Dennis Hopper was famously asked by Conan O'Brien if he regretted being in any of his movies, and Hopper said, "I made a picture called Super Mario Bros. My six-year old son at the time - he now 18 - he said, 'Dad, I think you're probably a pretty good actor, but why did you play that terrible guy King Koopa in Super Mario Bros.?' I said, 'Well Henry, I did that so you could have shoes.' And he said, 'Dad, I don't need shoes that badly.'"
@@soulchorea I really don't think Dennis Hopper was big enough to be rich. Most of the movies he did were indie or mid-budget, so his income was likely more "middle class." Not to mention that he did drugs. Like a LOT of drugs. He probably did need the money. Although my favorite variation on this theme was when someone asked Michael Caine about being in Jaws 4, and it turned out he'd never even watched the movie. "I haven’t seen it, but I have seen the house it bought my mother, and it’s marvelous!”
Land of the Dead is the unofficial Super Mario Brothers 2. The zombie plague cripples the Mushroom Kingdom, Koopa runs a fortress city, and Luigi is a renegade.
My dad took us to this at the movies, then asked his 11, 10 and 8 year old sons "What the hell was that?" We couldnt answer. I still can't answer that question lol
One of the three movies my wife says if I play again with her in the house she'll divorce me. I actually love it, as a science fiction film, but not as anything Mario. This, Star Wars Holiday Special, Barbie.
Super Mario Bros, Howard the Duck, Dolph Lundgren's Masters of the Universe, Dolph Lundgren's The Punisher, Monster Squad, Army of Darkness, Flash Gordon, and Highlander 2 are just a few box office bombs I absolutely love.
I’ve seen Masters of the Universe a trillion times. That and all the other movies you’ve listed have an aesthetic quality that makes it easy to immerse yourself within.
This reminds me of the book "Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can, Too!" talked about how Hollywood loves to hire, fire, and rehire writers and offen end up with a bad script that way.
I've always liked the cyberpunk aspects of it. Its a movie that should not exist considering the popularity of the super mario brothers and how different it is from the games. So its a wonderful anomaly.
I would say that the enormous success of the new Mario movie really helped the reputation of this movie, because now that we have an objectively better Mario movie that honors the games much more, it’s easy to see this one as a curiosity piece.
I remember liking it for some of its wild early computerized sci-fi visuals. At the same time, it was also a movie not afraid to use real gunky and slimy props to decorate the set. It was gritty and fun for a summer popcorn movie... something to beat the Texas heat for a couple of hours. I want to revisit it soon and see how bad (maybe good) it really is.
@@logantrimble006 Came here to mention that hack. Additionally he challenged critics to a boxing match, which would be marginally fine if the coward didnt bail everytime he found out someone had some form of martial arts experience.
@@deralfendersonGodzilla '98 is not an abomination. It's a middle of the pack Godzilla movie. I love that franchise dearly, but it has so much worse to offer, and plenty of it. Probably why it stays canon. I will gladly back up you & the Bluesky person in demanding the Mario sequel though. The sequel does not need to be live action, @ScaryReviews. Just get the art style right. Hoskins put on a pretty generic gruff accent that won't be hard for another actor to replicate, and Hopper goes weird enough to that it's probably simple enough to at least match the vibe, if not quite the voice.
@@deralfenderson They recognize the species as Zilla. The individual named Zilla is not the same one from the 1998 movie, because that one died. They even acknowledge it in the Toho movies. "Didn't Godzilla attack New York?" "The Americans think so, but we have our doubts." This effectively makes Godzilla 2000 a sequel to Godzilla 1998. The reason the TriStar monster is still referred to as Godzilla is due to a quirk of trademark law. Since Toho made hanko icons of the creature and included the name Godzilla with a trademark, they can't retroactively change it. They could make a new one in a similar design, but the old one would still exist. Is this pedantic? Yes. But is it stupid? Very yes.
Just got the 4K Umbrella release of this movie. I can’t wait to watch it. I loved this movie as a kid that I wrote a “script” to a sequel as soon as I saw it involving the Koopa Kids fighting for the throne and bringing in Donkey Kong and making Yoshi rideable to fight on. It was…something. 😂
My parents had a passing familiarity with Mario, didn't see it in theaters but when it came out on VHS I went to rent it and I clearly remember my dad asking, 'Why do they have machine guns?'
So I saw Super Mario Brothers in the theaters. I went with some friends whom I played video games and Dungeons & Dragons in high school. I think the camaraderie of us laughing at it is what I remember most.
I liked the movie now probably more than when I was a kid. As a kid I was disappointed that Bowser wasn't a huge turtle t-rex and the goombas looked so weird. I still did like it as a kid.The humor was good for me. Now I like the different approach they went for. I really love the production design which you don't get in movies anymore. The huge, real sets and costumes. It's great as a different VERSION of the characters. I think I would have just been more ok with the goombas if they were more able to move their arms and didn't look so stiff. Like the cover art for the bluray now they look so scary. Also I'm currently working on a Mega Man screenplay if anyone out there can direct me on where and how I can get this thing into the hands of someone who can do something with it.
I dunno... Street Fighter(1994) has greatly affected culture and speech. I think we shouldn't be so harsh to Uwe Boll Why, without him, we'd not have the phrase, "for him it was a Tuesday"--nor would we have had the most glorious Bisonopolis Speech... the "But Of Course!" reaction, the derpy take on Zangeif--and so much more pure gold. I mean, yes, Raul Julia _CARRIED_ that movie... but Zangeif was pretty decent as well
They went with -Peach- Daisy so the romance with Luigi would make more sense. But making her the daughter of the Mushroom King was an odd choice, since Daisy is from Sarasaland. EDIT: Correction, for my brain was stupid that day
@@OtakuUnitedStudio English speakers didn't widely know the name "Peach" until 64, so it was assumed "Daisy" from Super Mario Land and "Princess Toadstool" from the mainline Super Mario Bros games were one and the same for a long while.
