The Super Mario Brothers Movie - What Happened?

[@MattMcMuscles]

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[@M1GarandMan3005]

And to think that Skywalker Sound poured their talents into this dumpster fire!?!?!

[@raycearcher5794]

THE CAST: We're here for your lighthearted fantasy comedy adventure! DIRECTORS: Great, here are your flamethrowers.

[@Tareltonlives]

CAST: Fuck it I'm getting drunk

[@calmgoodfire4662]

Directors:ooo you want a drink mr.dinosaur extra I’ll give you a nice hot drink inside your suit

[@SamuraiGoth]

@@calmgoodfire4662 I can't imagine veterans like Dennis and Bob's sheer horror at seeing these egomaniacs act like assholes.

[@V4Now]

Audience: why aren't these flamethrower "cool"?😭

[@aidankeogh9994]

"Dad, I don't need shoes that badly." That kid is going places

[@adiraiju9336]

Not without shoes, he's not.

[@cheatsykoopa98]

barefoot, but yes he is

[@denimchicken104]

Which is nonsense. Dennis hopper had plenty of money by that point in his career.

[@Wendy_O._Koopa]

@@denimchicken104 It's a reference to the old meme (long before we called them memes) "Baby needs a new pair of shoes!" where you appeal to... the gods of luck? Wait, 'luck be a lady tonight' so the you pray upon the genderfluid deities with maternal instincts, to let you win big with your 'bottom dollar' or you won't be able to feed or clothe your poor children. So... um... yeah... I don't really get it either, but gamblers are notoriously superstitious, and they often have several quirks based on confirmation bias. Anyhow, hindsight is 20/20, but he did definitely take a gamble accepting this movie.

[@MaddJakd]

@@denimchicken104 That's so beside the point. Bro is working. Just because it nets way more income than most can dream of doesn't mean one has to automatically do lazy or a douce about it. Better yet, it seems he's instilling some qualities in his son that are grotesquely missing among people making far less. So yeah. Bigger pictures and such, but of course you small minded folk only see the money 🙄

[@willichtenstein7071]

The directors are unapologetic hacks. Literally everyone but them signed on to make a movie close to the source material. Then the directors ask for pity that no one liked them for changing everything and abusing their actors. They actually complained that Hollywoood blacklisted them.

[@chubbubdreamer6904]

That deserve to be blacklisted for being goddamn hacks.

[@stevietonche]

@@TooMuchSascha and pedos. Lots of pedos.

[@akaimizu1]

Patoren 3gou or even worse. Turn Spongebob into something resembling Highlander 2. Bringing some Alien lore into the thing. Then attempt to retcon the origins of all the characters.

[@AH-is5yg]

i agree those directors had no idea about the super mario games and they made this movie out of their own egos instead of staying true to the source material. the film should have been giving to the right people

[@unbearablename]

@Xyre154 There's a difference between failing from ambition and failing purely because of your own ego refusing to make any semblance of compromise for the people you're working with.

[@armaggedon390]

The directors wanted to make their own movie instead of making the Mario movie. I'm glad they're blacklisted. Such an unprofessional attitude shouldn't be rewarded.

[@TheAssassin642]

And no matter who you are, you don't get to be an arrogant, condescending piece of shit to anyone. I don't know if they just thought they could treat people like shit because they were the directors. But fuck that attitude.

[@thelittleredhairedgirlfrom6527]

FallenAngelSamurai Definitely. Pouring coffee on someone and then claiming it’s okay because they’re “just an extra” is a terrible thing to do.

[@armaggedon390]

@@duckywinks Reminds me of the guy who changed the script of that Godzilla movie because the climax was a battle between two giant monsters and he "didn't like that".

[@sullygroot924]

@@duckywinks we must have been watching 2 separate movies

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

@@armaggedon390 Oh shit, the 90s version?

[@Jacques10]

Your telling me we missed out on Danny Devito as Mario fighting Arnold Schwarzenegger as Bowser... I AM LIVID!

[@fallensurvivor21]

Fr! Little kid me would've been hype lol

[@vizthex]

ikr, I have several objections about this

[@wuffy8006]

@@vizthex Mario grabs an ice flower "So then I started blasting" koopa "Ice to meet you" Guess both of those references, and you're pretty much a star, man.

[@sheik124]

@GBProductions84 Kid me would've watched the shit out of either movie so hard the cassette would've given up after only one year. But especially DeVito vs. Schwarzenegger.

[@Wendy_O._Koopa]

@@wuffy8006 You'd have to be living under a rock not to recognize world-famous(on-the-internet) memes from It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia & Batman and Robin, but the invincible Starman reference at the end was a nice touch. Although, I just had to mention something, I'm sure you're aware of, but if left unsaid, this thread will drive me nuts and cause me to loose sleep. The Ice Flower won't appear for another 12 years, debuting in 2005's Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time on the original DS.

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

"Dad, I don't need shoes that badly." That is both painful and heartwarming at the same time. Like, aaaaaw. You understand but damn it, you're embarrassed too.

[@theangriestpigeon4403]

So the Directors were angry because they couldn't make the movie their own... Ok... This is like hiring an artist to draw your OC and they make changes without your consent or knowledge while stating, "I just thought it would be better like this!" No shit it's not your own! It's not your IP! Make your own movie if you want to do that.

