This is the most 90s sentence I've ever read

What an awesome memory

Happy 13th Birthday! 🎉

​@@SeraphsWitness I was thinking the same thing, sounds totally righteous!

That’s an awesome story

It's weird, but it's by no means all bad, and it certainly doesn't lack personality. I'd take something like this over a video game movie that's too faithful to the source material, because it's unpredictable at least.

It feels like a repurposed script using Super Mario Bros characters.

I'd say it's comparable to Josh Trank trying to turn the Fantastic Four into a Cronenberg movie, except I like Mario 93 way more than that movie.

Oh boy👍

This movie to me has a very similar issue the Metallica/ Lou Reed album Lulu has. It's more just marketed to the wrong audience. Not to blame the people who watched both, tho. you're a teenager in the 2000s who listens to Metallica, you probably aren't gonna listen to experimental noise rock with themes of feminism. Much like how if you're going into a Mario movie, you probably aren't looking to watch a gritty semi-comedic cyberpunk movie. Unless both of these pieces of media were utterly culture shifting masterpieces, it's kinda hard to not just be left confused. Especially something like Mario who, at the time, was basically only children.

Nice

Day.......Day man? ....fighter of the NIGHTman...

Jeez, we now live in a time when people parrot what some youtuber tells them and if he calls shit great, they happily eat it. Sad to see. No, this trainwreck isn't a "gem", it's a turd.

same here i watched it abunch growing up. as well as tremor's 1 and 2, little monster's, goonies, three ninjas, and terminator 2. man times were so easy back then. the good ol day's

I don't think this film is worth defending, if a majority of it deviated from the source material extremely. But, as much as I hate the Live-Action Mario Movie, I will admit that the one thing I liked out of the entire film is that they introduced us to a great character: Lena; she is as bad as Koopa, but I don't think she deserved to be killed. See, Lena is an interesting case, because the concept of the character reminds me how Bowser got inspiration from the 1960s adaptation of Journey to the West (localized as Alakazam the Great); you can totally see from how the Bull Demon King wears a purple cape (much like how Bowser wears it in SMB3 promotional art), rules a Fire and Brimstone Underworld with loyal minions (which Bowser also did), and has an imp for a son (Bowser had that too, albeit resembling Bowser's younger self from Yoshi's Island), and yet, since the ending to Super Mario Odyssey (not counting remakes. or the movie), Bowser hasn't captured Peach to earn her affection for 7 years, and it's likely that Bowser has moved on from such a petty thing. If Lena was to be canon-immigrated and reintroduced to the public, this would be the perfect time; as the Bull Demon King also has a devoted wife that is as evil as he is. but no, Miyamoto didn't want to add Lena, because of how much of a failure the movie was. Honestly, having Lena be Bowser Jr.'s mother would be a lot better than Miyamoto giving us an external answer rather than an internal one.

Same and people don't understand that this had nothing as far as story from the games cause it was literally just run left and right and jump on goombas, how do you get anything more out of that without CGI and Bob Hopkins as Mario in 1991?

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Although it does explain some scenes it's still unwatchable I saw it on the archive website still hate the movie 👍

Hahahahahahahaha that's hilarious! Emotion lol

I feel it every time at 5:20.

@@mikesilva3868 cool no one asked.

Oh shut up! What a stupid comment.

I find myself baffled by the career of John Leguizamo. He is a genuinely talented performer who can handle both comedy and drama... but his filmography is so lousy that it's hard to tell. If anything, I think he's been getting better roles in the last decade or so, but his output in the 90s-00s was absolutely dire. What happened there? He could have been a real star.

a lot of good movies were an absolute nightmare to make. look up the behind-the-scenes of predator or of mad Max fury road. the only time you hear actors really complaining about a set being a nightmare is if critics didn't like the movie. if critics like the movie then everybody just ignores all the terrible stories from the set and the actors don't whine about it because they got good reviews so they don't really care.

