The Super Mario Galaxy Movie premieres to ‘Rotten’ critic score

The Super Mario Bros. Movie was a huge success for Nintendo, with the console maker’s first proper foray into the film scene going on to earn over $1.3 Billion at the box office following its release back in 2023. With its sequel ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ officially out now in cinemas, we’ve started to see reviews go live – with it currently sitting at a Rotten Tomato critic score of just 46%.

With a total of 98 critic reviews, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has so far achieved a Rotten Tomato score of 46% – putting it comfortably in the ‘rotten’ tier. Metacritic is seeing similarly rough scores, currently sitting at a 37 across 35 reviews.

It is worth pointing out that critically the original Super Mario Bros. Movie didn’t do too well either, receiving a Rotten Tomato score of 59% and a Metacritic rating of 46. In both cases, user reviews were much kinder, landing at 95% and 8.1/10 respectively.

In terms of the critiques themselves, many agree that while the visuals themselves are impressive, the story in Galaxy leaves plenty to be desired, with much of the film being a pure nostalgia trip.

That said, for Nintendo these films represent an opportunity to expand the Mario IP out to even wider audiences, and so we will have to wait and see just how much money this – seemingly worse – sequel manages to rake in.

KitGuru says: Have you seen The Super Mario Galaxy Movie yet? How does it compare to the first? Will it break the $1 Billion mark? Let us know your thoughts down below.

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