In both good and bad ways, "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" is exactly what you'd expect.
Resourceful plumbers Mario and Luigi look and — depending on whether you thought they'd have an Italian accent or a Brooklyn accent that occasionally slips into pretend Italian — sound just like you'd expect them to. Their adventures in the movie are fairly clever extensions of the way they behave in the enduring game. There are lots of obstacle courses, sudden height shifts, invisible bridges ("Oh, these bricks are just floating here?" Mario asks, in a wink to players who know how to maneuver him across them) and the ability to borrow characteristics from other species, such as cats.
The video game has changed a lot over the years and the movie looks like the best possible version of it: multidimensional, bright and, at cineplexes across the country, enormous.
