I haven't seen it years but, I remember how much I liked it as a kid.
A lot of the stuff that I've since watched from when I was a kid I still think most is pretty great when I watch it again. However I did like things like power rangers..
So is this that bad?
Well, it´s not BAD bad.
It´s OK and entertaining.
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As a Mario movie, it's terrible.
As a movie itself, it's okay. It's definitely flawed and could use better performances, but is it unwatchable? No.
Not to mention the visual effects are amazing.
This is what you get when you take a team fully consisting of people who have never played Mario a day in their lives, put them together, and tell them to make a movie about the franchise -and that's no exaggeration. Check for staff interviews. Not a damn one of them had a remote inkling on what "Mario" was prior to filming the movie.
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Nah it's not a bad film. Much like Speed Racer it's simply misunderstood. If you watch Super Mario Brothers within the right mindset it's entertaining in a campy sort of way.
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Yea it is. It's an awful film to be fair, that's why it has such low rating.
Everyone hated it, the fans, the critics, hell Even Bob Hopkins, Leguizamo and Dennis hopper hate it. They have even said in interviews how much they regret doing it.
1. For a video game movie, I'd put it somewhere in the middle. People have to realize, that when some franchise from a comic, video game, or cartoon makes it to live action, it always isn't going to follow the source material word for word.
2. For a mario movie per say, it's decent. You have to understand that at the time this movie was made and released, you had only 3 cartoon series, Super Mario Bros 1/2/ Doki Doki Panic version as well as the american one/3, Super Mario World, and that's pretty much it. All of them involved mario going off to some random world to stop yet another one of Bowser's evil scheme, which usually involved rescuing the princess. That doesn't leave much for a plot or much of a story, now does it?
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I wouldn't say its quite worst movie ever bad, but a lot of it is pretty bad. The plot is a mess, the acting is less than impressive, and it has very little to do with the games. Yeah, some of the sets and effects were decent for the time, but its really not a good movie.
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This movie is like a demolition derby with nitroglycerine trucks in a special effects warehouse. Take that how you will....
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I remember seeing this in the theaters when I was a kid, and I remember even then thinking, at 11 years old, that this movie really sucked. I have not seen it since that first time, but I have seen the dvd at best buy and am contemplating spending the $6.99 to see if it is really as bad as I remember. I grew up playing Super Mario Bros. on my NES and thought this movie would be the best thing ever, and I remember just how disappointed I was with it. The only saving grace that I can remember about it is that it was nowhere near as bad as the Double Dragon movie.
shareWow looks like this thread is semi current, lol. I was 11 too when I saw the film in the theaters and absolutely hated it. As mentioned before, the atmosphere of the film felt nothing like the games and I was absolutely turned off.
It is no surprise to me that the film failed like it did. I can imagine droves of kids turning away from this film, as did I, wondering what in the heck did they just did see? It was very alien to video game series.
I hope viewers today can appreciate the importance of a film like this hitting theaters for its time. Back then, console video games were still pretty archaic with the widespread standard being 2D side scrollers played on small tube televisions. SNES had been around for a few years but we were really just playing much more colorful versions of NES games. A translation of a video game to a movie had unimaginable potential, at least to kid gamers, in 1993 as the technological gap between games and movies was like rocketing to another galaxy. What we could possibly see translated to the silver screen could in no way be reproduced on our 16 bit systems and hip to be square televisions.
That said, I spotted this movie for $5 at Target today and just took the plunge. I cringed a little buying it knowing how much I despised it as a kid but I figured for $5 why not? I WAS BORED lol. I just got done watching the film and ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT! Of course, I'm viewing it from a completely different perspective. No longer a bright eyed 11 year old, squirming in his seat with 8 bit anticipation swirling about his head just ready to explode with vicarious fulfillment onto the movie screen, I simply took the film in as an alternate universe adventure with very loose allusions to the Mario franchise.
I found myself enjoying the 5th element kid blade runner koopa metropolis with a lemon twist of cyber punk. Scapelli rivals Hoskins Mario and Leguizamo Luigi had me gigglin' the whole way through. The bowser mouth jump boots were a hoot. The heavy metal bumper police cars were zany. The 12 monkeys chicken coop prison was creepy outrageous. The electric slide lizard dance club equaled silly times silly.
I devoured Hopper's performance. Did anyone else notice that he sometimes walked around with his elbows close to his sides with his hands outstretched Monty Burns style like a T-Rex? Friggin' priceless. And look at cute little Jurassic Park Yoshi! And April O'Neil--er Princess Daisy! The pace was pulpy frenetic--with lots of grinding metal and steel mill sparks flying about between cattle prod poking Po-Pos and one mean grandma! And check out the silver spray painted Super Scope 6 de-evolver ray gun! (I even caught that when I was 11.)
In short, I found myself enjoying the elements that should have never been put into a Mario movie in the hop-n-bop mushroom era of 1993. Nonetheless I'm gettin' a grand kick out of this urban Jurassic comic-apocalypse in 2011! So yeah--definitely give this movie a spin regardless of how you felt about it as a kid.
as an 8 year old I loved it, and even now it still entertaining, great special effects, great cast, great soundtrack and some genuine funny moments , all set in a much more interesting and creative world then the disney esque games. Yes now some bits are cheesy but remember its a kids movie, and you would be hard pushed to find a young kid who didnt like it.
the only people who didnt like it at the time where the confused adults and the smart ass fanboy teenagers, quite funny listing to people who must be in their early 30s now still bitter over a 20 year old kids movie. how people still argue that its nothing like the game still makes me laugh, Mario didnt smash one brick with his head lol, even as 8 year old i knew that it would be impossible for it to be anything like the game and would be more of an adaptation. And now looking back at it, its not hard to see that a lot of effort and thought went into the world and story they creatived, all of it is highly imaginative, like the evo chair, and couldnt of been easy having to find ways to incorporating all the iconic game stuff like mushrooms and stuff, and all at the same time treading on new ground.
Overall i think they had an impossible task, and its no suprise why no one has tried it since, so i think this movie deserves an awful lot of credit especially as it still a good entertaining movie in a lot of peoples eyes.
I STILL love this movie, don't care what anyone says it's an awesome flick!
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It's not bad, its just not Super Mario Bros like they were in the cartoons, the comics
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