The almost un-woke “Super Mario Bros. Movie” made $377 million globally in its opening weekend, showing people just want to have a good time and not endure lectures when they go to the theater.
I say almost un-woke because of course Princess Peach, who is the damsel in distress Mario must save in most iterations of the video game franchise, doesn’t need saving in the film. Like many other female protagonists in film today, she has no character flaws, weaknesses, or faults. Essentially, women in film today are boring, one-dimensional characters who can do no wrong.
The modern woman in film trope aside, the “Super Mario Bros. Movie” doesn’t give us a lecture on how we need to be accepting of someone else’s sexual deviance, doesn’t have a force-fed diverse cast for no reason other than “diversity,” and doesn’t have a gratuitous gay relationship between random characters. What a crazy concept […]
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