As we mentioned yesterday, The Super Mario Galaxy Moviegot off to a super-great start, earning more than $372 million worldwide in its first five days of work.
It didn’t shock us that Mario and Co. won the weekend’s box office title, of course. We figured that would happen. But we were pleasantly surprised that the film was so good. Our reviewer, Bob Hoose, loved the film—and if you’ve watched us on YouTube, you know that Hoose doesn’t always like the films he reviews.
Well, we have a discussion of an altogether different sort today about The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. And we bat around whether movies based on video games are just getting better—or whether this was a welcome exception to the rule.
Then we turn the conversation over to Kennedy Unthank, who interviewed Joshua Enck, the writer and director of Sight & Sound’s new Christian film, A Great Awakening. I think you’ll find it a super-interesting conversation.
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Is anyone else waiting for a Fox McCloud spinoff or is it just me?
Understandable but I’d like for Star Fox to get a new main-series game since it and F-Zero hardly ever get new content anymore outside of crossovers.
Yes, I am absolutely waiting for the hopefullly inevitable StarFox movie. Not that I really know anything about the characters outside of Super Smash Bros Ultimate.😅
Hey there, I liked the Super Mario Galaxy Movie quite a bit, but I felt that the plot was lacking in a lot of areas. Besides that, the animation was really great, the cameos from out of series were amazing for the most part, and the content from the last one did seem to be dialed down. The only thing that was truly disappointing as a fan of the Super Mario Galaxy game is how little screen time Rosalina had. I get that they kind of had to limit her since they’ve kind of overpowered her in the games, but still.