Magic Listeners Share Their Reviews as Super Mario Destroys the Box Office

The Super Mario Bros. Movie stomped the competition at the box office in record-setting fashion. The movie raked in $204.6 million domestically and another $173 million globally in its first five days of release. It earned $146.4 million domestically in its three-day opening weekend.

Shannon in Woodbridge said, “It was really, really, good. I didn’t have high hopes because it was animated, but it was really awesome. The soundtrack was really relatable, it fit the movie really well and there were a lot of songs that I knew. Overall I give it a 9 out of 10, that was a really good movie.”

Carol calling from Flemington said, “It was neat, I liked it, I like how they worked the game into the movie. I’m older so I played the old-timey ones, but I’m not a fan of the newer ones. I didn’t want to go, my granddaughter wanted to go, but I was impressed, I was surprised that I really liked it. I was glad I went.”

I was surprised that it had such an impressive debut. It’s the biggest opening of 2023 with $377.6 million worldwide. It also broke records for the biggest animated film, beating Frozen 2's record of $358 million, and became the top-grossing video game adaptation ever over Warcraft's $210 million.

Super Mario Bros. features characters voiced by Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Jack Black, Seth Rogan, Keegan-Michael Key, Charlie Day, and more, also now stands as the highest-grossing debut for an Illumination film and the second-biggest debut ever for an animated title over Finding Dory.

Remaining in second at the box office was John Wick: Chapter 4. The Keanu Reeves movie added another $14 million to its total, bringing it to $147 since opening three weeks ago.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves dropped to the third slot in its second week of release with $14.5 million, while Matt Damon's Air came in fourth with $14 million.

Scream VI rounded out the top five with $3.3 million.