Fun fact, this wasn’t Mario’s first big screen appearance. In 1986 Nintendo released the OVA Super Mario Bros: The Great Adventure to Rescue Princess Peach to over 200 screens in Japan. There was a tie-in manga and (according to Wikipedia) “phone cards, watches, rice containers, ramen noodles,” and an original soundtrack released on vinyl and cassette. To the best of my knowledge it’s never gotten an official release outside of Japan.
It sadly may not get a release outside of Japan....Considering the amount of sex and romance references, as well as changes to how Japan culture is to American culture...Well, I doubt we'll ever get an official american release of the film, considering the company who animated it went bankrupt 20+ years back and hasn't worked on another animated film since (probably) the 1990s....Needless to say, one of the fans got access to a copy of the original 35mm film itself and made their own 4k Restoration & Remastered copy of the film itself, taking multiple audio clips from the original film as well as the other releases, combined into one audio and visual that would be probably the best ever remaster of the 1986 OVA Full Length Movie that there will ever be. And considering Nintendo, much like the DIC cartoons, never brought up or even mentioned the OVA at all, goes to show that Nintendo in the 1980s and 1990s clearly abandoned it once the 1993 film came out and flopped, and thus never bothered to come back into the movies again until 30 years later after the 1993 flop.
Man. i REALLY Love this Channel SO much. I've been with you guys for YEARS btw. back when it was called "Toy Galaxy" and I still adore the channel and that you guys are still going strong! Please don't ever stop doing what you're doing, because you're the best!
Ideal Cement at the time, it was also Top Dollar's hideout for The Crow. You used to be able to go out there but now its being used and you get stopped about a mile from the factory.
Yeah they were more like Bill & Ted from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure if they were martial artist rather than a couple of street tough dudes who beat up street gangs.
I grew up in Wilmington NC when this was filming and my dad worked on the this and Ninja turtles. Needless to say I was excited for both movies and Super Mario bros was a big deal. As kids my friends and I were super hyped and thought it was a strange movie but ultimately enjoyed it. Turtles was amazing and I still think it’s the best version of on screen TMNT. Fun fact, That cement factory was also used in Universal solider, The Crow and Ironman 3.
"It's gonna take more than a Plummer's Helper to figure all this crap out!" I see what you did there! 😉😁 Thank you Dan and Company for all the things. 😊🤙
I remember back then being confused that they didn’t just make Super Mario into an animated movie. Listening to the directors trying to make the movie seem more than what it was gives me a headache.
Ironically, when the director duo was hired, who were experienced animators, they saw the original fantasy script as an animated film that neither them nor Nintendo wanted to produce. So if Lightmotive really wanted a cash grab family movie, they should've just stuck with that draft and made it animated. But alas that didn't happen.
I remember watching that movie and years later feeling like it was identical to the Street Fighter movie where the people making it really had no idea what to do with the source material and basically threw everything at the wall, and the actors were just doing their best. Honestly despite being from the NES generation if you told me to write a movie based on the game i'd probably make just as bad if not worse because how do you write a story about a plumber who doesn't do any plumbing but instead stalks a princess while stomping on mushrooms and turtles?
I was pretty miffed last year, when I tried to find the movie to stream and found the only way to watch it digitally was to sail the high seas. How TF is this not streaming anywhere?!?
I don’t know. The rights for any extended Nintendo media is a mess, with different companies and distributors handling all the Mario cartoons and this movie. It’s not like today where the new Mario movie is definitely owned by Universal.
@@benmalsky9834 The movie was distributed by Hollywood Pictures, a now-defunct subsidiary of Disney, so it's entirely possible that Disney has the streaming rights, but just wants to bury it like so many other shows and movies they're holding hostage, like the English dub of the 2001 Transformers anime, or most of their late 90's/early 2000's shows.
I saw this at the theater on opening weekend when I was 11. I was a full-blown Nintendo Kid back then, and even though I was disappointed that it had so little to do with the games I still genuinely enjoyed it. I still love it today, both for its “so bad it’s good” qualities and the level of imagination and unique weirdness on display. Incidentally Rifftrax did a hilarious commentary for this back in 2014 that’s available as a VOD, it comes highly recommended even if you hate the movie itself.
Just had a thought! It kind of has the look of a 1980s Dark Fantasy film. Also, the story kind of tracks too. If you thought about it, would you consider it a Dark Fantasy?
I was so confused as a kid when I saw this movie and it was so different than the games and cartoons. The Mushroom king was just a fungal system through out the city? Odd.
Man as weird as this movie is, I actually still love it. It’s one of only a few movies my dad took us to the theater to watch which was already a big ask cause he was always busy working. To this day I still pop in the DVD occasionally, and a few years ago my Mario obsessed kids found it and became curious enough to want to watch it themselves. Great vid!
I loved the movie back in 93 and still do today. I've cosplayed as Movie Mario (including thwomp boots.) and have all the Ertl toys boxed and unboxed and I'll never apologize for that. It was better than double dragon and that is something at least.
They often worked as "script doctors" employed to jazz up existing scripts. It’s good money but you don't get a credit. Carrie Fisher was also a well known script doctor
I think this was the first movie that really confused me as a kid. I saw it in theaters, but was like "Where's Bowser? Where are the goombas? The koopas?" I remember leaving unsure if I liked it or not.
