"Dennis Hopper acting his heart out." Fun fact: just the opposite is true. At some point, by his own recollection, he just stopped trying because the mess behind the scenes was so bad he just decided that nothing he could do would make it worse than it already was and he was tired of caring. And I f*ckin' love it.

Hopper's Kid: Why did you make that movie? Hopper: To buy you shoes. Hopper's Kid: I don't need shoes that bad.

True story: For the longest time, i never thought the ending led to a sequel. I thought it was leading to the actual game because i thought there was no way anyone believed they were making a sequel.

"HEY, PIZZANOS! IT'S THE SUPER PHELOUS AND ALLISON SUPER SHOW!"

Y’all look so great together as Mario and Peach! 😍

What I find the most interesting about this film is that one year late, they released a Double Dragon film, which also had a dystopian future setting, and involved a guy being mutated into a creature. Oh, the bad guy also had bleached blond hair.

This film feels like a Mario themed flu fever dream. It's like a goofy mascot movie, mixed with 80's dark fantasy nightmare fuel & sprinkled with light cyberpunk.

A theatre close to me showed this right after the Illumination movie released. It was fun to hear the younger adults react. One woman lost her shit when Yoshi was namedropped

There was an early draft for this film that took a more fantasy-inspired route with the story, and is a lot closer to the games as a result. Bowser spends most of the story as a dragon-like creature, Toad is a mushroom person, there's magic and enemies like Koopa Troopas and Hammer Bros, etc. You can find the script online if you know where to look, but it's worth a read whether you love this film or not.

So by this movie's logic, if we bring enough moon rocks back to the moon, we'll get entangled with an alternate timeline where the moon was never formed!

Good thing they stopped the worlds from merging, I fear the result would have been the future depicted in Theodore Rex! Now that would have been evil.

The biggest crime of the movie was taking the absolute perfect castihn for a Live Action Mario and throwing it away. RIP Bob Hoskins. You were better than this movie deserved.

While this movie didn't ruin my life, it really put a damper on my 13th birthday. My friends and I bailed less than halfway through, went home, and watched Temple of Doom.

I love watching you two together. The way Allison looks at Phelan when he's rambling or when Phelan looks at Allison when she's being cute about the "meh" warms my heart.

Imagine if they referred to themselves as Phelous Phelous and Allison Phelous

Fun fact: The music for this movie was composed by Allen Silvestri, the same guy who composed the music for Back to the future, Predator and the Avengers!

Seeing as how the portal is in the sewers, it's entirely possible that other plumbers have visited Koopa's realm before this. They show up and start causing trouble, always trying to unionize the goombahs, and eating all the phillly cheeseasaur sandwiches. He doesn't seem particularly afraid when he says 'plumber alert' it sounds rather routine. They're always causing problems.

Got to love Dennis Hopper chewing up all the scenery.

🎶 Swing your arms to side to side come on let's do the phelos 🎶

This week a movie on Allison’s channel about a hedgehog, and Phelous does a film about Italian plumbers.🤔

Mario Brothers in The Land After Time.

I like this movie a lot more than I did as a kid. Back then, the entire theater was silent and confused. The new movie is what I wanted as a kid, but as an adult, this weird ass movie is absolutely awesome.

Actually, the meteor didn't strike the Earth, it struck the "EART".

I remember this being on the Disney channel, or some other oft-visited kid channel, exactly ONCE when I was a child. All I saw was the princess introducing the Mario Brother's to her drippy gross de-evolved father...and a brief look at those goombas with tiny heads. It terrified me so much and was so unrelated to Mario that I was convinced the whole thing was a bad dream I had until the Internet started talking about this movie again.

My parents loved telling me a story of watching this movie and cried because "That's not Yoshi."

Oh my god🤩 I ADORE the cosplay you guys 😭

I watched this on Rifftrax recently, which is probably the best way to get max enjoyment from this, and I still admired the set design in a weird way. I liked using Bullet Bills as jump charges, or the random BoB-ombs. It feels like the set and prop designers actually gave a shit.

I thought the mushroom kingdom was so vast as a kid. When i rewatched this movie as an adult I realized how it was just one set.

You had me at: "Phelan, what if..."

i love when Phelan and Allison work together!

