New Delhi, April 4 -- Let's be honest. Nobody really needed The Super Mario Galaxy Movie to be Spirited Away. We just needed it to be good. Properly, satisfyingly good - the way its 2023 predecessor managed to be, almost against all odds. That film caught everyone off guard. It was joyful without being hollow. It had a story you could actually follow, characters you actually liked, and a momentum that felt earned rather than manufactured.

This one, unfortunately, is a different tale altogether.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie arrives with a genuinely charming premise. Mario, Luigi, Toad, Peach, and the newly introduced Yoshi end up in outer space, trying to stop the scheming Bowser Jr. - voiced by Benny Safdie - who wants to drain Princess...