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The Five Nights At Freddy’s film teaser is ready to capitalise on teen nostalgia
Universal Pictures have dropped the first teaser for their Five Nights At Freddy’s film adaptation, based on the hit horror series. Ten years ago, I’d hear schoolmates chatting about the games’ ghosts, purple people, and dismembered heads stuck in animatronics. Now, we’re old enough to buy R-rated cinema tickets, and Hollywood’s ready to capitalise on some teen nostalgia – essentially the film industry’s version of min-maxing. Check out the first teaser here:
Keep Your Memories, Kill Your Nostalgia
Recently, HBO Max officially announced it will be reviving the Harry Potter series as a multi-season television show. During a Warner Bros. Discovery press event, the initiative was described as a “decade-long” project to bring the novels to the small screen, hoping to create a faithful interpretation of the…
Super Mario Bros. Movie review: not quite a super show, but a potent nostalgia tour
It’s taken decades, but video game movies have finally come full circle with the release of The Super Mario Bros. Movie. It was 1993’s Super Mario Bros. that kicked off Hollywood’s regular flirtations with video game adaptations – and the same film in many ways came to represent the infamy that video game movies have enjoyed since. Put simply, it was rubbish – though also filled with imagery that would make it a quiet cult classic. Now, Nintendo has partnered with Illumination, the studio behind the Minions, to break the curse.
By many measures, The Super Mario Bros. Movie is successful. By others, it is much less so – but be rest assured that anybody saying that this film is ‘as bad as’ or even remotely comparable to its nineties cousin is talking hyperbolic rubbish. This movie is in a different area code. The question is, is it actually as good as its present peers? The world of cinematic gaming conversions is very different in 2023 than in the nineties; in fact, the competition is quite fierce.
The choice of Illumination is, well, illuminating. This is a studio that I’d argue isn’t really about the art in the way some others are- certainly not in the Scorsese sense, but even within the kids’ space when compared to the likes of Pixar. In these stakes, I’d even place them south of Dreamworks Animation. But what Illumination is extremely adept at is making films that press the buttons of audiences, especially the young, in the right ways. They’re never particularly substantive, but they work. And such is the case for the Super Mario Bros. Movie.
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‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Super Bowl teaser is heavy on nostalgia… and plumbing
The latest teaser for The Super Mario Bros. Movie is less a trailer and more the kind of commercial you could see Mario (voiced by Chris Pratt) and Luigi (voiced by Charlie Day) creating to advertise their plumbing business.
This quick clip teases the Mario Brothers’ plumbing prowess with the help of the super-catchy Super Mario Bros. Super Show! theme song. Good luck getting “we’re the Mario Brothers, and plumbing’s our game” out of your head.
But the Mario goodness doesn’t end there: The final moments of the trailer point to a Mario Brothers plumbing website that offers their services in Brooklyn and Queens. They’re also accepting job applications, so if you’ve ever wanted to be Mario’s bookkeeper, now’s your chance.
You can also call Super Mario Bros. Plumbing at 929-55-MARIO (929-556-2746). You’ll get a voice message from Luigi himself telling you to text them at that same number for any plumbing needs. Once you do, you’ll be sent a link to sign up for text updates about The Super Mario Bros. Movie. If you’re looking for more updates about the movie, great! Unfortunately, if you’re looking for a qualified plumber, I have a hunch Mario is too busy saving the Mushroom Kingdom to help you with your leaky sink.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is coming to theaters Apr. 7.