I love that you guys are dressed like that and then you're just calmly talking about the film in your normal way

Daisy and Yoshi are my favorite characters in the mario universe so i like that they had a connection with each other in the movie also i read that Daisy's dad was named King Bowser which is hilarious cuz i always wanted to see Bowser become a good guy and take down his brother King Koopa (who's first name might be mortan cuz who else would be mortan jr's father)

I liked it in 93 and I still like it today. It's silly but fun. Bob Hoskins is great. I wish he was still with us. He was a damn good actor. I wish shout factory was able to get their hands on it and make a 4K! With as many special features as they can find!

I'm pretty sure Koopa was saying that there were more resources on Earth than in Dinoworld, making a clear motive of basically invasion and colonization, with the merging instead of just sending troops through the portal being intended to just overwhelm the humans with sheer numbers.

I assumed Koopa went on to built a new luxury fortress when zombies took over the mushroom kingdom and Luigi went into a new type of cleaning service.

Seeing both of you talk about this movie is a real treat! It's such a goofy thing with such an interesting story behind it. I personally find it very fun in its own way. I forgot how hammy Koopa was, he's definitely a highlight. Love that you referenced the ad where Yoshi said "meh!" also. I always found that the funniest thing!

This whole movie is basically Mario fed through the filter of Ghostbusters and then given a second round through Tim Burton's Batman.

Phelous didn't like the movie as a kid because they adapted the dino world yet they refused to put his favorite character, Oogtar, in it.

Koopa's girlfriend managed to survive the merger and found herself in Europe. She took the identity of Petunia Dursley.

It's always magic when you two are together.

You know a film is bad when even the actors hated it, though John Leguizamo and Fisher Steven's have come around in recent years. As poor as a movie and adaptation as it is, it does have its fans, and I do admit that this movie is an enjoyable train wreck.

We don’t talk about Luigi

This movie has aged shockingly well now that it's so thoroughly divorced from its context. Like you guys said-- absent the Mario connection, it's actually a passable leftover of that late 80s/early 90s kids movies. I watched it with much younger friends recently and they were all surprisingly on-board with it.

They had Harold Ramis on at some point? That totally explains the mold, spores and fungus.

I unironically like this movie.

This film is one of my biggest guilty pleasures.

I wonder to this day, if back then, when John Leguizamo picked up a bomb and ran with it, he ever could've dreamed he'd voice the most amazing animated character that no one talks about

I still want Daisy's Necklace! I always check Etsy and stuff to see if someone's made replica or something.

This movie ended up the way it did because the people making it didn't want to make a Super Mario Bros. movie, but basically do their own thing. Plus active disdain for the source material.

I actually squealed when I saw Alison!

Homer Simpson, power off Einstein.

I actually like this movie i want to see the original cut

my interpretation of the "Plumber alert" line is less that they hate plumbers and more that they're treating the urgency of the situation the same way they have a pipe leak, thus they call for a plumber alert in that same manner, but because koopa's police acts on direct orders no questions asked, it probably is just normal for them to drag every single plumber in town to jail just like any other kind of person or thing.

That's a nice Peach cosplay, Allison, but our princess is in another movie.

I unironically love this movie

I never did see this movie back in the day, but I did bring a Nintendo Power with a feature on it to school for show and tell. I thought the section about the Yoshi animatronics would impress my classmates. Sadly, I don't recall anyone really caring.

I have a similar relationship with this movie as I do with Street Fighter (1994): As an adaptation it's awful and as a kid I hated it, but now I can appreciate it on it's own merits and get entertainment out of it from just how utterly surreal and weird it is. This, Street Fighter and Double Dragon are just such odd little bits of 90s nostalgia for me now. Unlike Mortal Kombat, which *was* a fairly good adaptation of the game and stuck pretty close to the actual story (and still holds up as a good movie IMO), those three are just such odd, odd experiences that I've come to enjoy, possibly because they ARE so different from their respective source materials.

I loved the movie as a kid but i was loving pretty much anything. I wish i could enjoy things like i did.

This movie feels like such a time capsule of kids movies from the 80s and early 90s just like how the live action Cat in the Hat is a reflection of late 90s/early 2000s kids movie trends, aesthetic and all.

