Elon Musk Defends 'Super Mario Bros.' Movie from Critics
by EG
The new Super Mario Bros. movie is set to rule the holiday weekend box office, but it hasn't exactly charmed professional critics. Despite the movie's generally poor reviews from critics, kids and people nostalgic for the legendary video game franchise are likely to love it. The world's second-richest person and head Twitter troll Elon Musk also apparently thinks the movie is good enough to spend some of his immensely valuable time tweeting in its defense. Read on for details.
Via The Independent.
Elon Musk has hit out at “disconnected” film critics over the reviews of The Super Mario Bros.Movie.
The animated children’s film, adapted from the best-selling Nintendo video game franchise, was released in cinemas this weak.
Reviews were generally negative, with The Independent’s Clarisse Loughrey awarding the film just two stars.
On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, The Super Mario Bros Movie has a critics’ score of just 54 per cent positive, marking it as “Rotten”.
However, the audience score, which is voted for by non-professional critics, is a “Fresh” 96 per cent positive.
On Twitter, the website’s divisive CEO responded to a tweet from an account called @BoredElonMusk, which contained a screenshot of the film’s Rotten Tomatoes scores.
“Content review systems are broken. Because critics have a problem with Chris Pratt, the ‘experts’ have deemed the new Mario movie a D- even though audiences clearly love it,” claimed the account.
“Both of these groups are obviously biased, but the disparity here reveals a major problem.”
In response, Musk wrote: “Wow, the critics are so disconnected from reality!”
Others, however, were more sceptical of the apparent disconnect between audiences and critics.
“This is exactly how these numbers should look given that the movie’s audience is children and most professional critics are adults,” one person argued.
Get the rest of the story at The Independent.