Wahoo! The Mario Movie Is Now Available To Buy Or Rent Digitally In The UK

Finally got round to watching it - what a fantastic first outing! Ticked all the right boxes for me, plenty of references, straightforward fun & funnies, well animated and great cast. Looking forward to a sequel, which I'm sure they will do!

So it's already on streaming services... Before it officially releases in Poland in theaters. Someone really dropped the ball on this one.

£20! Is that how much is costs these days to own films digitally. No wonder why pirating is so popular.

@UltimateOtaku91 Films come out on streaming much quicker than they used to. If you wait a few months, the price normally falls to a more reasonal amount.

I just want the blue ray.

@lighteningbolt79 It feels like a lifetime ago before streaming when we’d have to wait 6 months or more after a movie finished in theaters for it to release on vhs or dvd. Now we get it way sooner so they charge more.

@UltimateOtaku91 that is the price while the films are still out in the cinema; kind of a new system used since covid. Will drop to £13.99 in a month or so.

€25 rent or €30 buy here.

Kinda funny, the cinema tickets were €9,80 each.

Which streaming service eh? Probably will be used to launch a Universal app (if it doesn't already exist... I can't keep up).

I want it, but I just can't justify £16 to rent a frikin' movie--does anyone else think that's a total joke, especially considering it cost me less to watch the movie at the cinema in 2D/3D/4DX/IMAX (I've seen it in all of those, so take your pick)--and I don't really have a good enough TV, PC and audio setup to get the best out of a physical version that would make it worth purchasing either (also don't have a Blu-Ray or similar, just a DVD player on my PC). Also, I'd prefer to have a 3D version anyway if I were going to get this at home for that price, so I can watch it in stereoscopic 3D on a giant virtual cinema screen in my own private virtual cinema in my VR headset, but they don't even offer it in stereoscopic 3D at home. It's not the best situation for me really. Still, I've seen it at the cinema seven times already, so I've enjoyed it in every form available there.

Getting it on blu ray, looking forward to watching it with the family again.

@sikthvash I watched it for the seventh time at the cinema on Sunday (now seen it in 2D four times, 3D, IMAX and 4DX), and I suddenly had the revelation that this might be one of my favourite movies of all time. I've never seen a movie at the cinema more than twice, and only then because someone else dragged me along for the second viewing. But after seven times watching The Super Mario Bros. Movie on the big screen, I honestly found it just as if not more enjoyable than ever. I don't know how they did it, but I just don't get bored watching any of it. Now, I know fine well it's not objectively the greatest movie ever, but I just think it's kinda perfect for what it is. Not literally perfect, but absolutely a 10/10 for me personally. Can't wait to watch it multiple times more at home too. And, if they maintain the same level of quality and reverence for the source material going forward, I cannot wait to see what Nintendo [and hopefully Illumination also] does next in the movie realm.

Renting always seems high for these so I rarely ever rent them vs buying , however 2 cinema tickets costs more but I (usually ) enjoy the cinema trip

Will wait for the physical blu-ray. Spending so much to rent it digitally doesn't appeal to me, especially when a couple of cinema tickets are cheaper and you get more of an experience

@RetroGames I agree - it's everything it needed to be; a well crafted fun adventure that never outstays its welcome. Not a massive fan of Illumination's previous entries, but I think the writers / creators did an incredible job. I suspect it helped that Miyamoto was on board to make sure it doesn't stray from the formula and retains that Nintendo magic.

Needs more Diddy Kong

I watched it four days ago.
Visually it's fantastic and I can describe how much I enjoyed it.
I'll definitely watch it again later

@MeloMan When it is a buy or rent, it is normally available on all of the stores e.g. Prime Video, Apple TV, YouTube TV and Movies etc.

Universal owns NOW in the UK and Peacock in the US so I assume it will end up there at some point.

Looking forward to this movie, but no way in hell am I paying $25 for a digital rental. I'll give it a few weeks until the price drops.

These prices are nuts. I got two Vue tickets for £7 (£3.50 each) the other month when I went to see it with a friend.

DVD will be £10 and the Blu ray £15. Most likely one or both will have a digital copy included as a download code. I’ll wait.

@UltimateOtaku91 it’s $29.99 to own digitally in the states.. and knowing Nintendo it’ll never come down in price lol

Wondering if it will keep racking up some more box office money. According to Wikipedia's "highest grossing movies of all time" list the Mario Movie needs just 15m more to get into the top 20!

The rental price makes sense when your a family.

There's 5 of us the rental price is nothing compared to the total cost of a cinema trip and my kids have 48 hours to watch it as many times as they like.

@abe_hikura

I see your point but unless you have a real tight budget, you might as well buy the movie because how high the rental cost is.

I watched it on Saturday with the kid. She loved it and wants Mario Kart now, so that's a result. Quality film, I really enjoyed it too.

I paid exactly zero, as I have a firestick app for such things. Runs full 4k though and I've got a good TV, so all good.

@PewnyPL wait it is out on demand in Poland?

@Scrubicius No, but if it's out digitally somewhere, it may as well be everywhere.

@PewnyPL I hear, but is common that some regions get movies releases earlier depending on the market. As it was back in the VHS days. VHS anybody remember that?