{"id":962332,"date":"2026-05-15T20:53:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T20:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/962332\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T20:53:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T20:53:22","slug":"after-a-bit-of-a-false-start-the-super-mario-galaxy-movie-is-absolutely-definitely-getting-a-digital-home-release-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/962332\/","title":{"rendered":"After a bit of a false start The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is absolutely, definitely getting a digital home release next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/the-super-mario-galaxy-movie-digital-release-date-estimate-slips-to-mid-may\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">early reports of an imminent home release for The Super Mario Galaxy turned out to be false<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universalpicturesathome.com\/press-release\/the-super-mario-galaxy-movie-press-release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Universal<\/a> has officially announced the film is making its digital download debut next week. Those interested in watching Mario and co&#8217;s latest animated outing from home can download it  this coming Tuesday, 19th May.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/movies\/the-super-mario-galaxy-movie-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Super Mario Galaxy Movie<\/a> is  being released on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray containing over an hour of special features, including a making of documentary with those from Nintendo and Illumination, as well as more from cast members such as Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, Brie Larson and Keegan-Michael Key.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Mario Galaxy Movie &#8211; Official Teaser. <a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_RpeLk6jJrg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/super-mario-galaxy-movie-breaks-records-despite-unfavourable-reviews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Despite lukewarm reviews<\/a>, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has been a commercial success. Following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/the-super-mario-galaxy-movie-opening-weekend-box-office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bumper opening weekend<\/a>, it went on to become the most successful film released this year so far, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/super-mario-galaxy-movie-highest-grossing-film-of-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">knocking Project Hail Mary from the top spot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Critics have been less enthusiastic, however.  We awarded The Super Mario Galaxy Movie two stars on its release earlier this year, for instance, with Christian Donlan calling it &#8220;quite bad, for quite interesting reasons&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This isn&#8217;t a Bowser movie, just as it isn&#8217;t really a Mario movie or a Luigi movie or a Rosalina movie or any of that jazz. There isn&#8217;t enough space and time for anything truly memorable to develop,&#8221; he wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/the-super-mario-galaxy-movie-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eurogamer&#8217;s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie review.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After early reports of an imminent home release for The Super Mario Galaxy turned out to be false,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":962333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-962332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/962333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}