Can we appreciate that Nintendo has confirmed that their canon names are actually Mario Mario and Luigi Mario?? Like it makes sense why it’s called Mario Bros. It makes silly sense, but sense nonetheless
@@Mylament_ yeah, I commented, then just typed "is mario family name mario" on google and it gave me a link to the mario mystery fandom wiki xD sorry for the spam
I saw this movie when it came out, and i loved it. i was pretty young, but i liked that it was really weird and made little to no sense. i also didn't mind that it wasn't much like any of the mario games because the mario games back then had literally no story beyond two sentences at the end of a level. i still like the mario movie because its so insane
I always loved those movies too! It felt like the adults who made them had an imagination like I did and were telling the story of what happened the last time they were playing with their toys. It was always so exciting to watch movies that captured that feeling of being a kid!
I still can't get over the scene in this movie where when the dimensions merge the World Trade Center starts burning. That definitely didn't age the best
I heard somewhere the cast had to be drunk throughout filming just to get through the nonsense of this movie. If it's true I'm quite impressed because either you can't tell they're drunk, or their drunkeness fits so well there's no distinguishing it 😂😂
So one of my great uncles whom I've never actually met was on the costume design team for this abomination. Because of this my great aunt (his sister) made us watch it every time we visited her for spring break as kids. She was very proud of him...
the costumes are really cool, even the goombas and koopa troopers that don't look anything like the games look cool, they just need respectivelly a bigger head and being turtles instead of dinosaurs
@@devforfun5618I mean... The Goombas do look like Goombas, if you look them from afar and squint a little lol... @breeb2638 I hope your great uncle was responsible for those red and green outfits... I remember the first time I saw that cover on Blockbuster, man, what a time...!!
I must be one of the few but I genuinely loved this movie as a kid and I was a HUGE Mario fan. I simply saw it as Mario and Luigi in an alternate universe that’s separate from the games plus I loved the Devo Guns and The Thwomp Boots 😄
Some of my favourite moments from this movie: - It's a parallel reality where the dinosaurs never died, and so there's no oil, and so all the cars are powered by electrical overhead rails! - The cops are completely violent with their cars and for some reason don't even have brakes, so they just have to crash into something any time they wanna stop (New York City cops, they ain't too smart) - The king's reverse transformation from fungus into human is a direct callback to the post-airship cinematics in Mario 3 for NES! - Toad and them wind up spewing some remarkably accurate marxist rhetoric against bowser (AND put it into action!) Overall what I love about this movie is that (as gabi points out) when you examine every detail carefully, it's actually PAINSTAKINGLY faithful to Nintendo's canon that existed up to that point! The goombas dance to music just like in the worldmaps of Mario 3 and Super Mario Bros! The Mario Bros are actually good at maintaining plumbing pipe systems within the plot (which makes total sense)! The major characters all correspond to ingame characters, with very few capricious additions (or extra sense-making elements, haha). Considering the weird grabbag of story elements they had to work with, I am SO impressed by this thing they put together. The only part I dislike about it is that the filmmakers were pretty awful about stuff like safety when doing the film shoot (a lot of actors & crew got hurt or had a really bad time)
I'm probably overthinking this, but I assume you mean that the dinosaurs never went extinct, and not that individual dinosaurs didn't die millions of years ago, in which case there should still be oil because the dinosaurs who died millions of years ago would turn into oil regardless of whether or not their lineage lives on today. Unless what's going on is that there is oil but people don't use it because there's social taboo against using the remains of your ancestors as a fuel source. Like I said, I'm probably overthinking it.
8:26 There is a really old series of movies called "I Was a Teenaged _____" and it was different monsters like werewolf. i don't get the XXX rating though because i'm pretty sure the teenage monster movies are just cult 50's movies lol. basically its a boomer reference
I Was A Teenaged Caveman is the one I always think of. I'm sure the XXX rating is just meant to indicate that it's a dirty movie. The Mushroom Kingdom is meant to be kind of like Times Square in the 70s and 80s during the bad old days of sex work and drugs and adult theaters. This movie's aesthetic is partially based on Blade Runner which also gets some inspiration from the Hellscape that New York was seen to be at the time. This is all a long way around to say that it's a reference to old movies and is supposed to add to the feeling that this is a "bad" place.
@@itsgabibelle i love your rating system i have my own rating system when it comes down to listening to music and my former best friend once told me i have bad taste in music and he had way better musical taste than me i love the room tbhwy its free to watch now on youtube no joke either
@@itsgabibelle you should watch fateful findings by neil breen its one amazingling bad movie its on the same leel as the room bad type of movie uts my favorite neil breen movie
@15:22 if I'm not mistaken, the woman in red with the spikes is meant to be Big Bertha from SMB3. Ya know, the giant red fish that is extremely aggressive and swallows Mario whole.
yeah that is Big Bertha, only realised that years after watching the movie edit: and the two koopa goons that end up joining Mario and Luigi's side are Spike and Iggy
I unironically love this movie. It's so mad and freaky, plus it was the first ever live action video game movie, they were basically doing their best lol. The cast were perfect as well!
