The Crazy Story of The Super Mario Bros Movie (1993) Failure

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    Nintendo was big. The biggest! And Super Mario Bros was the marquee name.
    So the time was perfect to turn the Super Mario Bros Nintendo game into Super Mario Bros: The Movie (1993). Hire some writers, hire the people who created Max Headroom. How hard can it be?
    Super Mario Bros The Movie didn't turn out how anyone that worked on it hoped it would. This is the story of chaos. This is the crazy story of The Super Mario Bros (1993) failure.
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  • @wstine79
    @wstine79 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +153

    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.

  • @marshallhuffer4713
    @marshallhuffer4713 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +320

    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.'"

    • @danielkover7157
      @danielkover7157 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Lol 😆

    • @DocLantern85
      @DocLantern85 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      That was at the very beginning of Brandon Tenold's video when he reviewed it last year.

    • @brianstiles1701
      @brianstiles1701 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      24:56

    • @soulchorea
      @soulchorea 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@brianstiles1701 I hate when rich people say stuff like this 🤣

    • @jasonblalock4429
      @jasonblalock4429 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      @@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!”

  • @Swishiee
    @Swishiee 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +84

    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.

    • @OtakuUnitedStudio
      @OtakuUnitedStudio 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      Citizen Kane
      Godzilla (1954)
      1984
      Super Mario Bros (1993)

    • @michaelcarpenter2498
      @michaelcarpenter2498 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Must have been misplaced.

    • @OtakuUnitedStudio
      @OtakuUnitedStudio 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@michaelcarpenter2498 No, someone based put it where it should be.

    • @StarryStarryNocturne
      @StarryStarryNocturne 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Criterion would do a 4k remaster with all the frills of Chopping Mall before it would ever consider Super Mario Bros.

  • @deralfenderson
    @deralfenderson 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +77

    There’s a guy on BlueSky whose whole shtick is that a sequel to this movie MUST BE MADE and I agree with them.

    • @deralfenderson
      @deralfenderson 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Oh, and I’ll have you know that Toho officially recognizes the 1998 abomination as ‘Zilla. It should be canon.

    • @ScarysReviews
      @ScarysReviews 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      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?

    • @kami_in_the_skye
      @kami_in_the_skye 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@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.

    • @nicholastosoni707
      @nicholastosoni707 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@ScarysReviewsI would love to see a prequel: how King Koopa took over and eventually came up with the Devo Machine.

    • @OtakuUnitedStudio
      @OtakuUnitedStudio 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@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.

  • @williamrogers4917
    @williamrogers4917 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    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.

  • @sizier
    @sizier 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    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.

    • @benmalsky9834
      @benmalsky9834 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yeah, there’s just something about those movies that you can’t look away from.

    • @greggsmith4570
      @greggsmith4570 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      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.

    • @mpm1125
      @mpm1125 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You have super powers to just be able to look at those things

    • @vladimirlagos2688
      @vladimirlagos2688 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Boy, you must really enjoy the Razzies, then.

    • @benmalsky9834
      @benmalsky9834 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@vladimirlagos2688 I don’t. I think they’re very tasteless.

  • @BullseyeRey
    @BullseyeRey 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    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.

    • @4867503
      @4867503 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Thats because Peach wasnt commonly or culturally known as Peach but as Princess Toadstool up until Mario 64

    • @OtakuUnitedStudio
      @OtakuUnitedStudio 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      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

    • @AdamYJ
      @AdamYJ 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      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.

    • @toddknaperek8225
      @toddknaperek8225 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Daisy took one for the team.

    • @apollolux
      @apollolux 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@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.

  • @loringbush1455
    @loringbush1455 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I never hear anybody talking about how much the Double Dragon movie was way more worse than Mario!

    • @charlesbennett7484
      @charlesbennett7484 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I fully agree! I like rewatching the Mario Bros. movie, but I can't stand a single second of the Double Dragon movie.

    • @bigbearkat2010
      @bigbearkat2010 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'd wager because DD pales in comparison to Mario as an IP. Less people to be disappointed.

    • @Advent616
      @Advent616 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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.

  • @tomkerruish2982
    @tomkerruish2982 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Mojo Nixon (Toad) passed a month ago. His music was a fusion of rockabilly and punk rock.

