The release of Mario’s first major animated feature, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, has been delayed in Australia.

The release date for the new Mario movie has been pushed back a week in Australia in consideration of the holidays. 

While Australia was due to watch the new Mario movie relatively sooner than the rest of the world, it seems the release date has been pushed back a week to correspond with global releases. 

As reported by Vooks, the movie’s release date has been changed from March 30th, 2023 to April 5th, 2023 in Australia. In comparison, it comes out in the US on April 7th, 2023 and in Japan on April 27th, 2023. 

Despite the change, Australia is still slated to watch the movie sooner than the world, with exceptions being some European countries where the movie comes out in the latter part of March.

The new release is slated to be the first major animated feature for the highly successful gaming franchise, bringing the character over to the big screen. While fans are certainly looking forward to Princess Peach – played by Anya Taylor-Joy – taking a more active role against stopping Bowser (Jack Black), it’s Chris Pratt’s Mario that has been a running joke in the fandom. 

Fans were vocal in expressing their displeasure with Pratt voicing the iconic character, and it didn’t get better after the release of the trailer. Shortly after seeing Pratt in action, the internet was flooded with comments calling Pratt anywhere from ‘boring’ to ‘generic main character’. 

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“Real excited for the movie where Chris Pratt plays a schlubby everyman protagonist who’s bad at everything while his much more competent female sidekick does all the work for none of the credit and then she gets forced into being his love interest despite him earning none of it.” said one comment. 

Another comment added: “I don’t know how to explain it but it sounds like Chris Pratt recorded the whole movie sitting down.” 

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