John Leguizamo had a one man show on Broadway before this movie started filming, but he was relatively unknown in Hollywood at the time. And, right at that time, he was really trying to build his Hollywood career. How could he pass up an opportunity to star in a movie with the guy from Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and the guy from Apocalypse now and Easy Rider?
My cousin and I saw this in the theater when we were kids and we loved it. Same goes for that live action Ninja Turtles that came out in the 90s. It was a strange time to be alive, kids.
"OK so you're gonna be playing Mario." "Cool, what's he about?" "He's a guy who jumps. And he wears blue overalls and a big red had." "No I mean what's Mario ABOUT. What makes him tick? Where's he from? What's his relationship with his mother like?" "He's just a dude from a fairy tale world who has to rescue a princess." "Fairy tales?? I didn't sign up to do fairy tales! If I'm gonna be doin Mario, we gotta make him relatable. You know, bring him down to ground level. Somewhere like the Bronx... or Brooklyn." "Why don't I just let you take it away and we'll write the screenplay around that?" "You tellin me you don't have a screenplay?" "We do, but it was just gonna be this sort of dialogue-less script with lots of jumping and physical comedy, like Mr Bean but with a huge fat dragon-turtle guy who shoots fireballs out his ass."
This movie was like a fever dream, man. Me and my brothers were all super into Nintendo so our parents got this movie on redbox. I have very sparse memories of specific scenes and all of them are terrifying
When I worked at Blockbuster I would put the Super Mario Brothers movie on the Employee Favorites endcap and some people would genuinely come up to me upset about the selection. Hahaha.
I owned this on VHS and watched it over and over again as a kid it was random, fun and had characters that were really endearing. The moment where they're dancing in the elevator just made me laugh so hard as a kid and I had so many fond memories. Just watched it again after like 28 years and I still love it. Also saw the behind-the-scenes making of it. I'm sad it was such a niightmare to work on and the writers were basically writing scenes the day of shooting them and it was just madness and it failed at the box office but hey it made my childhood way more awesome and left me with happy memories I carry with me still today, so that's a 10/10 for me. 13:20 You can totally learn to do this from 90s video games lol j/k But we had more than just pong like we had those cool text adventure games like Space Quest. Carmageddon and GTA came out in '97 (maybe inspired by this very scene?? lol) We had some cool stuff in amazing 2D pixel glory.
I must be one of the few but I genuinely loved this movie as a kid and I was a HUGE Mario fan. I simply saw it as Mario and Luigi in an alternate Dino-universe that’s separate from the games plus I loved the Devo Guns and The Thwomp Boots 😄
This movie came out when I was a little kid and I begged my parents to take me. At the time I didn’t realize how terrible it was but now……OHH MAN ITS BAD
Love the idea that this inspired attributes of Mario 64. When I was a kid I remember this came out around the same time as The Sandlot. I remember I saw the trailer for both Mario and Sandlot before some other movie and got them mixed up. So all because the special effect kinda looks like sand, for years and years I believed that The Sandlot was a horror movie about people turning into sand.
My brother and I just randomly watched this movie tonight for the first time. We actually had a lot of fun. It's just super bizarre and although some parts are wayyy too creepy for a kids movie, it's pretty hilarious overall.
I remember watching this when I was little, I was begging my dad to look for a mario movie online. He was convinced it didn't exist, but then we found this lmao
Another super fun video! So glad you Plugged your song at the end too! I hadn’t know you released so I was excited to listen to it! It’s hard to find artists who perfectly capture chill happy walk/study/work/relax music, so thank you for being one of my favorite artists 💗
I bought this movie on DVD specially so my child can appreciate the new movie. He has played the old NES game, but nothing beats how good this movie is at being bad. It's even funnier because I can only imagine how many steps this took to be made.
@@boxorak Yup! This movie is so weird, just watched a video essay on it the other day, John Leguisamo is hosting the Daily Show, and you commented on this... I think it's time for another viewing. 😅🤗 Have a great day!
When they're not canonically sisters (and maybe even sometimes when they are??), isn't Daisy referred to as Princess Toadstool?? Like in the animated series??
