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In this week\u2019s newsletter: After decades of offensively terrible video game adaptations, I\u2019m more than happy to settle for one that is simply OK
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\nI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever been to see a film on its opening day \u2013 but I made the effort for the Super Mario Bros Movie last week. Using my six-year-old as a convenient excuse to see a children\u2019s movie in the middle of the day, I sat in a suspiciously quiet cinema and tried to keep a handle on my trepidation. The reviews had come out the day before, and they weren\u2019t good. I anticipated spending the next 90 minutes feeling bitterly disappointed that, yet again, Hollywood had screwed up a golden opportunity to bring a beloved game to the big screen.
\nPerhaps my expectations were just exceedingly low \u2013 I have, after all, suffered through 30 years of offensively terrible movie adaptations of video games, with only the occasional reprieve \u2013 but I thought it was fine. It\u2019s not as surreal and funny as Detective Pikachu, nor as creative as the video-game-inspired Wreck-it Ralph or Free Guy, but it looked right, sounded right, and didn\u2019t labour the nostalgia too much. Plenty of critics have characterised the film as a lazy and meaningless sequence of empty references \u2013 and, yes, it suffers from a distinct absence of plot \u2013 but how much narrative justification do we actually need for a trip down Rainbow Road in go-karts? (Side note: a Mad Max\/Mario Kart mashup road battle was not something I was expecting from this film.) Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this week\u2019s newsletter: After decades of offensively terrible video game adaptations, I\u2019m more than happy to settle for one that is simply OK Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever been to see a film on its opening day \u2013 but I made the effort …<\/p>\n
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