​@@jasonblalock4429he was just breaking into the business plus he's not white and this movie was a bomb so of course he's going to do The Pest next if he wants to continue in the business. It's always better to be available for work than question the quality of every project if you want to become bigger. He made a lot of bombs but most of the time you remember him being good enough to follow to the next one. If he truly sucked we wouldn't be having this conversation about him. Only real bad Leguizamo performance is The Pest but he's still committed to it, I just don't like the character

@@drebone1986 not white? he is a white guy from Colombia))) he was lying about being Puerto Rican for years))

Fun fact: Danny DeVito was considered for the role of Mario.

@@roberttreacy8271 yeah and oddly enough, Tom Hanks almost landed the role.

​@@nickmanzo8459 Tom Hanks could've been a better Luigi, tbh. Especially with the figure he had at the time.

@@nickmanzo8459 I also read that DeVito was offered to direct the movie as well.

@@OddOneOut665 Bob Hoskins as Mario, Tom Hanks as Luigi could have been a match made in Heaven.

@CinnamonGrrlErin1 Well as a whole the movie is enjoyable if you ignore the fact that it bares no resemblance to the video games or cartoon, except Mario and Luigi being plumbers in New York. 👸🍄🪠🦖

@SuperMario Bros. III honestly, it's probably not that different from the games my friends and I played on the playground. We didn't have a huge canon of Mario lore yet so we just invented different stories.

​@@SuperMarioBrosIII the actual content of the video game would make the worst movie ever. it's a very good thing from a storytelling standpoint that it's nothing like the game.

​​@@CinnamonGrrlErin1 the entire story of Mario is just Mario saves the princess. thats it... thats all it has ever been. people that criticized the Super Mario Brothers movie for this reason are incredibly dumb.

I've always said, if it was just a weird drug-fueled 80s cheesefest about an alternate dimension, it would be absolutely BELOVED. The Mario branding killed it.

Don't feel guilty for liking an amazing movie!

your kids are smart

You got good kids there 👍🏼

@@agrippa.the.cosmonaut-wiz Yeah, amazing because it sucks!

@@worthybutter2004 It means enough to you to watch click a review and read and post a comment. Which means you should concentrate on getting laid rather than show your diarrhea.

Metal Gear Rising & Sonic Unleashed have had similar journeys.

hispster being hipsters

Beloved by who? Nostalgia critic?

Can’t wait for Emoji Movie to become nostalgic

I laughed out loud at that, I immediately went back and rewinded it. 😂😂

Love that super hornio bros is canon as Nintendo bought the rights to bury it

@@FrogFriend3379 Nintendo: No one will ever find this movie! The Internet: One way or another, I'm gonna find ya, I'm gonna get ya, get ya, get ya!

The Cinema Snob can testify to that.

@@Launchpad05 Today on "Will it fit?" I've got some mushrooms and I'm gonna take "1-Up" my "Warp Tunnel"!

Super what? Lolol

I do agree with you about the art design disagree with you about this movie 📼

Hoskins is always good

What bad parts?

@@Slaveternal There aren't many!

It's a ridiculous movie 😂

And Dennis Hopper

I thought the live action Flintstones was pretty well received? Like its not some all time banger, but "for a live action adaption of a dumb cartoon its not bad" sorta thing

Wish recently granted!

IT the hipster way to like terrible things these days. This movie was TRASH!

@@eddiedutra3359 Liking it these days? I liked it back in the 90's, and still do to this day. Calling the movie trash without explaining why, if that isn't the definition of "hipster" I don't know what is...

@@marco12377 IT had nothing to do with the source material! Itlooked like the sets that were thrown out of Blade Runner, and it was not a Super Mario Brothers Movie. I loved the movie "Naked Lunch" and that came out in 1991. I knew nothing about that movie, and I was sure that was "Naked Lunch". This was suppose to be a Mario Bros movie and it was far from it. I loved the Mortal Kombat movie from 1995 but, the sequel "Mortal Kombat: Annihilation" was also trash.

@@eddiedutra3359 Cry some more about a movie you dislike from 1993, sounds like a good way to spend your time...