Eh, I know this may be hard to see. Or maybe it's not idk I'm the the one with 7k subs but keep it up. Your content is *chefs kiss* some of the best I have come across in a long time. You have truly earned the title of female moist critical. That's all. Just incase you need a boost today
One I was little I actually loved this movie. I think we have the VHS somewhere. Me and my siblings would watch it a lot, and now to think of it I might again. 😂 Pure nostalgia
YES the "how much fun were you having" rating scale for movies feels so much more applicable in a lot of cases for me, like it's rare to see a horror film that's higher than 60% on Rotten Tomatoes but you miss out on so much cheese, actual spooks and fun by letting that stop you giving them a try. I agree it's got some parts that drag on a bit but I absolutely love this movie, it's such a bizarre take on the source material but it's so interesting, at least to me, as a result - like the large and in charge lady in the red spiked dress is supposedly meant to be the Big Bertha enemy from Mario 3, and if you look closely the brand on the taxis is "Wiggler"? Yes, more of that, love it lol
They were absolutely Brothers in the movie, lol. You even showed the clip where they share the same last name (and we all learned Mario's full name is Mario Mario!)
I was a total Ninten-ho (still am!) 15 year old gamer when this came out & My generation was definitely the target audience, we were (are) the Goonies kids 😂 guess you just have to be a Gen X gamer to appreciate this movie in all it's beautiful glory - however I'm glad you like it and that you GET it ❤ Just know that us OG's have not forgotten it and we still know how to open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur... Boom boom ackalackalaka boom 🦖🦕
Well... "10. I Was A Teenage Mammal One of the movie titles visible on a background marquee in Dinohattan is "I Was A Teenage Mammal," a reference to the 1957 horror movie I Was A Teenage Werewolf."
I was so excited as a kid to see the mario movie. Than super sad it wasnt exactly like the video game, but i still enjoyed it very much. 😅 it needs a rewatch as an adult.
I Was A Teenage Mammal "One of the movie titles visible on a background marquee in Dinohattan is "I Was A Teenage Mammal," a reference to the 1957 horror movie I Was A Teenage Werewolf."
What if I told you that this movie is the only piece of Super Mario content I ever consumed? I never played any of the games and don't know anything about the characters and their world, but I watched this movie about a dozen times or so when I was a kid.
Just seeing the thumbnail for this video made me go and watch it, and now that I've done that and come back to watch this video, I realise I desperately need to see the extended version. I gave it a 9/10 because it was so fun but Yoshi was really boringly adapted to me (but apparently it was a super intricate puppet so that's cool!!) I love the wild hairstyles and the costume designs and everything, it's such a fun movie!
This movie SCARRED me lmao. I remember vividly watching it on a beach trip with my friend’s family at like 6 or 7 and being so grossed out and confused. The humor makes no sense for kids or adults unless it’s in a post ironic appreciate it as bad kind of way lol. I was so young watching this so confused as to how it was the fun Mario games I knew lol. Tbh 0/10 to this day it gave me a really uncomfortable feeling rewatching some of the scenes lol. The goon a characters have stayed with me till this day at almost 30. Love your video though despite that!😂
It still blows my mind that they looked at Bowser and thought; "You know what that calls for? Dennis Hopper doing a bad Donald Trump impression" No, I'm not kidding. Look it up.
This movie was made in my city and for some reason Wilmington wants to forget about it almost as much as Nintendo does. Like.... all the museums that feature memorabilia or displays about this movie are everywhere BUT Wilmington. I mean I love this movie but wow everybody involved in making it really wishes they weren't
im so grateful i found your channel, I think it was from your collab with jarvis I can't remember - Ive been loving and watching every one of your videos that shows up in my feed!
I also saw this movie when it came out. This was the year after SNES dropped and Super Mario World was mind blowing because you can ride a dinosaur that you punch on the back of the head to make it's tongue come out. Seeing this movie I was confused but I loved it. At the time I believed Dino City was directly connected to the underworld in Demolition Man. . . I was a Latch key kid I watched R movies from a young age.
I was a kid when this came out and my brothers and I (all of us being huge video game nerds) saw it the first weekend it was released. It’s terrible looking back on it, but we loved it back then!
Not the entire shoot. Mario and Luigi started getting drunk together about halfway through the shoot, because of a bunch of production delays and the general sense that the whole thing had already gone completely off the rails
I read some stuff about the making of the movie a long time ago. I don’t actually remember all the details, but I do remember that it was fucking wild. I think there was a weird mix between Nintendo letting the producers do whatever the fuck they wanted, but then the movie studio kept swinging back and forth between letting them have free reign and trying to reign in the insanity. The script was still going through rewrites well into shooting the movie. Halfway through shooting, Bob Hoskins and John Lequizamo just started getting drunk whenever they weren’t on camera
They wanted us all to forget this movie, I actually did but on the technicality that I thought it was a fever dream I had. Still tho it had this charm that I enjoyed
"Were they planning a sequel?" Yes, they absolutely thought they were going to get one. And they thought it was so good that decades later they tried to adapt their original idea into a web comic, but it hasn't got out of the first chapter and as far as I know hasn't updated in years, so I guess we'll never know what happens.