  • @DavidGadea2112
    @DavidGadea2112 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    One bad movie with a killer soundtrack including music from; Joe Satriani, Roxette, Megadeth, Queen

    • @KeldorTheWhite
      @KeldorTheWhite 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      The soundtrack was fire my dude.

    • @deehlgrm9379
      @deehlgrm9379 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Thats right . 90s movies always had the best soundtracks , check out “Last Action Hero” soundtrack .

  • @leorblumenthal5239
    @leorblumenthal5239 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    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.

  • @jordans4827
    @jordans4827 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    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.

  • @clintonwilcox4690
    @clintonwilcox4690 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    It may be a bad movie, but Hoskins, Leguizamo, and Hopper turned in some great performances. That makes the film watchable, at least.

  • @isaachernandez2592
    @isaachernandez2592 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    You know sometimes things are better off animated because its safe you dont get hurt..unless your unionized.

  • @Steven0sborne
    @Steven0sborne 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    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.

  • @kylefarley2456
    @kylefarley2456 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    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.

    • @bigbearkat2010
      @bigbearkat2010 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      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"

  • @crush41gb
    @crush41gb 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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.

  • @JohnLoeffler78
    @JohnLoeffler78 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I remember when this first hit the theaters. I was so disappointed. Also, I loved the Coneheads. #73 that year is blasphemy.

  • @Markimark151
    @Markimark151 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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!

  • @Dynaman21
    @Dynaman21 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Dennis Hopper’s career would have been dead in the water if he didn’t have Speed to fall back on. Hoskins didn’t have that luxury. Neither did anyone else.

    • @maxpops8427
      @maxpops8427 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      John Leguizamo still had a very successful career though

    • @kamenanew9867
      @kamenanew9867 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Bob was in relentless, maybe the best jet li flick ever.

  • @SC1ENCEP1E
    @SC1ENCEP1E 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    This channel is so good. The content is so well researched and produced with entertaining hosting. Love it.

  • @Derekivery
    @Derekivery 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The hill I am dying on, just because this film was bad doesn’t mean a good live action Mario film was impossible

  • @jamcalx
    @jamcalx 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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.

  • @logantrimble006
    @logantrimble006 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I'm just glad we got a great Mario movie in 2023. No old vs. new here. The new movie wins.

  • @thomriley1036
    @thomriley1036 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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.

  • @wstine79
    @wstine79 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I'm actually seen some and locations that were used in the Super Mario Brothers movie in Wilmington, North Carolina. I find the movie more entertaining for its sheer weirdness. Dennis Hopper definitely earned his money for his son's sneakers.

  • @entheo302
    @entheo302 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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.

  • @Matt-tb9so
    @Matt-tb9so 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @WarioSaysSo
    @WarioSaysSo 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    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.

  • @BaronVonHardcharger
    @BaronVonHardcharger 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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....

  • @JRock-xv3sk
    @JRock-xv3sk 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @6sKi6z6
    @6sKi6z6 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I was 11 when this movie came out and I saw it in the theater. I remember leaving it confused.

  • @SerifSansSerif
    @SerifSansSerif 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So glad you mentioned the mari bros for the Atari. I either own or owned it, and it's a unique part of history.

  • @smappdooda
    @smappdooda 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @e.d.t.
    @e.d.t. 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Oddly enough I like this movie more now than I did when I was a kid, like when you're older you can appreciate certain elements more instead of being angry at every single thing they did wrong. I used to have a Mad Magazine with either a comic or some art about this movie and I wish I'd kept it.

  • @Rob-z7k
    @Rob-z7k 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Off Mario Bros topic....i wonder why they havent done a serious 'Umbrella' series. The Resident Evil movies were garbage and feel this is the only way to reboot the series brand new again. Id def want to see Umbrellas point of view on how it went down before the Mansion R1 incident

  • @therealDJG
    @therealDJG 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

    • @Charles12
      @Charles12 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

    • @Charles12
      @Charles12 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kennyboggs3676 I know, that's why the new movie works more

  • @demonprincess5634
    @demonprincess5634 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    One of my favorite movies of all time when I saw it as a kid I lost my mind. Still waiting on that sequel

  • @Sea-Salt
    @Sea-Salt 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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".

