Mario (Chris Pratt, who, as well as starring in Guardians of The Galaxy and Jurassic World, voiced the hero in The Lego Movie) and his nervous younger brother Luigi (Charlie Day) are established as good-hearted, bushy-moustached young guys who are trying to build their own independent plumbing business. Another disappointing aspect is that the early scenes set in Brooklyn are promising. The disappointing part is that the missable new cartoon is directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, the makers of the brilliantly zany Teen Titans Go!, but every 10-minute episode of that series had more ideas in it than the whole of their film.

Unfortunately, The Super Mario Bros Movie is not one of those films. And another recent release Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves proved that films adapted from games could be plenty of fun, whether or not you're familiar with the games in question. Wreck-It Ralph demonstrated how clever a cartoon set in a video-game milieu could be. True, 1993's Super Mario Bros, with Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo, was a notorious flop, but The Lego Movie was tied to a line of plastic construction sets, and that was wonderful. But even if you've never played a single video game, there is no reason why a Mario film shouldn't be worth seeing.

Mario the plumber has been one of the most beloved characters in the history of video games ever since he was first seen jumping over barrels and running up girders in Donkey Kong in 1981.

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