I was like, two, when this movie came out. I think it was my first time experiencing disappointment. It broke my little brain trying to come to terms with "This is the Mario Bros movie" and "I absolutely hate this and am confused by it".
My favorite fact about this film is Bob Hopkins and John Leguizamo knew it was going to be awful, so they just drank between takes, so they're pretty much hammered in every scene!
What do you mean? How else would you make a movie about a game where a guy walks in a straight line, eats shrooms and jumps on turtles then uses their shells as weapons?
Can we appreciate that Nintendo has confirmed that their canon names are actually Mario Mario and Luigi Mario?? Like it makes sense why it’s called Mario Bros. It makes silly sense, but sense nonetheless
wait when did they confirm that?
edit: okay apparently Miyamoto said so in 2015 at the 30th anniversary festival
@@GlamityJean how did you comment this and look it up so fast lol seems like you could’ve just cut out the middle man 😂
@@Mylament_ yeah, I commented, then just typed "is mario family name mario" on google and it gave me a link to the mario mystery fandom wiki xD sorry for the spam
it's so amusing cause link is the same way. link link
@@pinhead707 no way thats so funny
This movie looks like what mario sees when he takes too many mushrooms.
Oh thats why there live
I like pancakes
lol
I saw this movie when it came out, and i loved it. i was pretty young, but i liked that it was really weird and made little to no sense. i also didn't mind that it wasn't much like any of the mario games because the mario games back then had literally no story beyond two sentences at the end of a level. i still like the mario movie because its so insane
I always loved those movies too! It felt like the adults who made them had an imagination like I did and were telling the story of what happened the last time they were playing with their toys. It was always so exciting to watch movies that captured that feeling of being a kid!
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@@phillipafae5783 no I’m not but I’m glad you got the joke😁
well Alice in Wonderland makes no sense, and the game is inspired on it
The funny thing is that this was a COMPLETELY SERIOUS attempt to write the true story behind the Mario games.
Tell you what, Chris Pratt has really let himself go on this one.
LMAORORKSPWJCNVUFKWOV ITS NOT EVEN THE SAME MOVIE🤣🤣😭😭😭💀💀💀
@@rubendelacruz7395 that's the joke dude 💀💀
@@rubendelacruz7395r/whoooooosh
lol 😔
I still can't get over the scene in this movie where when the dimensions merge the World Trade Center starts burning. That definitely didn't age the best
Mario Bros '93 predicted 9/11 confirmed
That aged the best
Agreed
I heard somewhere the cast had to be drunk throughout filming just to get through the nonsense of this movie. If it's true I'm quite impressed because either you can't tell they're drunk, or their drunkeness fits so well there's no distinguishing it 😂😂
i told my boyfriend what you said and he told me it is true and one of them almost died
@@Bully_Biscuit
Hol’ up
@Wynn Wynn Leguisamo closed the van Door on Bob hoskins hand
The actor for mario was a pornstar also
So one of my great uncles whom I've never actually met was on the costume design team for this abomination. Because of this my great aunt (his sister) made us watch it every time we visited her for spring break as kids. She was very proud of him...
the costumes are really cool, even the goombas and koopa troopers that don't look anything like the games look cool, they just need respectivelly a bigger head and being turtles instead of dinosaurs
@@devforfun5618I mean... The Goombas do look like Goombas, if you look them from afar and squint a little lol...
@breeb2638 I hope your great uncle was responsible for those red and green outfits... I remember the first time I saw that cover on Blockbuster, man, what a time...!!
What "abomination" ? That movie is great.
I must be one of the few but I genuinely loved this movie as a kid and I was a HUGE Mario fan. I simply saw it as Mario and Luigi in an alternate universe that’s separate from the games plus I loved the Devo Guns and The Thwomp Boots 😄
Some of my favourite moments from this movie:
- It's a parallel reality where the dinosaurs never died, and so there's no oil, and so all the cars are powered by electrical overhead rails!
- The cops are completely violent with their cars and for some reason don't even have brakes, so they just have to crash into something any time they wanna stop (New York City cops, they ain't too smart)
- The king's reverse transformation from fungus into human is a direct callback to the post-airship cinematics in Mario 3 for NES!
- Toad and them wind up spewing some remarkably accurate marxist rhetoric against bowser (AND put it into action!)