  • @trrisner37
    @trrisner37 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I heard there was cut idea or scene at the end where Nintendo execs then show up at their door and want to buy the rights to Mario and Luigi’s story to create a video game. Maybe that’s just a legend but it feels like it would have made more sense. But Nintendo probably didn’t want their name in the movie

  • @TobyDeshane
    @TobyDeshane 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Despite it's reputation, I enjoy the film. Yeah, it's a wild mess and absolutely NOT what anyone was expecting -- but for me that's part of it's charm. It's a legitimately interesting if unexpected vision that's just way, way out there. Just the pinnacle of weird, and I'm always willing to go to bat for it when folks trash it.

  • @jorgezarco9269
    @jorgezarco9269 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have a soft spot for Angels Revenge(1979). The producers on Super Mario Bros.(1993) recycled the steel mill set from Terminator 2: Judgment Day(1991). The Alan Silvestri music score was good. The song Almost Unreal was written for Hocus Pocus.

  • @glarryg2318
    @glarryg2318 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I bought this movie on DVD with the express purpose of having my kids watch it before seeing the Illumination version. They were pretty shocked by a lot of it, but by the end they agreed that there's probably a decent movie in there somewhere, just not a decent Mario Brothers movie.

  • @logangaley870
    @logangaley870 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @ChairmanChico
    @ChairmanChico 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @blahlbinoa
    @blahlbinoa 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This movie is me and my wife's guilty pleasure. It's so bad it's good for us. I saw it in the theaters and I HATED IT! But as I grew older, I appreciated it for what it is. A weird Cyberpunk schlocky movie that is fun to watch!

  • @devinflint5554
    @devinflint5554 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That news segment was like video games were some brand new thing and hadn't been around for decades already. But I shouldn't expect any more from John "give me a break" Stossel.

  • @Belgand
    @Belgand 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It would be great to see a video on Mom and Dad Save the World as well. Box office failure? Sure. But it was one of those late-childhood classics that ran endlessly on HBO in the early '90s. Watching it again several months back, it still holds up as a throwaway but amusing adventure with a great cast of cult favorite actors. Perfect for a lazy weekend afternoon.
    From that same era, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead or the far more weird and subversive Freaked would also be ripe for coverage.

  • @crushcity3034
    @crushcity3034 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @F1ghtGam3r
    @F1ghtGam3r 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I remember seeing screenshots of this movie in the mid 2000s on internet message boards, I didn't see the movie until I bought a VHS copy at a yard sale in 2007

  • @mekman4
    @mekman4 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Mario Cement Factory _referenced._ I genuinely enjoyed that handset device.
    Great Stuff, as always.

  • @motleykingdom9394
    @motleykingdom9394 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thankfully as a kid, when I saw this in theaters, I was able to quickly realize it wasn't going to have much at all to do with the games and could enjoy it for what it was... a damn fun movie in its own right.

  • @BatmanPops
    @BatmanPops 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Me my brother and cousins were all scared of the Big body small head Goombas lol 📼📺👀😱😅😅

  • @Foxonian
    @Foxonian 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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..

  • @mattjenner6225
    @mattjenner6225 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @bound2thefloor1
    @bound2thefloor1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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?

  • @brenthill2656
    @brenthill2656 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As a kid I skipped on this because it looked nothing like the Mario Bros I loved. As an adult I finally watched it, and I gotta say, it is weird, insane, way off the mark, and I find it incredibly enjoyable and entertaining! 😂😂😂

  • @studiokadaver
    @studiokadaver 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The fact that somebody made a movie from a game that clearly has a giant reptile named Koopa yet still looks like a human in the movie should’ve been enough to not make the movie. If you don’t know what the character looks like from a game that has clearly defined characters. You need to shut down.

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I saw this film in 1993 in our hometown theater.
    Fast forward to 2023, I saw The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) in the same theater (which my godparents now own).

  • @MarcWeertsMusic
    @MarcWeertsMusic 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I do like your conclusion... The internet is too full already of people trying to convince others that something they think is bad, should be found bad by everyone else.

