Super Mario Bros: The movie is about to become the highest grossing video game film in history

There is no doubt that Super Mario Bros: The Movie is taking everything by storm. Within a week of its premiere, the animated installment could become the highest-grossing video game movie in history, surpassing Warcraft. Read the details in this note!

After its first week on the billboard, Super Mario Bros: The Movie is close to breaking yet another record, and that’s it… We recently told you that this installment not only became the best premiere of the year, but also the highest-grossing animated film of all. Now, if the numbers continue to be in its favor, it would be close to becoming nothing more and nothing less than the highest-grossing video game movie in history.

Yes, all these achievements within a week of its premiere. Let’s go over numbers. Until April 13, Super Mario Bros: The Movie carry accumulated nearly $438 million worldwide. This figure is just below warcraft, the 2016 installment that earned $439 million at the worldwide box office and remains the highest-grossing video game movie of all time. Everything indicates that the film starring our favorite plumber would soon take his place.

Remember that the movie Super Mario Bros had already surpassed warcraft in another record: the premiere of a biggest video game installment of all time. The first place was held by the 2016 film with $210 million dollars, but Mario, Luigi and company topped it with a worldwide gross of more than $368 million. While the film’s production budget and marketing expenses are unknown, Super Mario Bros seems to be on the right track.

If you haven’t seen it yet, we leave you its synopsis. Based on the beloved and popular characters from Nintendo, Super Mario Bros: The Movie will show us how, while working underground to repair a water main, Brooklyn plumbers, Mario (Chris Pratt) And his brother Luigi (Charlie Day), they are transported by a mysterious pipe and wander in a magical new world. However, when the brothers are separated in the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario embarks on an epic quest to find Luigi.

With the help of Toad (Keegan-Michael Key)a resident of that magical world, and a bit of training from the strong-willed ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom, the Princess Peach (Anya Taylor-Joy), Mario Harness your own power to face the almighty Bowser (Jack Black) and stop their plans to conquer the world.

The cast of the film also features Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong, Fred Armisen as Cranky Kong, Kevin Michael Richardson as Kamek and Sebastian Maniscalco as spikeplus a special voice appearance by Charles Martinet, who gave voice to Mario and Luigi in the games of Super Mario for more than 30 years.

At first, the installment started with good reviews and reactions. However, as the days passed, the critics were harsher, leaving Super Mario Bros: The Movie with 58% in Rotten Tomatoes. On the other hand, the audience could not disagree more, since thanks to them, the film accumulates 96%.

Yes ok Super Mario Bros: The Movie ends with a nod to a possible sequel, something that makes sense given that Nintendo talked about making more deliveries, nothing confirmed yet.

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