Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: SUPER MARIO BROS.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- With a new Super Mario movie opening soon, time to take a look back at the much-maligned 1993 "Super Mario Bros." film.
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What do you think of the 1993 Super Mario Bros. film? Misfire, cult classic or something in between?
Both.
Dont watch the super Mario bros movie from 1903😊
Yes
I can’t wait to see the new Mario movie by illumination
For what it was, a big budget major hollywood movie it was TRASH ! Not even bad enough to be funny, it was just sad.
Rest in peace to Bob Hoskins and Dennis Hopper
And Robert D. Raiford.
I will always remember Dennis Hopper from land of the dead
@@biohazardmadness1155 coincidentally killed by John Leguizamo in that movie. Small world.
@@johnnysasaki that too
Yep
Dennis Hopper's line about mud is like the anti-matter equivalent of Anakin's 'I don't like sand' line from SW
I hate how diabolically correct this is.
The problem with making a movie about Tetris is that as soon as you fill up a row of cinema seats, they all become available again... and the more rows you fill, the faster the movie will go!
but at least a tetris movie would have an awesome soundtrack
thats actually kind of a plot for a horror movie
That's an easy fix, just leave one or two seats empty in every row...
Aaaaand make sure you leave the nosebleed section COMPLETELY empty, otherwise the movie ends right then and there.
@@Unholy_Holywarrior See, you say that, but I went to see the new Mario movie, and it has a cheesy... and safe... soundtrack that I was NOT expecting.
@@BYERE look up tetris nes soundtrack, especially #3
Fun fact: the actress who played Lena (Fiona Shaw) was later cast as Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter movies. When the first one came out, I knew she looked familiar. Thanks for covering this film, Brandon!
She was (and still is) a respected English actress with plenty of stage credits, though she has a good sense of fun that let's her occasionally dip her toes into popular culture ,,, This, Harry Potter, 'The Avengers' (1998), 'Pixels' etc.
Fun fact: there're technically 3 Super Mario movies. This one, the new one, and an anime one from the 80s that's closer in tone to the games, but also has a really dumb ending where Mario loses Peach to another guy
Kinda checks out nowadays given a quite a few endings have poor Mario miss out on a kiss xD
Gratingly prophetic of “Super Mario Odyssey.”
So fun fact, Mario's girlfriend's full name is Daniella Pauline Veducci. She is Pauline.
They should have just called her Pauline then since that's what she was called in the games.
@@cartooncritique6625 You would think that is what they would've done. Wondering if it was one of those random script changes while filming.
@@fatenabu1 Like the same script changes that made it so completely distant from the source materiel, it could have just as easily been some parallel-cyberpunk-dimension-loaded-with-humanoid-reptiles movie and wouldn't have needed Super Mario Bros slapped on the title just to give it "some" link to the video games.
I'm sorry, but as far as video game adaptations go, this is one of the worst...and I've seen Mortal Kombat Annihilation!
@@johntheechidna1 yes it is bad. I never said it was good.
Do I find it enjoyable though, sometimes. I find it enjoyable in the whole, this is a thing I watched when I was younger so it brings back fun memories. Also I like watching the reaction of people who have never seen it. Overall though, it isn't all that enjoyable and it is bad.
I am confused by you seemingly wanting to justify this movie being the worst. Is this meant to be an argument? If so who with? I don't think anyone is arguing that the movie is the greatest film ever made.
Also why the apology for saying this movie is the worst? I didn't make it lol.
I knew it! I thought she seemed like Pauline so headcanon I just went with it lol
Now I wonder what a Jim Henson Mario movie would have looked like.
the puppets for Bowser and his hench creatures would’ve been cool as heck.
That would be sick and a gigantic showcase of all the cool the puppets for Bowser, Koopas, Goombas and Toad
The Jim Henson's [company, made after he died] Dinosaurs TV show looked more like Mario that the Super Mario Bros. movie did. I'm sure it would've been a million times better and he certainly wouldn't have made it a sci-fi distopia.
@@KasumiKenshirou
Did you see the last season of that show though?! The dark, depressing ending that came out of seemingly nowhere. I'm not entirely sure we would have gotten a super upbeat Mario.
"Hi ho, Bowser the Frog here!"
The saga of the Super Mario Bros movie is a cautionary tale of what happens when you have too many chefs in the kitchen and one pot between all of them.
Yeah, still love the movie though.
This movie is one reason why Nintendo said they want to oversee their own properties themselves. In fact it's also one big reason why Nintendo Studios was created. I think Nintendo wants to create a smash brothers universe. Because DK being in the Mario movie just feels out of place. Especially with a scene in the movie mentioning a bigger galaxy of worlds. Don't be surprised if Samus crosses over with Mario in a sequel as a reason why Mario and Luigi go to another galaxy.
