My wife and I recently took our three kids to see The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the new CGI blockbuster starring Chriss Pratt (Mario) and Anya Taylor-Joy (Princess Peach).

I don't know if the movie was worth the $80 I spent on snacks, but I can say it's a good flick— even though I missed the first 10 minutes or so because they were changing the keg on the Sam Adams I ordered. (Buying beer at movies is how you end up spending $80 on snacks, and though I'm mildly worried about my revealed preferences here, that's an econ article for a later date.)

While I enjoyed the movie, what I don't understand is all the commentary describing the film as anti-woke.

The label seems to stem from the studio's decision to cast Pratt and Charlie Day (Luigi) as the Italian American leads, which prompted John Leguizamo to boycott the film—apparently because Pratt and Day are white.

"No I will not [be watching]. They could've included a Latin character," said Leguizamo, who played Luigi in 1993's Super Mario Bros. "Like I was groundbreaking and then they stopped the groundbreaking. They messed up the inclusion."

Leguizamo's sour grapes aside, there's nothing anti-woke in the movie. YouTuber Steven Jay Williams, better known by his screen name Boogie, has it right when he says Mario Bros. is neither woke nor anti-woke.

"This movie is average popcorn fare," Boogie says. "You are to go in and forget the world exists for 90 minutes. You're going to remember your childhood playing these games, and then you're going to leave the theater minus twenty bucks and covered in popcorn grease."

Like Boogie, I consider myself pretty "culturally sensitive" to identity politics. And I agree there's no subtle political messaging in Mario Bros. It's just fun.