My niece is obsessed with Mario Brothers to the point she will read any piece of lore or play any Mario game she can get her hands on and up until a couple years ago, she didn't even know this movie existed. For a laugh I showed her a pic of Hopper from the movie and told her "that's Bowser" and she just matter of factly declared "no it's not"
Loved this!! I worked on the movie very early in my career. I was in the makeup department. It was really hard work in brutal conditions but I had a blast 😊
I remember going to the local theater to see this movie with my best buddy as teenagers and being really frustrated with the plot at first. However, halfway through the movie my friend left for a bit and came back with a smuggled rum bottle from his car. The movie got a whole lot better from that point as we played a drinking game were we would take a zip everytime they showed something we found ridiculous or disjointed from the lore. We were pretty blasted by the end, but I can't say I was bored anymore.
I remember renting this from my local video store frequently as a child so it will always hold a special place for me. So much so I have that deluxe 4k blu-ray set coming next week. 😅
Kinda long but here it goes. When I was a kid, I was a R.A. (Royal Ambassador) which was basically boy scouts at church. Our councilor would sometimes take us on a DU. Destination Unknown. She took us to see this movie when it came out so about 8 of us ranging in age in a church group went and watched this steampunk fever dream. Every time I see this movie it instantly takes me back too that theatre and the embarrassed look on my councilor's face thru the entire thing.
I discovered this movie from a local video store as a kid, and I was shocked that Super Mario Bros had a live action movie adaptation, but I didn’t rent it, and then I saw it on network TV and was shocked it has nothing to do with the source material! But I didn’t think it was even the worst video game movie, since it would’ve been popular had it been a screwball comedy movie. I liked Bob Hoskins and Dennis Hopper in those movies, since they were still hilarious in that movie!
We had Super Mario Bros 1-3 for the NES, we only had around 10 games the entire time we had the system. We were the first kids in our area that bought a Nintendo with our own money, my brothers and I did odd jobs until we earned it.
5:54 Have you seen _any_ of the Ninja Turtle movies? Any at all? Because what you're describing is specifically the 2012 version, and you even got that wrong. _Shredder_ leads the Foot bots, and the Kraang are a separate entity. Like you're misremembering that version and the original 1987 version where Shredder and one solitary being named Krang lived together and acted together as a married couple. Anyhow, none of the movies non-human Foot Soldiers.
Weird! "Mom and Dad save the World" was more of a Mario Movie than this mario movie. What an interesting movie that might have been, with that director at the helm....
I saw this first, and then Jurassic Park, within one week of eachother back when they both came out. I left the theater convinced that 'Mario Bros' was the best dinosaur movie that I'd ever seen... I was a strange kid.
Its weird cause if it was called anything but Super Mario Bros, it wouldve landed as some obscure 90s cult classic but for the fact it was Super Mario Bros, it landed as an obscure 90s cult classic. I love it and Im glad more people are coming around to it. I remember seeing Leguizamo do a little video for a anniversary screening and while he was trying to be enthusiastic for the fans, he didnt seem to be able to hide his surprise that people were actually still watching it.
Oh dang! The Bionic Commando shout out at the end! That's been my favorite since I was a kid as, to me, it's tonally like all the classic 80's military action movies in a game. Except I didn't see any of those movies til I was an adult. And I maintain my original position!
Looking back, as a kid I don't think I knew what to think of the movie, aside from how adorable Yoshi was. I've come to love it more as I grew up, though, and it's a surreal movie that could have only happened back in the 90s. Also with as wild as the creation of the movie was, you could make a whole movie just about that, a la "The Disaster Artist".
The story of the making of this trainwreck of a movie is better than the movie itself! While I've seen reports on it before, thanks for your rendition of it!
I grew up with 80's & 90's Action, Sci-fi, Horror, Drama, Comedy etc. movies and so with Nintendo and Sega consoles & games. Since day ONE I loved this movie. The action, darker world, interesting creatures and all felt so entertaining - and I'm otherwise very hard to sell on movies with a poor adaption and respect of its IP, but this was something its own for the time so unique. I loved the marketing, ads and all. Rented it a couple of times. Then taped it when it was on TV and watched it several times. Bought a VHS copy some years later (was hard as heck where I lived to find a copy for years) and when it came out on DVD, of course I bought it. Blu-ray indeed a few months ago. Oh I forgot I bought as a kid the CD Soundtrack album and a copy of the novel adaptation. So yeah, I loved it. Just to bad I could never get any of the Action figures and the Police vehicle as I so badly wanted them !!!! Sad we never could get a sequel as the movie ended on a cliffhanger.... I remember I wished it would be Wario as the bad guy as he came around the same time in the games.
I was 7 years old and my brother and I were avid NES and Super Mario fans. My mother brought us to the movie and I remember being so confused as to how this movie had anything to do with Super Mario Bros. I will however say that the movie was so unique that it has been firmly implanted in my memories for 31 years.
“Its no ones intention to ruin the classics.” No. It was very much Michael Bay and Lorenzo DeBonaventuras intent to do and change whatever he wanted despite constant objections from the core fans.
Still wish Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger were cast in the Super Mario Bros. movie. Would’ve been flipping hilarious, an unofficial sequel to Twins. Would’ve laughed my ass off.
18:57 TIL from this episode… - The SMB movie was shot on unfinished sets. - The cast were working from a rewrite of a rewrite of a rewrite of a rewrite of a rewrite. - Dan is a fan of Taskmaster.
