Editing Mario (section)

==Illumination’s Super Mario Bros Movie==
Thirty years after the commercial failure of the previous film, Nintendo started shopping around for a studio to give it another go, and settled on Illumination, who had been quite successful with their Minions franchise and other children’s animated films. After the official announcement people became very excited - up until it was announced that Chris Pratt would play Mario, who is not known for his voice work and was believed to have been cast for name recognition only. He also doesn’t do a very strong Brooklyn accent compared to Charlie Day’s Luigi nor a deep NYC accent like Charles Martinet(the voice of Mario in the games) himself can.(Search Youtube for the Grossology edutainment game) That being said, the rest of the casting choices were spot-on, and the trailers looked like this film would be way more faithful to the Mario universe including callbacks to all sorts of Easter eggs, including the theme song from the Super Mario Bros Super Show, Rainbow Road, Donkey Kong, etc.
It turned out to be a smash hit!