The Super Mario Bros. Movie is the 3rd Biggest Animated Movie of All Time - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 23 May 2023 / 3,852 Views
The Super Mario Bros Movie continues to be a huge success for Nintendo and Illumination and has now passed Incredibles 2 worldwide gross of $1.243 billion to become the third highest grossing animated movie of all time, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The-Numbers reports The Super Mario Bros Movie has grossed $1.253 billion worldwide. Only the two Frozen movies have grossed more money worldwide. Frozen II earned $1.453 billion and the original earned $1.284 billion.
The Super Mario Bros Movie is just under $31 million away from topping the original Frozen movie and just over $200 million away from becoming the highest grossing animated movie of all time.
The movie is also the highest-grossing movie of all time in Mexico having recently surpassed the previous record holder Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Domestically the movie is the second highest grossing digital animated movie, behind only Incredibles 2. It is also the 21st highest grossing movie of all time worldwide.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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IT is #3 animated movie #21 when you include all movies. Very impressive.
Proof that Rotten Tomatoes has lost it's relevance.
I can't say I actually agree with this rotten tomatoes consensus is pretty much spot on to me. I know this won't be a popular opinion here, but I finally saw the movie with my 3 year old son a week ago and while my kid loved it I found it to have way less appeal to mature audience, its quite generic and cheesy (sometime it's in a good way but not always).
I may have fallen to the hype and had to much anticipation but to me the story lacked a subtle touch that animated movie should have to also appeal and interest older audience. Wreck it Ralph comes to mind as a movie that successfully did just this as pretty much any Pixar movie.
Anyway I didn't have a bad experience just one that did not live up to the hype or my expectation. I'd say 6.5/10.
TLDR, you're right about one thing, your opinion is way unpopular.
I don't expect everyone to judge this movie or my opinion with impartialitly either.
I went to film school, I tend to agree with the critics most of the time because I care a lot more about filmmaking techniques and writing.
The Mario Movie is an interesting case because I agree fully with both sides of the coin. as a movie on its own, it's pretty lame. Poorly paced story, poorly written characters, and really nothing that made it a storytelling powerhouse. It looked pretty but that was about it.
But as a MARIO movie it hit pretty much every note I wanted it to. IT was fun, it was cheerful, it was chock full of cheeky references that gave me that dopamine hit, and it was cathartic.
IF this wasn't specifically Mario it'd be worthy of the middling scores. but as a love letter to its audience it's pretty close to exactly what people wanted. I'd never say 'Rotten Tomatoes has lost its relevance' because that's an absurd take on the matter, but it is important as consumers to understand where the reviews are coming from and use that to decide if you think you'll agree. there's a LOT more to a review than the score, and the Mario Movie makes i clear that a movie can be mediocre but still please the crowds.
Different people seek different things in their entertainment. IT's the same reason I wouldn't trust a review about a sports game from someone that doesn't really play sports games. Audience and source both matter. Factor them in.