[@platypuspracticus2]

That's what a lot of superhero (pre-MCU) and video game movies were to these types of people: an easy way to get their own work out by copy/pasting IP names and items into the various blanks.

[@Garekdidnothingwrong]

Times were different. Video game and comic book property didnt carry a lot of clout. They werent high art like the cinema, they were considered pulp and plastic for stupid babies. Its not until millenials became thirty somethings with 9-5's that that changed.

[@PickleJello]

See also: The Sonic movie's original, possibly newer design.

[@SlightlySychotic]

Oh, they wanted to. Apparently, they had been shopping “Blade Runner with dinosaurs” around Hollywood with little success. They completely hijacked Mario Bros to make Dino Runner and if Light Motive hadn’t caught on literally right before shooting that’s probably the movie they would have made.

[@emanuelepolloni4002]

I'm pretty sure that they could have made their own movie if they just accepted to make a Super Mario movie and put all their energies to make a good movie that would be a success at the box office. This way the studio would have been more open to the idea of producing their dream project.

[@ComradeCowboy3141]

5:05 "LightMotive would refer to this script as DrainMan" okay, thats pretty god damn good.

[@Gorvar100]

Even drunk, Bob Hoskins was the best actor in the whole movie. God bless your soul, Eddie Valiant and that Russian Commissar guy from Enemy at the gates.

[@Lunchbox224]

That was supposed to be Nikita Kruschev.

[@gorvarhadgarson5227]

@@rebornkusabi7264 Will do, thanks buddy!

[@chazzwozzio]

What about shmee?!

[@Danieru-San]

Imo the best actors were Dennis Hopper, Spike and Iggy, Toad, Bob Hoskins

[@swagner7767]

I was gonna say, all things considered the cast wasn't bad.

[@jonc2468]

"We signed onto this licensed IP movie then got mad when everyone wanted us to stay remotely in line with that IP's themes and tone." I'm glad they got blacklisted!

[@alexandreluiz4923]

~ Kevin, after ruining SMG4

[@thunderphoenix440]

I really, really wish I could have lived in a world where the comedic genius behind Groundhog Day and Stripes and a lot of the smarter/funnier parts of Ghostbusters was the one who got to make the Mario Brothers movie.

[@platypuspracticus2]

Harold Ramis definitely would have come out with a better final product.

[@thunderphoenix440]

@@platypuspracticus2 I feel like he could have looked at all the elements of Mario Bros., and turned them all into a crazy yet fun concoction of zaniness that would have been a classic...though maybe one we didn't appreciate until a few years later like Groundhog Day.

[@Helvetica_Scenario]

A Mario Bros. Live action movie was always going to be a seen as crap. Kids wanted live action Mario to be like the games. What did the games have that you could realistically translate to live action? There was no story to draw from, and nothing realistic to ground it with. A script was always going to be a mostly original creation because of this. It was always going to be a weird ass movie with the only connection to the games being two characters named Mario & Luigi, where the plot and setting had nothing to do with running from left to right, stomping on turtles. Kids were going to hate it no matter who wrote it or directed. "It's nothing like the games", the kids said. No shit. Kids are fucking dumb.

[@abadenoughdude300]

@@Helvetica_Scenario This. Unlike today's games, most (if not all) games from the "golden age" had virtually no story to go by. You were doing stuff because it was fun and to get a high score, there were no multilayered stories to build a movie upon. Hollywood didn't help either, picking franchises based on name value derived from popularity, not whether there was anything to work with, like Mario, Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat. There were plenty of games with actual deep stories (adventures or rpgs) but they weren't as popular, not to mention they were too big to squeeze into a 90 minute film. Of course, you could make a dumb fun 80's style action flick out of those games but for that you'd have to not suck at your job.

[@LPTV84]

This was the same guy who turned Dan Aykroyd's original billion dollar script into a 30 million dollar flick that grossed 200-300 million. He definitely would have made it work. The guy like many of his age were into video games, especially with his kids. Damn. We missed out on a movie that could have set the bar for video game adaptation films.

[@tech34756]

I still remember when I first watched this film. I was young and my dad said ‘the Mario Bros film is on TV’, I rushed to it, expecting a bright colourful fantasy film featuring some of my favourite characters....instead we got the Mario Bros film and a massive WTF.

[@TaoScribble]

Same, only I was still entranced by and loved it. Like "This certainly ain't Mario but it's WTF enough for me to dig it."

[@Dissenter]

I watched at the theaters as a kid, and remember being like "WTF is this?" from the first 10 minutes til the end.

[@CarloNassar]

If I get hired to make another Mario movie, I hope to make a good Mario movie out of what you expected the 1993 film to be. (7-22-2020)

[@PlahaKumar]

Hopefully a new Mario movie, whenever that may come out is better than this.

[@tech34756]

@@PlahaKumar It’s by the same people who created The Minions, so I’m expecting Mario-esque animation but The Toads to be Minions-expies.

[@bocodamondo]

those directors were a bunch of idiots, instead of fighting against pretty much everyone else involved to change the movie more to their own style, they should have just focused on making the movie as faithful as possible, and that positive reception would have given them the chance to make their own movie they so desperately wanted, atleast that would been better than what they did which ended in a lose-lose situation

[@brandonmuse5532]

The directors were incredibly shortsided and selfish. Build your rep and then make a movie closer to what you want.

