I wasn't disappointed. Felix himself made up for the lack of Mario. :D
It's nice they got the rights to feature these characters but if they're just gonna appear for one scene and maybe deliver a (rather cheap and corny) gag than that doesn't give this anymore weight than your average sprite comic or Robot Chicken sketch.
I was mostly right about that first sentence, except for
Q*Bert. Somehow this wound up not being a big issue.
Other than the video game hook this film's premise looks like a lame repeat of Megamind, yet I see people praising it everywhere.
Boy was I ever wrong. This movie is leagues
better than Megamind. Or any other recent movie about bad guys turning good.
Also, you all know [darn] well that Disney is gonna make this their next merchandise juggernaut.... and people will likely eat it right up.What does it say about the state of video games in the public eye when what essentially amounts to a copyright safe parody of Mario and Donkey Kong winds up eclipsing the real thing? How is it that we finally get a proper animated movie featuring game characters with some honest effort behind it, and the end result is a premise we've seen a million times before (a meta-parody, for those couldn't figure it out)?
I find it funny I said all this because now I'm so in love with the movie I put a bunch of merchandise for it on my Christmas list and I'm absolutely dying to play the real Fix-It Felix Jr. machine. :P
A better story.
Looks like I got what I wanted.
Tenfold. :B