Review of Super Mario Bros. (1993) by Cristian L — 16 Aug 2015

Sometime in the late 90's, early 2000's I was watching TV in the evening and I heard that Super Mario Bros was coming up next, I was like "WOW, they actually made a movie based on this awesome video game franchise? How come I've never heard of it? I can't wait to see what it's like!" WOW what a let down.

I was not expecting ANYTHING like this. It did not feel like I was watching a Super Mario Bros movie at all. Their first and biggest mistake was having it be live action and in a real-world sort of environment.

It should have been animated and it should have been in a world that screams fantasy. It should have been a movie that reminds why we love the video games, why the worlds are so interesting to explore.

The plot to this movie is sort of hard to explain, we've got Mario and Luigi chasing after Princess Daisy (not Peach and not Toadstool) They go with the name from the gameboy version. We also have dinosaur creatures who apparently survived the meteor shower and now look like humans trying to look like lizard-like creatures.

Bowser er I mean Koopa, yes they don't call him Bowser in this movie is played by Dennis Hopper (I can't believe he didn't turn this down.) He looks nothing like the Bowser we're familiar with in the game, he looks like Dennis Hopper with a lizard type of hair style.

I'm also surprised they got the guy from Roger Rabbit (Bob Hoskins) to play Mario in this. A good choice but he couldn't save this movie. He and Luigi don't really look like the Mario Bros fans are familiar with until they put on their red and green costumes.

Overall, there are points when you have no idea what you are watching. and I feel like if you're going to make a Mario Bros movie, DO NOT have it be live action and DO NOT put them in a realistic environment.

In fact, I can see Disney or Disney Pixar making a good animated Super Mario Bros movie. Bottom line, this movie should not exist. I'm sorry, but that's just what I think.