[@apexone5502]

Agreed. They didn't want to pay their dues.

[@ForrestFox626]

You gotta do things you might not like before you can do what you want.

[@sethleoric2598]

Like... Guillermo Del Toro (somewhat) with Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth

[@GamePunk-nm3cn]

Fun Fact: Shigeru Miyamoto said the movie shouldn’t have tried to be too much like the games and instead should’ve tried to be an entertaining movie

[@supersomething951]

Fun Fact: Sega thought this film failed due to the Mario brand being weak.

[@Phantom_Kraken]

Super Something How ironic 😂

[@dxninjazero5876]

Well..... That didn't ages well.

[@mariokarter13]

It took thirty years, but: *Sonic Movie:* Hold my beer.

[@ricardorios2355]

To be fair, terrible movies did great in the 90s

[@GrandCorsair]

Sonic really worked in the 90's but I don't think Sega would think Sonic could fail. Mario has the advantage of being focused. You know what you're getting when you play (a basic story but a solid platformer) it doesn't take it's self too seriously. Sonic seemed to lose focus and be all over the map. Sonics saving a princess, now he is a knight, now he is a werewolf, now he is part of a resistance. He kind becomes a parody of himself. I mean look at the original trailer for his movie and the use of fucking Gangster's paradise.

[@Watheverable]

"dad I don't need shoes that badly" 😂😂😂

[@PhyreI3ird]

The humbly stated, honest savagery of children is only made all the better by how you never see it coming.

[@DemonicRemption]

@@PhyreI3ird Indeed, I find it hard to believe such savagery came from an eight year old! Showing kids are indeed smarter than given credit for. xD

[@hailbopthecomet]

Oof

[@ROBOTPETER101]

Ah yes, the leading cause of possible good if not decent works going down the proverbial drain. "I know better then everyone else!"

[@Житинеможливо]

With a nice, decent helping of, "We just wanna get this over with."

[@russellbrown6888]

@@Житинеможливо And a dash of "How did we spend 50 million dollars on a 20 million dollar movie?"

[@Hitsyfication]

Than*

[@thelittleredhairedgirlfrom6527]

I would actually love to see a film based on the Princess Bride inspired version of the script, that sounds like it could’ve been a good movie before the directors came on and ruined it.

[@Amesang]

Of course it helped that _The Princess Bride's_ script was written by the book's author, William Goldman…

[@Karmy.]

Same

[@solblackguy]

Every version of these scripts sounded really good, especially paired with the crap we got.

[@auvelier]

I lost it at Mickey’s “whahappun” it took me like 10 minutes of straight laughter just to keep watching the video

[@majorjordan12]

Im glad I wasn't the only one

[@milanesorabioso4337]

Ostia el Auvelierto

[@nintendo-nut1]

I love how the majority of sourcing for this video is coming from the SMB Movie Archive. Those people are supremely thorough.

[@sk8trmuffin]

I like how the movies that were scrolled through when "'video game movie elicits a groan'" was said, was basically all Uwe Boll movies.

[@masterseal0418]

Until The Spirits Within failed got Square and it’s legendary developers make Advent Children; after watching clips from FF7AC in KZbin, I fell in love with the film. That proves Square learned their mistakes from making a Final Fantasy movie though failed would still give them and Hironobu Sakaguchi a last resort to fix all those who they lost.

[@kennethmelo6336]

Why do I feel like Danny DeVito as Mario would be perfect?

[@thunderphoenix440]

Cuz he has a magnum dong.

[@stjimmerz]

In an alternate universe Mario devito with Charlie luigi

[@exiledPostman]

Even with the shit-tastic script and direction, Danny DeVito would have made the movie a success just because he makes everything fun. Really, the guy slays every role he is in.

[@Helvetica_Scenario]

"Luigi, let's go get us a couple of whooooooores".

[@DemonicRemption]

@Kenneth Melo That feeling is why I'm baffled that he wasn't picked...

[@SaraNightfire1]

I remember two things: When I first saw a trailer for this, I literally thought it was a horror movie. I thought it wasn't a PG game movie. I had pretty much lost interest in the trailer until it said: "This ain't no game." And I still blew it off until I saw that it was Super Mario Brothers. Eleven-year-old mind: Blown. Shigeru Miyamoto sat through the movie after it was done with a room full of Nintendo executives. They were absolutely (justifiably) horrified by what this movie was like. Miyamoto sat through the whole thing with this big grin on his face. The person next to him looked at him and asked why he was so happy. Miyamoto said, and I quote: "Don't worry, they'll forget about this, it won't hurt us."

[@Web720]

Source on that Miyamoto bit?

[@Plum1300]

@@Web720 He made it the fuck up

[@FedoraKirb]

@Bulb99 And then everyone clapped.

[@adora_was_taken]

@@FedoraKirb and that miyamoto's name? albert einstein

[@randalfthewizard6446]

*Are you telling me* that in some alternate universe there's a version of the Mario movie thats a character study of mario and luigi's relationship with danny devito as mario and that's NOT the one we got?? this is truly the darkest timeline.

