The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
TV-Y7 | 04 September 1989 (USA)
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    Actuakers

    One of my all time favorites.

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    Bergorks

    If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

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    Derrick Gibbons

    An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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    Cristal

    The movie really just wants to entertain people.

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    donovanmcrale

    A poor excuse of a show, doesn't hold up to anything.

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    purplehpurple

    DIC spared nearly every expense with this show. The animated segments are full of animation errors. Hooded Robin is a tour de force for what not to do in animation. It's really quite stunning what got missed in this show. That being said, the show is endlessly entertaining, even if it's mostly on accident. Danny Wells does a good job as Luigi, and while I wouldn't say Lou Albano does a good job, I love his Mario anyway. The main character you want to hear least is Toad, who's squeaky voice seems almost designed to irritate. If you're watching the series these days you're likely watching an edit made after the license ran out for the song parodies, so there will be one action sequence per episode set to stock Mario music that seems out of place and awkward.Don't even get me started on the live action segments. Pee-wee's Playhouse this ain't. The Mario sound effects are always out of place here, the weird transitions are so bad, and "Uh oh" catchphrase is so low effort it hurts. Lou Albano can't quite keep up with his co-star, and in many segments resorts to just shaking his body in place of properly emoting. Every episode also fills some time with an out of context clip from the Legend of Zelda cartoon, which always begins with an intro that you will memorize if you watch enough episodes.It's honestly a pretty bad series, but I rate things based on how much I enjoy them, not on how good they are. The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! is both fascinating and hilarious in its failures, and I enjoy it a lot.

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    Terryfan

    Super Mario Bros can be forever known as the game that saved the Video Game Industry when it was release in the 80s.Now it has it own TV shows. The Super Mario Bros Super Show is one of the rarest shows to mix live action and animation.The live action stage of the show was pretty funny and it feature cameos from stars of the 1980s. Lou Albano played Mario in the live action scenes as well as voiced Mario in the cartoon, Danny Wells did the same but as Luigi.They were join by Princess Toadstool and Toad in the animation series as they battle the evil King Koopa.What makes the Super Mario Bros Super Show a cool show was the fact in the animation segment each episode look and feel like the video game as well as using music from the game along with the sound effects we all knew and love from the games plus the enemies in the game make appearances in the series as well make it more creative.Watching it again make you feel like a kid again and this show really give you the feel that they wanted it to feel like the Mario bros games and they did it right.The series is full of fun, comedy, action and it just one of those shows you can't help but watch as the song goes You'll be hook on the brothers

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    CaptainR1

    While I haven't seen every episode (compared to the other Mario cartoons) and also the Legend of Zelda segments, I still think that the show is good. The show was split into two, a live action part with guest stars from the era (the 80s) and the cartoon. I didn't mind and even liked some of the live action parts with goofy Lou Albano and Danny Wells as Mario & Luigi but I enjoyed the cartoon better. There are parodies of film, books and legends in the show, but I only seen some of the parody episodes but I liked them but not as much as the earlier produced episodes which give a vintage charm due to better plotting.I don't know why, but I find this series better animated than the next 2 Mario cartoons due to less colouring goofs and better voice acting, especially from Princess Toadstool (compared with SMB3 and Super Mario World) and the Mario Brothers sound more courageous (even Luigi, believe or not) which also introduced their Brooklyn accent. Even Mouser in the show has a good Pseudo German accent and character as well as King Koopa, my favourite character due to his lines and actions however he looks different compared to the games. During an episode, there would be a music track in the background that are covers from real bands and singers like Michael Jackson's Bad or Proud Mary. It is a shame that the US DVD releases have these omitted, while it doesn't make much difference in Super Mario Bros. 3 (except the Milli Vanilli episode) this is like a huge difference in mood and setting. I even compared King Mario of Cramelot US when it was aired on Yahooligans with the UK DVD which has the original music and I found the UK one more enjoyable with the Mario and King Koopa scenes, the US one was far less exciting, however it still had the remixed soundtrack of the Mario games as well in all episodes. One thing that's legendary is Do The Mario which still shows the test of time and is quite fun to dance to for the kids.This is probably the best Mario cartoon since it started it all and is such a timeless classic that you should buy it or if it is aired somewhere, watch it.

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