in the "film review" sphere of youtube, and I think you have a serious knack for it.

(Spoiler alert) Yeah jack black really made a lot of sense for this movie. Like i watched the movie in french not english and yet when bowser started singing on the piano, i couldn’t stop thinking about jack black lmao

I watched it last saturday and I want to see it again. They knew exactly what they were about and you can really tell Nintendo wanted to be as respectful to the audience as possible

I just saw it (partly due to watching the first 30 seconds of this video, then deciding to pick it back up after), and I absolutely agree. The score *very* much stood out to me in how it pulled from what are genuinely some of the best video game scores in history and incorporated them into a cinematic soundtrack, using the motifs that fans already know to communicate on a meta level with the audience.

I think the reason they made the post-credit scene was just a Yoshi, was because it was the only green Yoshi in the entire movie.

More movie reviews from you, you’re the man!

6:34 "All toasters toast toast"

The end credit scene should have been in the brooklyn sewers, and instead of yoshi, it’s wario and waluigi’s shadows walking towards the pipe, doing their iconic laughs. And the reason being they work for foreman spike as well, and they were told to find mario and luigi to embarrass them

Fudge , this is an actual sincere review , and a good one as well . Kinda refreshing , and you got me interested in the movie too

Jack these kind of videos are genuinely my favorite stuff that you make, I love when you just earnestly talking about things that you’re passionate about and throw in some witty humor here in there. The Avatar 2 review, tech talk, the terrifying world of Hallmark Christmas movies, all of these are so good

This was not a movie for the critics, this is a movie for the fans and if the fans love it then I say " jog on " to the critics. Honestly, I view the Super Mario Bros Movie as a celebration of Mario and how far he has come over the last 42 years. Mario is the undisputed face of the Video Gaming Industry.

“Its a 90-minute kids film, what did you expect?” You know what else is a 90-minute kids film? Toy Story, The Lion King, Wall-E and so on. Not saying that i expected the mario movie to be on that level, just saying that that factor alone is not enough to not have good expectations.

I just got back from seeing it, Jack Black’s Bowser is truly top tier casting (the musical bit was GOLDEN 🤣) and Chris Pratt did a great job as Mario, 8/10 pretty good

Here are some of my replacement lines for: "Looks like he ate the wrong mushroom" 1. "Not so big anymore, Mr. Tough Guy" 2. "Performance anxiety is a real thing, Princess" 3. "DK, Jungle Beat that shrimp!"

I loved this movie. It's the same vibes as a watergun fight with friends - just really good fun.

4:30: I think that was the point: Cranky Kong is the type of guy who would think the script he was given doesn't have much meat; he'd be like "Who writes this stuff? Back in my day, we didn't need dialogue to tell a story; we had film projectors and a Pie-ana!"

This was unsettlingly genuine

Id would watch in theaters but they won't let me bring my gamer diapers 😢

All jokes aside, this movie was a banger, and I’m honestly tempted to go see it again. I genuinely had fun with it. I’ve never personally played any of the Mario games, other than some of the classics, but I’ve been on the internet long enough to get a lot of the deep cuts. Good show, m’jackfilm, indeed.

I loved the part where chris pratt said: " so we're like a suicide squad, ey luigi? "

I’m so used to seeing satirical content from Jack I forget he’s capable of actually giving us honest, thoughtful discussion at times. Good to hear it’s a fun time, might have to see this yet!

I love being surprised by genuine videos from Jack from time to time

5:40 there’s also a scene with that same Yoshi egg too.

I remember my theater erupted when they teased Yoshi in the end credits scene.

Thank you Jack, now I can finally see the Mario Movie in theaters near me.

