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What people thought would be a hilarious failure turned out to be the complete opposite for Chris Pratt. Giving his voice to the Italian Plumber Mario,The Super Mario Bros.movie literally dominated the box office field by leavingJohn Wick: Chapter 4behind!
Talking about the opening weekend,TheSuper Mario Bros.beat the Keanu Reeves starrer by earning almost $117 million more than the dog-revenge and mafia-killing franchise with just a jumping plumber out to rescue his princess.
Chris Pratt’sThe Super Mario Bros.Movie DominatedJohn Wick: Chapter 4
When it was announced thatChris Prattwas going to voice Mario in an upcoming animated movie, people made memes and jokes about the actor being everywhere. The people mocked the actor and expected the movie to fail miserably at the box office since it was essentially an adaptation of one of the most popular games of all time.
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With a simple plotline to save the world from Bowser, Mario takes the help of Luigi and Princess Peach to take on the fight. Well, what more could be expected from a game with jumps and castles? This turned out to be different than what the people expected sinceThe Super Mario Bros.movie dominated the global box office in its opening weekend.
According to statistics,The Super Mario Bros.movie made a whopping $377 on opening weekend at the global box office. Surprisingly enough, theKeanu ReevesstarrerJohn Wick: Chapter 4earned only $259.3 million at the global box office! Well, maybe people prefer animated wholesome movies over action scenes and ruthless violence or maybe they just needed a break. Either way, it seems thatThe Super Mario Bros.movie is on its way to becoming a blockbuster as the reviews of the film are quite compelling.
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What The People Have To Say About Chris Pratt’s Mario
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As stated earlier, Chris Pratt has been in almost every big movie or project in these recent years. During the whole ordeal, there was also talk of Pratt voicing the character of Garfield in an upcoming project which the people despised at the time. After watchingThe Super Mario Bros.movie, however, it seems that the perspective of theJurassic Worldactor has changed.
The people took to Twitter to call it a W-movie and even stated that they have watched it multiple times and yet can’t get enough of it.
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— Kangmin Lee | 이강민 (@kangminjlee)July 16, 2025
Super Mario and Chris Pratt rocks!!!!!
— Viktr (@victorcoimbra)Jul 16, 2025
https://twitter.com/ReisingerConner/status/1645080026470313984
WE WINNINGpic.twitter.com/VxuJ40xyhz
— ExpandDong (@ExpandDong15)July 12, 2025
It was so good I want to go watch it again!pic.twitter.com/nB4h5HkgQE
— Meyers (@meyers_oh)June 02, 2025
As it should, it was awesome
— Rasmus Ek (@Rasmusekracing)August 23, 2025
Albeit the movie has an average score of 7.4/10 on IMDB and a bit lower number of 56% on Rotten Tomatoes, people seem to enjoy the tale of the Italian plumber. With a strong opening at the box office,The Super Mario Bros. Movieis currently screening in theaters across the world.
Source:Twitter
Visarg Acharya
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