[@crossbones116]

"You want us to make this quirky fantasy movie full of magical mushrooms and giant fire-breathing dinosaurs into a fantasy movie? Get the fuck outta here, this has gritty sci-fi written all over it!" There is no flag red enough or middle finger big enough.

[@kidanarchy2105]

You're probably already considering it, but Wha Happun? Street Fighter: Legend of Chun Li.

[@MongooseDave2]

@@Invidente7 I, too, vote for the movie that had Rugal Bernstein dressed as a hockey player, roller skating in a building, being played by Ray Park.

[@ironmaster6496]

@@matane2465 The plot was dumb and i mean REALLY *REALLY* DUMB, plust it suffered from lack of focus (and why the hell Is AYANE not asían)

[@ironmaster6496]

@@emanuelespinoza9325 Wanna know how terrible? -Kyo Kusanagi Is not asían -Mai Shiranui Is A MAIN CHARACTER and a CIA agente because Why The Hell Not -Iori Yagami Is Mai's boyfriend.....MAI'S BOYFRIEND (and he Is not even edgy) -Terry Bogard Is an out of shape and old dude and Is also a CIA agent or something like that (this change is the one that offended me The most since he Is my all Time favourite KOF character and the movie Made him look like shit) Also The following important characters dont appear or arent even mentioned: -Athena Asamiya -Chin -Heidern -Ralph -Clark -Andy Bogard (you got Mai but not Andy GENIUS) -Joe -the Art of Fighting team -Kim Kapwan and His team

[@randomdogger5278]

W H A T H A P C H U N?

[@sheik124]

I pirated that movie because Kristin Kreuk was in it. I already knew she couldn't act, but I figured she'd look good enough to make up for it. I was not expecting it to be as bad as it actually was. One of the only times I've genuinely wanted my money back and I didn't even fuckin pay for it.

[@DoctorPorkenfries]

"Dad, I don't need shoes that badly." LMAO. That's one of those quotes from your kids that you brag about at parties for years afterwards.

[@RemiAutor]

Imagine an alternate universe where Mario Movie was directed by Jim Henson.

[@kaydwessie296]

I imagined it. It was fun there.

[@Wendy_O._Koopa]

I imagine that every day. Every single day since 1993. Hire a midget to play Mario, make a strange puppet human like the Dark Crystal's Gelflings, have Peach inexplicably be the the only human on set... like Labyrinth. Unfortunately, those movies had not reached their cult status yet and were seen as disappointing. I would also accept a movie with the same cast, just the original pitched world with little Muppet goombas, two to a puppeteer. Sets with hundreds of trapdoors on them for every place a Toad or Yoshi or any other Muppet would show up. And of course a Ludo-sized Bowser, who's costume is so heavy there are a pair of twins who switch off during filming. Every decade the movie gets more and more grandiose, and if I ever wrote any of it down... it would look silly. That's the problem with ideas, they're always perfect in your head, but when you try to do them, everything fails. Actually, that's the story of the real Mario Movie isn't it?

[@griefingg0lem685]

Jim Henson was dead for a few years by the point the movie was conceived. And he probably would have pulled the same shit these directors did with how he was with Dark Crystal. Dude was great, but was also kinda stubborn in getting things the way he wanted.

[@ForrestFox626]

Quit playing games with my heart

[@luckybeast1234]

​@@griefingg0lem685 the difference is that The Dark Crystal was his idea and not based on another IP

[@Scoth42]

Your fun fact of the day - Max Headroom was not actually computer animated at all. At the time it was created, CGI was prohibitively expensive. It was actually Matt Frewer in a shiny latex costume without various tricks and things spinning in the background to look CGI.

[@escopeto7849]

I've seen Norm's video before yours months ago and must say two things: One, you covered this on your own eloquently and to a greatly amusing rate~ and two: Using the SMB archive I've found the original script by Jim Jennewein and Tom S. Parker, which absolutely fascinated me. It was a solid fantasy script that would've knocked SMB out of the park at the time. Remember folks, this was 1992 - if Pichi-Hime Kyushutsu Dai Sakusen! could rock the masses, this script would've given us a milestone. Now with all this praise, allow me to nutshell you: Mario and Luigi are struggling plumbers, their relationship is more than rough. While Mario is a gruff no-nonsense plumber (due to something past in their family), Luigi is an optimistic daydreaming boy who loves his brother no matter what and has a shy relationship with Daisy, who is working in a flower shop. One day a disguised King Koopa kidnaps her and they all go to the Mushroom Kingdom to save her. They meet Toad (an apathetic oportunist who even the mushroom people look down upon) and venture forth to Koopa Castle. During their journey we learn heartbreaking things about each of them, there are some classic cliché moments like splitting ways, death fakeouts but it still works in context. King Koopa is as menacing and ruthless as he should be, he wants to marry Daisy for a reason. Everything during the adventure is adjusted to Mario lore (Thwomps, Bob-Ombs, Raccoon Leaf). While some things will sound odd in description, we can count it to artistic license. All in all, read the script for yourselves and experience the fantastical SMB movie that never was. EDIT: Daisy is called Hildy in this draft, Princess Hildy so to speak.

[@kaydwessie296]

This DOES sound really damn good, and the discussion above about if this makes Daisy a Disney princess would have been way easier to solve if they used Hildy

[@Halcon_Sierreno]

Can't imagine all that as live action. It would seem very campy.