@@lycaonOmega82 actually i believe it was mario who appeared in a DK game first in the early 80s he was just under a different name at the time. 🤓
@@lycaonOmega82
Having recently seen the movie myself, oh yeah, I could see more movies. Especially a Donkey Kong spin-off.
Especially when said chefs don't follow the recipe closely...>:(
My mom rented this for me when I was 6. She's not a gamer and I remember her saying "This doesn't look anything like your Nintendo."
Your mother is SO right.
In Japanese tradition it is normal to refer to two Brothers by the name of the older brother.
That is why Mario and Luigi are called the Mario Brothers.
But they're Americans in this and they told the police they're father and son.
@@howdoyoudo5949 He's just explaining why Japanese people named the game "Mario Bros."
@@KasumiKenshirou Yeah but it's an odd cultural tick to translate for an North American/Euro Audience
I honestly appreciate how freaking bizarre and out there this film got, cause nobody from today or even back then was expecting Cyberpunk Mario flick .
I would LOVE to see a Twisted Metal/Mario Kart crossover...
I actually had the great pleasure of having my extremely kind and WAY too dedicated parents take me to watch this movie when it originally came out.
Not enough time left in the universe for the apologies I owe those folks. Hell, even the Power Rangers movie was better than this.
@@wren7195 Which one? There are multiple theatrical Power Ranger movies.
@@PhazonEnder Indeed. The original English live action. Filmed in Australia. To which my Mother actually said when the woman with the whirly tube noise devices showed up "Some of the fathers woke up."
And I HEARD that.
...and was young enough to be confused.
I mean he is literally flying a FLICKING falconzord, what is wrong with people?
Heh Sorry, I'm drunk tired and it's very late. It's a very unique and absurd memory for me, and I find it very precious. There were a lot of parents in that cinema.
The Yoshi puppetry was incredible, and I still like the movie poster.
The actress who played Lena in this video game movie wanted to be a princess and years later in video game movie Pixels she played the Queen. That’s evolution right there
Being a huge Mario fan, I really hated this movie when I was younger. But now, I've kind of grown to love it. It's a complete train wreck of a movie, but it's a fascinating train wreck.
Also, the Goombas in the movie were actually supposed to be Koopa Troopas, with early scripts even mentioning them having turtle shell-like armor, but they were eventually reclassified as "Goombas" during the many rewrites.
I think that would’ve also suited Dennis Hopper, only his should’ve had spikes as well.
That's kind of the way I am with the 1994 Street Fighter movie. Is it a good adaptation of the game? Hell no, but now, looking back, I can appreciate it for it's own thing, and Raul Julia chewing the scenery is great in its own way. Very similar to how I feel about this movie.
It is a beautiful trainwreck because it wasn't forced by the studio to be as bland as possible. It was allowed to be insane and weird.
@@bZman
Well the Trainwreck part came with all the rewrites, the involvement of Disney who added the horrible out-of-place soundtrack the fact the main cast was constantly angry and drunk (and hot because of the shooting location) Honestly the fact anyting even remotely usable came out of this whole thing is remarkable to me. It's a miracle the film came out in any way shape or form.
@@ShinGallon lol what about the Double Dragon movie?
Bob Hoskins & Dennis Hopper were a terrific actors, SMB aside. RIP Bob Hoskins & Dennis Hopper
Fun Fact! The Actress who played "Lena" is Fiona Shaw. And she would later go on to play Petunia Dursley. Harry Potter's Aunt in the Movies.
Once I realized the crazy rage Bob Hoskins could bring to the screen, I felt so cheated by this movie. Forget Mario vs Koopa, I want The long Good Friday Hoskins to fight Frank Booth. And if one of them has to be dressed as a red plumber and the other is in a dinosaur costume, so be it.
😂😂😂
bob hoskins best role is pink floyds manager in the wall, and then as smee in hook
That would be the fight to end all movie fighta
bob hoskins would have made an excellent wolverine
This is the Mario movie from an alternate dimension where SEGA and Nintendo swapped personalities
Even as someone who played Super Mario Bros. when it originally came out, I still love this movie. Say what you will, but the aesthetics, especially the fashion, were great. Whoever did costuming and hair was on their jobs. And I personally found Bob and John likable in their roles, whether they liked their roles or not. As much as Bob hated it, he could have sleep-walked through it (like Jennifer Lawrence or Val Kilmer in a franchise film), but he didn’t.
