A star rating of 2 out of 5. Nintendo’s colourful characters, Mario and Luigi, are back for Level 2. In 2023, The Super Mario Bros Movie powered up in cinemas, grossing $1.361 billion and gaining three Oscar nods. Created by Illumination, the animation company behind the Minions, this wild adventure plunged audiences into a 3D-realised world that was instantly familiar to anyone who has played any of the video games fronted by everyone’s favourite moustachioed, dungarees-wearing Brooklyn plumbers. Returning us to the lurid, trippy Mushroom Kingdom, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is equally barmy, if not quite as fresh or funny as its predecessor. Loosely based on the 2007 game Super Mario Galaxy and its 2010 sequel, this new film introduces fan-favourite character Yoshi, the cuddly-ish green dinosaur – here voiced by Donald Glover – who has a rapacious appetite. Like in the game, he consumes things, even people, and turns them into eggs. He soon meets with Mario (Chris Pratt) and Luigi (Charlie Day), in an adventure that starts as Princess Rosalina (voiced by …