Kids don't care where the things they love come from. They want to see the characters they know having a fun adventure. This movie completely lost sight of that. It was Super Mario made by someone who didn't know what Super Mario was.
I loved that movie as a kid and I still love it at almost 40 years old. Thank you for that great Video. It brought back so many memories from my childhood❤
This Mario movie is an EXTREMELY important movie. There are countless lessons that were learned in holywood from this movie. Just think where movies and games would be today if instead it was an Xmen movie and made the same way ! We wouldn't have the MCU, but instead, maybe the 1st Iron Man movie comes out in the style of the recent CG animated Mario movie. We would probably have more live Action video game movies, and then comic movies would be the types of movies that directors and actors are afraid to touch! Its important to also remember the two very creative director's who made this movie. I think it was clearly the wrong choice to make this movie, and it damaged their careers forever. I love their style and vision in this movie. It just simply shouldn't have ever been a Mario movie. Something like Total recall or any cyberpunk movie is what i wish i could have seen them direct. Or have a hamd in the designs. It sounds like they weren't liked by anyone. They probably took on too much responsibility and should have let more experienced people hande the work they didn't know how to do.
I saw this film opening night, I took my girlfriend to the the only good thing was we walked out it was so bad. At least my girlfriend was unfazed and we went to the parking lot then after 30 minutes went to the restaurant nextdoor.
Bionic Commando is Capcom, and they certainly had some...ideas of their own in a game they made a few years ago. (That being the wife-powered robot arm. Yes, really.)
The funny thing is experimental movies like Mario Bros that don't fare too well at the box office is usually where innovation is born. There was some tech invented for the movie that went on to be used in bigger ways down the line.
I remember the first time I watched this movie on DVD, it was something I treasured and still treasure cause of the uniqueness it brought to the table.
Dennis Hopper was famously asked by Conan O'Brien if he regretted being in any of his movies, and Hopper said, "I made a picture called Super Mario Bros. My six-year old son at the time - he now 18 - he said, 'Dad, I think you're probably a pretty good actor, but why did you play that terrible guy King Koopa in Super Mario Bros.?' I said, 'Well Henry, I did that so you could have shoes.' And he said, 'Dad, I don't need shoes that badly.'"
Lol 😆
That was at the very beginning of Brandon Tenold's video when he reviewed it last year.
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@@brianstiles1701 I hate when rich people say stuff like this 🤣
@@soulchorea I really don't think Dennis Hopper was big enough to be rich. Most of the movies he did were indie or mid-budget, so his income was likely more "middle class." Not to mention that he did drugs. Like a LOT of drugs. He probably did need the money.
Although my favorite variation on this theme was when someone asked Michael Caine about being in Jaws 4, and it turned out he'd never even watched the movie. "I haven’t seen it, but I have seen the house it bought my mother, and it’s marvelous!”
Land of the Dead is the unofficial Super Mario Brothers 2. The zombie plague cripples the Mushroom Kingdom, Koopa runs a fortress city, and Luigi is a renegade.
Who works for Koopa at first
The angry video game nerd bought me here.
lolz
My dad took us to this at the movies, then asked his 11, 10 and 8 year old sons "What the hell was that?" We couldnt answer. I still can't answer that question lol
I was 14, and my sister was 12, and we all left the theater looking at each other like "WTF did we just watch?"
I'm 42 and remember watching it when it came out like wtf but still have the DVD in rotation
One of the three movies my wife says if I play again with her in the house she'll divorce me. I actually love it, as a science fiction film, but not as anything Mario.
This, Star Wars Holiday Special, Barbie.
Your better off with a new younger wife!
She hates Barbie?
She must be a sane normal woman.
The Morton Jankel cut was really good and almost all of the extra footage would have helped the movie.
@@Rob-z7k what the actual fuck is wrong with you
@@Rob-z7kThat always goes without saying.
I was at Barnes and Noble just a few days ago and I found this movie in the Criterion Collection movie section. Exactly where it belongs.
Citizen Kane
Godzilla (1954)
1984
Super Mario Bros (1993)
Must have been misplaced.
@@michaelcarpenter2498 No, someone based put it where it should be.
Criterion would do a 4k remaster with all the frills of Chopping Mall before it would ever consider Super Mario Bros.
"It's gonna take a lot more than a plumber's helper to figure all of this crap out." Excellent description of watching that movie. Perfection.
Bob Hoskins was a regular at my last pub management job He was was very nice
i always wanted to meet him being a fan of roger rabbit and this. Glad to hear he was nice. Any cool stories of him?
Super Mario Bros, Howard the Duck, Dolph Lundgren's Masters of the Universe, Dolph Lundgren's The Punisher, Monster Squad, Army of Darkness, Flash Gordon, and Highlander 2 are just a few box office bombs I absolutely love.
Yeah, there’s just something about those movies that you can’t look away from.
I’ve seen Masters of the Universe a trillion times. That and all the other movies you’ve listed have an aesthetic quality that makes it easy to immerse yourself within.
You have super powers to just be able to look at those things
Boy, you must really enjoy the Razzies, then.
@@vladimirlagos2688 I don’t. I think they’re very tasteless.
For years, I was convinced this movie was a literal fever dream I had when I was a kid.
This reminds me of the book "Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can, Too!" talked about how Hollywood loves to hire, fire, and rehire writers and offen end up with a bad script that way.
I've always liked the cyberpunk aspects of it. Its a movie that should not exist considering the popularity of the super mario brothers and how different it is from the games. So its a wonderful anomaly.
It sure is.