​​@@eddiedutra3359 The source material would have made a absolutely pathetically terrible movie. the old Mario games have no story. they essentially just had to make it all up from nothing because there was absolutely no story to mario. you have no actual critique of this movie. I'd be willing to bet you haven't actually watched it.

Oh boy really it's a awful movie am I the only one who wants to see the new cgi movie it looked awesome 😊

@@mikesilva3868 I already have my tickets for opening night, and can't wait, as it's the first time I've been excited enough to see a movie in a theater in years!!

Yes, certainly !

Super Mario bros super show was better than this movie 😊

Dinohatten I would watch that

What's weird is there is a movie called "Adventures in Dinosaur City" which spawned a videogame adaptation in "Dinocity" for the SNES. The game ended up being more of a success than the movie, and most people are unaware that Dinocity was ever a movie to game adaptation.

I've definitely heard this somewhere. Nostalgia Critic maybe?

Pixar did a lot of cgi work in films at the time. One of their contributions was the cgi creatures in Young Sherlock Holmes.

Pixar had nothing to do with Disney in 1993. Disney didn't purchase Pixar until 2006 before that they were owned by Apple.

@@lutherheggs451 OK? I didn't say anything about Disney. Pixar is listed in the end credits for the Super Mario Bros movie.

I think they only did additional visual effects to minor scenes, since most of the movie's effects were made with a beta version of Autodesk Flame. And apparently they were experimenting another software at the time before going to Renderman, so it's kinda complicated to identify their presence

@@phantomzone2725 The credits list them as "Special Thanks: Netranderman - Pixar" I don't know if netranderman is an industry term or what. I always assumed it was what they called the mid-transformation Koopa at the movie's climax, but I'm grasping at straws.

Cant forget his role in Hook

Oh, he was an alcoholic in the Mario Bros movie, too. Just off screen.

@@owmyballs8978 that’s true 🤣

If I remember correctly (unlikely, my memory sucks) he only agreed to do this movie for his kids

@@silvertriforce2574 That was Raul Julia in Street Fighter before he died

Now let see if Kaiserbeamz will take A look at the 'Super Mario Bros' anime movie from Toei.

Fun fact shadow was actually created long before batman I just wanted to state that for some reason

I think Darkman did a better Job. Enjoyed the production values Of The Shadow but I really feel the film Falls flat a bit quickly.

​@@jadenbryant9283 and at some point, probably after the comics had a great run as a radio drama, no one minus than Citizen Kane director Orson Welles considered to make a movie adaptation from the comics - witch unfortunatelly never happened. That in the 30's, 40's ... Can tou imagine that?

IT really doesn't have a cult following. I want to see a SHOUT release or, even Criterion.

@@eddiedutra3359 It does too

@@igorivanov299 I can confirm this.

It does not

It’s very dystopian with Koopa throwing his enemies in jail and devolving them into making them his guards.

Charles Martinet voices the father. Are we upset about Charlie Day as Luigi too? Or is he not Christian so we're not bothering with that pretense?

@@10INTM my frustration isn't with Chris Pratt, it's that it's not Charles, the man who's been voicing Mario for close to 30 years. I also saw it yesterday and thought it was great and barely noticed the lack of Charles, 9.8/10, with the only thing keeping it from 10/10 being "it wasn't actually Charles."

@catholiccontriversy Yeah, yeah, your reasons are wholly your own the same way everyone else's is who just simultaneously decided they couldn't stand Pratt's acting/voice/etc all of a sudden for totally not that reason. (Also you don't have a lot of feature-length roles of Martinet to compare to and confidently say he'd have performed better)

I think 90 minutes of "It's-a-me-a-Mario!" would have gotten pretty annoying, but I do wish someone like Hoskins or Albano were still around to give him a good "Brooklyn Mario" voice. Still haven't seen it yet, so I can't comment on Pratt's performance, but I hear the movie's pretty good.

