Commercially, The Super Mario Bros. Movie was one of 2023’s biggest successes, as its $1.3 billion global haul secured its spot as the second highest-grossing movie of the year, trailing only behind Barbie. Critically, on the other hand, the film adaptation of the popular Nintendo franchise split critics, with CinemaBlend’s review of The Super Mario Bros. Movie being among the more negative ones. With the movie a few months off from celebrating its first anniversary, Jack Black, who voiced Bowser, has now shared his take on the movie getting bad reviews.
Earlier this month, it was announced that Black joined the cast of Minecraft, yet another video game-related movie for his resume. While speaking with our sister sister Total Film about this upcoming project, the actor said he was ‘excited” to get to reunite with director Jared Hess following their time together on Nacho Libre, but he’s going to wait before predicting how it will be received among the public given how things went with The Super Mario Bros. Movie. As Black recalled:
