Cinema 17 At the Super Mall

This theater has the most comfortable movie theatre seats I ever experienced! They are electric leather recliners. You push a button and the leg rest rises. Continue to push the button and the back reclines. You can adjust it to whatever position is most comfortable for you. Even when the seat’s leg rest is fully extended, there is still room for people to walk past in these incredibly wide aisles in front of the seats. I am a tall person and many theaters are too cramped for my long legs; this one has the best leg room of all!
We were here on 27 December for a showing of Star Wars 7 in 3D in auditorium 1. I don’t know about the other auditoriums in this complex, but #1 is great!
We bought a large popcorn, which comes with free refills. The helpful server gave us (4 in our group) extra carry boxes filled with popcorn so we could all enjoy our popcorn without passing the large container back and forth.

Stadium seating? No, they have leather power recliner that are bigger and more comfortabe than stadium seating. There are extra leg room with these recliner so that you can’t even reach the seat in front of you while recline all the way. It makes the first few seats better now that you’re not looking up the whole time watching the movie.
Large clear screen to show movies on, and the sound was excellent. The only drawback was that they left a lot of lights on, so the theater was not completely dark. Concession was overprice, and the employee seems like they rather be somewhere else.

I have updated this review and taken it down two stars.
First of all service has gone down — long lines at ticket purchase (one person on and 20+ in line), concession lines are longer, no towels in bathrooms (woman’s). Manager told us they cut back on personal.
Second popcorn is bad. They changed it and as a popcorn lover — uck. Again one of the mangers told me he will not eat it and although they have complained to Corporate — apparently it is cheaper.
I hate the fact you can’t tell what is playing in a theater — no names outside the theater — yes they have an issue with people changing theaters — but all they have to do is walk in to see what is on — meanwhile we have to pull our tickets out to be sure we are in the right place.
They are no longer competitive with the other Federal Way theater in our area — slightly higher for seniors.
I guess they are installing the fancy seats in some or their theaters and to pay for them the rest of us have to do without — not a good plan.

You can’t cope with a printed Fandango ticket.
You don’t know how to make change.
You charge $ 6 for a soda.
Epic suck.

I’ve been to this theater several times as its one of the few locally that offers special events like rifftrax.
I would have to say that every special showing I’ve been to has had something go wrong. But they usually get it going again and hey no big deal right?
Until the final showing off the rifftrax movie the room. I missed the first showing because of work. The second showing we’re all sitting in the theater looking at a blank screen. 30 minutes later refund and free tickets. 2 stars for that much but special showing it’s not like you can just see it another time.
I’ll be finding another theater for special showings.

Favorite theatre! Just found out they offer $ 5 Tuesday movies with my regal club card!

I don’t go to movies, they take too much time, cost too much money and I generally don’t like sitting next to strangers. After 25 min of previews, our 2.5 hour movie finally starts, wtf? seriously, who has time for this?
During a quiet part of our movie, we could hear the movie next to us. During our previews we were deafened by the super loud previews. There was only 1 poor girl selling tickets on a rainy Saturday– again, wtf? The line was quite long.
I will stay home and not deal with this in the future, annoying.
Bathroom needed attention but seemed mostly clean…

I liked this theater. It was nice and the popcorn was decent for the handful I had of it. The price was higher than Federal Way’s theater it seemed but the movie was also on later we would have had to wait for next weekend otherwise. I liked the airplane set up they had it was pretty neat. They had a small arcade and some free movie posters out. It was a nice quaint theater and if they got a movie I want to see at the time that I need to go see it when Federal Way doesn’t then I will return!

I love this theater because it has it’s own giant parking lot, is right next to Walmart and has several screens. It’s been hit or miss on how clean the theater is, depending on the time of day and what weekday I’m coming here on but for the most part it’s fairly clean.
Last movie I went to see was the Captain America 2 and the Snack Desk lady was cool enough to give me a heads up to wait after ALL the credits because there’s a little extra clip at the end. I think the employees should get to see all the movies so they can give little heads up like that to the customers. The smallest things can really mean a lot to people!
Movie tickets are really expensive so take advantage of the matinée prices, they do offer military discounts and the concessions are really expensive too.
In all, if you like slower paced decent place to see a movie. This is your place! While it may hurt the wallet/​purse a little, it’s always worth the experience of seeing it at the movie theaters!!!

This theater is perfectly adequate. Nothing out of the ordinary. I was a bit surprised to see that, on Friday night at 9pm, when it was opening weekend for Captain America 2, there was only one person working the ticket counter. It was a cold night, and the line was quite long. Not good scheduling, Super Mall Theater (of course, people could have been out sick, but still…).
The bathrooms were also left to be desired. At least 2 or 3 stalls in the women’s rest room were… not clean.

Expensive, not too clean and seats are not super comfy. Decent sound but the confessions are way too expensive!