@@TetsuDeinonychus Pratt's not bad, but it's still not Charles. Also, I used to play Mario's Fundamentals for hours as a kid, and Mario never stopped talking in that game. My tolerance might have dropped since I'm not 6 anymore, but there's a lot of "annoying things" that were big childhood memories that shield me from being really annoyed.

Ok, I don't think I can go on scrolling the comments anymore after this. Let's pump the brakes a little bit!!! Street Fighter and Double Dragon are by NO MEANS good movies! Everybody calm down!!!!

I remember being little and thinking "Wart's gonna be the villain in the next one."

That plot would revolve around something in the sky. Since mario 2 has so much verticle scrolling.

Because the lore for Mario matters? Not like we have much lore for Mario now. Lol Aside from the backstory for Rosalina in Galaxy, there's still not much to go off. Most of the mainline games still boil down to save the princess. If you include the RPGs, sure, then there's more you can go off, but those are spin-offs. Going just off the art direction of the games alone, this was a complete difference, regardless of lore. The Mario anime movie from the 80s did just fine sticking closer to the games. Lol

Both the shirts can be seen at 13:22 with a better look at the white one at 8:39.🙂

​@@user-vi4xy1jw7e I mean, if they were going for a more straightforward adaptation, then yes, they need to get the lore right. But I'm glad they instead made something way more interesting, and I think it's a better movie as a result.

Thank god it didnt

​@@Deckotaochothere is a fan comic made by one of the movie's writers, so cope.

@@GUNUFofficial not even official, the writers made a doujinshi then

@@Deckotaocho still basically a sequel as it was made by the writer.

Evolution is fake

Yes, you should never feel guilty for liking the things you like!

I certainly don't feel guilty for liking this movie 😊

Smart wife! A complete Hollywood disaster! Bob Hoskins stated it was the WORST movie he ever made.

With a special limited edition box set and souvenier booklet, special appearances by the surviving cast members promoting it, a spot on the Sight and Sound critic's list of best films of all time and archival storage by the Library of Congress. Hell, let's just run the movie for president!

It is in line with those movies, but those are not kids movies and that is part of the issue. Gotta know your audience. Most people wanting to see a Mario Bros movie at that time were children and they wanted to see their game experience on the big screen. While making it dark and edgy might work for variety's sake today, it was probably a pretty bad move at the time. Transformers The Movie made a different, yet similar bad move. Execs wanted to sell more toys, so they opted to kill off characters not selling to make room for more. But what does a child see? Very beloved characters bumped off. Straight up crime as far as they're concerned. :p Know your audience.

​@@amanoj318 idk man, i was 8 when it came out and me and my entire group of friends loved it. We weren't aware it was hated until we started talking with older kids (teenagers) at the arcade who liked the game and hated the movie 🤷🏼‍♀️

Nintendo did in fact revisit the silver screen starting in 1999 with their Pokémon franchise. Despite a tepid reception it went on to have its own series of flicks. There was also a Legend of Zelda CGI film in development by the defunct Mirage Studios before it was canned (thank you Astro Boy you shithead).

I'm struggling to think of a video game movie that can be considered genuinely a good movie. I think Silent Hill got it the closest, but apart from looking good, the story and acting is not that good. Not to mention the pointless deviations of the game's characters.

If you want to count it, Detective Pikachu has it's charm but that's just one take

With your friends?

I can understand the hate for this film but I don't get the hate for Ghostbusters 2.

@@Gatorade69 I like GB2, but I also understand why it's not well received. It's basically a more kid friendly, inferior remake of the original.

@@JDelwynn Yeah, it isn't as good as the first but I don't think It's a bad movie. It could be a lot worse. Still matching up to the original is a hard thing as IMO It's practically perfect. I guess I have a lot of nostalgia for it as I watched it as a kid, stuff like the river of slime stands outs.

Just because it’s different doesn’t mean it’s good. It just had a vocal minority equivalent to hardcore wrestling fans. If it was a cult classic, should’ve had a criterion or at least a shout factory release by now?

This movie probably plays on a loop in Hell!📼

Nah bob haskin really hates this movie and filming it. It’s recorded history