To this day, any time I see a plumbing truck on the street, I can't help but blurt out "Plumber Alert!"

I think my very 1st exposure to this guilty pleasure of a movie was seeing the Yoshi animatronics inside a 1993 Fangoria magazine that was also covering the dinosaur animatronics from both Jurassic Park & Carnosaur. Honestly, I enjoy this movie. Way better than the new film if you ask me, but no where near as good as the Super Mario Bros 3 cartoon show.

The brilliant Bob Hoskins himself… couldn’t do much for this one. Apparently he and some of the other stars spent a lot of time drunk during the making of it. Allison looks cuter with dark hair, apropos of nothing..

I think you might be my favourite celebrity couple.❤

This movie really feels like it's become the central pillar of Millennials reclaiming entertainment that Gen-X wrote off for not being "cool" enough. I love to see it, I'd rather watch a movie that's sincere and still fails than one that feels too cool to take risks.

I actually liked Yoshi, wish he actually did something useful in the movie. Him having proper digitigrade legs instead of a Godzilla style guy in suit look was great.

This is a movie I never saw in theatres or on home video, but after I saw some reviews online, I managed to watch a fair chunk in pieces here on KZfaq when you could get away with that kind of thing. Sadly my limited connection kept me from watching all of it before it was gone. Having a much more limited experience with Mario than others, I didn't have a huge problem with it, I actually really appreciated the creativity and I still kinda do now. Say what you like, there's nothing quite like this particular train wreck!

It's fun to watch this movie with Rifftrax

Seeing you two dressed like that, made me smile. My father, little sister and I went as Luigi (my father is bigger and much slender than I am) Princess Peach (my lil sis even had a Toad plush) and Mario. We watched a parade and saw another trio like us, three guys dressed like we were. They gave us some drinks, lots of candy for my sis and just went with the theme, joking, until they had to wander off. It was a wonderful day.

Your Mario and Peach cosplays are great! As for this movie, I've only seen a few clips so I can't give my full thoughts on it. I am aware of the movie's production history and how it changed from a more faithful adaptation to this weird dystopian story, and I'll admit some of these concepts look interesting (like the other world and dinosaur designs, including their take on Yoshi). But after hearing how the whole film turned out, this feels like it should've been its own thing rather than having any connection to Mario. I'll probably watch the full movie someday for curiosity's sake, though.

Past Audiences: I hate this stupid movie!! Modern Audiences: I love this stupid movie!!

I still think this movie gets way too much hate. Yeah, it's drastically different from what Mario's supposed to be, but on its own I honestly think it's an entertaining watch. The music's great, I love a lot of the props and costumes, and it's got Bob Hoskins for crying out loud. Even in bad movies he always gave it his all. A true professional to the end.

He did it… He did the Mario!! This is clearly superior to the illumination film. Oscar winning actors and performances, stunning world and effects. Incredible story and lines that are cemented in cinema history. “GOOMBA!!” “Bob omb…” “Monkey! :D”

I grew up with this movie, it was something I loved, was it like the game? Hell no! But I appreciated it all the same. When the internet talked about how much it sucked I fell into that mindset for a few years in a reactionary way. Thankfully I got out of that, because my love for it has grown more and more. I love movies like this, the much maligned ones, the outcast ones, ie: Wild Wild West, Alien Resurrections, Surf Ninjas, TMNT 3, both unironically and ironically. Both sides have merit.

But does this movie have Bowser singing a love ballad about Peaches? I think not!

I was just out of college when this came out and had a bigbnastalgia rush at hearing about it, picturing a Land of the Lost (70s TV version) crossed with maybe a live-action Saturday Supercade. Then I saw the commercials. But I still had hopes of at least it doing well enough for live adaptions of other arcade games from my teens. But its nice to know some enjoy this, once taken for what it is and not what was hoped for. I can now enjoy the live He-Man movie with that frame of mind and as a kid thats what let me enjoy sooooo many superhero TV shows.

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32:03 I always saw those lines as Spike and Iggy being really wormy and suck ups, and were lying as they saw that Koopa was going down. So they figure they'd join the winning side. Not that they actually always supported Daisy and her father.

I will freely admit I loved this movie. It is a partial inspiration for my own project.

