The Super Mario Bros. Movie, based on Nintendo’s Mario video game franchise, hit cinemas last weekend. Box office figures released yesterday show it achieved the biggest ever opening for an animated feature globally, hauling in $377 million.
The success has confounded some. Critics on Rotten Tomatoes give the movie just 56%, despite the audience score of 96% on the same site.
Actor John Leguizamo – who was in the original Mario Bros movie, but isn’t in the reboot – has blasted the film’s makers over a lack of diversity in casting.
The PostMillennial has the story.
Reviewers were not the only ones going after Mario. Fox News reports that Leguizamo said in November 2022 that the film was “backwards” to voice cast two white actors, [Chris] Pratt and Charlie Day, to play the two white, Italian-American characters of Mario and Luigi.
Leguizamo, who is Hispanic, was cast in the first adaptation of the beloved Mario Bros video game franchise in 1993 as Mario’s brother, Luigi. That film, which is universally hated by both critics and fans according to Rotten Tomatoes, saw British actor Bob Hoskins cast as the Italian-American Mario alongside Leguizamo’s Luigi. …
Leguizamo said he would not be watching the new iteration when asked on Friday by TMZ.
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She performs like she is a stand up comedian that everyone should find funny because she is laughing more than a pack of hyena’s.
Full disclosure: I don’t really like Trump.
But I hope he will win because I absolutely, unreservedly and totally loath Kamala Harris.
Assuming that he wins, and that is quite an assumption with the cheating going on, Don really has to take it all the way this time. This cannot be another remix of what we have already, but a complete ‘smash it up and clear it away to the bin’ job in the style of Javier Milei. We, as in the nations of the West, cannot stand another Democratic (sic) government feeding the creeping communism of a World Government. I pray they find enough people to protect him while he does his work.
Indeed.
One thing is for sure: the election campaign was not a level playing field.
The absolute majority of the mainstream media worships Kamala, puts her in the best possible light, covers up for her inadequacy and track record of failure, with celebrities lining up to endorse her, sing praises of her.
Exactly like they treated the incoherent, senile Joe Biden.
With Trump, it’s the opposite.
If he got elected, it would be the same.
So, best of luck to him. Even though I don’t really like him, credit to him for putting up a good fight.
Massive fraud everywhere. 2 Dbs of ‘voters’ in many states – 2nd controlled by the deep state one would assume, completely cryptographically controlled. Plus the usual more registered voters than adults, fake ballots, 10 ballots to a 1 bedroom apartment, illegals, one signature on thousands of ballots etc. etc.
The transgender and alphabet people nonsense doesn’t play well with Black and Latinos as well as “church-people”’.
They are the target of the ads.
I would vote for Trump. He is the one that is not trying to end free speech. No other reason needed.
If this writhing loathsome sock puppet wins it’ll be because of the biggest election fraud outside of Africa.. anyone seen what going on with the so-called voting machines..?
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1852029645907951992