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The first reviews for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie are in, and they’re not too positive.

The animated action-comedy film, which hits theaters on April 1, is based on the Super Mario Bros. follows iconic characters Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, and Toad as they travel to outer space to combat Bowser Jr.

They’re joined by new allies like Yoshi, played by Donald Glover! Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Keegan-Michael Key, Benny Safdie, Issa Rae, Luis Guzmán, Brie Larson, and Kevin Michael Richardson also star.

But what are the critics saying?

Keep reading to find out more…

The Wrap‘s headline for their review is “This Lazy Junk Will Probably Make a Billion Dollars,” and they wrote: “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie doesn’t take you anywhere you haven’t been before, and it’s not as fun, it’s not as exciting, and it’s not as challenging as literally any of the games it’s based on. This is not an adaptation of the Super Mario Bros., it’s just a reminder that the franchise exists. And although it’s technically a moving picture, nothing about this movie will move you.”

Slant gave it a 1.5 out of 4, writing: “The film is an unpretentiously vapid cocktail of big-budget technical mastery and lack of artistic ambition.”

IGN gave it a 6, writing: “While it loses points for not engaging in a strong emotional core like its predecessor, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie racks up some extra lives by stuffing Easter eggs into the runtime to the point of bursting. It’s fun seeing all that stuff on screen, but without some kind of relatable story thriving underneath those references, it’s not as effective as it could be.”

Screen Crush says: “Every aspect of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’s is suffused with the same sort of eh whatever energy. Stuff just happens, and if you haven’t played every single Mario game over the last 40 years, and you aren’t quite sure why certain things are the way they are, that’s just your problem. The script by Matthew Fogel introduces tons of plot threads, then forgets to pay most of them off.”

The Playlist writes: “It clings to the oldest, emptiest version of its own premise: these stories are about saving princesses, so here’s another princess-in-peril story, only now it’s been blown out to galactic scale and stuffed with more recognizable pieces. That isn’t reinterpretation; it’s franchise maintenance,”

Inverse writes: “It’s certainly an entertaining, occasionally breathtakingly animated, adventure, and it’ll grab the attention of kids as well as satisfy longtime supporters of the franchise, but there’s an apparent lack of substance that prevents it from being as impactful as it maybe could be.”

The Guardian gave it 1 out of 5, writing: “At this point, it’s trite to say that a bad film feels as if it’s been AI generated, but this simplistic sequel is next-level – it’s nothing more than an Easter holiday cash grab.”

The Seattle Times gave it 3 out of 4 stars, writing: “The pace of the picture is headlong, and there’s plenty of running and falling and screaming (plunging into a lake of boiling lava can have that effect on a person). The prime attraction of this movie, and its predecessor, is that it envelopes the audience in the Mario world. ”

The Independent gave it 2 out of 5 stars, writing: “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie offers very little to audiences, young or old, who don’t already know these characters and spaces like the back of their hand. But, hey, if you take a tequila shot every time something explodes, you’ll have a great drinking game on your hands.”

>Game Informer gives it an 8.5 writing: “You’ll pay for your ticket, sit in the chair, and at the end of it all, you’re likely to emerge with a smile on your face. But just like those theme park rides, the experience can feel fragmented, and the events therein can feel arbitrarily pieced together. Still, at a certain point, you have to ask yourself, ‘What are you really hoping to get out of an animated, family-friendly Mario movie?’”