[@ItetsuShikurasa]

Wait, so Disney owned Hollywood Pictures at that time? So this technically makes Daisy a Disney Princess?

[@victorhernandez8723]

*shrugs*

[@akaimizu1]

That would only make sense if Daisy wasn’t already created by Nintendo in Super Mario Land. I still felt it was interesting that they decided to go with the Princess that was from that one game instead of the one featured everywhere else. Made even more odd given that at the time, Koopa had nothing to do with Daisy. They never met. So for a kid at the time, it was really crossing the streams. (Yep, had to throw in a little Ramis reference there)

[@Jayblaze1193]

@@akaimizu1 Probably because they planned for Luigi to get the girl in the end. Wait did this movie start the Luigi-Daisy ship?

[@KremBotop]

JayBlaze11 As far as I’m aware (Daisy didn’t appear after SML until the N64 spin offs) yes. People do tend to sweep this little fact under the rug because of the movie’s infamous reputation

[@NintendoW11]

@@Jayblaze1193 Probably. Nintendo fanboys like sad weeby shit.

[@sephyfan]

John leguizamo is one of the most underappreciated working actors in Hollywood and I would vouch the same for Bob Hoskins when he was still with us. I have tons of respect for both of them and I watch this movie to see their performances earnestly. Last but not least Dennis hopper! Good lord he sure hammed it up

[@ForrestFox626]

The directors didn't deserve these great actors.

[@dvt1393]

@@ForrestFox626 Agreed. They got served up some of the most talented and diverse character actors in the world, and squandered them. Such a waste. And they still brought their A-game despite the horrible work conditions and treatment.

[@GeorgeZamfirou30]

@@dvt1393 Yeah The Most Diverse Character Is Sid The Sloth From Ice Age

[@hughmahn484]

I kinda want to see Drain man, not gonna lie. Would it have really been any more disloyal or bizarre than what we got? Hell, it might've even been good despite itself.

[@Garekdidnothingwrong]

I wouldve wanted it just to see the japanese dev team look completely confused and wondering if they stepped into the wrong film.

[@Mysticgamer]

Drain man could be the prequel movie based on mario bros. The game with mario and luigi fighting crabs, turtles, and flies in the sewer.

[@ThatGastrodon]

I really want to see Drain Man starring Danny DeVito

[@ForrestFox626]

If I want Drain Man, I'll watch Rain Man!

[@Django2k6]

You playing the triumphant Mario World credits music while reading off Bob Hoskins's words was great.

[@Fuzon-S]

RIP Bob "Mario Mario" Hoskins and Dennis "King Koopa" Hopper.

[@abadenoughdude300]

Almost read that as "Koopa Hoopa".

[@SEiMEi_EXiSTS]

@@abadenoughdude300 If Hoopa was a villain in Mario

[@ForrestFox626]

Two of the best there ever was

[@joesomenumbers]

Samantha Mathis is such an underrated 90s babe

[@StriderRyu7]

joesomenumbers Indeed...She was such a cutie in this film. One of the few pluses in this trainwreck. In fact,she was one of the reasons I expected the sequel for few years.

[@Adamtendo_player_1]

@@StriderRyu7 the super Mario Bros movie wasn’t that bad I think the legend of Chun-Li is worse, far worse and the super Mario Bros movie is kind of my guilty pleasure. Sure it has its issues like Yoshi not being properly represented I’m looking like a Jurassic Park prop, but I got past it and Dennis Hopper didn’t look at anything like King Cooper or Samantha Mathis was absolutely gorgeous when she was younger as Princess Daisy.

[@GeneralBolas]

While the directors do deserve some scorn for their behavior, I honestly blame the production company more. Why? Because they hired those directors *knowing* that they wanted to make changes. If you hire someone who tells you up front that they want to change your stuff into something else, it's kinda hard to complain when they change your stuff into something else. Especially when you agreed that you would allow it. So the real problem is that they settled for a random pair of unproven directors who weren't willing to stick with the original script. Mainly because they couldn't find someone else who was willing to work for the money they offered.

[@SudrianTales]

They were practically the only ones left after months/years of searching. Can't really blame them for making the best of a bad situation

[@naoaquieopatrickpatrick8565]

I mean, they already had wasted a Lot of time and money hiring actors and creating the script, but didnt even start to film the actual movie. In those circunstances you cant Just predict How things are going to turn out and Just hire whoever seems interested enough due to pure desesperation to get your project out in time. Its Just a shame that they got a shitty couple as directors of their movie that didnt even respect the original script and tried to change It completely to make their own movie. Sure they could've Just fired them, but they had deadlines to meet and they didnt even start to film a single Scene, and god knows How long It would take to find another """""competent""""" director or directors for their movie. Also the movie got so drastically changed at that point that they were probably SO TIRED of the New script and the bullshit directors, combined with the pressure from Nintendo and the anger from everyone but the directors Against the directors and their terrible script, everyone involved were like "fuck this movie, Its going to be a disaster Once It releases anyway, Just finish this shit so we can pretend It never happened and also blacklist those fucking directors so they pay for all the headaches they gave to us and our project". So yeah in the end It was Just a Very unlucky combination of impatience, desesperation, shitty workers, pressure and finally acceptance. With acceptance meaning they accepting It was a failure and Just wanted to release the fucking thing so they could at least forget that event in their lives aswell try to get some Bucks out of It.

