Hollywood has been trying to adapt video games into movies for years and most of the time, they don’t work.

On this episode of The Culture Docket, Michael is joined by his friend Josh to break down the new The Super Mario Galaxy Movie and decide whether it actually works as a movie or falls into the same traps as past video game adaptations.

From there, we zoom out and talk about Mario as a franchise, the role video games played in our childhoods, and why video game movies are so hard to get right in the first place.

We also highlight a few that actually work, plenty that don’t, and finish with a speed round of overrated, underrated, or properly rated.