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528: The Super Mario Bros. Movie

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Games, Leisure, Technology, Video Games

4.52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Mama mia! The Super Mario Bros. Movie is here, and currently dominating the box office with the biggest global opening weekend ever for an animated film. It's clearly won the popular vote at this point, but is the first new Mario movie in 30 years worth its weight in box office gold? On this episode of Retronauts, join Bob Mackey, Henry Gilbert, Jess O'Brien, and Stuart Gipp as the crew readies their thumbs to assume either the down or coveted up position. Danger: opinions ahead!

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0:00.0

This week on RetroNots, a movie about plumbers that circles the drain.

0:30.0

Hello everybody, welcome to another episode of RetroNots. I'm your host for this one, Bob

0:42.2

Mackie. And today we're talking all about the 2023 movie, The Super Mario Bros. Movie,

0:48.4

the first feature-length adaptation of the Mario series in 30 years. So consider this

0:53.7

a review cast that will either end when we're out of opinions or when we scream ourselves

0:57.8

or force whatever happens first. Let's see what happens before I go any further. Who

1:02.5

is here with me today in the same room? It's Andrew Yalbert and I'm slowly learning that

1:06.7

life is okay. And who is our other American guest? Wahoo, it's me, Jess O'Brien, a.k.a.

1:14.5

Voidburger. And who is our foreign correspondent? Hello, I'm Stuart Jip and I say, trust the fungus.

1:20.8

Yes, a better catchphrase, not said in this movie. So I want to say up front if you're

1:26.6

listening to this, that there will be spoilers in this review cast. You've been warned right

1:31.1

now. They're going to start although there's not a lot to spoil because nothing really happens

1:34.8

in this movie. And I think we're all the people on this podcast are all on the same page

1:40.2

when it comes to our opinions on this movie. So I will tell everybody out there listening,

1:45.8

if you like this movie, it's totally okay if you like a movie. I will quote, we hate

1:49.8

movies by saying, it's okay to like a movie. And if you like it and we didn't, we're

1:55.0

not saying you're stupid for liking it. We're just saying we didn't like it and we wish

1:59.2

you no specific harm. That's what I'm going to say. I don't agree with that. I'd like

2:04.6

to withdraw from that promise. I do think you're stupid if you like to make any

2:08.3

things. I can amend that. I can amend that Stuart. Right Stuart. Stop. I can amend that.

2:14.2

We don't think you're stupid if you like the movie, if you're a patron. And that will

2:18.1

buy you are our sympathy and trust and respect and everything like that. It only costs

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