Super Mario Bros. (1993)

Two plumbers embark on a quest to save a princess held captive in a strange hidden world.
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: HOSKINS/LEGUIZAMO/HOPPER/MATHIS
Title: SUPER MARIO BROTHERS
Street Release Date: 06/03/2003
Domestic
Genre: COMEDY VIDEO Product Description

A Twist to the Classic Video Game!!!

When I was a kid, I liked this movie. Now that I'm older, I still like it! The movie is very different from the game! It was cool that they played the Mario music at the beginning of the movie! Bob Hoskins made an awesome Mario, but I'm not sure John Legiuzamo was right for Luigi. Mario and Luigi meet a girl named Daisy (Princess Toadstool) Luigi starts to fall in love with her. Later two guys take Daisy back to another dimension. Mario and Luigi follow and come to a world where dinosaurs look like real people and live in a world where King Koopa rules. Mario and Luigi try to save Princess Daisy from Koopa's castle! If you love the game, you might like the film version of SUPER MARIO BROTHER!!! August 27, 2008

Thank You, But Our Brains Are In Another Castle...

The Good Things
*Some very slick special effects.
*Some fun actions scenes (the police car chase was cool).
*Some funny moments too (although much of it is quite corny. I still think the elevator scene was great, though).
*Pretty good production design. Lots of scummy futuristic settings, props, and costumes (although nothing really resembles the original computer game).
*The story idea is not bad (especially since the computer game was so surreal to begin with). They did a good job incorporating modern ideas about alternate universes, explaining what may have happened to dinosaurs, and describing the evolution of life. Well, much of this is BS, but it's good enough.
*Good soundtrack (I still like the "Walk the Dinosaur" song).

The Bad Things
*The production design resembles something out of "Blade Runner," so it lacks the bright and fantastic settings and atmosphere of the original computer games. I think it would have worked better as a "Narnia" sort of thing instead of this far-out sci-fi. All around, it resembles surprisingly little of the original game, except for all of the names.
*Also missing out on a whole bunch of the creatures from the original games (I guess they didn't have the time or money).
*Wow, the opening is pretty dumb.
*Some parts are just plain weird. Mario and Bowser appear in the middle of a huge crowd and throw some magic around, and nobody seems concerned. They even laugh when the mobster is turned into a monkey. This is kind of funny, but seriously, nobody cares that the world is coming to an end?!

The Questionable Things
*Extremely corny and goofy. Great for kids or people who don't like seriousness. Bad for most others.
*Acting can be seen as terrible or acceptable.
*Seriously, is this guy really named "Mario Mario?"

As a movie, it stinks royally. But we got to consider that the original computer game was extremely strange and silly to begin with (what with a pair of plummers jumping on things, eating mushrooms to grow bigger, and eating flowers to spit fireballs; were they on drugs when they made these games?!), and translating it into a movie was bound to be disasterous. In that respect, the movie does okay. If you ignore the impossibilities and accept the goofiness, this is actually pretty fun and possibly nostalgic. Otherwise, it stinks royally.

The DVD has okay video and sound quality. It's in widescreen, but is not anamorphic. Disc has no special features other than a trailer.

If this review has not been helpful, feel free to leave a comment, telling me how I can improve. August 8, 2008

The worst console to cinema venture in history

I guess I was like 13 when I first saw this movie. Even then I was smart enough to watch this tanked piece of garbage, and say to myself, "What the hell is going on here?" Bob Hoskins was okay, as Mario, but John Lequizzano as Luigi? Tear out my eyes, would you please? I'm so glad this film bombed. It would have been excruciatingly painful to watch a sequel. It was a disaster and it looked nothing like the game. August 5, 2008

It ain't no game, it's a horrific mess of a movie...

I can't believe there are actually people who liked this nightmare of a movie! Super Mario Bros The Movie is hailed by all gamers as the prime example of just how bad a movie adaption of a popular video game can be!
Many make the excuse that the only reason why no one likes this movie is because it was made for kids. How exactly does that make sense??? There are plenty of kids movies that adults can watch and enjoy. The Iron Giant was a kid's movie, and I consider it to be one of the best animated movies I've ever seen! The same can be said for Disney movies like Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, Mary Poppins. And what about other great kids movies like Sandlot, The Mouse on the Motorcycle, and The Princess Bride? All of those were kids movies, yet they're still highly entertaining to adult audiences as well.
I didn't even like Super Mario Bros The Movie when I first saw it as a kid... Why? Because I watched it expecting to see Mario & Luigi running around the Mushroom Kingdom trying to save Pricess Toadstool from King Koopa, instead I saw Bob Hoskins & John Leguizamo running around an underground city in another dimension trying to save a red-haired woman from Dennis Hopper, the hippie in Easy Rider!
It was totally unfaitful to the games... Princess Toadstool's name is Peace, Daisy is the Princess of another kingdom, Yoshi isn't a Raptor, Koopa is a giant fire-breathing dragon, not an overly smug business man, and Goombas are tiny little fanged-mushrooms with little black shoes, not some tall guy in a jacket with a tiny head! Also, what's with the flamethrowers? Was that their answer to Koopa being able to breath fire as a business man, or are they just that stupid?

Super Mario Bros The Movie is just as bad to an adult as it is to a kid, a kid just gets more confused at the movie, whereas an adult gets mad.
The only video game movie that ever reached such awesomely bad heights as SMB The Movie was the Double Dragon movie, and to a lesser extent the Street Fighter movie staring Jean-Claude Vandamme.

Buy it only so you can see how horrible it is, and maybe for a cheap laugh or two, but if you like the Super Mario Bros video games, don't buy this expecting a block buster based on your favorite video game.

1 Star, but only because they won't let me give it zero...
And unlike it does in the games, 1 Star does not = limited invincibility... July 1, 2008

Why dont you like this movie its a good movie

I dont understand why no one likes this movie dennis hopper as King koopa is nothing short of perfection its a good movie with great actors this aint no game indeed June 24, 2008

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