I would say that the enormous success of the new Mario movie really helped the reputation of this movie, because now that we have an objectively better Mario movie that honors the games much more, it’s easy to see this one as a curiosity piece.
I remember liking it for some of its wild early computerized sci-fi visuals. At the same time, it was also a movie not afraid to use real gunky and slimy props to decorate the set.
It was gritty and fun for a summer popcorn movie... something to beat the Texas heat for a couple of hours.
I want to revisit it soon and see how bad (maybe good) it really is.
"No one sets out to make a bad movie"
Dan, have you heard of The Human Centepede?
Or the entire career of Harmony Korine
Unless your Uwe Boll and you're taking advantage of Germanys' former tax evasion laws. I'm glad that's over now.
People make bad movies all the time for tax right offs, DEI, money laundering, vanity projects, many different things
Not when money is on the line though
@@logantrimble006 Came here to mention that hack. Additionally he challenged critics to a boxing match, which would be marginally fine if the coward didnt bail everytime he found out someone had some form of martial arts experience.
There’s a guy on BlueSky whose whole shtick is that a sequel to this movie MUST BE MADE and I agree with them.
Oh, and I’ll have you know that Toho officially recognizes the 1998 abomination as ‘Zilla. It should be canon.
there's a sequel comic. but Bob Hoskins passed away, as did Dennis Hopper. so, how would a sequel work? make it a live action Luigi's mansion?
@@deralfendersonGodzilla '98 is not an abomination. It's a middle of the pack Godzilla movie. I love that franchise dearly, but it has so much worse to offer, and plenty of it. Probably why it stays canon.
I will gladly back up you & the Bluesky person in demanding the Mario sequel though. The sequel does not need to be live action, @ScaryReviews. Just get the art style right. Hoskins put on a pretty generic gruff accent that won't be hard for another actor to replicate, and Hopper goes weird enough to that it's probably simple enough to at least match the vibe, if not quite the voice.
@@ScarysReviewsI would love to see a prequel: how King Koopa took over and eventually came up with the Devo Machine.
@@deralfenderson They recognize the species as Zilla. The individual named Zilla is not the same one from the 1998 movie, because that one died. They even acknowledge it in the Toho movies.
"Didn't Godzilla attack New York?"
"The Americans think so, but we have our doubts."
This effectively makes Godzilla 2000 a sequel to Godzilla 1998.
The reason the TriStar monster is still referred to as Godzilla is due to a quirk of trademark law. Since Toho made hanko icons of the creature and included the name Godzilla with a trademark, they can't retroactively change it. They could make a new one in a similar design, but the old one would still exist.
Is this pedantic? Yes. But is it stupid? Very yes.
Just got the 4K Umbrella release of this movie. I can’t wait to watch it. I loved this movie as a kid that I wrote a “script” to a sequel as soon as I saw it involving the Koopa Kids fighting for the throne and bringing in Donkey Kong and making Yoshi rideable to fight on. It was…something. 😂
My parents had a passing familiarity with Mario, didn't see it in theaters but when it came out on VHS I went to rent it and I clearly remember my dad asking, 'Why do they have machine guns?'
One bad movie with a killer soundtrack including music from; Joe Satriani, Roxette, Megadeth, Queen
The soundtrack was fire my dude.
Thats right . 90s movies always had the best soundtracks , check out “Last Action Hero” soundtrack .
So I saw Super Mario Brothers in the theaters. I went with some friends whom I played video games and Dungeons & Dragons in high school. I think the camaraderie of us laughing at it is what I remember most.
I saw this and Jurassic Park on back-to-back weekends and I've been in love with seeing movies on the big screen ever since.
I liked the movie now probably more than when I was a kid. As a kid I was disappointed that Bowser wasn't a huge turtle t-rex and the goombas looked so weird. I still did like it as a kid.The humor was good for me. Now I like the different approach they went for. I really love the production design which you don't get in movies anymore. The huge, real sets and costumes. It's great as a different VERSION of the characters. I think I would have just been more ok with the goombas if they were more able to move their arms and didn't look so stiff. Like the cover art for the bluray now they look so scary.
Also I'm currently working on a Mega Man screenplay if anyone out there can direct me on where and how I can get this thing into the hands of someone who can do something with it.
"Worst video game movie of all time!"
Uwe Boll: "Hold my beer!"
Oh, yeah. Uwe Boll practically turned bad video game movies into an ARTFORM in the 2000s.
@@NebLleb Dadaist movies, in that case.
Alone in the Dark makes this movie look good. I didn't even think that was possible.
I dunno... Street Fighter(1994) has greatly affected culture and speech. I think we shouldn't be so harsh to Uwe Boll
Why, without him, we'd not have the phrase, "for him it was a Tuesday"--nor would we have had the most glorious Bisonopolis Speech... the "But Of Course!" reaction, the derpy take on Zangeif--and so much more pure gold. I mean, yes, Raul Julia _CARRIED_ that movie... but Zangeif was pretty decent as well
@@NimhLabs I’m sorry what does any of that have to do with not being harsh on Uwe Boll?
It's crazy to think Princess Daisy made it into a film before Peach, though i guess Daisy in this film is Peach in all but name.
Thats because Peach wasnt commonly or culturally known as Peach but as Princess Toadstool up until Mario 64
They went with -Peach- Daisy so the romance with Luigi would make more sense. But making her the daughter of the Mushroom King was an odd choice, since Daisy is from Sarasaland.
EDIT: Correction, for my brain was stupid that day
The thing is: Daisy actually sounds like a human name. Try having a live action human who grew up on Earth be named Peach or Toadstool.