I still love the actors despite the flaws this movie had. Rip Bob Hopkins

You keep doing the good job with these review videos in this channel

I enjoy it for its weirdness. Plus, it's entertaining. They are references to the games like the monkey scene. It's a monkey and a construction site, which reminds you of something.

This film is up there with other film adaptations based on animated media like Popeye (1980), Masters of the Universe (1987), The Flintstones (1994), and Mortal Kombat (1995) consisting of unique film adaptations that, while not spot on adaptations, are still enjoyable films that stays true to the spirit of their source material.

Speculation, although most of Koopa's world is desert the people there were adapted to it and could survive comfortably, but Koopa forced them to waste their limited resources to build the giant dinohatten city which is why it's so dystopian

It should be obvious that King Koopa considers intelligence a dangerous resource, especially in his henchmen. The goombas all work for him because they're too dumb to question orders, it ensures their loyalty. That's why he hasn't evolved his bumbling cousins yet, and in fact once he does, they do end up betraying him. So you can see what a mistake that ended up being. I think the reason he doesn't fix himself after going through the machine is twofold. One, he's too proud to admit he's lost any intelligence to begin with, and two, if he has, I think he likes that little bit of extra animal aggression, he figures it might help him trough this latest plumber debacle. I think his slick businessman Koopa might be feeling a bit complacent, feeling that he's lost his edge, and a little bit of the old Dino Mater might be just what he needs to stay fresh. Personally I always loved this movie as a weird sci fi adventure, I never wanted a straight adaptation of the games because we already had exactly that in the cartoon show. I expected something weird and different, and it was right up my alley at release.

Nobody's talking about the Goombas in the elevator? That's my favorite scene

I was so excited for this movie, then got to see it and was instantly soooo confused and also kinda mad and felt swindled, however, I just accepted "so..., were doing this... oookaaayy...." As odd as this was for a mario live action, i did find it entertaining as some weird alternate reality story and now I appreciate it even more for not only the nostalgia and something weird and cooky, but the bizarre behind the seines shenanigans involved in its development and drunken outbursts and rage at the directors by the poor actors. I wish I could comfort Bob and Dennis and tell them they did great and thank them for what they went thru.

I remember I still have this movie I love this movie as a Mario fan

I don't care what anybody thinks, I love this movie.

there was also an anime movie

I would love to live in an alternate universe where we got a sequel to this movie.

- There were a lot of issues with the movie. Supposedly John Leguizamo as Luigi, and Bob Hoskins as Mario were drunk while on set. - Dennis Hopper as bowser would bail while shooting. Would make a stink and practically refuse to continue filming whenever his role was needed. - The city "Dinohattan" was filmed in an abandoned cement factory. Ironically the same place where Live Action TMNT film was being filmed. As well as where "The Crow" was filmed. - Dinohattan was going to be expansive and somewhat different than what we initially got. Likely to reduce the budget. - The two people who directed the movie was either an engaged couple, or a married couple. They have no almost little to no filming background. - A lot of issues with the film was that it was originally going to have a similar vibe to Willy Wonka meets Wizard of Oz, in terms of world building and props as well as background. Personally it's a cult classic. Regardless if people say it's good or not. Though I do think some of the issues with the film has to do with what's mentioned above.

Despite how ridiculous this film is, I feel like Nintendo adapted some elements from this movie. Like the relationship between Luigi and Daisy that started during the N64 era, or Neo Bowser City in Mario Kart 7 and 8 Deluxe. Not to mention jumping into paintings and walls in Mario 64.

28:50 That whole "Mario Mario" scene... The joke is so "good"/baffling, it completely distracts from that lady pushing her high-heel into the guy's shoulder for the whole scene lol

I would say, ONLY if the new Mario Movie never happened, then it would be justifiable to hate on it, but now that we have a PROPER Mario Movie, this one can be enjoyed on its own as a movie.

great costumes guys

A meteor supposedly sent the dinosaurs to another dimension but too bad it was Sunday, the planet would have been filled up tomorrow.

“Monkey” - Bowser

1993: Dont Question it just roll with it.

It's good to see this Year a better Mario Movie came out.

My husband and his younger brother went to see the movie when they were kids, and they were the only two in the theater room.