Super Mario Bros: The Movie becomes the biggest opening in history in animated films 1

Finally, and after years of waiting, it seems that Super Mario Bros: The Movie is being a complete success at the box office, and has already broken three records. Here all the info!

After years of waiting, this April 5, 2023 Super Mario Bros: The Movie finally saw the light of day and despite the very high expectations that existed, the work of Nintendo and Illumination broke all the expected numbers. In this way, the film not only became the best premiere of the year, but also the highest grossing animated film in history.

Specifically, Super Mario Bros: The Moviemanaged to raise more than $368 million dollars in its first weekend on billboards around the world beating out other blockbusters in the genre like Frozen 2 and The Incredibles 2. Plus, as if that wasn’t enough, the film also became the biggest opening so far in 2023, vastly surpassing Ant-Man and the Wasp. : Quantumania.

However, this is not all, and it is that in addition to all the records already mentioned, Super Mario Bros.: The Movie became the biggest video game movie opening of all time a place that until April 5 Warcraft held with $210 million dollars.

Now, despite the fact that there is no doubt that the Mario movie is an absolute success at the box office, It is important to note that the reception by critics and the public was quite strange and uneven.. While the specialized critics gave it an average of 56/100, the general public had a totally different vision, which led to giving it neither more nor less than 96/100 on platforms such as Rotten Tomatoes.

Clearly, time will tell if their opening weekend numbers continue down this path.