Video game to movie adaptations tend to have a bad rep, with the nineties/early noughties being particularly dark periods of time. Tosh like Alone in the Dark, Dead or Alive and Doom being touted as the next great crossover, only to be ripped apart by fans and critics alike. Granted over the last few years, people have started to warm to them but the fact remains, most adaptations aren’t all that good. The worst mainstream failure lands at the feet of Nintendo, and their only attempt at a motion picture, the infamous live action attempt known as The Super Mario Bros Movie. The Bob Hoskins movie released thirty years ago and was so poorly received, that the Big-N dropped all future feature film products for the foreseeable future. That is, until Illumination Studios -the team behind Despicable Me, Minions and Secret Life of Pets came knocking with an idea of an animated version of Mario so grand that Miyamoto himself backed the project and saw it come to fruition.