[@Web720]

Nah, I blame both, while blaming the directors more.

[@ElZorroHonesto]

It's a similar situation to the 1998 Godzilla. Roland Emmerich has since admitted he thought the Japanese Godzilla movies sucked and were only good to be laughed at. So he signed on under the condition that he be allowed to throw the original concept in the trash and do his own thing that would be "fixing" it. And the studio was just like "okay, fine, whatever" because they just wanted to get it over with.

[@liama.c.lacthewatcher2590]

We could've had a Harold Ramis controlled Mario movie and we didn't get it... Well I'm depressed...

[@catp6946]

Watching this after the Nintendo direct where they announced the cast list for the animated movie

[@Brotherofthe4thCompany]

Watching this makes me appreciate the live action Sonic the Hedgehog movies. Those films are a breath of fresh air.

[@PoisonInc]

I don't know what it is about this movie... I think if it weren't about Mario I'd like it, it's got a nice aesthetic.

[@ThatLaloBoy]

Depending on who you ask, it is either the worst video game film or the best steampunk sci fi film of all time.

[@Helvetica_Scenario]

I've always enjoyed this movie because of how weird it is. I wasn't dumb enough back in the day to believe that a live action Mario Bros. movie was going to be anything like the games, because the games had nothing to work with. There was no story or anything else of any depth to flesh out into a live action movie. It was basically, little dude in overalls runs from left to right, hopping on characters until he saves the princess from Koopa. I'm honestly surprised the script for the movie was as creatively done as it was.

[@SatoshiKong]

I saw this movie before I had any real investment in the Mario universe (I was always a PlayStation kid growing up) and absolutely loved it. I had no idea it was so despised for a pretty long time, actually.

[@ChiruKobra]

Nintendo finally decides to make an animated Mario movie! [EVERYONE LITERALLY CHEERS IN JOY] And they chose Illumination as the studio to make it! [Everyone murmurs in apprehension]

[@Mobysimo]

No matter what, it cannot be worse than this abomination of a movie

[@Gojiragon]

And Dreamworks is RIGHT THERE! Hell, they’re owned BY THE SAME PARENT COMPANY, UNIVERSAL!

[@dillonmalbrue4179]

@@Gojiragon somehow, I think DreamWorks would be worse

[@awsomeguy37]

@@valletas I doubt you're the only one but I also disagree. Illumination, while they have released some really good (Despicable Me) or at least decent (Sing) films, they're known for not only using very cheap and rushed animation (at least relative to most other 3D animated, feature length films) as well as churning out sequels (which I can't fault them for since it makes money but I still don't like it) but also not doing well with other IP's (to be fair, they've only done 2 Dr. Seuss films but that's 1/5 of their current feature films and both were bad). All in all, I don't have high hope for this movie. My guess, it will be a cheaply made film. It will likely have a higher budget than most of their other films because of Nintendo's funding but that probably won't improve the quality much. It will be generic story wise, not doing much to expand the Mario world. It will be heavily marketed, mostly appealing to kids and will prominently feature some cute looking creature (Yoshi, Toad, a Goomba, maybe something original). And finally, it will make a crap ton of money and get a sequel it probably doesn't need or deserve, probably around 3 years after the first releases.

[@aslightlystablefootsoldier9838]

Shrek 5 Made by the guys behind minions :'[

[@Hitsyfication]

18:37 "Maybe...just maybe...if we'd given the incompetent assholes even *MORE* control than they'd already been mistakenly given...it might've been a success!" *YEAH, THAT MAKES SENSE!*

[@SupaSillyMexi]

I wish they had animated it like roger rabbit, where the characters jump out of the game trying to stop king koopa in the real world or something along those lines. That would have been awesome.

[@liamuncapher517]

That's actually really similar to the Japan only anime made off of them in the mid 80s.

[@wadespencer3623]

@@liamuncapher517 It's also how the "Gameboy" comics played it, although they had Tatanga instead of Bowser.

[@NikoJr.]

A lot of Hollywood people fail to realize this simple fact when adapting something: The audience isn't there to see *their* movie, the audience is there to see a good adaptation

[@ComicWriter-ml3qt]

After hearing all the horror stories about these people, I don’t think that coffee was actually cold

[@deimosphoibus]

Man, I feel really bad for all the actors now... it sucks to see that they were all into the script only for it to be reworked, and having to work in such bad conditions to boot

[@GenerationWest]

In 2003, in a Half-Price Books , in the comic book section, I saw an ad for it in a Reign of the Supermen issues, and was like, "WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN?" only 3 years later, learning that was a movie on the rising Wikipedia. ( I was shocked to see this wasn't Dark Phoenix, but like the movie, no one wanted to see it thst badly lol)

[@entransta]

Yeah, I found out about it from a Maximum Carnage issue I found in a dollar store in 2007.

[@rodolforodriguez4447]

and now... 30 years later An Animated mario movie made more one and is more beloved than this film did in its ENTIRE run

[@BlueScarabGuy]

The deployment of the Mickey Mouse "wha happun" in this video is too perfect

[@jaywhangmakes]

10 years later: Illumination Studio's Super Mario Brothers - Wha happun?

