I finally watched The Super Mario Bros. Movie yesterday.
I can’t remember when I’ve enjoyed a movie so much. I had a smile on my face the whole time. I’m playing the Mario and DK games my whole life and watching the movie brought back many memories.

But I have one big problem with the movie. They made Donkey Kong look too weak! Not powerful enough.

I want to talk about 3 scenes.

1) The fight against Mario in the Kong Arena.
Yeah, it’s a Mario movie and he is supposed to be the hero, and it was no surprise who will win the fight, but why they made it for Cat Mario so easy to defeat DK?
DK had no chance at all after Mario became Cat Mario.

2) When they fall into water from the rainbow road.
Why again Mario has to be the hero who save DK’s life? One hit from the stone and DK was already unconscious and he needed to be saved again by the hero. Why not vice versa?
Yeah, I know, it’s a Mario movie….

3) DKs fight against Bowser - (and that was too much)
I love Bowser, he made the movie terrific, but in my opinion he has beaten up DK far too easy.
Ok, we don’t see the whole fight and with his fight he helped Mario to recover.
But come on, the fight lasted not longer than 30 seconds and DK was badly beaten up by the king of Koopa, barely conscious, only to get again saved by Mario.
Yeah, Mario just appear again for the final showdown and Bowser stopped to finish DK off. Bowser was not even exhausted; in a video game I would say he still had 100 % health after the fight with DK.

I wonder why they made DK so weak compared to Peach, Mario and Bowser.
This guy was able to punch his opponents into space in some games.

Of course DK had some cool moments, and without him Luigi would be Lava now.
But hey,
is it just me? DK should be more than Mario's sidekick.

What do you think?

PS now I want a Donkey Kong movie badly. ^_^