I unironically love this movie, through the world's thickest nostalgia goggles.
I would just like to point out that Koopa transformed Mario's greatest enemy into an APE, effectively making Scapelli into Donkey Kong.
That might explain why the movie treated Scaplelli as a secondary antagonist. Him turning into Donkey Kong could've been a sequel hook...
Given how vicious chimps can get...
That’s a pretty good point.
Looks more like Diddy Kong to me. Haha
@@jeremygreen2883 Diddy is a monkey, this was a chimpanzee, which is an ape.
If Hollywood found a way to make a movie based on Battleship, I think they can contrive a movie based on Tetris 👍
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(For those who don't watch the whole video) Here's a fun fact. Here in Wilmington, North Carolina, where the movie was filmed we still have some of those sewer props in a local bar called the Barbary Coast, which was the bar featured in Blue Velvet, which also stared Dennis Hopper
As a testicular cancer survivor, I approve of that joke.
@MrWesdotcom good for him unlike my sister who lost her Battle with cancer
I've seen this movie a dozen times and just now realized that Toad was played by Mojo Nixon.
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In the novelisation, Iggy, or Spike. I cant remember which, explains that the portal is too unstable for Koopa to safely march his army through all at once. And Daisy's stone is needed to properly stabilise it.
I thought it was weird that the cave-in at the start of the film was enough to deter him and that he didn't just come back with some guys to dig it out. Also how did they know that the human side had been blasted open 20 years later, was somebody assigned to come over and check periodically if the tunnel had reopened?
Wait a fuck, there is a novelization?!
And they couldn’t have bothered explaining that in the movie?
I’m not gonna lie, I always loved the dancing goombas scene 😂😂
As a kid... really, a young teenager... I found this oddly compelling as Baby's First Cyberpunk Movie. I mean, no, it wasn't the real Super Mario Bros. That was, and always will be, the Super Mario Bros. Super Show with Captain Lou Albano. But this was strange enough to be interesting in its own way. And a killer cover of "Walk the Dinosaur" on the soundtrack too.
So happy to see you cover the original Mario Bros Movie!!
I hated it as a kid but looking back on it, it intrigues me by how off the mark it was. It has some 'So bad its good' quality to it, similar to the Street Fighter movie.
I think Street Fighter is better overall, but I still loved both to death as a kid. Same with Sailor Moon (still love it).
Street Fighter is extremely cheesy, but it’s better than this one.
This movie is a guilty pleasure of mine.
Before the directors were hired, in the script the Mario Bros were supposed to go to fantasy setting like in the games. When the directors came onboard, they hated the fantasy setting and made it cyberpunk. Their reasoning: they hate fantasy.
Surprised you didn't mention that Toad was played by rockabilly guy Mojo Nixon. Also, his band was called the toadliquors
It’s Brandon’s First Disney Cult Movie Review. Congratulations on reviewing the Super Mario Bros movie. It’s so rad.
In spite of the fact that it could have just as easily been a dystopian-parallel-dimension-with-lizard-people film without having "Super Mario Bros" slapped on it.
Seriously, the games are about a brotherly duo of plumbers going through a colorful and whimsical world to rescue a princess from an evil turtle-dragon-wizard and his armies of turtles and fang-mouthed mushroom monsters...HOW HARD IS THAT TO FUCK UP?!
Oh, right...this film did.
Rented this movie a million times in the 90's. Also smoked a bunch of cigarettes dipped in nyquil back then. That may or may night explain my love of this movie
Koopa Troopas actually move (or dance) to music in the games (later ones like Super Mario World) and elevating platforms are everywhere in the games….but so are 🐢 shells which they forgot?
Something funny: The actor playing Toad, Mojo Nixon, used his Goomba-form as his headshot on IMDB :D
😄 Cool.
Bad or not, I always find it entertaining.
RIP Dennis Hopper and Bob Hoskins you were great
Holy shit, I guess this picture doesn't really need fixing because Toad is Mojo Nixon!
I really love this movie. I still enjoy it to this day
God,I wish they could try to make another movie with the first draft of the Mario movie
OR they could have just made a Sci-Fi Cyberpunk movie that had nothing to do with a children's video game that in 1993 really had no story beyond bad lizard man takes princess...The reservoir tip on a condom is deeper than "Mario lore. Not sure what the director's didn't grasp about they were making a movie for children and not a movie for adults.
@@lutherheggs451 The first draft was much more Mario, much less cyberpunk, the rewrites twisted it into what we have.
