Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros.
PG | 28 May 1993 (USA)
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Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only hope to save our universe from invasion by the dino dictator, Koopa.

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Cubussoli

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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BlazeLime

Strong and Moving!

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Console

best movie i've ever seen.

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Fatma Suarez

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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Mafesto

Mario is a supportive, loving brother. Luigi is pure and sweet, and has a genuinely endearing relationship with Daisy. Daisy is a cool paleontologist who doesn't take crap from nobody, be they mob-bosses or interdimensional tyrants. face.Even though the cast had a miserable time behind the scenes, it doesn't show at all. The chemistry between the Mario brothers is especially good.It's a simple, fun film that doesn't waste time and would never be made today.

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Jody Bruchon

I did not have the luxury of seeing this in my youth, but I did watch it in early adulthood out of curiosity and my memories of that experience were worth rating it 6 out of 10. However, after watching a review of the movie by James Rolfe, I was inspired to watch it again and set aside my prejudices stemming from the notorious reputation of badness this movie drags behind it. It was an eye-opening experience.Super Mario Bros. is a very good movie that became scorned in the public eye because of its association with the video game of the same title and being essentially the first major motion picture based on a video game. It also had the misfortune of being preceded by the Super Mario Bros. Super Show which has a very different format and probably set up a lot of unfair expectations as to what a Mario movie would be like. If we examine the Super Mario Bros. video game with the lens of a person craving a story, we find that there isn't much to go on. The plot is "a plumber saves a princess from a reptilian monster in a castle" and that's it. There are precious few details beyond that. The various enemies and objects and characters only exist for the purpose of enabling the game mechanics to function. Everything in the video game lacks any sort of deeper meaning; the only unifying elements (and I use that term somewhat loosely) are mushrooms, turtles, and pipes. What else could you expect from an 8-bit era platforming game? My point is this: as an inspiration for a full-blown story, the video game is effectively a one-sentence writing prompt. It shouldn't be a surprise that a Super Mario Bros. live-action movie is based largely on interpretation of the vague elements offered up in the video game. For the rest of the review, let's set aside the video game and focus on the movie as an independent work.Super Mario Bros. has all the elements of a great family-friendly action/fantasy movie. Two everyday normal guys trying to make a living stumble into events that toss up their normal lives and they wind up in a dystopian place. There are elements of sci-fi and film noir that are executed very well, but the film also never takes itself too seriously and the comedy is always around to lighten things up. In a lot of ways, this film is reminiscent of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, a work that is arguably one of the best movies ever made. There are obvious inspirations from other classics such as Blade Runner and Mad Max.It's not without its flaws, of course. There are some dull or just plain stupid moments that could have been cut down or omitted. Luigi's character sometimes acts in ways that have no believable motivation for doing so, even by the loose standards of a fantasy story in a family film. There are a lot of interesting elements that go unexplained which is a bit disappointing. There is a large set of people that are supposed to be vastly different but really just look like plain old humans in tasteless outfits and funny hairstyles (I can't explain in any more detail without spoilers but you'll know who I'm referencing when you get there) which is even more ridiculous because there is yet another closely related set of people that DO actually look different.Fortunately, the flaws don't detract very much from the overall enjoyment of the film. It's actually a lot of fun to look for the references to the elements from the video game; some are in-your-face obvious while some are subtle enough that you probably won't catch them the first time you watch the movie.I was surprised by this "bad movie." It was a lot more fun to watch than its reputation would have us all believe. If it hadn't been tied to such a vague video game and had to follow in the footsteps of the Super Show, this could have easily become a classic family film from the early 1990s. Many other reviewers claim to have enjoyed it in spite of its reputation and I'm happy to join them.

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flavia_cj

This movie is the explanation of why people who understand nothing of games should never make a movie about video game characters. In fact, "Super Mario Bros." should not have even left the paper for a very simple reason: Mario will never work with real actors. Mario and Luigi are cartoon-game-characters in a colorful and cute universe. They were created for this purpose and that is how they should stay.Embody them in a dark movie with actors of flesh and bone is just a bad idea.The result is a grotesque movie, unintentional comedy that doesn't remember absolutely anything the essence of Mario games.

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mwcrunner

This is one of the worst films ever made. This should've been scrapped a long time ago and should've been made into a full length CGI animated hit. Now I like Bob Hoskins cause of him being Eddie Valiant in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but Mario isn't cut out for him. Also Mario and Luigi are Italian, not American. Also whats up with Princess Peach not being in the movie and this Daisy person being a princess in it who is a freaking dinosaur? Also Yoshi didn't look like himself. He looked like he came out of the movie Jurassic Park. Also Toad should've been in this movie too but he wasn't cause its like the directors of this treated him like a push over. Also whats with the dance club scene in this movie and Mario and Luigi dressing up like pimps? I mean what kind of world are they in where people are Koopas and the king of them who is King Koopa a guy that looks like Donald Trump and Dr. Evil rolled into one? Lol. Sorry but it's true. Dennis Hoppers character looks like Donald Trump and Dr. Evil rolled into one. Also what was with all this fungus crap in this movie? I mean we did see mushrooms in it, but none of them made Mario and Luigi grow or gave them powers like flying or Koopa tails or fire. Also we only got to see one Ba-Bomb in this movie and that's also bullcrap. I mean if someone ever comes up with a new idea for a Super Mario Bros. movie, it should be a CGI animated one about where Mario and Luigi were born or where they came from and where King Koopa aka Bowser came from too and have all the good stuff that's in the video game, not a bunch of lizard looking like people and a Donald Trump and Dr. Evil combination abomination that later turns into a dinosaur like Muppet that gets turned into green slime and a woman who gets electrocuted and dies like Walter Donavon in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and 2 worlds one that is normal and one that is like Gary, Indiana and 2 guys who are just plumbers and don't have anything special to do like jumping and using powers and collecting coins. Of course there is going to be a sequel to the Disney animated video game film Wreck-It Ralph in 2018, so there's a good chance that we can see Mario and Luigi in that film since they weren't in the first one. This film deserves to be locked up in the studio vault never to be released again and forgotten for all time. Awful. Just plain awful.

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