Illumination’s 2023 animated hit The Super Mario Bros. Movie leaves Netflix on November 10. It’s still available to stream there until then, but once it’s gone, it won’t turn up on another subscription service. That makes this a little more than the usual catalog shuffle.
There’s a reason this one stands out. The Super Mario Bros. Movie was one of 2023’s biggest box-office hits, and it became the highest-grossing video game adaptation to date. It also helped shake off the genre’s bad reputation after flops like the 1993 live-action Super Mario Bros. by giving audiences versions of Mario, Princess Peach, and Bowser they actually recognized, along with the Mushroom Kingdom, karts, shells, and power-ups, then folding all of it into a family story that played well with crowds. The film’s breakout success also pushed the Super Mario Bros. franchise closer to a sequel.
Sonic the Hedgehog had already been heading down that road: the fan-driven redesign worked, the first movie cleared more than $320 million at the box office in 2020, sequels followed in 2022 and 2024, Knuckles got a spin-off in 2024, the series has now brought in more than $1 billion, and a fourth Sonic the Hedgehog movie is already set for 2027.
If The Super Mario Bros. Movie has been sitting on your watchlist, or if you want a clean example of the moment video game adaptations finally started getting it right, now’s the time. You can watch The Super Mario Bros. Movie on Netflix until November 10.
Author: Jesús Bosque
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