Came here recently and while I liked that it wasn’t crowded at all. Goodness gracious the price for matinée tickets here are $ 9! Holy crap Batman that’s a bit much! Call me cheap or whatever but that was a surprise to me! I only settled on coming here because I was already in the area and I thought for some reason the matinée price would be around the same price as Century Theaters in Federal Way ($ 6.50 matinée), boy was I wrong! Too bad the movie at The Commons started 20 minutes earlier or we would have driven back, so we settled here. Don’t even get me started on the concession stand here! lol The particular theater we watched our movie was nice. I actually liked the layout better than The Commons. The seats were comfortable and it was pretty much an empty theater with the exception of maybe 10 other people. I would definitely come back here if it tickets were cheaper! The staff was friendly which is always nice!
I would like to also note if you love buttered popcorn with your movie and are a butter fiend. they don’t have a do it yourself butter machine here like they do at Century Theaters at The Commons; they do it for you here!

ive been here a good amount of times to give a final review.
I LIKE IT ! :D not crowded each time i went, its regal and i have tons of coupons/​passes combined with my bfs and his membership that we get freebies eeeeeeee !
its been awhile since ive been here and we wanted to watch the lego movie
as soon as you come inside i never noticed the boeing airplane theme and décor ! its amazing !
service was super fast since its not busy at all and got a large popcorn with a drink. i love popcorn. played a few games in attempt to win a minion and a friend successfully did !
got inside room 9 and ahhhh pick where you want to sit please haha
sound is good to me, screen good i didnt see any damages (lego by the way i gave it a 4 out of 5 a must see)
the chairs are comfy with drink holders that can lift up or set down.
the climate was decent not freezing or breezy
and at the end of the restrooms are right there and exit.

This theater is clearly going down hill. I’ve been going here since it opened and since I also have theater background I can say this. They have just raised the cost of everything, drastically. Being military I enjoy my discount but saving .75 by paying 9:75 feels like a slap in the face. There is no sense if urgency ever behind concessions and while the prices have risen the amount has gone down. The employees don’t seem to care about their job or the customers either, ie an extremely tall employee walking right in front of the screen in order to check the exits. Then there was the screen, there where obvious rips and divots in the screen, I counted at lease seven extremely obvious ones. And lastly of course this is a multiplex but why put a quite drama next door to an extremely loud movie with lots of booms and bangs?!?

Went and saw Dr. Who here, they had trouble getting the 3d thing to work apparently as it didnt start to work till about 5 to 10 minutes into the movie.
The concession stand area is pretty cool though, with all the airplane stuff, didnt get anything as they only have Coke products, and everything was more then I was willing to spend lol.
The other drawback of this place, is the design of the parking lot, real confusing and hard to get out of, specially when there is a packed movie like the Dr. Who I saw.
Overall, in regards to movie theaters, I doubt I would come back to this one, I like the one in Kent better.

I really dislike this theatre. Comparison to all other options this one is definitely the worst. Have no desire to come back.

I am not a fan of this theater. It seems like something always goes wrong here. That’s why I don’t come here very often. This time, it was the only theater playing the movie we wanted to see at the right time.
We came here on a Friday night around 6:00pm. We came early to get good seats. Good thing we did because it took 30 minutes to get there. You would think that they would have the theater well staffed on a Friday night, but no, only one person selling tickets and only 2 people at the concession stand. Both had the longest lines ever and it took us 30 minutes to get tickets and drinks. Then, once I took my drink into the theater, I took a sip and it was missing the syrup! Had to walk all the way back out for a new drink missing the previews, which I love. Staff your theater better!

Good solid theater. Lots to showtimes and selections.
Concessions have a good variety (they always seem expensive — but that’s me). Sloooow though!
Clean enough bathroom for those people that this is an important feature.
Staff was nice and helpful. Friendly.
Seats were comfortable and sound was decent.
Lots of parking adjacent — you are at the SuperMall afterall.
Sound is good.
Good place to catch a movie.

Like another reviewer for this place, I consider myself to be a King County theater expert. I cannot say that I am considered by many to be this; who really talks about such things.
But I know that I am a King County theater expert, and that’s what matters. Auburn Cinema 17 is what I like to call «the most solid theater in King County». It is a somewhat older, yet well maintained, former marvel to the area, built around the time when the «Supermall» came into play, and I used to frequent it often when I lived in Maple Valley. Now I only go when on an intense theater experience mission. The theater itself is on a huge property, so the theater is a nice size, so the auditoriums are nice sizes. This is nice, because with more recently constructed theaters there seems to be a trend with throwing in a few really small auditoriums, to the point where more of the seats are «right in front of the screen» than not, and to me, those totally suck, and when I go to the newer theaters I feel like I am playing Russian Roulette: Theater Edition.
At Cinema 17, this is not the case,. But what is the case, or should I say, what is IN the case, is delightful candy and popcorn oh my. Can you eat enough to have sodium come out of your eye?

What I like most about this place is the crazy amount of screens. I can tell you that there has been a time that a movie I wanted to see was not playing, but the good news about this place is its large, comfortable and close to decent food.
I won’t pretend that I would drive out of my way for this place, but at the same time it’s never a compromise to be here.