Daisy took one for the team.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio English speakers didn't widely know the name "Peach" until 64, so it was assumed "Daisy" from Super Mario Land and "Princess Toadstool" from the mainline Super Mario Bros games were one and the same for a long while.
It may be a bad movie, but Hoskins, Leguizamo, and Hopper turned in some great performances. That makes the film watchable, at least.
As an actual child, I walked out of that movie and, for the first time, realizing "Oh, movies can be bad"
Fun fact, this wasn’t Mario’s first big screen appearance. In 1986 Nintendo released the OVA Super Mario Bros: The Great Adventure to Rescue Princess Peach to over 200 screens in Japan. There was a tie-in manga and (according to Wikipedia) “phone cards, watches, rice containers, ramen noodles,” and an original soundtrack released on vinyl and cassette. To the best of my knowledge it’s never gotten an official release outside of Japan.
It sadly may not get a release outside of Japan....Considering the amount of sex and romance references, as well as changes to how Japan culture is to American culture...Well, I doubt we'll ever get an official american release of the film, considering the company who animated it went bankrupt 20+ years back and hasn't worked on another animated film since (probably) the 1990s....Needless to say, one of the fans got access to a copy of the original 35mm film itself and made their own 4k Restoration & Remastered copy of the film itself, taking multiple audio clips from the original film as well as the other releases, combined into one audio and visual that would be probably the best ever remaster of the 1986 OVA Full Length Movie that there will ever be. And considering Nintendo, much like the DIC cartoons, never brought up or even mentioned the OVA at all, goes to show that Nintendo in the 1980s and 1990s clearly abandoned it once the 1993 film came out and flopped, and thus never bothered to come back into the movies again until 30 years later after the 1993 flop.
Man. i REALLY Love this Channel SO much. I've been with you guys for YEARS btw. back when it was called "Toy Galaxy" and I still adore the channel and that you guys are still going strong! Please don't ever stop doing what you're doing, because you're the best!
The technology to do that Devo evolution effect was brand new and all future movies ended up using a variation of it.
Mojo Nixon (Toad) passed a month ago. His music was a fusion of rockabilly and punk rock.
Ideal Cement at the time, it was also Top Dollar's hideout for The Crow. You used to be able to go out there but now its being used and you get stopped about a mile from the factory.
This movie is a guilty pleasure of mine!
One of my favorite movies of all time when I saw it as a kid I lost my mind. Still waiting on that sequel
I never hear anybody talking about how much the Double Dragon movie was way more worse than Mario!
I fully agree! I like rewatching the Mario Bros. movie, but I can't stand a single second of the Double Dragon movie.
I'd wager because DD pales in comparison to Mario as an IP. Less people to be disappointed.
Yeah they were more like Bill & Ted from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure if they were martial artist rather than a couple of street tough dudes who beat up street gangs.
This channel is so good. The content is so well researched and produced with entertaining hosting. Love it.
I grew up in Wilmington NC when this was filming and my dad worked on the this and Ninja turtles. Needless to say I was excited for both movies and Super Mario bros was a big deal. As kids my friends and I were super hyped and thought it was a strange movie but ultimately enjoyed it. Turtles was amazing and I still think it’s the best version of on screen TMNT. Fun fact, That cement factory was also used in Universal solider, The Crow and Ironman 3.
"It's gonna take more than a Plummer's Helper to figure all this crap out!"
I see what you did there! 😉😁
Thank you Dan and Company for all the things. 😊🤙
I remember back then being confused that they didn’t just make Super Mario into an animated movie. Listening to the directors trying to make the movie seem more than what it was gives me a headache.
Ironically, when the director duo was hired, who were experienced animators, they saw the original fantasy script as an animated film that neither them nor Nintendo wanted to produce. So if Lightmotive really wanted a cash grab family movie, they should've just stuck with that draft and made it animated. But alas that didn't happen.
@@kennyboggs3676 I know, that's why the new movie works more
I remember watching that movie and years later feeling like it was identical to the Street Fighter movie where the people making it really had no idea what to do with the source material and basically threw everything at the wall, and the actors were just doing their best.
Honestly despite being from the NES generation if you told me to write a movie based on the game i'd probably make just as bad if not worse because how do you write a story about a plumber who doesn't do any plumbing but instead stalks a princess while stomping on mushrooms and turtles?
I was pretty miffed last year, when I tried to find the movie to stream and found the only way to watch it digitally was to sail the high seas. How TF is this not streaming anywhere?!?
It's too good. It would take all the streaming bandwidth, take down servers, the internet could collapse. That's probably why.
I don’t know. The rights for any extended Nintendo media is a mess, with different companies and distributors handling all the Mario cartoons and this movie. It’s not like today where the new Mario movie is definitely owned by Universal.
@@benmalsky9834 The movie was distributed by Hollywood Pictures, a now-defunct subsidiary of Disney, so it's entirely possible that Disney has the streaming rights, but just wants to bury it like so many other shows and movies they're holding hostage, like the English dub of the 2001 Transformers anime, or most of their late 90's/early 2000's shows.
Maybe it wasn’t such a bright idea to have people who hate video games make a video game based movie. 🤔
Not to mention how they were CLEARLY more interested in making a big budgeted version of Max Headroom than Mario Bros... 👀
This seems to be the problem with most new adaptations of popular IPs.
You know sometimes things are better off animated because its safe you dont get hurt..unless your unionized.
I saw this at the theater on opening weekend when I was 11. I was a full-blown Nintendo Kid back then, and even though I was disappointed that it had so little to do with the games I still genuinely enjoyed it. I still love it today, both for its “so bad it’s good” qualities and the level of imagination and unique weirdness on display. Incidentally Rifftrax did a hilarious commentary for this back in 2014 that’s available as a VOD, it comes highly recommended even if you hate the movie itself.