Overall what I love about this movie is that (as gabi points out) when you examine every detail carefully, it's actually PAINSTAKINGLY faithful to Nintendo's canon that existed up to that point! The goombas dance to music just like in the worldmaps of Mario 3 and Super Mario Bros! The Mario Bros are actually good at maintaining plumbing pipe systems within the plot (which makes total sense)! The major characters all correspond to ingame characters, with very few capricious additions (or extra sense-making elements, haha).
Considering the weird grabbag of story elements they had to work with, I am SO impressed by this thing they put together. The only part I dislike about it is that the filmmakers were pretty awful about stuff like safety when doing the film shoot (a lot of actors & crew got hurt or had a really bad time)
Well that's just pretty cool
I'm probably overthinking this, but I assume you mean that the dinosaurs never went extinct, and not that individual dinosaurs didn't die millions of years ago, in which case there should still be oil because the dinosaurs who died millions of years ago would turn into oil regardless of whether or not their lineage lives on today. Unless what's going on is that there is oil but people don't use it because there's social taboo against using the remains of your ancestors as a fuel source.
Like I said, I'm probably overthinking it.
8:26 There is a really old series of movies called "I Was a Teenaged _____" and it was different monsters like werewolf. i don't get the XXX rating though because i'm pretty sure the teenage monster movies are just cult 50's movies lol. basically its a boomer reference
THANK YOU OMG
i would assume it's XXX rating because mammals do things like "have breasts" and "lactate"
to a dinosaur that might be titillating, i dunno
I Was A Teenaged Caveman is the one I always think of.
I'm sure the XXX rating is just meant to indicate that it's a dirty movie. The Mushroom Kingdom is meant to be kind of like Times Square in the 70s and 80s during the bad old days of sex work and drugs and adult theaters. This movie's aesthetic is partially based on Blade Runner which also gets some inspiration from the Hellscape that New York was seen to be at the time.
This is all a long way around to say that it's a reference to old movies and is supposed to add to the feeling that this is a "bad" place.
@@itsgabibelle i love your rating system i have my own rating system when it comes down to listening to music and my former best friend once told me i have bad taste in music and he had way better musical taste than me i love the room tbhwy its free to watch now on youtube no joke either
@@itsgabibelle you should watch fateful findings by neil breen its one amazingling bad movie its on the same leel as the room bad type of movie uts my favorite neil breen movie
Conspiracy Theorists: The Simpsons predicted everything
Gabi: Super Mario Bros was the most influential movie of all time
The virgin conspiracy theorists vs. The Chad Gabi
It looks like theres supposed to be s punchline but there isnt
lol
@15:22 if I'm not mistaken, the woman in red with the spikes is meant to be Big Bertha from SMB3. Ya know, the giant red fish that is extremely aggressive and swallows Mario whole.
yeah that is Big Bertha, only realised that years after watching the movie
edit: and the two koopa goons that end up joining Mario and Luigi's side are Spike and Iggy
Isn't she also the chain chomp ladies name in Odyssey?
@@toadynamite8141 no that's Madame Brood
John Liguazamo as Luigi is still great in my book lol
Because he's actually from Brooklyn?
"I Was A Teenage Mammal," is a reference to the 1957 horror movie I Was A Teenage Werewolf
As a teenage mammal, can 100% confirm.
I unironically love this movie. It's so mad and freaky, plus it was the first ever live action video game movie, they were basically doing their best lol. The cast were perfect as well!
I cant believe john leguizamo was in this. It just seems like one of those weird movies where you don’t recognize any of the actors
Bob Hoskins was literally a Shakespearean actor who was extremely famous at the time. Dennis Hopper is one of the most well known actors of all time.
John Leguizamo had a one man show on Broadway before this movie started filming, but he was relatively unknown in Hollywood at the time. And, right at that time, he was really trying to build his Hollywood career. How could he pass up an opportunity to star in a movie with the guy from Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and the guy from Apocalypse now and Easy Rider?
@@CeeJayThe13thright this dude telling he doesn’t know actors with out telling us
My cousin and I saw this in the theater when we were kids and we loved it. Same goes for that live action Ninja Turtles that came out in the 90s. It was a strange time to be alive, kids.
"OK so you're gonna be playing Mario."
"Cool, what's he about?"
"He's a guy who jumps. And he wears blue overalls and a big red had."
"No I mean what's Mario ABOUT. What makes him tick? Where's he from? What's his relationship with his mother like?"
"He's just a dude from a fairy tale world who has to rescue a princess."
"Fairy tales?? I didn't sign up to do fairy tales! If I'm gonna be doin Mario, we gotta make him relatable. You know, bring him down to ground level. Somewhere like the Bronx... or Brooklyn."
"Why don't I just let you take it away and we'll write the screenplay around that?"
