‘Super Mario Bros.’ review: Lousy Nintendo movie goes down the drain
nypost.comvoiced by Chris Pratt) and Luigi (Charlie Day) work as plumbers.It’s a realistic setting. I spot mustachioed guys wearing overalls in Williamsburg all the time.But perhaps the boys would be better off selling artisan beard oil on Bedford, because they’re not very good with their socket wrenches.
One bully calls the duo “Brooklyn’s favorite failures.”Their cringy, “It’s-a me!” Italian accents, we learn, were briefly faked for a “Ghostbusters”-style commercial to hawk their struggling business.
But in reality, they talk like normal, very boring dudes. And, rising to the occasion, Pratt and Day provide their characters with very boring voices.While trying to fix a water main break downtown, the pair are sucked into a magic pipe and whisked to the world of Princess Peach (Anya Taylor-Joy), Bowser (Jack Black) and Toad (Keegan-Michael Key).
It’s a kind of “The Lion, The Witch and the Nintendo” situation.Mario winds up in Peach’s Mushroom Kingdom, while Luigi is plopped in the Dark Lands that Bowser lords over.
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