The Mario Movie Is Now "The Third-Biggest Animated Movie Of All Time"

Congratulations! The Super Mario Bros Movie! Your success was glorious and had fans and the .2% of the not so fans celebrate Mario in movie form...Properly!

The time to rake in further box office may be at an end. Oh well That's okay. Making this much money is enough!

Um acktually The Lion King remake exists so the Mario movie is only the fourth-biggest animated movie of all time 🤓

@PikaPhantom That movie isn't real, it's a figment of your imagination.

This movie deserves it more than any of the three above it, but it still doesn’t really deserve it. I’ll be happy as long as The Lion King isn’t #1

@HotGoomba I wish

now put Kamek in Mario Kart proper.

That screenshot from the movie is really getting some good mileage! XD

I think back to 2015. When the rumors started. The new console. Nintendo, wanting to expand outside of video games. Merging console and handheld divisions. Not to mention, the skeptics. Look at Nintendo, now. Hotter than ever. Selling all those copies of Zelda, this late in the systems lifespan. The movies success, after… you know. Has the Switch help Metroid become more popular? Or is it still about the same?

Such a far cry, from the days of being “edgy” by including Mario in DDR. Or that occasional game, like, Eternal Darkness. Or deal, like Capcom and Resident Evil.

I just saw it tonight…. Add $12. Better than I thought it would be. Great tribute to the series….

Peaches needs to go viral more than Let it Go and Into the Unknown ever did to finally bag that first place.

I pray that this would finally beat The Lion King 2019 as the highest grossing animated film of all time.
The Lion King 2019 is a really awful film and it does not deserve the title of highest grossing animated film of all time.

@Hydra_Spectre the Mario movie wasn’t all that great either

“You gotta pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers in this racket!”

@CMS_Glalie The Mario movie is pure fanservice. The Lion King remake was a soulless cash grab that only exists just so that Disney can claim they're still using the license and it doesn't go public domain. I know where I'd rather put my money, and it sure ain't in Disney's pockets.

Yes I am so happy about this movie. I have faith can beat frozen first movie.

@Hydra_Spectre totally agree

@CMS_Glalie atleast the Mario movie had a little bit of soul and creativity to it. Not a lot, but you can tell the people behind it at least cared a little. From what I’ve seen, the lion king remake looks about as soulless as you can get

@HotGoomba Why can’t your words make reality.

Well deserved, what a great movie.

Congratulations! The next time a Nintendo movie releases, I will be watching it day one.

Hm, why don't we count the Lion King remake?

The Super Mario Bros. Movie rose 10 spots this week and is now the #85 biggest hit movie ever at the North American box office adjusted for inflation (i.e. # of tickets sold). It sits just above 1977's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and just below 1961's West Side Story.

It is also the #15 biggest hit animated film ever at the North American box office adjusted for inflation (i.e. # of tickets sold), jumping over 1955's Lady in the Tramp this week. Next in its sights is 2016's Finding Dory at #14, which it will overtake in a day or two.

It's the 4th-biggest post-pandemic movie at the North American box office (after Spider-Man: No Way Home, Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar: The Way of Water).

And it's not even THAT good...

@Ufaowl It's not Mononoke or Kiki's Delivery Service caliber for sure, but I'm certain that it's really fun. I'll try to go to the cinema if I find the undubbed version to confirm that.

The best works will never reach the top of the chart, the 7/10 and 8/10 have a much better chance, after all.

@HotGoomba I wish it was, but unfortunately it's real. As is the fact that somehow Disney considers it live action instead of animated. What are they smoking?

It's because the movie catered to its fanbase without lecturing or changing out the race/gender of the main cast.
Let's see how the Little Mermaid does at the box office by comparison.

Watched it last night and it was so much better than I expected it to be. I want Luigi’s ringtone!

@ComfyAko Yeah) I didn't mean to say it's bad. I had a great time watching it in cinema along with other fans
But the movie is hardly anything else other than fan service thing being exceptionally magnificent at that

@CMS_Glalie I really enjoyed it but I understand why some people like you would not like it.
That said, even if you didn't like it, it can definitely be agreed upon that this film is easily much better than The Lion King 2019 or any of the Frozen movies.

@Chaotic_Neutral Ariel in the remake sounds really great. Too bad the CGI animals look hideous, and the environments are so dark you can barely see anything, which is a common problem with many modern films.