"You tellin me you don't have a screenplay?"
"We do, but it was just gonna be this sort of dialogue-less script with lots of jumping and physical comedy, like Mr Bean but with a huge fat dragon-turtle guy who shoots fireballs out his ass."
I just watched this movie and am still somehow surprised by literally everything
Fun fact: Richard Edson, who played Spike in this movie, was Sonic Youth's first drummer
Here is another, that is Mojo Nixon as Toad
How ironic that a guy from a Mario movie would be in a band called Sonic Youth.
I've seen this movie three times over my childhood, and it was a new experience each time
This movie was like a fever dream, man. Me and my brothers were all super into Nintendo so our parents got this movie on redbox. I have very sparse memories of specific scenes and all of them are terrifying
Doesn't this pre date Redbox by like 10 years
@@clockworkpanda8 well yeah, we didn’t get it on Redbox when it came out. This movie predates me by ten years lol
no actually the way you rate movies is THE BEST way and i wish everyone would take this approach 😔
An actual movie critic won't
When I worked at Blockbuster I would put the Super Mario Brothers movie on the Employee Favorites endcap and some people would genuinely come up to me upset about the selection. Hahaha.
Them being plumbers is why they were good at walking through the goop
There's a ton of little stuff like that in the movie
please don't stop making videos and keep doing what you're doing I can see you becoming really famous one day
im pretty sure my brain tried making me forget i watched this movie. but clearly theres no escaping it. thanks gabi.
the fact that FIONA SHAW is in this is insane
Luigi is hot, can't change my mind.
duh its sid the sloth
Teenage me thought the same thing. X'D
Look up here on YT John Leguizamo Summer of Sam Dance scene if you wanna see more of him looking hot hahaha
koopa troops dancing is cannon though. it was super like wtf when it happened but now the koopa troops dance. this movie was ahead of its time.
this is one of those "so bad, it's good" type of films.
I owned this on VHS and watched it over and over again as a kid it was random, fun and had characters that were really endearing. The moment where they're dancing in the elevator just made me laugh so hard as a kid and I had so many fond memories. Just watched it again after like 28 years and I still love it. Also saw the behind-the-scenes making of it. I'm sad it was such a niightmare to work on and the writers were basically writing scenes the day of shooting them and it was just madness and it failed at the box office but hey it made my childhood way more awesome and left me with happy memories I carry with me still today, so that's a 10/10 for me. 13:20 You can totally learn to do this from 90s video games lol j/k But we had more than just pong like we had those cool text adventure games like Space Quest. Carmageddon and GTA came out in '97 (maybe inspired by this very scene?? lol) We had some cool stuff in amazing 2D pixel glory.
I must be one of the few but I genuinely loved this movie as a kid and I was a HUGE Mario fan. I simply saw it as Mario and Luigi in an alternate Dino-universe that’s separate from the games plus I loved the Devo Guns and The Thwomp Boots 😄
This movie came out when I was a little kid and I begged my parents to take me. At the time I didn’t realize how terrible it was but now……OHH MAN ITS BAD
Even though this video is 2 years old, I've just realized that this movie might be the first Mario media I saw
Love the idea that this inspired attributes of Mario 64.
When I was a kid I remember this came out around the same time as The Sandlot. I remember I saw the trailer for both Mario and Sandlot before some other movie and got them mixed up. So all because the special effect kinda looks like sand, for years and years I believed that The Sandlot was a horror movie about people turning into sand.
My brother and I just randomly watched this movie tonight for the first time. We actually had a lot of fun. It's just super bizarre and although some parts are wayyy too creepy for a kids movie, it's pretty hilarious overall.
Glad you were able to release this video 😊
me too 🥲🥲🥲🥲
My dad FORCED me and my brother to watch this movie when we were kids and it has existed as this fever dream-esque memory in my head ever since
I remember watching this when I was little, I was begging my dad to look for a mario movie online. He was convinced it didn't exist, but then we found this lmao
Another super fun video! So glad you
Plugged your song at the end too! I hadn’t know you released so I was excited to listen to it! It’s hard to find artists who perfectly capture chill happy walk/study/work/relax music, so thank you for being one of my favorite artists 💗
I bought this movie on DVD specially so my child can appreciate the new movie. He has played the old NES game, but nothing beats how good this movie is at being bad. It's even funnier because I can only imagine how many steps this took to be made.
This is the second time I’ve seen a commentary review on this movie and I still don’t know what happened.
Watch the movie, and you still won’t know.
I love this movie. Kamek is played by Fiona Shaw, a legend!!!
Wait, that's Kamek!?