While this is undoubtedly a terrible adaptation of Super Mario Bros, as a scifi cyberpunk movie it's actually quite fun tbh
It's just such a weird movie. It's not a great movie but it is so damn weird I can't hate it.
Just had a thought! It kind of has the look of a 1980s Dark Fantasy film. Also, the story kind of tracks too. If you thought about it, would you consider it a Dark Fantasy?
I was so confused as a kid when I saw this movie and it was so different than the games and cartoons. The Mushroom king was just a fungal system through out the city? Odd.
I saw it in the Roxy Theater in Northampton, PA. I’m proud of that.
Man as weird as this movie is, I actually still love it. It’s one of only a few movies my dad took us to the theater to watch which was already a big ask cause he was always busy working. To this day I still pop in the DVD occasionally, and a few years ago my Mario obsessed kids found it and became curious enough to want to watch it themselves. Great vid!
I loved the movie back in 93 and still do today. I've cosplayed as Movie Mario (including thwomp boots.) and have all the Ertl toys boxed and unboxed and I'll never apologize for that. It was better than double dragon and that is something at least.
So, the guys behind Porridge, a genuine work of genius, worked on a movie that even Dennis Hopper's kids shat on. Fucking hell...
They often worked as "script doctors" employed to jazz up existing scripts. It’s good money but you don't get a credit. Carrie Fisher was also a well known script doctor
I think this was the first movie that really confused me as a kid. I saw it in theaters, but was like "Where's Bowser? Where are the goombas? The koopas?" I remember leaving unsure if I liked it or not.
My niece is obsessed with Mario Brothers to the point she will read any piece of lore or play any Mario game she can get her hands on and up until a couple years ago, she didn't even know this movie existed. For a laugh I showed her a pic of Hopper from the movie and told her "that's Bowser" and she just matter of factly declared "no it's not"
Great use of Community "KAOS" scenes, mixed wi Ghostbusters "cats n dawgs", i noticed !!!! Nice touch
Mario Cement Factory _referenced._ I genuinely enjoyed that handset device.
Great Stuff, as always.
Loved this!! I worked on the movie very early in my career. I was in the makeup department. It was really hard work in brutal conditions but I had a blast 😊
I remember going to the local theater to see this movie with my best buddy as teenagers and being really frustrated with the plot at first. However, halfway through the movie my friend left for a bit and came back with a smuggled rum bottle from his car. The movie got a whole lot better from that point as we played a drinking game were we would take a zip everytime they showed something we found ridiculous or disjointed from the lore. We were pretty blasted by the end, but I can't say I was bored anymore.
The 90s were the absolute best time to grow up, hands down.
I remember renting this from my local video store frequently as a child so it will always hold a special place for me. So much so I have that deluxe 4k blu-ray set coming next week. 😅
Wonderful!!! Love how in depth you guys went!!
Kinda long but here it goes. When I was a kid, I was a R.A. (Royal Ambassador) which was basically boy scouts at church. Our councilor would sometimes take us on a DU. Destination Unknown. She took us to see this movie when it came out so about 8 of us ranging in age in a church group went and watched this steampunk fever dream. Every time I see this movie it instantly takes me back too that theatre and the embarrassed look on my councilor's face thru the entire thing.
21:24 that's a pretty good top 10 Dave & Hot Shots 2.... fantastic not sure I want to rewatch any of the others though
I remember when this first hit the theaters. I was so disappointed. Also, I loved the Coneheads. #73 that year is blasphemy.
4:51 Cornballer FTW 😂
14:33 🤣🤣
13:54 All i can think of here is the deep movie voice going: you just f*cked with the wrong plumber! (Explosion) Super Mario Brothers! This summer.
I discovered this movie from a local video store as a kid, and I was shocked that Super Mario Bros had a live action movie adaptation, but I didn’t rent it, and then I saw it on network TV and was shocked it has nothing to do with the source material! But I didn’t think it was even the worst video game movie, since it would’ve been popular had it been a screwball comedy movie. I liked Bob Hoskins and Dennis Hopper in those movies, since they were still hilarious in that movie!
We had Super Mario Bros 1-3 for the NES, we only had around 10 games the entire time we had the system.
We were the first kids in our area that bought a Nintendo with our own money, my brothers and I did odd jobs until we earned it.
The idea of the Goombas being inspiration for Zilla ‘98 makes so much sense looking back
5:54 Have you seen _any_ of the Ninja Turtle movies? Any at all? Because what you're describing is specifically the 2012 version, and you even got that wrong. _Shredder_ leads the Foot bots, and the Kraang are a separate entity. Like you're misremembering that version and the original 1987 version where Shredder and one solitary being named Krang lived together and acted together as a married couple. Anyhow, none of the movies non-human Foot Soldiers.
Weird! "Mom and Dad save the World" was more of a Mario Movie than this mario movie. What an interesting movie that might have been, with that director at the helm....
I saw this first, and then Jurassic Park, within one week of eachother back when they both came out. I left the theater convinced that 'Mario Bros' was the best dinosaur movie that I'd ever seen... I was a strange kid.
Its weird cause if it was called anything but Super Mario Bros, it wouldve landed as some obscure 90s cult classic but for the fact it was Super Mario Bros, it landed as an obscure 90s cult classic. I love it and Im glad more people are coming around to it. I remember seeing Leguizamo do a little video for a anniversary screening and while he was trying to be enthusiastic for the fans, he didnt seem to be able to hide his surprise that people were actually still watching it.