[@thunderphoenix440]

Wait, an original draft of the SMB movie had Bowser seeking the Princess' crown? WOULD THIS HAVE BEEN BOWSETTE 25 YEARS EARLY!?

[@linken23]

What really gets me is how Bob Hoskins says this is the worst movie he’s ever done, but then proceeds to appear in Son of the Mask. Say what you will about SMB, but it’s a million times better than whatever the hell Son of the Mask was. Also, you should really do a Wha’ Happen’ on Son of the Mask.

[@melon6444]

If I had to guess he probably hates SMB more not because of the film's quality alone but because of the hellish production of it.

[@Wendy_O._Koopa]

1) That interview might have been before the filming of SotM, and 2) Loki and... whatever the hero's name was got most of the screen time. Odin (I believe) just shouts a few lines, there's no way that movie was as terrible of an experience... for him, personally.

[@mrcritical6751]

@@Wendy_O._Koopa at most Bob would’ve had to be flown out to Australia for like a week, be put under makeup, film the three scenes where Odin is physically present (two of them being on a green screen) and then do the ADR for the Odin possession scenes. Pretty easy shoot all things considered

[@kongk4]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the sequel web comic that was given blessing by the one of the original writers (mainly the one who wrote the sequel bait ending), but I guess it's not his EXACT own work so I guess it makes sense.

[@skinnermclane4467]

"And speaking of 1990's..." I was so hoping you were going to show a picture of lil' Matt standing in line for the movie. Because in my head, obviously there were actual lines for this movie.

[@dustman820]

There would have been in week one, but bad word of mouth would have scared people away the weeks after.

[@kingkoopa3000]

The parker and Jenwein draft of the Super mario bros script was awesome! It was a fun, very 90's family movie that was true to the spirit of the games. In it, Bowser looked and acted the way he's supposed to, Toad looked and acted the way he's supposed to, Luigi put on the tanuki suit which mades him fly, and theres even a great 'princess is in another castle' reference . If the film followed that script, we would have been looking back at it a lot more fondly now!

[@zombiechicken7114]

I kind of want to know what in the HELL happened in Thomas and the Magic Railroad- I don't know if production was as bizarre as the movie, but I am curious as to why any of it made sense to the directors.

[@mrcritical6751]

Late reply but that movie does have a weird as hell production history

[@Xizax41325]

That movie will forever be a guilty pleasure of mine.

[@ForrestFox626]

It can be a guilty pleasure, but don't ignore the horrible directors or the horrible production.

[@RADPENCILS]

Smashed that Like button the moment I heard the "Magnum Dong" reference. Bravo!

[@jju00]

That moment when you realize the script that everyone had originally signed on was very similar to the 2023 Mario movie. It's like it was the right idea all along...

[@Vollification]

1:42 Then Hollywood did what it always do "Thinks they can do better." And none of the people that were involved knew what Super Mario was.

[@DustyTheKitty]

''Dad, I don't need shoes that badly'' Top Kek.

[@Sebby_Nineteen]

I'm still curious why they picked Daisy, and not Peach/Toadstool. Daisy was clearly the lessor known of the 2 Princesses. It's an interesting choice, I'm just curious on how they came to that decision.

[@unknownbyself]

I guess it was because Super Mario Land was either in concept or recently released. Daisy made her debut in that game, and she would be the princess that Mario fans would be more familiar with.

[@virgogaming6488]

Daisy sounds more like a real name than Peach or Toadstool.

[@toffitagufa8777]

Then why did they choose iggy and spike over other names of already existing characters like wendy, roy and morton

[@huntercoleherr]

If deVito had played Mario this movie would have been incredible beyond belief. Goddamn, what a whiff.

[@lbjsjumbo5116]

Remember the game legendary that came out in 2008 (the Pandora's box game)? You should do a video on it.

[@gamerguy6990]

I love that mediocre game

[@DrBones-ys1ii]

Hell yeah! I un-ironically like that game and wish more people remembered it.

[@Jetblast01]

Matt, I love your vids man, but this one even I can't look forward to seeing all the way through...mainly because I know a number of behind the scene things that took place and how depressing the whole ordeal was. And it turned out to be even worse... :(

[@blueskiesj]

been watching random videos from this channel for a bit, finally subscribed. love the deep-dive.

[@JC42023]

Bob Hoskins: The worst thing I ever did!? Super Mario Bros.! Son of the Mask: *_Am I not a joke to you!?_*

[@ericgilbert1087]

Uwe Boll. Just all of Uwe Boll should be the next movie "Wha Happun"

[@MaddJakd]

"Dad, I dont need shoes that badly" Just goddam! Even a kid at the time shat on this.

[@Dr.JamesWilson]

Funniest part is in 1986, there was a animated Mario OVA released *only in Japan* about Mario and Luigi being thrown into a Video Game world and Saving Peach, based around the original Mario 2 for NES. Why they didn't localize that, I have no idea. Probably because of the Super Mario Super Show or the Mario TV series. Fans labeled it as the "Mario Anime" nowadays though.

[@shadowkn250]

I can't believe this lead to Chris Pratt as Mario.

