If you’re a fan of video games or bizarre casting news you also might have heard about the upcoming “Super Mario Bros.” movie, starring Chris Pratt as Mario, and co-starring Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong.
And the comedy’s reliance on puke and poop jokes more cements that this flashback movie is for kids, who might be more forgiving of the numerous sequences that set up something kinda funny and then let them fall flat.
The Nintendo nostalgia is of course mighty thick here, and it goes beyond the console being just any holy grail that could fill in for a story about a young boy learning the truer meaning of the holidays.
The last five minutes of the movie try to address this gap—and give a big endorsement to fun that happens away from screens—but it’s too little, too late, even if comes with a creative answer to how Jake got his Nintendo.