| Super Mario Bros. | 
 enlarge | Directors: Annabel Jankel, Dean Semler, Rocky Morton, Roland Joffe
Actors: Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, Samantha Mathis, Fisher Stevens
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  161 reviews
Sales Rank: 2545
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 104
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.7 x 0.6
MPN: DISD29244D
UPC: 786936209389
EAN: 0786936209389
ASIN: B00008979N
Theatrical Release Date: May 28, 1993
Release Date: June 3, 2003
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Product Description
The marios rush to save a princess from koopa. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 06/03/2003 Starring: Bob Hoskins Dennis Hopper Run time: 104 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Annabel Jankel/rocky Morton
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 Mario Mario, His Brother Luigi and the Parallel World September 30, 2008
I saw this when I was a kid, and though I wasn't exactly a huge fan of it, I did collect quite a few of the trading cards. Saw it again just recently. Though it augments a couple of the ideas from the Super Mario series (Thwomp Stompers, Goombas, etc), Super Mario Bros is nothing like those early Nintendo games. Rather than being a colourful, cute and varied fantasy, the world of the "Mushroom Kingdom" is trashy and dirty, full of crime, cars, cages and sci-fi explanations. Still, I found it entertaining enough, I loved Bob Hoskins as Mario, particularly his scenes in New York as a plumber and his banter with Luigi. Plus, the film captures a style and an era that is thoroughly interesting.
Mario and his kid brother Luigi are plumbers, and after finishing a job run into Daisy, a student archaeologist who is digging up a site in Brooklyn which may be where the meteor that wiped the dinosaurs out is buried. Luigi falls for Daisy, and takes her on a double date with Mario and his own girlfriend. But things go wrong that night when Mario's date is kidnapped and the site where Daisy and her team are digging is sabotaged. While fixing up the damage with Mario and Luigi, Daisy is also kidnapped. Mario and Luigi follow the echoes of her screams down a tunnel and find a gateway into a parallel dimension, where dinosaurs evolved into human beings, and live on a world short of resources and all desert, save for a city run by a man named Koopa...
If you're after a more accurate adaption, I'd recommend checking out the cartoon series, or the old "choose your own adventure" style books that were made of the Mario series, if you can manage to find them.
A Twist to the Classic Video Game!!! August 27, 2008
When I was a kid, I liked this movie. Now that I'm older, I still like it! The movie is very different from the game! It was cool that they played the Mario music at the beginning of the movie! Bob Hoskins made an awesome Mario, but I'm not sure John Legiuzamo was right for Luigi. Mario and Luigi meet a girl named Daisy (Princess Toadstool) Luigi starts to fall in love with her. Later two guys take Daisy back to another dimension. Mario and Luigi follow and come to a world where dinosaurs look like real people and live in a world where King Koopa rules. Mario and Luigi try to save Princess Daisy from Koopa's castle! If you love the game, you might like the film version of SUPER MARIO BROTHERS!!!
 Thank You, But Our Brains Are In Another Castle... August 8, 2008
The Good Things
*Some very slick special effects.
*Some fun actions scenes (the police car chase was cool).
*Some funny moments too (although much of it is quite corny. I still think the elevator scene was great, though).
*Pretty good production design. Lots of scummy futuristic settings, props, and costumes (although nothing really resembles the original computer game).
*The story idea is not bad (especially since the computer game was so surreal to begin with). They did a good job incorporating modern ideas about alternate universes, explaining what may have happened to dinosaurs, and describing the evolution of life. Well, much of this is BS, but it's good enough.
*Good soundtrack (I still like the "Walk the Dinosaur" song).
The Bad Things
*The production design resembles something out of "Blade Runner," so it lacks the bright and fantastic settings and atmosphere of the original computer games. I think it would have worked better as a "Narnia" sort of thing instead of this far-out sci-fi. All around, it resembles surprisingly little of the original game, except for all of the names.
*Also missing out on a whole bunch of the creatures from the original games (I guess they didn't have the time or money).
*Wow, the opening is pretty dumb.
*Some parts are just plain weird. Mario and Bowser appear in the middle of a huge crowd and throw some magic around, and nobody seems concerned. They even laugh when the mobster is turned into a monkey. This is kind of funny, but seriously, nobody cares that the world is coming to an end?!
The Questionable Things
*Extremely corny and goofy. Great for kids or people who don't like seriousness. Bad for most others.
*Acting can be seen as terrible or acceptable.
*Seriously, is this guy really named "Mario Mario?"
As a movie, it stinks royally. But we got to consider that the original computer game was extremely strange and silly to begin with (what with a pair of plummers jumping on things, eating mushrooms to grow bigger, and eating flowers to spit fireballs; were they on drugs when they made these games?!), and translating it into a movie was bound to be disasterous. In that respect, the movie does okay. If you ignore the impossibilities and accept the goofiness, this is actually pretty fun and possibly nostalgic. Otherwise, it stinks royally.
The DVD has okay video and sound quality. It's in widescreen, but is not anamorphic. Disc has no special features other than a trailer.
If this review has not been helpful, feel free to leave a comment, telling me how I can improve.
 The worst console to cinema venture in history August 5, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I guess I was like 13 when I first saw this movie. Even then I was smart enough to watch this tanked piece of garbage, and say to myself, "What the hell is going on here?" Bob Hoskins was okay, as Mario, but John Lequizzano as Luigi? Tear out my eyes, would you please? I'm so glad this film bombed. It would have been excruciatingly painful to watch a sequel. It was a disaster and it looked nothing like the game.
It ain't no game, it's a horrific mess of a movie... July 1, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I can't believe there are actually people who liked this nightmare of a movie! Super Mario Bros The Movie is hailed by all gamers as the prime example of just how bad a movie adaption of a popular video game can be!
Many make the excuse that the only reason why no one likes this movie is because it was made for kids. How exactly does that make sense??? There are plenty of kids movies that adults can watch and enjoy. The Iron Giant was a kid's movie, and I consider it to be one of the best animated movies I've ever seen! The same can be said for Disney movies like Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, Mary Poppins. And what about other great kids movies like Sandlot, The Mouse on the Motorcycle, and The Princess Bride? All of those were kids movies, yet they're still highly entertaining to adult audiences as well.
I didn't even like Super Mario Bros The Movie when I first saw it as a kid... Why? Because I watched it expecting to see Mario & Luigi running around the Mushroom Kingdom trying to save Pricess Toadstool from King Koopa, instead I saw Bob Hoskins & John Leguizamo running around an underground city in another dimension trying to save a red-haired woman from Dennis Hopper, the hippie in Easy Rider!
It was totally unfaitful to the games... Princess Toadstool's name is Peace, Daisy is the Princess of another kingdom, Yoshi isn't a Raptor, Koopa is a giant fire-breathing dragon, not an overly smug business man, and Goombas are tiny little fanged-mushrooms with little black shoes, not some tall guy in a jacket with a tiny head! Also, what's with the flamethrowers? Was that their answer to Koopa being able to breath fire as a business man, or are they just that stupid?
Super Mario Bros The Movie is just as bad to an adult as it is to a kid, a kid just gets more confused at the movie, whereas an adult gets mad.
The only video game movie that ever reached such awesomely bad heights as SMB The Movie was the Double Dragon movie, and to a lesser extent the Street Fighter movie staring Jean-Claude Vandamme.
Buy it only so you can see how horrible it is, and maybe for a cheap laugh or two, but if you like the Super Mario Bros video games, don't buy this expecting a block buster based on your favorite video game.
1 Star, but only because they won't let me give it zero...
And unlike it does in the games, 1 Star does not = limited invincibility...
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