  • @JoeNayDoh
    @JoeNayDoh 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Honestly all those early 90s video game movies like Double Dragon, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat and of course Super Mario Bros. Have a certain charm to them that makes them still enjoyable to watch. Its only when we get to movies like Wing Commander that I would really start categorizing video game movies as Bad

  • @blacksheep9950
    @blacksheep9950 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That's two separate movies, the Adventures of Baron Munchausen, and Gandhi - can you imagine?

  • @Kandarako
    @Kandarako 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I remember watching this one on the big screen. A total deception.
    Also, I never understood that late 80s - early 90s movies tendency to make every plot about gangs for youngsters: super mario brothers, double dragon, tmnt...

  • @SuperBrooklynite007
    @SuperBrooklynite007 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    To this day I still love this movie… so much that I start Mar 10 day off by watching it

  • @Snikit
    @Snikit 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I hesitated to watch this because I thought I wouldn’t learn something new. But you guys really dug deep. Well done. ✨✅✨

  • @lrlong1285
    @lrlong1285 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for including a link to your intro song!

  • @blueskiesj
    @blueskiesj 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    surprised y'all didn't include the alleged coffee story!
    I enjoyed this movie as a kid. I guess I grew up with movies not quite nailing the source material but being fun anyway (98 Godzilla as well)

  • @kommissar.murphy
    @kommissar.murphy 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sipping whisky with bob hoskins sounds like a great way to pass time at a boring job.

  • @danielwilliamson6180
    @danielwilliamson6180 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've loved 1993 Super Mario Bros. since childhood. I think it's great. I can see why the movie failed. It was the first video game to be made into a live-action movie and it had never been done before, and I could imagine with its budget, limitations, special effects, practical effects and studio intervention, it wouldn't be an easy video game to adapt into a movie. The 2023 Super Mario Bros. animated reboot was so good, and it was the perfect adaptation of the game. That's why the 1987 movie Masters of the Universe failed cos they couldn't afford to do it like the cartoon He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and have the whole movie set on Eternia and why multiple characters from the cartoon were not in the movie and why it had to be set on Earth and Masters of the Universe became a dark loose adaptation of the cartoon. You've got to give 93 Super Mario credit for the costumes, set designs and its practical effects. For it's worth, Super Mario Bros. is an fun and entertaining sci-fi action fantasy comedy movie. 👨🏻‍🔧 ‍🐉 🍄

  • @markvicferrer
    @markvicferrer 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Your synopsis at the beginning explained the movie better than multiple painful rewatches.

  • @SixshotRevan
    @SixshotRevan 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've only ever seen about 10-15 minutes of this movie. My Grandparents were watching it on TV in the late 90s. I walked into the room somewhere in the middle of the movie and after a while I lost interest. I wonder if my Grandparents actually watched the whole thing on their own.

  • @lynngreen7978
    @lynngreen7978 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Creatives do not set out to make a bad movie. Suits have no clue about creating.
    Which is why Warner Bros think that the guy who made:
    Batman
    X-Men
    Watchmen
    Guardians of the Galaxy
    Can make Superman. "A cape is a cape."

  • @rwdplz1
    @rwdplz1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This movie was young me's first real memory of 'disappointment'

  • @SeiferA2001
    @SeiferA2001 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I remember watching this movie in theaters in 1993. I was 8 years old at the time.
    While I can appreciate the creative take they did now, I’m pretty sure that was the first time I was ever disappointed at what I saw in a movie theater

  • @registereduser
    @registereduser 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Man, the Schumacher quote at the end always makes me feel sad.

  • @Jofe000
    @Jofe000 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    20:25 Wait... Is that... Is that why the main character in 1998 Godzilla has that last name?

  • @MrBeardsley
    @MrBeardsley 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One of these days I’m going through your videos and cataloging all the Friday the 13th clips you sneak into them.

  • @SuperMarioBrosIII
    @SuperMarioBrosIII 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Super Mario Bros. 2 is not the same version created overseas as it was panned as being too difficult to play so they re-tweeked it for the US release. It wasn't until years later it would be released here in the US as Super Mario. Bros. "The Lost Levels" LOL! Super Mario Bros. 3 wasn't released in the US until 1991. It was released overseas in 1988 and featured in the 1989 movie The Wizard.🎮🕹🤔

  • @Justin-Hill-1987
    @Justin-Hill-1987 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The end result of the first attempt at a Super Mario Bros. movie in the 1990s was too many cooks in the kitchen...