[@FullmetalNinja25]

Until I watched this video I had no idea Harold Ramis was originally approached to Write and Direct the movie. To quote Mads Mikkelsen in Rogue One: We were on the verge of greatness, we were THIS close!

[@WakoDoodle]

And soon the sequel would introduce wario played by randy savage. I wish it was true...

[@poggersuni9637]

its is in an alternate timeline where videogames movies are amazing, even better than the official source material.

[@ian.factory]

I beg of you - please make an episode about the Double Dragon movie. It’s essentially this movie’s twin.

[@NCL_2000]

This movie had a webcomic sequel that never got finished. It ran from 2013 - 2015. Its coming back in May of 2021. The comic features characters like Wart (who looks like Rush Limbaugh), Mouser (who looks like Dr. Genus from One Punch Man), an actual piranha plant, Shy Guys that look like the Jawas from Star Wars, and Daisy's father who's name is Reznor.

[@arthurcarneirolopes6383]

The Virgin Super Mario Brothers movie Vs. The chad Super Mario Brothers Super Show

[@anthonyrios2311]

4:11 The clip from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is funny considering....

[@wesleyharris1723]

Sooo.... How bout that Nintendo Direct everybody?

[@nahelbeuk]

"Dad, I don't need shoes that badly" Savage!

[@FlavorsomeMusic]

this movie absolutely creeped me out as a kid

[@daudajabani9831]

Your use of sound is fantastic!! Got me in my childhood

[@kascnef]

Thank god for the new movie

[@CaptainCat101]

I cannot imagine how much worse the reception to this movie would be if it was made today. I'm glad we have the animated movie now.

[@KnakuanaRka]

Yeah, I just watched it today; Illumination really knocked it out of the park on that one. Funny, the original script before they hired the Max Headroom guys sounded pretty similar; guess they were vindicated.

[@ThatLaloBoy]

18:37 It's not only easy; it's mostly accurate. There were competing visions of the film, but it seems like they had something working with the script that got all the actors to agree on it. And had they gotten a director who also agreed to it, this film would have been a lot better. If they had actually done what they wanted, it probably would have been worse.

[@ForrestFox626]

Dang right!

[@skakirask]

When I was a kid and my parents took us to the movies, they'd always ask us our favorite part when leaving. The SMB movie was the first time I couldn't think of a favorite part. edit: also, no knock on Bob Hoskins, because he did a good job, but Danny DeVito as Mario would've been amazing, especially if he said "trayush" at some point.

[@SlightlySychotic]

So, this is the story I was told: The directors had shopped a movie idea around Hollywood with little success. That idea could best be described as “Blade Runner with dinosaurs.” That’s basically the Mario Bros aesthetic when you think about. The directors basically hijacked Mario Bros to make their own movie. Supposedly, they would have gone all the way with Dino Runner hoping that by the time Light Motive realized what they were doing it would be too late.

[@mrcritical6751]

And they wonder why they were blacklisted

[@IndigoPhoenix21]

Aquaman and Superman 64. You know the ones. The time is right.

[@JayRizzleOhDizzle]

Coming at me with "ey paisano!", in time with the OG intro. (I'm an old guy.) Nice man. Well done.

[@red-man7017]

And it only took 30 years for us to finally get a mario movie worth a damn.

[@averyeml]

"dad, I don't need shoes that badly" is probably the best thing a kid could ever say to their parent when they do something dumb. This movie sounds like an absolute nightmare and I feel terrible for the actors involved. However, it's one of my favorite cult classic terrible movies. I'm interested to see how the animated movie goes, but I'm worried given who's making it.

[@oliverdavey5648]

Fun fact: Americans mostly know Max Headroom for a feature film from the late 80s, but he actually started out as the host of a music video show in the early-mid 80s. They used to show a wide range of mainstream and offbeat videos from Europe and the UK. It used to show on Australian TV just after school would finish. Good times.

[@truthbetold9092]

Sega does what Nintendont! Sonic movie: hold my rings

[@TheDiscoGenre]

Late posting, but the Sonic movie ended up good.

[@xAbsynthex]

@@TheDiscoGenre REALLY good

[@atre5763]

@@xAbsynthex Not really

[@xAbsynthex]

@@atre5763 better than expected

[@FlaviusTheGrumpyCat]

Oh John leguizamo, I still love you. Please don't drink and drive again though.

[@kisubags437]

Clearly the husband and wife were the issue. Everything I have ever seen shows that.

[@joelfaryna9595]

I remember one film I was on, shot outside in 40C heat, every morning finding a rewrite slid under my door, half way through shooting, knocking on the 1st AD's door and finding out he literally did a midnight runner from the production. All because of a egomaniac director and a spinless producer. It happens a lot.

[@noname-jt6kl]

The fact the movie was going to be a decent adaptation and then just 2 people wrecked it says a lot. That sucks that the studio let them get away with that due to the tarnishing it did to everything after it came out.

[@exmaarmaca]

I come from the future, that animated picture of Mario Bros was announced on a Nintendo Direct on September of 2021.

[@_Stalc_]

I pretty much watched the movie for the actors, they carry it a lot with their performance, I remember cartoon network aired the movie on live TV before.

[@OliverNorth-b5q]

Adding the mario music in the back makes it 10x more hilarious.