The Super Mario Bros. Movie is Now the 2nd Biggest Animated Movie of All Time - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 June 2023 / 4,456 Views
The Super Mario Bros Movie continues to be a huge success for Nintendo and Illumination and has now passed the original Frozen worldwide gross of $1.28 billion to become the second highest grossing animated movie of all time, according to The-Numbers.
The Super Mario Bros Movie has grossed $1.29 billion worldwide. Frozen II is the only animated movie to have has grossed more money worldwide with $1.45 billion. The Mario movie needs to gross nearly $160 million more to surpass Frozen II.
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.
The Super Mario Bros Movie is the second highest grossing digital animated movie domestically and worldwide. It is also the 9th highest grossing movie of all time.
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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Move aside Disney
Not sure why The Lion King remake isn't considered an animated movie when it's 99.9% CGI.
in this case, Marvel's movies would also be considered animated movies =P
Was some of it not CG? Did they just film the ground and digitally add everything else later? I was curious as I looked up how much it made and legit shocked it made that much. To me it looked like a soulless copy, so never went to see it.
Iirc only one shot wasn't CG (the opening sunrise).
So, it was an animated movie. I agree with your statement.
It is obviously a huge hit. But, box office dollar sales records are pretty meaningless, when you consider the extremely high rate of movie ticket price increases over the last couple of decades. What would be interesting is to compare the number of tickets sold.
Wow I wasn't expecting it to pass the first Frozen movie, which was huge for its time! Or break the all time top 10!
I loved the movie for how simple and sincere it was. All other animated movies try to be deep and dramatic, as if that was what people watching colorful cartoons were looking for. No, I wanted a little dude jumping on turtles and yelling YAHOO! Not a Shakespeare play about existential pain pretending to be a cartoon.
Congrats super Mario!
Man I really wanna watch it and see what the fuss is all about!
Ok, get working on the Metroid and Zelda movies please.