  • @edwardjohnson6744
    @edwardjohnson6744 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I think this movie has definitely established itself as a cult classic, if nothing else.

  • @registereduser
    @registereduser 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Console Wars is a great book if the 80’s and 90’s were your childhood. Or if you’re interested in video games.
    Well, it’s a good book in general, really.

  • @Stormtrooper53
    @Stormtrooper53 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "As of this video Super Mario Bros. is not available to stream in the US."
    Not completely true, you can get the Rifftrax version.

  • @RyanRead
    @RyanRead 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It was an interesting experience when I saw it that year. Part of me praises taking the chances with it. Yet they didn’t know Super Mario Brothers.

  • @CannedFishFiles
    @CannedFishFiles 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    aw that was really sweet at the end.

  • @ekojar3047
    @ekojar3047 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @joshoshea3194
    @joshoshea3194 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love you keeping in the outtakes. It's very endearing 🙂❤

  • @mccallosone4903
    @mccallosone4903 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Bob Hoskins Appreciation Comment

  • @tyrannozilla
    @tyrannozilla 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    They should've made it animated in the first place.

  • @kamoto031283
    @kamoto031283 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The same duo that made The Super Mario Bros was the same that made the Baron!? That's suprising. They had POGS!?😢

  • @V3ntilator
    @V3ntilator 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It did have some brand new CGI effects not done in any other movie before.

  • @bngjessie666
    @bngjessie666 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As a kid I actually enjoyed the movie for what it was, understanding it wasn’t a good adaptation, but still interesting to look at and watch. Its also not a good movie, but not nearly as bad as people used to and even today make it out to be. If nothing else its a movie thats a good bad movie and worth watching with friends to riff on. Heck, Rifftrax (some of the people behind Mystery Science Theater 3000) did a riff of the film and it’s one my favorite riffs of all time. Helps put the movie into perspective as a whole. Highly, recommend that version of it if that’s your jam.
    To this day Luigi’s words of wisdom still rings true for me today: “Nothing’s impossible. Improbable, unlikely, but not impossible.” I also appreciate the reunion of Dennis Hopper and Fisher Stevens from their appearance together in My Science Project. Another movie thats not very good, but still fun and entertaining for what it is.

  • @FearlessSon
    @FearlessSon 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When I went to see this movie in theaters, it was with my sister and my paternal grandfather escorting us. He only said, "Huh, the way they make movies has changed since I was young."
    That visit was the last time I saw him alive. I never got to tell him how terrible I thought it was with the benefit of hindsight.

  • @JonTripp115
    @JonTripp115 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    OMG that Fabulous Stains parody poster. 👨‍🍳💋
    Considering they started on it with only a paragraph or so of story as a launch pad, imagine what could have happened if they had used a single word of that paragraph other than the names to inspire the script.

  • @jonathanbynoe4375
    @jonathanbynoe4375 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That move was completely forgettable. Number 2 was Street Fighter live action movie. In the 90's, video game adaptation movies struggled to get off the ground because the plot deviated from the game almost, and the presentation comes off as corny. The only exception was Mortal Kombat in 1995. The movie still holds up as a timeless classic. The turn of the century though people are turning away from Super Hero adaptation movies and jumping on the video game movie bandwagon.

  • @bubbles581
    @bubbles581 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I never thought about the similarity to max hedroom before that explains a lot

  • @captlazer5509
    @captlazer5509 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Umbrella Entertainment released a 4K set of Super Mario Bros with a copy of the script. Now I wonder what version? It's hilarious that they went to all that effort.

  • @saphcal
    @saphcal 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i was only like 6-7 when it came out but i saw it and loved it and had the toys. good times.

  • @Ouzo812
    @Ouzo812 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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❤

  • @Feralbam1
    @Feralbam1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I enjoyed the movie a lot as a kid, even though it was strange i liked the artictic take on it. The planet building and even the mushrooms helping