@@boxorak Yup! This movie is so weird, just watched a video essay on it the other day, John Leguisamo is hosting the Daily Show, and you commented on this... I think it's time for another viewing. 😅🤗
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"I Was A Teenage Mammal" is supposedly a reference to the 1957 horror movie "I Was A Teenage Werewolf"
this was one of the two movies my brother made me watch almost every week, fills me with nostalgia
When they're not canonically sisters (and maybe even sometimes when they are??), isn't Daisy referred to as Princess Toadstool?? Like in the animated series??
This is literally a netflix adaptation put in the mind of someone from the past. This movie is literally from today
You keep using that word...
I unironically luv this movie. Such a great sci-fi film with Mario characters. The world needs a 4k Criterion release of this so bad.
Eh, I know this may be hard to see. Or maybe it's not idk I'm the the one with 7k subs but keep it up. Your content is *chefs kiss* some of the best I have come across in a long time. You have truly earned the title of female moist critical. That's all. Just incase you need a boost today
thank you so much i actually did need that 🥲❤️
I thought I dreamed up that ball of fungus... I forgot this damn whole movie but Sir Slime has never left my nightmares.
One I was little I actually loved this movie. I think we have the VHS somewhere. Me and my siblings would watch it a lot, and now to think of it I might again. 😂 Pure nostalgia
This is one of my favorite movies of my childhood
I mean to be fair, Daisy is “PRINCESS Daisy”. So it would make sense for her dad to be king lmao. Like I don’t see how that wouldn’t be the case
Yeah she's Princess Daisy who debuted in Super Mario Land for the Gameboy
YES the "how much fun were you having" rating scale for movies feels so much more applicable in a lot of cases for me, like it's rare to see a horror film that's higher than 60% on Rotten Tomatoes but you miss out on so much cheese, actual spooks and fun by letting that stop you giving them a try. I agree it's got some parts that drag on a bit but I absolutely love this movie, it's such a bizarre take on the source material but it's so interesting, at least to me, as a result - like the large and in charge lady in the red spiked dress is supposedly meant to be the Big Bertha enemy from Mario 3, and if you look closely the brand on the taxis is "Wiggler"? Yes, more of that, love it lol
They were absolutely Brothers in the movie, lol. You even showed the clip where they share the same last name (and we all learned Mario's full name is Mario Mario!)
I was a total Ninten-ho (still am!) 15 year old gamer when this came out & My generation was definitely the target audience, we were (are) the Goonies kids 😂 guess you just have to be a Gen X gamer to appreciate this movie in all it's beautiful glory - however I'm glad you like it and that you GET it ❤ Just know that us OG's have not forgotten it and we still know how to open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur... Boom boom ackalackalaka boom 🦖🦕
Dude I feel you, Order of the Phoenix was a snoozer, I never got around to finishing it
Well...
"10. I Was A Teenage Mammal
One of the movie titles visible on a background marquee in Dinohattan is "I Was A Teenage Mammal," a reference to the 1957 horror movie I Was A Teenage Werewolf."
This movie unironically rules. I love it without caveats.
I loved this movie as a kid and i would watch it all the time along with the Super Mario Bros. Super Show :)
I was so excited as a kid to see the mario movie. Than super sad it wasnt exactly like the video game, but i still enjoyed it very much. 😅 it needs a rewatch as an adult.
Mario is popular with the ladies with that Bob Hoskins beauty resonating in each frame. Take notes, John Luigizamo.
I Was A Teenage Mammal
"One of the movie titles visible on a background marquee in Dinohattan is "I Was A Teenage Mammal," a reference to the 1957 horror movie I Was A Teenage Werewolf."
Or possibly
“I waa a Teenage Frankenstein”
Yes, that’s real
This looks like a 10/10 movie, will recommend it to friends
15:05 spat tea over my bed and laptop. with or without context, a literal rock
I'm so so glad I've found you.
What if I told you that this movie is the only piece of Super Mario content I ever consumed? I never played any of the games and don't know anything about the characters and their world, but I watched this movie about a dozen times or so when I was a kid.
Okay the guy on a bicycle was actually genius. He was wearing a red hat. Red koopas don't turn around when they reach a ledge.
Yeah they do. Green koopas keep going, red ones turn around.
Just seeing the thumbnail for this video made me go and watch it, and now that I've done that and come back to watch this video, I realise I desperately need to see the extended version. I gave it a 9/10 because it was so fun but Yoshi was really boringly adapted to me (but apparently it was a super intricate puppet so that's cool!!) I love the wild hairstyles and the costume designs and everything, it's such a fun movie!
