Mario Movie by Illumination

Wow I didnt know the Zelda cartoon had such an underrated soundtrack.

The 80s Zelda cartoon?

That or the CDI games

@Cortez

I can see Illumination making Zelda stuff out of the Toon Link games as those would fit the style and vibe they go for and Dreamworks doing the others. I'd also love to see either of them do some Pikmin stuff because those animated shorts are awesome.

@Shadow-Whisperer

For a Splatoon movie/series instead of a cup, just make it Splatfest and the twins want to train and practice for the event only to be roped by some creepy old guy to fight off some kind of invasion and find the Great Zapfish and save Splatfest(I'd have a scene where the idea of Splatfest being cancelled causes an epic meltdown and Big No from them).

The 80's cartoon.

Oh yeah, the music in those 80s Nintendo shows was rather good.

Back in the 80s, DIC produced a bunch of how based on Nintendo games. The Legend of Zelda, Captain N: The Game Master, The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World and Captain N: The Game Master. They all used lots of music taken straight from the games they were based off, so you'd hear the underworld theme in Zelda when they went underground, or the underwater theme from Mario Bros. 3 when the characters went underwater, and a bunch of stuff got taken from a bunch of different game to make up the Captain N soundtrack. The other thing is, all these shows, except for Zelda, also had musical numbers in the episodes. They started out being straight covers of popular stuff, like "Danger Zone," but as time went on they stopped doing covers of other people's songs, likely due to not owning the rights, and started doing soundalikes of the songs instead. A Captain N episode has a song called "Dangerous Place" which is clearly just "Danger Zone." If you're interested Every Song in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 and Every Song in Captain N Season 2.

I saw this movie for the second time today, and I had a great time. As a matter of fact, I even had the auditorium to myself.

I'm so glad this movie is fun and popular. Both my nephews liked it, although they enjoyed Sonic 2 a bit more. My nieces are too young to see any movies so they spent time with their grandma.

It's now the third highest grossing animated movie.

Well fourth, since TLK 2019 exists.

Whaaaat? Don't you remember the ad campaigns? That was a live action movie!

Internationally it's behind the Lion King remake everyone hates and the two Frozen movies, but what about domestically? Where does it rank there?

I do know it's ahead of the Lion King remake that everyone hates in that case.

At the domestic box office, it's #2 behind Incredibles 2. Needs around $57 million to take the top spot.

Top five animated films in domestic sales are:

1. Incredibles 2 - $608.6m
2. The Super Mario Bros. Movie - $551.8m
3. Finding Dory - $486.3m
4. Frozen 2 - $477.4m
5. Shrek 2 - $441.2m

Edited by TobiasDrake on May 25th 2023 at 12:58:52 PM

The only non-sequel on that list!

And that's not going to happen.

Internationally, the movie may beat Frozen but I don't see it getting higher than that.

So, did Incredibles 2 made a weirdly big percentage of it's money in US compared to other animated movies? Because it seems that way from a cursory glance.

Man north america really liked Incredibles 2 huh. I thought it was mediocre at best.

It did, yes. It still made more money internationally than domestic, but only by a slim margin.

It's typical of billion-dollar movies to make about 120-200% of their domestic total in international sales. Mario's international total, in fact, is 127.9% of its domestic. For Frozen 2, it's 204.5%.

Incredibles 2's international total is 104.2% of its domestic. That's still fairly high, but not as high as you'd expect from a film of its high stature in the box office rankings.

I sometimes forget we even got a second Incredibles film due to how little people talk about it these days (and when they do, it's generally isn't high praise).

4x

It was the highly anticipated sequel to a MASSIVELY beloved classic giving more focus to Elastigirl and came out during the Summer as well as with very little competition that I recall. It was also during the height of the Me Too! movement so female empowerment films were HUGE and I recall a lot of topics being made about the movie on this.

I noticed a pattern that the most financially successful movies are not the best ones, they are those that ride on the coattails of beloved classics.

Everyone seems to agree that The Lion King (1994), Frozen (2013), The Incredibles, Finding Nemo and Despicable Me are better movies than The Lion King (2019), Frozen 2, Incredibles 2, Finding Dory and Minions, and yet, the latter five all made more money than their (already very successful) predecessors.

I predict that when the Mario movie gets a sequel it will also outperform the first movie.

Edited by Snicka on May 26th 2023 at 8:18:34 PM

I really hope this wont follow the trend of the sequel being bad or mediocre like those.

There's at least one animated franchise where all the sequels made more than the first movie, but at least the second movie also considered just as good if not better: Shrek. But even there, the third and fourth movies outperformed the first (though not the second) movie despite being much weaker films.

Not all of them are bad anyway. Frozen II and Finding Dory are quite good. But Even Better Sequel is hard to pull off regardless of the initial movie’s quality.

Many people would disagree on Frozen 2, but fair enough on Finding Dory.