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Video-game movies were big in the mid 1990’s. They are going to make a comeback when the Tomb Raider movie comes out—I predict Tomb Raider will make a ton of money in the theaters. Super Mario Bros. was one of the first and one of the worst. You can’t insult it because it doesn’t stick to the game’s plot. Face it, a game about plumbers stomping on turtles to save a Princess… OK, so maybe it kinda sticks to the plot. Mario (Bob Hoskins) and Luigi (John Leguizamo) discover a portal to another world when Luigi’s girlfriend Daisy is kidnapped by Bowser (Dennis Hopper). The sets are certainly very imaginative with bouncing fungi. I liked how they threw all sorts of characters from the game in for no good reason (Oh No! Bomb Ombs!). Dennis Hopper was cool as Bowser, and Mario and Luigi weren’t bad. Yoshi was actually a very realistic-looking mechanical dinosaur. At the end, it didn’t add up to a Mario Bros. experience. I think a cartoon would have worked better. The funniest thing about the movie is the ending:
Mario and Luigi sit down to eat lunch. Daisy comes through the front door. DAISY: Mario and Luigi, you’ve got to come back to help us. The Mushroom Kingdom is…. THE END
There was never a sequel. I give Super Mario Bros. ** out of ****. I'm really not sure why, but I happen
to like this movie. I know that it isn't that great, but I watch
and I'm still able to enjoy it. Maybe because it just doesn't
make any sense, much like the video game. The ending pissed me
off. I would have loved to a sequel to this movie, no matter
how bad it was destined to be. |