I forgot it was specifically about the Sonic and Mario movies. For the life of me I cannot find a clean version of the pic.
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Just talking about the meme here but...Objectively?
I dont know man, at the end of the Mario Movie I just sorta felt like I watched a bunch of pretty images and thought "wow Yoshi is in it now cool" at the sequel hook at the end.
Nothing that happened in it made me really care to see what happens next. As an adaptation it really wasn't that good, just sorta following the formula of go to recognizable thing, hear orchestral recognizable track, characters comment on it, repeat. Character wise, I don't think the Mario characters acted anything like I expected them to. Peach was a different character, Donkey Kong was a different character. Luigi was just sorta offscreen most of the movie, Mario just didn't feel like Mario to me, and Bowser felt like Jack Black being Jack Black. Of all the characters really it was only Cranky Kong who felt the same to me, but then still the entire dynamic of how he interacts with DK changed, being some tribe leader rather than an angry old man sitting outside of a cabin.
Point is nothing about the Mario Movie made me really interested to see the next one, and I don't really plan to unless I watch it for free years later. I saw its going to be based on Galaxy and I bet Rosalina is another generic girlboss like Peach was in the Mario movie.
On the flip side, Sonic movie is a lot more complicated. It has a lot of faults, and the first one is quite literally the
"Alvin and the Chipmunks" formula, but then also being sent to the human world and interacting with humans is a fairly normal occurrence for the series. Sonic was aged down for the movie but it still felt like he was building to be the character that people know him for, all of the character dynamics are the same. (Tails is the little brother nerd, Knuckles is the Rival/Older Brother ect). They were clearly building up to what they wanted to do for the sequel, and I was interested enough to go see it, and that sequel made me interested enough to see the next one and so on. Across all 3 films, the references are a lot less in your face and generally way more tastefully done, very subtle things like having the Biolizard from SA2 be a horror monster in a movie Shadow and Maria watched, or Robotnik's ringtone being a snipit of the Eggman theme. I prefer it done this way. Things you gotta look for in the movie rather it than being the point of the movie.
Meanwhile the Mario movie will dedicate about 30 minutes across two different scenes to glaze up Mario Kart, and that doesn't even really have anything to do with the story being told.
I'll give you that Mario made more money in theaters than all 3 Sonic movies combined I believe, but if Sales = Quality, we'd all be diehard Disney fans and the Star Wars Sequels would be the best cinema ever produced.