This takes the film\u2019s global box office to date to $747.4 million, of which $355.2 million has been in the US and $392.2 million overseas.<\/p>\n
Given that the first Super Mario Bros Movie had a total global box office of $1.36 billion, this means both films combined have now passed the $2 billion milestone.<\/p>\n
This means that just two movies in, Super Mario is now the 10th highest grossing animated feature film series of all time (the top being the Despicable Me \/ Minions franchise).<\/p>\n
The likelihood of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie grossing more than $1 billion globally may become clearer next weekend, when the film is finally released in Japan.<\/p>\n
Japan was a major market for the first film, where it grossed nearly $102 million. A similarly strong showing for the sequel will make an eventual total global box office of more than $1 billion more than likely.<\/p>\n
As was the case with the first film, opinion is divided between critics and the public on The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. On review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes the film currently has a critics score of 43% , while its public score is 89%.<\/p>\n
While this is down from the first film\u2019s scores (which were 59% critics and 95% public) it does still appear to imply that the film\u2019s target audience is generally enjoying it despite critical negativity.<\/p>\n
VGC\u2019s Super Mario Galaxy Movie review<\/a> says the film \u201cknows exactly what it is \u2013 big silly fun\u201d suggesting that Nintendo<\/a> fans will enjoy it even though it won\u2019t win over any naysayers.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie is an action-packed visual spectacle with a loveable cast of characters and endless surprises for diehard fans,\u201d we said.<\/p>\n \u201cLargely, the same issues from the first movie remain \u2013 notably, a threadbare plot and rocket-powered pacing leaving characters disappointingly undeveloped \u2013 but Nintendo diehards and families are likely to have a stellar time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Super Mario Galaxy Movie remained top of the US box office for the third week in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-541010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n