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The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Front-Runner Starts strong, fades late
2023 · Family, Comedy, Adventure, Animation · Michael Jelenic, Aaron Horvath

52% overall with a pattern worth knowing: The Super Mario Bros. Movie opens well and fades. Early-round voters favor it; the films it faces in finals tend not to. Pure nostalgia fuel backed by a billion-dollar box office. The Nintendo brand carries a warmth that most IP adaptations can't manufacture, and warmth is an underrated weapon on a ballot. It leads both Michael Jelenic films tracked on BingeBracket.

Synopsis

While working underground to fix a water main, Brooklyn plumbers—and brothers—Mario and Luigi are transported down a mysterious pipe and wander into a magical new world. But when the brothers are separated, Mario embarks on an epic quest to find Luigi.

Round 1
64%
Where it thrives
Semifinals
40%
44/110
Finals
37.2%
The ceiling

Strong at 64% in the opening round, solid at 40% in the semis, then 37% in the final. The further The Super Mario Bros. Movie goes, the tougher the opposition — and the results show it.

Tin Soldier is the easy matchup at 100%. WALL·E is the kryptonite at 0%. The gap between best and worst opponent says a lot about what The Super Mario Bros. Movie can and can't handle.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie handles KPop Demon Hunters in the semis but can't get past The Amazing Spider-Man 2 in the final (22%). The tournament nemesis is clear.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie leads Michael Jelenic's filmography on BingeBracket, though only 2 films are tracked so far. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie at 37% is the comparison point.

BingeBracket Record
52%
Win Rate
#18 of 43 in Family #25 of 69 from the 2020s #1 of 2 Michael Jelenic films
Scores based on real fan votes in head-to-head brackets. 50% = wins as often as it loses — perfectly average.
Featured Tournament

#4 of 8 in Family Fun Showdown.

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WALL·E #1
KPop Demon Hunters #2
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 #3
The Super Mario Bros. Movie #4
Moana 2 #5
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 #6
Hocus Pocus 2 #7
Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado #8
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