Also, I don't want to support the Disney live action remakes.
I may go see Elemental and I will definitely see Wish. It's to send a message to Disney that we want more animated originals instead of mediocre live action remakes.

@Hydra_Spectre she has publicly funded animal abuse whilst actively dismissing the original story.
At this point they should have just created an original story and characters set in the "Ariel Universe" to sell the message. Eradicating history means we are likely to repeat it.
Segregation is already being implemented here in the UK and it only took 80 years to resurface after it had been abolished.

Since the lion turd is nr 1, one could be ashamed of being high on this list.

I can't believe people actually thought that was worth watching. It was a demake. But I guess compared to other things in the cinema at the time, it was less cringey and any moving images without soul destroying cringe would make it to the top.

That said, Mario Movie also, is simply not cringe. And that goes a long long way in today's movie scene. It's fun, though a bit exhausting and not something I really could watch again, unlike classics like Lion King from the 90s, Moana and snow-white.

The frozen is also okay, allthough why it's so insanely high I guess is also all about what other movies were available at the time.

Frozen 2 does not deserve to be up there. Was a fiasco.

Not to knock but out of all the animated movies, Frozen is the top? That just doesn't seem right to me. Targeting mostly little girls and knocking out half your audience but still at the top? Hmm... Interesting.

@Strumpan Lion King is arguably a live-action remake, even if all the characters were cgi.

@TenEighty I was a preschool teacher when Frozen came out. Boys were into it too. Just like we all loved The Little Mermaid as kids, but got too cool to admit it a few years later.

If you discount all the movies above it and not just the Lion King remake, it's number 1!

@BabyYoda71 Deserves it how? It was terrible.

Let’s see if we can make it to #1!
(Also unpopular opinion but lion king 2019 is alright. But can we all agree that I can’t wait to be king was amazing?)

@Francema we fans don't even deserve to exist in this world, yet here we are. Surely a WDAS diamond that, like pretty much all fiction, will be there long after our human hosts are six feet under, deserves a bit more, fancy chart positions included.😏

This is like a fever dream. A wonderful, wonderful, fever dream.

@gonzilla Well it’s better than Frozen 2

@judaspete Thanks, that makes sense.

What I wanna know is when are we gonna see Super Mario Bros: The Movie: The Game? 😉

@Chaotic_Neutral Yes I'm sure the Mario movie did so well because it kept the genders and races consistent and not, you know, because it's one of the most recognizable brands of all time.

@Ensemen so why are Disney struggling with thier recognisable brands? I think Star Wars and Marvel are just as recognisable as Mario
One of the reasons Nintendo does so well as a company is because here's no forced diversity or inclusion in any of their IP's. Because of that the products feel complete, there's no need to change Peach black or make Toad trans Japanese companies don't pander to western fads and the characters retain thier charm and nostalgia appeal.

@Chaotic_Neutral This isn't a great comparison. Star Wars and Marvel are oversaturated right now, and recent movies and shows haven't reviewed that great. People don't feel compelled to run and see them just because anymore. Guardians 3 reviewed better than other recent output, and is doing well because of it.
Mario hasn't had a movie in 30 years. This one was going to do well even if it sucked. It's gotten huge because most people liked it.
And lets not forget, Youtubers were calling Mario woke for girl-boss Peach. They had to walk that back once the movie was a hit, and hope nobody noticed.

@Chaotic_Neutral Dude I think you are really overestimating how much people care about this culture wars. Hardly anyone would pass on a movie they would otherwise like just because it could be perceived as woke. And noone would watch a movie they would otherwise not like because they like the woke messaging.
And why is disney struggling? Well because the movies they are releasing lately are just really bad. People are getting tired of superhero movies and could not care less about these soulless liveaction remakes (although imo they are still too succesfull). And they are not bad because they are woke or whatever, they're just bad. None of my friends that you would probably label as "woke" watch much from disney anymore.

First half of movie have some decent jokes, but after that it feels like a long advertisement for nintendo games. Yuck.

So I assume by now it's already surpassed Frozen 1, also the movie will release in 2 days in Poland. It still has money to make and I think it should pass Frozen 2 when it's all said and done.

@Hydra_Spectre I really like the Frozen movies

This chest beating about “all-time” always amuses me.

Tickets were 25 cents when something like Snow White came out in 1937. Tickets average $10.50 in 2023.

Anyone comparing these numbers unadjusted is dishonest when making boasts about “of all-time.”

The third biggest animated movie of all time, that's a very impressive milestone and accomplishment.