@@lutherheggs451 In Super Mario Bros 3 you have to save the Kings of the land that were morphed into different animals before going to the fire worlds to fight King (Bowser) Koopa,.. so the first draft was REALLLY close to Mario 3 and a dash of 2.
Yeah, I read an early draft (not sure if it was the first...) and it does gel better with the Mario most are familiar with.
If you disconnect this movie from the games, you can actually get a lot of enjoyment out of it.
I’m kind of a half hearted defender of this movie. I appreciate how creative it is.
Leguizamo's also got the Luigi look perfect.
Yeah as much as I have always liked Luigi's look, he actually looks like the younger brother in this movie.
Nah. Can't come close to Danny Wells
Gotta admit, Dinohatten is clever.
I still enjoy this bizarre flick…
I can tell you my experience with this movie. Born in 1981 so I grew up with Nintendo. I was 11 at the time it was released. Never was I so pumped to see a movie. My Mom took me to it she fell asleep she said it was so boring. I walked out of the movie scratching my head in confusion. I was on the verge of entering middle school and all of my friends watched it in the theater too. Jurassic Park came out not long after and everyone quickly forgot about this movie. As big a fanatic as me and my friends were about the video game the movie was so bad no one ever spoke of it again....and I mean ever.
Yes that definitely fits the category of this movie is a secret pleasure of mines..
I actually really enjoy this movie whenever I rewatch it, although almost entirely because it has an upbeat energy and much of the movie is really out-there. I can't really call it a good movie and I can't remotely call it a good adaptation, but I do find it fun to revisit once every few years.
Objectively, the movie had great CGI for 1993, decent action sequences, great production design and the musical score by Alan Silvestri (who also did Predator, Who Frame Roger Rabbit & all 4 Avengers movies) is genuinely excellent.
"Sonic Plumbing - We flush what NINTEN-DON'T!" - Gold!
21:52 Speaking of Nine Inch Nails, some of the fortresses in Super Mario World have mid-bosses where you fight those rhinoceros/triceratops-like enemies are named after Trent Reznor.
Do you know what song he uses in that clip? I can’t find it but it sounds like a banger.
@@that1individual273happiness in slavery (remix) by Nine Inch Nails
@@lamensa5 Thanks dawg. Luckily I was able to find it a few weeks back. But thank you for responding regardless. 🤝
Actually when they showed the king de-evolved, it reminded me of when Koopa turned all of the Kings in Mario 3 into different creatures. You may think its a stretch but 🤷
But that would be something from one of the games. They would never do that.
I remember owning a recorded tape of this film when I was a kid. And the tape was overwritten with a Black and white mystery film, which I'm pretty sure was The Maltese Falcon. I also recently found out my mom likes this film so that's cool.
I loved this movie as a kid. I love this movie as a 45 year old. Definitely a cult classic.
Love how you used put the Mario Kart theme in the car chase. It works so well.
For those of you wondering: yes, that really is Fiona Shaw playing Koopa's wife/girlfriend/whatever. Now I want a subplot where she is secretly against Koopa and at some point holds a rallying speech to rile people up against him.
I know her as Aunt Petunia in the Harry Potter films.
That is literally what Spike and Iggy was doing at the Boom-Boom bar. They even had a catchy song about it.
@@marshallhuffer4713 So do most people, probably. For me, she'll be Maarva Andor first and foremost. ;)
Pacino as robotnik would have been stellar casting 😂
Would he required to have his dunkaccino
Is it good, hell no. Do I oddly have some fun watching it, yep. You know if this hadn't been a Super Mario Brothers movie, it might have done a little better. At least maybe it would have had a more even tone. I do have high hopes for the new movie coming out soon. We'll see how well this posts ages XD
Would be better if the dino people looked like dinosaurs instead of humans
Although that might make them look somewhat like Skeksis.
@@nicholaslienandjaja1815 speaking of wich, I'm still waiting for the day Brandon will review The Dark Crystal
I really enjoy this movie, honestly underrated.
I just realized that hilarious gritty Pedro Pascal Mario Kart SNL skit kind of looked like this... so this movie was ahead of its time?
I think the most hilarious part is the fact Mario is wearing green and Luigi wearing red clothes through most of the movie.
I hope Brandon is kind to it!
Man this cult classic of misfire 😊 and your incredible talent to deconstruct and inject hilariousness into review is pure entertainment❤ definitely will shine in the sea of countless reviews of this movie... there are some good ideas if you want to do gritty adaptation which they have in mind and casting isn't that bad...the movie tries to not take it self too serious and have some humor.....i know that it can be done better but for a guilty pleasure is great 🍄🤘😎🚬
Saw this in the theater opening weekend to a sellout crowd.
