It was back in April 2023 that I went to the cinema to watch a preview of The Super Mario Bros. Movie – and, I must add, with trepidation because I'm a lifelong Mario fan and assumed that it would be terrible. But it's not! As I wrote back then, the early critics' reviews were best ignored.
Interestingly, the movie has been in the US Netflix chart for many dozens of weeks – as my colleague wrote about at the end of last year – but here in the UK we've not had access to it on Netflix in the same manner. Indeed, it was Peacock where streaming rights were first awarded. Well, now Mario is very proudly sat in the top spot to see out February.