This was really great. Just the perfect balance of serious and funny. MORE OF THIS!!

i can't lie, watching other people gush about this film as much as i did makes me so happy lmfao

5:00 don't forget that there are parents who might have no idea about the blue shroom ^^

now i wanna see the mario movie, which is something i didn't think i'd ever say

Just today the movie was played on my local cinema, I went with 8 friends and we shat and pissed. I was pointing at the screen every 2 minutes because i recognized almost every easter egg or reference. Also, i think the yoshi scene at the end of the credits its sort of a reference to sm64 where at the end when you get 120 stars you can have a dialog with yoshi

I absolutely loved all the Kong country scenes, it was fantastic

Man, I was sitting here waiting for the joke, or the tone shift. But it turns out the joke is that this is just a very earnest 7 minute review of the Super Mario movie.

This review made me realize I've never _really_ played a Mario game. But I've absorbed so much Mario by osmosis (watching many content creators who love the games) that it feels like I have.

i spent like half of this video expecting it to be a joke and instead got a very lovely review of a movie i've been curious about. good shit.

I’m glad to see someone with this opinion. Not because I’m the biggest die hard Mario fan wanting someone to affirm my bias, but for a pretty big fan with low expectations the whole time as I was having fun and smiling throughout I thought: “why are people being harsh on this?”Besides the 80’s songs thrown in and a little too many slo-mo cuts for me I had a great time and thought you really couldn’t make a better Mario movie than this

You clearly didn't get the end credits scene because when i saw it i was beyond excited The background yoshis only show that yoshis excited like with shy guys and koopas The singular yoshi egg means in a sequel we will have a yoshi (the main one) as a main character it's literally the best post credit scene i could ask for If there is a sequel, it will probably be called the super mario world movie

I saw you that night in citywalk and you were too far away to recognize you but my friend said you reminded him from the tomato in VeggieTales. Glad you liked it jack

It was so much fun, you can tell they put alot of love into that movie and they catered so much to nostalgic fans and new ones. It was awesome!

I loved when Mario said meow, when sonic showed up, complained that he copied him, and they did the famous makeout clip

If jack is making an unironic review you know it's an actual banger

I think people were being way too harsh on chris pratt leading up to the film. His voice acting work so far has been solid and based on the cast it was clear the directors werent going for a traditional cast

I honestly clicked this notification hoping for a legit review, but was fully expecting a joke video. Great review and this is honestly the most excited I've been to see it. I'd love to see more genuine vids like this, even just now and then!

We walked out the theatre and my dad said “I loved the part where Mario says it’s Mario time and proceeds to Mario everywhere, it was a bit unexpected when bowser pulled out a glock 19 and shot up a school but still a good movie” We have now restricted his internet time and banned him from Twitter (we saw this on release date)

5:00 I agree it’s a bit of a ‘lame’ line to say, but you gotta realize there’s also gonna be kids that aren’t necessarily following/understanding every detail that’s happening on screen, so Cranky Kong delivering this line delivers proper context for such situations

I loved the movie! I was smiling the entire time

I just saw the movie and I loved it my mom was so happy the entire time she turned into a child

I kid you not, in a screening full of kids, I was the most excited. For practically the entire runtime I was just going *gasp* "ITS THE THING FROM THE GAMES"

Opinions: *exist* Jack: the reviews are WRONG

I honestly can't tell if he's being serious or not

5:51 I’ll tell you why, it’s Mario’s yoshi, not a random yoshi in the background. Still a pretty bad credit scene though.

Yeah I can agree with the Cranky Kong complaints, he's just nothing like the games at all. In the games, he's a snobby, egotistical, yet energetic & flexible for an old ape, & throughout most of the games he's in, all he does is bully the player. I mean hell, he started the "Cranky Kong%" for the original Donkey Kong Country, because in the original when you finish the game, he says that your record time is pathetic, & that he could 100% the entire game in under an hour. In the movie, he's much more timid & just not as much of an asshole as you'd expect.

I literally smiled during the entire movie. I'm such a Super Mario fanboy, and the movie was just chock full of both references and charm. The Super Mario Bros movie is literally the best piece of cinema ever made.

Since I literally JUST saw this movie, real talk it was actually really good!

Now you're making me convinced to watch it.

This video is a great example of the "everyone is wrong and I'm right" syndrome.

I wish the post credit scene was a grubby scene of Wario going thru the sewers looking for loot and coming down to see a pipe 😯