Everyone walked out annoyed.
I still have hope for sequel 😅
Still better than most video game adaptions
I enjoy this movie alot and is it really so hard to believe this would with everything the Mario games have done
You're not wrong about those Gas Mask guys in the dump. I'm pretty sure those are suppose to be Snifits which are just Shy Guys with a gas mask that shoots projectiles.
Considering how the love interest of this movie is Daisy rather than Princess Peach, I'm surprised that it was King Koopa that had her kidnapped and not a purple alien flying a spaceship.
_If you know, you know._
Tatanga.
Her name was Princess Toadstool back then, not Princess Peach. Daisy was the only normal name around they could use.
Tatanga may have even worked better since in the comics he did interact with the human world. But he's also a small guy so instead of Dennis Hopper we probably would have gotten Danny Devito in a purple suit.
They could have just said his last name was Mariano and he uses 'Mario' for short.
Interesting to learn here...there IS a sequel to the movie in comic form. And yes, it borrows elements from Doki Doki Panic/Super Mario Bros. 2 with Wart being the new big baddie.
19:21 Funny thing about that is that they used Yoshi there as part of the inspiration for Jurassic Park, would make since since he looks awesome, one of the few things in this film that does.
You would’ve thought they would at least make Mario’s girlfriend Paulina in this movie.
They did. Except Paulina is her middle name instead, even if it wasn't really put out there. It was made as a fun little hidden extra thing for the character.
In Super Mario 3 King Koopa (bowser) takes over the worlds by morphing the kings into different animals, so it's not actually that far off.
I remember watching Super Mario Bros with my dad and younger brother in theaters. My younger brother loved it even bought the VHS tape back when it came out. Haven't seen it since I was 9 years old.
22:13 Super Night at the Roxbury Bros.!
I absolutely love the 1993 mario movie thank you for giving this awesome masterpiece some more attention
Dear Mr. Tenold, thank you for the Frank Booth/King Koopa clip at the 5:10 mark. It will keep me laughing for years.
There was a pretty hilarious ebaumsworld or college humor video about video game movies. The tetris and minesweeper ones were aces!
I’m actually starting to wonder if the directors just had a script for a dinosaur-cyberpunk movie ready to go and they only made a few minimal changes to tie it in to the Mario franchise to get it backed by Nintendo.
They need to release this movie on streaming.
A 90's classic. 30 years later and we're still talking about it.
Anyone who is saying that the prefer the 1993 movie over the new film, just for clout or to be a troll...should watch the opening of this video.
It says a lot when even one of the actors in this movie doesn't like the film himself.
22:09 Which way will he go with the comedic music bit?
He went _Haddaway._
...I'll get my coat.
13:30 - Seriously, why wouldn't Mario and Luigi's last name be Mario if they're called the Super Mario Brothers?
This movie is my guilty pleasure! Also, Dennis Hopper is having too much fun as king Koopa! 😂
Go, Goomba!
I was 6yo when this came out and me and my dad walked out because an older kid threw his drink at the screen yelling this isn’t Mario
I love that Conan O'Brien clip. It never gets old.
I think I'll always have a soft spot for this movie. It is 100% concentrated clusterfuck.
Koopa’s wife/girlfriend/whatever is Aunt Petunia from Harry Potter.
As an Old who saw it in the theater in a kid, I was onboard at first because Mario and Luigi doing plumbing things in live action was like the framing for the cartoon and then they hit Dinohattan and even as a kid I checked and feel very bad I never got the chance to apologize to my dad for taking me to see it.
I love this movie, always have always will
There's was actually a comic made years later that's a sequel to the movie. It was made long after the movie came out and was when it gained its modern cult following.
Trusted but non-critic reviews seem to really enjoy the new Mario movie so I'm hyped and hoping it will fill that role we all wished this old mario bros film would have been back then.
Critic reviews seem to be too focused on aspects which mirror the game, as if a video game film shouldn't have elements from the game, as if that hasn't been one of the main issues we've had with crappy adaptations over the years.
This new film seems to have some genuine heart and effort put in to reflect the games and we should support that as much as we can.
Fun fact: Arnold Schwarzenagger, and Michael keaton were casted to play as bowser, but they turned down for unknown reasons, leading to Dennis Hopper's role as king koopa
"Best known for co-creating Max Headroom."
Wait really? Is that a joke? I thought Max Headroom's origins were still a complete mystery.
The late, great Bob Hoskins was so good at accents that even now it still surprises me to hear him using his natural speaking voice in interviews and elsewhere
26:50 I heard they used a separate controller to control yoshi