I walked out of my solo viewing experience of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie last night as a veteran gamer in their late 30s, growing more cynical by the day. And I had a massive smile on my face.
Is it a great film on its own? No, not really. The pacing is pretty bad, the dialogue and story are a step backward from the first film, and there's an incessant amount of action scenes strung together one after the other throughout the majority of its 98-minute runtime. But I'll be damned if I didn't enjoy it anyway.