This movie SCARRED me lmao. I remember vividly watching it on a beach trip with my friend’s family at like 6 or 7 and being so grossed out and confused. The humor makes no sense for kids or adults unless it’s in a post ironic appreciate it as bad kind of way lol. I was so young watching this so confused as to how it was the fun Mario games I knew lol. Tbh 0/10 to this day it gave me a really uncomfortable feeling rewatching some of the scenes lol. The goon a characters have stayed with me till this day at almost 30. Love your video though despite that!😂
at 7:37 i realized that i watched this movie on an old dvd when i was 4. that nostalgia stabbed me like a knife😭
15:17, those half-awake dreams are called "Hypnogogic Hallucinations."
I saw this movie when I was little back in ‘93 and I loved it unironically then and I love it unironically now!
There’s no way the 2023 version will be bad as the 1993 version. Sheesh that’s 30 years later, crazy coincidence
It still blows my mind that they looked at Bowser and thought; "You know what that calls for? Dennis Hopper doing a bad Donald Trump impression"
No, I'm not kidding. Look it up.
This movie traumatized me as a kid, 10/10 what an acid trip
Great movie review!
This movie was made in my city and for some reason Wilmington wants to forget about it almost as much as Nintendo does. Like.... all the museums that feature memorabilia or displays about this movie are everywhere BUT Wilmington. I mean I love this movie but wow everybody involved in making it really wishes they weren't
im so grateful i found your channel, I think it was from your collab with jarvis I can't remember - Ive been loving and watching every one of your videos that shows up in my feed!
I legitimately love this movie and it makes me sad that the cast hated it throughout production.
I will forever be waiting for the sequel for this movie... I DEMAND A CONCLUSION TO THE FIRST FILM!!! lol
"Nintendo Wants You To Forget"
I won't forget. I can never forget. I don't actually want to forget.
I also saw this movie when it came out. This was the year after SNES dropped and Super Mario World was mind blowing because you can ride a dinosaur that you punch on the back of the head to make it's tongue come out. Seeing this movie I was confused but I loved it. At the time I believed Dino City was directly connected to the underworld in Demolition Man. . . I was a Latch key kid I watched R movies from a young age.
Believing those two places are connected makes a lot of sense tbh.
I was a kid when this came out and my brothers and I (all of us being huge video game nerds) saw it the first weekend it was released. It’s terrible looking back on it, but we loved it back then!
I would’ve believed you if after this video you said you made this whole thing up
I remember watching this movie as a kid and I loved it. BUT watching it as an adult is wild 😂😂😂
I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure Mario was drunk during this entire shoot.
Not the entire shoot. Mario and Luigi started getting drunk together about halfway through the shoot, because of a bunch of production delays and the general sense that the whole thing had already gone completely off the rails
This is definitely one of my all time favorite movies ever
lol, I love all of your side comments! Always gives me a chuckle!
My brother and I loved this movie as kids. I still love it. It’s so insane and amazing. I want to understand how this movie happened.
I read some stuff about the making of the movie a long time ago. I don’t actually remember all the details, but I do remember that it was fucking wild. I think there was a weird mix between Nintendo letting the producers do whatever the fuck they wanted, but then the movie studio kept swinging back and forth between letting them have free reign and trying to reign in the insanity. The script was still going through rewrites well into shooting the movie. Halfway through shooting, Bob Hoskins and John Lequizamo just started getting drunk whenever they weren’t on camera
@@readwrecks Yeah you know shit’s hitting the fan when the two stars have to get drunk to do their jobs. 😂
They wanted us all to forget this movie, I actually did but on the technicality that I thought it was a fever dream I had. Still tho it had this charm that I enjoyed
"Were they planning a sequel?"
Yes, they absolutely thought they were going to get one. And they thought it was so good that decades later they tried to adapt their original idea into a web comic, but it hasn't got out of the first chapter and as far as I know hasn't updated in years, so I guess we'll never know what happens.
Not Luigi being the guy from To Wong Fu
I was like, two, when this movie came out. I think it was my first time experiencing disappointment. It broke my little brain trying to come to terms with "This is the Mario Bros movie" and "I absolutely hate this and am confused by it".
Well at least there’s a new Mario movie that won’t disappoint
As a kid, I enjoyed it as a silly video game movie. As an adult, I deeply enjoy how nonsensical it is.
I like it unironically as a small
Child AND as an adult
I like how the sign in the background says "I was a teenage mammal" throughout the video
My favorite fact about this film is Bob Hopkins and John Leguizamo knew it was going to be awful, so they just drank between takes, so they're pretty much hammered in every scene!
the budget put into this movie shoulda been put into i was a teenage mammal xxx
What do you mean? How else would you make a movie about a game where a guy walks in a straight line, eats shrooms and jumps on turtles then uses their shells as weapons?
What? It makes perfect sense. Daisy is a reptile and therefore born in an egg