The hill I am dying on, just because this film was bad doesn’t mean a good live action Mario film was impossible
Oh dang! The Bionic Commando shout out at the end! That's been my favorite since I was a kid as, to me, it's tonally like all the classic 80's military action movies in a game. Except I didn't see any of those movies til I was an adult. And I maintain my original position!
Looking back, as a kid I don't think I knew what to think of the movie, aside from how adorable Yoshi was. I've come to love it more as I grew up, though, and it's a surreal movie that could have only happened back in the 90s. Also with as wild as the creation of the movie was, you could make a whole movie just about that, a la "The Disaster Artist".
You should do a video about the rise and fall of Pogs!
aw that was really sweet at the end.
The story of the making of this trainwreck of a movie is better than the movie itself! While I've seen reports on it before, thanks for your rendition of it!
Failure? I fucking love this flick
I love you keeping in the outtakes. It's very endearing 🙂❤
The behind-the-scenes shot of Jason was ::chefs kiss::
I grew up with 80's & 90's Action, Sci-fi, Horror, Drama, Comedy etc. movies and so with Nintendo and Sega consoles & games.
Since day ONE I loved this movie. The action, darker world, interesting creatures and all felt so entertaining - and I'm otherwise very hard to sell on movies with a poor adaption and respect of its IP, but this was something its own for the time so unique. I loved the marketing, ads and all. Rented it a couple of times. Then taped it when it was on TV and watched it several times. Bought a VHS copy some years later (was hard as heck where I lived to find a copy for years) and when it came out on DVD, of course I bought it.
Blu-ray indeed a few months ago. Oh I forgot I bought as a kid the CD Soundtrack album and a copy of the novel adaptation. So yeah, I loved it.
Just to bad I could never get any of the Action figures and the Police vehicle as I so badly wanted them !!!!
Sad we never could get a sequel as the movie ended on a cliffhanger.... I remember I wished it would be Wario as the bad guy as he came around the same time in the games.
I was 7 years old and my brother and I were avid NES and Super Mario fans. My mother brought us to the movie and I remember being so confused as to how this movie had anything to do with Super Mario Bros. I will however say that the movie was so unique that it has been firmly implanted in my memories for 31 years.
Thanks!
It sure is baffling that this movie isn’t streaming or in demand anywhere in the US. I’m sure Shout! Factory or Arrow Video would gladly pick it up.
“Its no ones intention to ruin the classics.” No. It was very much Michael Bay and Lorenzo DeBonaventuras intent to do and change whatever he wanted despite constant objections from the core fans.
The closing statement was well stated!
Thanks for the vid!
Still wish Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger were cast in the Super Mario Bros. movie. Would’ve been flipping hilarious, an unofficial sequel to Twins. Would’ve laughed my ass off.
Let’s-a-go!
18:57 TIL from this episode…
- The SMB movie was shot on unfinished sets.
- The cast were working from a rewrite of a rewrite of a rewrite of a rewrite of a rewrite.
- Dan is a fan of Taskmaster.
So glad you mentioned the mari bros for the Atari. I either own or owned it, and it's a unique part of history.
Sadly, it feels like these days there are LOTS of people out to ruin, i mean, "FIX and/or IMPROVE" the classics for some reason.
i love that some editor on team knew to pull that sam campbell clip. love TM, love SG.
Kids don't care where the things they love come from. They want to see the characters they know having a fun adventure. This movie completely lost sight of that. It was Super Mario made by someone who didn't know what Super Mario was.
I hesitated to watch this because I thought I wouldn’t learn something new. But you guys really dug deep. Well done. ✨✅✨
I loved that movie as a kid and I still love it at almost 40 years old. Thank you for that great Video. It brought back so many memories from my childhood❤
This Mario movie is an EXTREMELY important movie. There are countless lessons that were learned in holywood from this movie. Just think where movies and games would be today if instead it was an Xmen movie and made the same way !
We wouldn't have the MCU, but instead, maybe the 1st Iron Man movie comes out in the style of the recent CG animated Mario movie.
We would probably have more live Action video game movies, and then comic movies would be the types of movies that directors and actors are afraid to touch!
Its important to also remember the two very creative director's who made this movie. I think it was clearly the wrong choice to make this movie, and it damaged their careers forever.
I love their style and vision in this movie.
It just simply shouldn't have ever been a Mario movie.
Something like Total recall or any cyberpunk movie is what i wish i could have seen them direct. Or have a hamd in the designs.
It sounds like they weren't liked by anyone. They probably took on too much responsibility and should have let more experienced people hande the work they didn't know how to do.
I remember being a kid and coming out of the theater like wtf was that? It felt so disconnected from Mario Bros and confused me greatly
Another thing that hurt this film over the years was 9/11 and the fact that the Twin Towers played such a prominent role in the film..
I saw this film opening night, I took my girlfriend to the the only good thing was we walked out it was so bad. At least my girlfriend was unfazed and we went to the parking lot then after 30 minutes went to the restaurant nextdoor.
Bionic Commando is Capcom, and they certainly had some...ideas of their own in a game they made a few years ago. (That being the wife-powered robot arm. Yes, really.)
I knew somebody would point this out, and you good sir; delivered!
The funny thing is experimental movies like Mario Bros that don't fare too well at the box office is usually where innovation is born. There was some tech invented for the movie that went on to be used in bigger ways down the line.
Your videos make things I don’t really care about very interesting. Bravo.
I remember the first time I watched this movie on DVD, it was something I treasured and still treasure cause of the uniqueness it brought to the table.