The Super Mario Bros movie has turned out to be a huge box office hit and as we previously reported set a new record for the best opening for an animated movie and has since pulled in hundreds of millions of dollars despite mediocre ratings.
The film’s massive success has surprised many, and one of them is Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto. When the gaming legend recently spoke to Japanese press ahead of the film’s premiere, he said the following:
“I did have a level of expectations that this movie would also do well (like the Super Nintendo World theme park), but I was very surprised that it went beyond what I could have imagined when it finally came out.
You need some luck to achieve this level of success for a film. While many foreign critics have given the movie relatively low ratings, I think that also contributed to the movie’s notoriety and buzz. I’d be happy if viewers could say that the definition of what a movie is has changed because of this film. That just shows how lucky we were.”
Miyamoto also revealed that the Japanese script for The Super Mario Bros Movie is handled separately, meaning it is not a copy of the English version of the film. If fans want to see this different version, they may see it released in select theaters in the US, as confirmed by the film’s official Twitter page.
Although we all believed that The Super Mario Bros Movie would be popular, few of us believed in this outcome, did we?
