Movies, Film and My Opinion

 This movie from 2013 was a pleasant surprise. A man and a woman have three grown children, one that is adopted. The man and woman divorced and the man is in a loving relationship with the woman's best friend and everyone is cool with it. The adopted son, Alejandro, played by Ben Barnes, and his wife to be, Missy, played by "Mama Mia"s own Amanda Seyfried, tell mom Ellie and dad Don, played by Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton (who always wears the same glasses in every movie I see her in), that Alejandro's birth mother, Patricia Rae, will be visiting for the wedding. And she's very Catholic. Doesn't believe in divorce. So for 3 days, Don and Ellie must pretend to be married. This does not sit well with Don's lover, Bebe, played by Susan Sarandon. This is quite the star-studded movie, including the priest played by Robin Williams, and the two siblings, Jared and Lyla, played by Topher Grace and Katherine Heigl. So many different situations just to make Mama ...

 I'm gonna have to watch this movie again. The nerd in me now wants to play the games, and I have no idea why I never played the games in my youth and why the heck I sat there watching my guy friends play these games but now....now I gotta play them. This movie was just fun, and after visiting Epic Universe and going around Mario World and getting coins and just enjoying the heck outta my day, this movie makes so much more sense. I learned that Yoshi eats things. I learned that Mario is the brave one and Luigi is not. I learned that Princess Peach likes Mario and he needs to recognize that. I learned that Peach has a sister named Rosalina. I learned that Bowser lies. I learned that Rosalina has a bunch of kids (I do NOT want to know how!) I learned that if her children had just paid attention and listened to her in the first place, this would have been a real short movie. And I learned that Princess Peach didn't need Mario, she didn't need help, but she was so grateful to w...