Illumination's Mario movies aren't just bad, they're antithetical to Nintendo

There’s a lot to gripe about in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, but what tends to get the most scorn also crystallizes everything wrong with that movie: its needle drops. It’s not just that the first animated Mario movie underuses the deepest bench of iconic music found in any game series, but that the pop songs it goes with instead—”Take On Me,” “Holding Out For A Hero,” “Mr. Blue Sky”—are cinematic cliches. You’d expect a training montage set to Bonnie Tyler in a movie by Minions studio Illumination...